Who is responsible for COVID-19 outbreak?
Mar 24,2020 – JORDAN TIMES – Hazim El-Naser No one knows when the coronavirus will be controlled, which spread out in China in October 2019, nor can anyone predict when […]
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Rafiq A. Tschannen
Rafiq A. Tschannen is a Swiss national. He converted to Islam and joined the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community at the age of 16 after reading the German translation of the Holy Qur'an. He worked in 15 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, first as Finance Director in the private industry and later as Chief Executive Officer of NGOs and International Governmental Organizations. He is now devoting his time to The Muslim Times as Editor for Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Palestine and Switzerland and as Associate Chief Editor.
As small and big economies suffer, world must adopt plan to prevent chaos
JORDAN TIMES _ OSAMA AL SHARIF March 24, 2020 As the world battles the alarming spread of the novel coronavirus through lockdowns, calls for self-isolation and even by imposing curfews, […]
‘Fright of her life’: Gold Coast woman finds five-metre python on her doorstep
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/24/fright-of-her-life-gold-coast-woman-finds-five-metre-python-on-her-doorstep#img-1 Queensland snake catcher says 80kg albino Burmese python found in Oxenford is the largest he has come across in 27 years Matilda Boseley Tue 24 Mar 2020 Five-metre albino Burmese python captured at Gold Coast home – video As a seasoned snake catcher, Tony Harrison is used to the […]
Olympics in Tokyo ‘are off until 2021’
The event is scheduled for July 24-Aug. 9. Olympic body, Japan promise decision within month Canada and Australia both bluntly said they would not participate this year JEDDAH: Olympics chiefs […]
EU can start talks with Albania and North Macedonia over joining
Member states clear way for Balkan countries to join after concerns over corruption The EU can start membership negotiations with Albania and North Macedonia, according to a draft decision by […]
A Global crisis: What about the aftershocks?
Mar 22,2020 – JORDAN TIMES – Amer Al Sabaileh Europe is now facing its first big test following Brexit. The COVID-19 pandemic is shaking the EU structure and putting yet […]
Will this nonsense language dull our reality or will we be bored to death before the virus reaches us?
The outbreak of coronavirus has led to loaded phrases, a rash of cliches and weary metaphors. This contamination of our speech is isolating meaning, destroying semantics and, worse still, trivialising […]
Coronavirus would not have spread so quickly if the world had abided by the teachings of Islam on epidemic – Sultan of Sokoto
The President-General of the Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), Alhaji Abubakar Sa’ad III has said the Coronavirus pandemic would not have spread so quickly to different countries if […]
The police forced me to remove my hijab. I took them to court – and won
Many people have congratulated me on my victory – but what victory? Wearing a hijab is my right, one I should never have been made to fight for Asiyah 2 […]
The Most Realistic Economic Forecast Is Awful
Predictions of a second-half rebound are based on dubious assumptions. By Narayana Kocherlakota March 21, 2020 This is rush hour.Photographer: David ‘Dee’ Delgado/Bloomberg Narayana Kocherlakota is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He is a professor of economics at the University of Rochester and was president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis […]
After coronavirus the government and business should agree to bring in a more caring capitalism
Source: Independent The latest measures will help but we have to start thinking about the long term, writes Andrew Grice According to Albert Einstein: “In the midst of every crisis, […]
As divisions grow, now is the time to hold a public inquiry into religious literacy in the media
Reasoned, open discussion around religion isn’t just helpful, it is necessary to cultivate the understanding needed to bridge cultural gaps and appreciate different belief systems, Elizabeth Butler-Sloss and Yasmin Qureshi […]
YPG/PKK continues to free Daesh prisoners in Syria
A total of 200 prisoners, most of whom are Daesh terrorists, were released from prisons by the YPG/PKK in Syria’s Hasakah and Raqqa provinces after some Arab tribes vouched for […]
No more empty apologies for Windrush. Britain has to face the ugly truth about empire, starting with education
No one should be delivering immigration policy without a thorough knowledge of what came before. But it’s not just the government, we need to reform the curriculum, writes Kimberly McIntosh […]
NO NEWS … besides Corona
I glimpsed various newspapers that I usually look at, trying to find some ‘non-Coronavirus’ News. I could not. All front pages talk only about Corona. Rafiq
Pakistan coronavirus camp: ‘No facilities, no humanity’
More than 1,000 remain there as thousands more are released into impoverished Balochistan https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/19/pakistan-coronavirus-camp-no-facilities-no-humanity?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR2wMIwRFYhjXpeZ623KP3QD0AXTovFD5LyjqZcwvVAj9-fYe6rOwmAwWM4#img-1 It was the smell that was the worst. In this dusty camp on Pakistan’s border with Iran, which at one stage held more than 6,000 people, the stench of sweat, rubbish and human excrement hung in […]
Syrian Children Freeze to Death. Bombs Rain Down. And ‘Nobody Cares.’
The Syrian government’s assault on a rebel-held province has created one of the worst humanitarian emergencies of a brutal nine-year war. Nearly a million Syrians have fled toward the border […]
Mass panic worse than COVID-19
Mar 19,2020 -JORDAN TIMES – Shehab Al Makahleh The whole world is in a state of anxiety. The COVID-19 panic has been a result of the case of vagueness of the nature of the disease and how to contain it rather than how to cure patients who have fallen ill […]
NHS officials told me Muslim households are particularly vulnerable to coronavirus – it’s important to understand why
As the crisis develops, it’s likely that trauma will spread through communities whose shared culture is built around precisely the things the government has advised against Shadim Hussain @ShadimHussain 7 […]
The Middle East doesn’t deserve Trump and his troop ‘repositioning’ – at least have the guts to call it a retreat
The White House doesn’t have time to worry about Iraq and Afghanistan though. It has yet another war on its hands – against coronavirus Robert Fisk @indyvoices 6 hours […]