Rafiq A. Tschannen

Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara

Associate Chief Editor at The Muslim Times

Rafiq A. Tschannen, Associate Chief Editor of The Muslim Times, Swiss, converted/reverted to Islam at the age of 15 after reading the Quran. CoM IOM Iraq ret.

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‘Asking for equality’: British politicians urge Muslims to invest in leadership, future generations

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Riyaz ul Khaliq |17.04.2025 – Update : 18.04.2025 Scotland’s former First Minister Hamza Yousaf Muslims in the West are not asking for special treatment, just ‘a level playing field,’ 3-time British lawmaker Naz Shah tells Anadolu The Trump era is an opportunity of Muslims in the US to mobilize and win the next presidential election in 2028, says Yousaf, accusing close Trump ally Elon Musk of amplifying disinformation about Muslims ISTANBUL Muslim communities in the West must invest in future...
The Beauty of Muslim and Catholic Tolerance on Good Friday Easter in Yogya, Indonesia.

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Saturday, April 19, 2025 | 01:26 WIBOWSMAuthor: Olena Wibisana | Editor: SMRCatholics attend Good Friday Easter mass at the ST Aloysius Gonzaga Church, Sleman, DIY, Friday (4/18/2025). (Beritasatu.com/Olena Wibisana)Yogyakarta, Beritasatu.com – Inter-religious tolerance was demonstrated by Catholic and Muslim residents in Sleman Regency, Special Region of Yogyakarta on Good Friday, Easter, Friday (18/4/2025).
How a Muslim housing plan in Texas became the target of right-wing hysteria

5 days ago | themuslimtimes.info | Rafiq A. Tschannen |Faisal Kutty

Faisal Kutty18 April 2025 08:39 BST | Last update: 17 hours 50 mins agoA proposed Muslim neighbourhood was branded a threat, once again exposing the enduring machinery of American Islamophobia more than two decades after 9/11A still from a promotional video for Epic City, a planned residential development in Josephine, Texas, led by the East Plano Islamic Centre (YouTube)America is once again manufacturing a moral panic – this time over a neighbourhood that has not even been built.
Huge surge of Jewish worshippers at Al-Aqsa Mosque as Muslims locked out

5 days ago | themuslimtimes.info | Rafiq A. Tschannen |Lubna Masarwa |Nadav Rapaport

Israeli settler organisation says more than 6,000 Jews prayed at the important Islamic site in recent days in contravention of Jerusalem’s Status Quo A aerial view of Al-Aqsa Mosque as Jewish worshippers pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City, 15 April (Reuters/Ilan Rosenberg) By Lubna Masarwa in Jerusalem and Nadav Rapaport in Tel Aviv, Israel Published date: 17 April 2025 As hundreds of Jewish Israelis flocked in and out of Al-Aqsa Mosque on Wednesday, the Temple Mount...
Just one in five Swiss attend a religious service at Easter

5 days ago | themuslimtimes.info | Rafiq A. Tschannen

Listen to the articleToggle language selectorShareThis content was published on April 18, 2025 Keystone-SDAAround six out of ten people (57%) in Switzerland celebrate Easter, according to a survey conducted by market and digital opinion research institute Marketagent Switzerland, released on Friday. The most popular Easter custom in Switzerland is the chocolate bunny, but chocolate eggs and coloured Easter eggs are also popular, the survey showed.
Nigeria: Tinubu’s approval of Ahmadiyya university will boost youth development – Muslim group

5 days ago | themuslimtimes.info | Rafiq A. Tschannen |Toba Adedeji

April 18, 2025 by Toba Adedeji, OsogboThe Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat of Nigeria has said the recent approval by President Bola Tinubu of its newly established university will significantly contribute to youth development across the country. Speaking at the opening of the 51st annual Itema held at the NYSC Camp Hall in Ede, the acting national president of the group, Idris Fashina, told journalists that the organisation has been at the forefront of nurturing the younger generation through education.
Man from Pakistan’s persecuted religious minority lynched by Karachi mob

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Asia / PacificA mob, which included many members from the anti-blasphemy political group Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), on Friday lynched a member of Pakistan’s persecuted Ahmadiyya minority in the port city of Karachi. Hundreds of radical Islamists stormed the streets chanting slogans, enraged that Ahmadis were allegedly offering Friday prayers.
Pakistan: Islamist mob beat Ahmadi man to death in Karachi

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Alex Berry AFP, Reuters 11 hours agoPolice have confirmed that a man was killed by a group of hardline Islamists. The Ahmadiyya, a religious minority group in Pakistan, have been facing increasing violence in recent years. One man was killed in the Pakistani port city of Karachi on Friday after a mob of radical Islamists attacked the Ahmadiyya community, authorities have said. The Islamists previously surrounded the place of worship of the persecuted religious minority.
Did you know that the Arabs brought the predecessor of Spaghetti to Italy?

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eSodtopnsr3ic21648Ai22 g4a6a897pm3701616t9cl1909a75i:0r0at · In 8th century Sicily, Arab traders introduced a revolutionary food that would change Italian cuisine forever: dried pasta. Known as “itrya,” these thin strips of dried dough were documented in a fascinating text from 1139 by Arab geographer Abu Abdullah Mohammed al Edrisi, who was writing for Sicily’s King Roger II.
Muslim prayer room vandalized at New York University, prompting outrage, investigation

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Rabia Iclal Turan |04.04.2025 – Update : 04.04.2025 WASHINGTONNew York University (NYU) has launched an investigation after a prayer room used by Muslim students at its Manhattan campus was vandalized Thursday afternoon, drawing condemnation from university officials, student groups, and civil rights advocates. Fountain Walker, NYU’s vice president for Global Campus Safety, described the act as a “desecration of a religious space” in a message to the university community on Friday.