Zakaria Virk is a writer, translator, author and historian of Islamic science. He has compiled 17 books in Urdu and English, written scores of article published in newspapers, magazines of India, Pakistan, UK, USA and Canada. He is a retired civil servant. He has two sons both living in the US, one Adnan is ESPN sports TV anchor in Bristol, Connecticut. He has traveled to more than 15 countries. He has published 5 books on the life and achievements of Muslim world's first Nobel laureate Dr Abdus Salam. (1926-1996).
He has donated blood 50 times in Canada. He is a card carrying member of Liberal Party of Canada.
Last year’s mass shooting in a Quebec City mosque prompted a Jewish man from Thornhill to reach out to a Muslim from Mississauga. By FATIMA SYED Toronto Star, Staff Reporter Sat., Jan. 13, 2018 From the outside, the mosque is an unremarkable, warehouse-like building in an industrial pocket of central Mississauga. […]
Like the original Kasur sex video mega scandal of 2015 was allowed to be pushed under the carpet, Zainab’s case too seems to be moving in a similar direction—to exhaust the patience of the masses By Wajid Shamsul Hasan JANUARY 17, 2018 Kasur was all over international media in August […]
Source: Daily Times By Farooq Awan ISLAMABAD: More than 1,800 clerics have issued a fatwa forbidding suicide bombings, as part of a national counter-terrorism narrative ‘Paigham-e-Pakistan’ launched here at the President’s House […]
http://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/fatah-a-hijabi-hoax-that-fooled-canadaKhawlah Noman, 11, is accompanied by her brother Mohammad Zakarijja and their mom Saima Samad as she recalls a man slicing her hijab as she and her sibling walked to Pauline Johnson Public School in Scarborough on Friday, Jan. 12, 2018.Stan Behal/Toronto Sun/Postmedia Network By Tarek Fatah The moment the […]
CTVNews.ca Staff Published Monday, January 15, 2018 10:49AM EST Last Updated Monday, January 15, 2018 11:38AM EST Toronto police say an incident involving an 11-year-old girl who claimed to have her hijab cut by a stranger on the street, “did not happen.” On Friday, Toronto police said they were investigating […]
JAN 12, 2018 11:20 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER3 COMMENTS Non-Muslims paying for the upkeep of Muslims is a Qur’anic dictate: “Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they […]
The rocket launch would take place from ISRO’s spaceport located at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. All India | Indo-Asian News Service | Updated: January 08, 2018 16:01 IST ENGALURU: India will launch 31 satellites, including earth observation spacecraft Cartosat, on January 12 instead of its earlier tentative schedule on January 10, an Indian Space […]
Source: Gate Stone Institute By Bruce Bawer, who is the author of the new novel The Alhambra (Swamp Fox Editions). His book While Europe Slept (2006) was a New York Times bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. The same reporters and commentators who insist that it is absurd to worry about sharia coming […]
by Thomas Quiggin January 9, 2018 at 4:30 am https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11679/trudeau-support-islamists Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada has an nine-year long record of supporting the Islamist cause while refusing to engage with reformist Muslims. Perhaps most disturbing were Trudeau’s comments to a gathering of Islamist front groups: he told them that he […]
Paul Krugman, NYtimes Paul Krugman JAN. 8, 2018 Like millions of people around the world, I was reassured to learn that Donald Trump is a “Very Stable Genius.” You see, if he weren’t — if he were instead an erratic, vindictive, uninformed, lazy, would-be tyrant — we might be in real […]
Saudi women prepare to attend football matches as ban on entry to stadiums lifted next week ARAB NEWS | Published — Saturday 6 January 2018 JEDDAH: Saudi women expressed excitement as the lifting of a ban which previously prevented them from entering football stadiums takes effect next week. Saudi government […]
An MP of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party slammed protests in his city directed against returning Islamic State fighters, calling the protestors “racists” and “white supremacists.” Liberal Party MP for St. Catherines Chris Bittle took to Facebook earlier this week to condemn a protest against Islamic State fighters returning from […]
JANUARY 4, 2018 BY MICHAEL STONE, 2 COMMENTS Aisha was a child bride: Under Islamic law girls as young as nine may marry, according to Turkey’s religious affairs state agency. Earlier this week Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs – or Diyanet – which is responsible for administering religious institutions and […]
DAWN.COM December 31, 2017 Modi speaks of ‘freeing Muslim women from injustices’ Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that his government has removed the restriction on Muslim women from performing Haj alone, following which hundreds of women have applied to travel alone for the pilgrimage, Times of India reported. Modi, […]
His hate speech led to murder of 3 Ahmadi Muslims by Asad Hashim 26 Jan 2017http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/01/tv-host-aamir-liaquat-banned-hate-speech-170126114713381.html Liaquat also accused those calling for the release of the activists of supporting blasphemy [Aamirliaquat.com] Pakistan’s media regulator has banned one of the country’s most popular television talk show hosts over “hate speech” and […]
https://jang.com.pk/print/422413-mukhtar-masood-doctor-abdus-salaam-or-punjabi-zabaan مختار مسعود، ڈاکٹر عبدالسلام اور پنجابی زبان By Zafar Mahmood- this article recounts how Punjab government asked Dr Salam to devise science education policy for the province. Accordingly an education institution like MIT – Lahore Institute of Technology was planned. This whole exercise was not advertised due to religious […]
The Toronto Star, By DANIEL DALE Washington Bureau Chief, Fri., Dec. 22, 2017 WASHINGTON—If you are looking for anecdotal evidence that evidence no longer matters in American politics, you can call up someone like Lana Shardea. Shardea, a 73-year-old in Phoenix, believes Donald Trump is “the most intelligent, powerful, courageous president […]
Imported sexual enhancement drugs worth 150,000 rupees from UK and US every month. His salary was 1.5 million a month, spent millions on his own publicity. Has been given a new name ‘qasmi viagara’. Corruption at its worst in PTV, evidence has been gathered. Was kind and generous with female […]
Source: New Age Islam By Sultan Shahin, Founding Editor, New Age Islam Acclaimed poet and writer Javed Akhtar has rightly condemned the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) “in […]
Similarities in Beliefs and Practices between Hinduism and Islam By S. Arshad, New Age Islam, 09 December 2017 The general perception of the Muslims is that Hinduism and Islam are poles apart. The basis of this perception is the external differences in the way of worship in both the religions. […]