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.
http://eacpe.org/articles-by-pervez-hoodbhoy/whos-enemy-number-one/ By Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy, Islamabad ASK people around you to identify the three greatest threats facing Pakistan. Ordinary people, chatterbox anchors, mullahs, generals and politicians will name everything from corruption, bad governance and religious terrorism, to Indian and American conspiracies, and general moral decay. But few, if any, waste […]
Suggested Reading by the Muslim Times:The Muslim Times’ Collection to Show, Islam or the Holy Quran are Not Anti-Semitic Source: CBC Video of sermon posted to Dar Al-Arqam Mosque’s YouTube page […]
Four people, including an armed police officer and a man believed to be the attacker, have died in a terrorist incident near the UK’s Houses of Parliament, Scotland Yard has said.http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/parliament-shooting-latest-news-man-shot-explosions-heard-westminster-london-a7643686.html One of the victims was among several pedestrians hit by a car on Westminster Bridge, before it crashed. An […]
The group, Citizens for Erfurt, planted the crosses in the village of Marbach The owner of the site said he plans to take legal action against the activists Muslim community’s imam says the demonstration will not stop construction By Joe Sheppard For Mailonline PUBLISHED: 09:52 GMT, 18 March 2017 | UPDATED: 00:28 GMT, 19 March […]
http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/groom-arrested-for-wife-s-murder-3-days-after-wedding-in-pakistan-1.3331272 The Associated Press Published Sunday, March 19, 2017 7:54AM EDT Last Updated Sunday, March 19, 2017 10:58AM EDT LAHORE, Pakistan — Pakistani police say they have formally arrested a young man for killing his newlywed bride three days after their wedding in the eastern city of Lahore. Senior […]
Stewart Bell | March 17, 2017 5:46 PM ETMore from Stewart Bell | @StewartBellNP TORONTO — Canada sent a diplomat to a town in Pakistan last week to meet leaders of the Ahmadiyya minority whose mosque was stormed by a mob that allegedly included a Toronto-area man, an official said. The visit by an […]
Washingtonpost.com ……… By Karen Attiah , 2017 March 16 Remember when rescuing women from the violence of radical Islam was used by Laura Bush as a reason for U.S. troops to go to war to fight terrorism abroad? Now it appears that President Trump is using women’s safety to justify keeping foreigners from Muslim countries out […]
OXFORD, England — One of the many issues that have been raised here in the aftermath of the Brexit vote revolves around identity. What does it mean to be British, to look British, to sound British? Shaista Aziz, UK March 17, 2017 NYTimes.com I was born and raised here. I […]
March 16, 2017 Hyderabad, News, siasat.com . exploitation Hyderabad: In an appalling incident, a woman from Sanathnagar in the city was pushed off the third floor of a building by her employer in Dammam, Saudi Arabia. Both her legs got fractured while she suffered injuries in the back. In a video […]
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that employers can ban staff from wearing visible religious symbols at work in the first case of its kind before the EU’s […]
@JustinTrudeau for Nobel Peace Prize for refusing burkini ban and a lot more https://t.co/CXujKSEkFF @POTUS pic.twitter.com/ot3pHljuF4 — The Muslim Times (@The_MuslimTimes) August 23, 2016 Source: The Star By Peter Goffin […]
By JASON HOROWITZMARCH 10, 2017 NYimes .com 201703/10 Pope Francis this week signaled receptiveness to appeals from bishops in the remote and overwhelmed corners of the Roman Catholic Church to combat a deepening shortage of priests by ordaining married men who are already committed to the church. In an interview with a German newspaper, […]
Source: Economist By Erasmus Learning from a Christian-Muslim debate on religious literacy YOU may find this reassuring, or disturbing, or something in between. Earlier this week, one of the most […]
A bill that would regulate the traditional use of loudspeakers for the Muslim call to prayer passed its first legislative hurdle in Israel’s Parliament on Wednesday, provoking frustration and anger among some Arab lawmakers. By NIRAJ CHOKSHIMARCH 8, 2017, NYTimes.com One version of the bill would prohibit places of worship from using […]
AP | Updated: Mar 8, 2017, 10.25 AM IST 134COMMENTS HIGHLIGHTS The Nike Pro Hijab has been in development for a year. Figure skater Zahra Lari was among those who tested it. FIBA has come under fire for banning headscarves during international competition. Figure skater Zahra Lari wears Nike’s new hijab for […]
2 Muslim high school students witnessed, recorded ourtburst CBC News Posted: Mar 07, 2017 7:00 AM ET Last Updated: Mar 07, 2017 8:40 AM ET OC Transpo is investigating after a video surfaced online showing a man screaming insults directed at Muslim passengers on one of its buses. The racist tirade, captured on a […]
Reporter, The Huffington Post “It’s important for mainstream media to show that Muslims are Americans.” 04/03/2017 2:08 AM IST | Updated 04/03/2017 2:08 AM IST Vogue is celebrating its 125th anniversary this year with a dazzling feature on the diverse lives and stories of American women around the country. Among the subjects featured […]
Twitter Google+ WhatsApp Viber Pinterest LinkedIn 25 graduates receive their Shahid degrees from Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is pleased to announce that on 4 March 2017, the 5th Convocation Ceremony for Jamia Ahmadiyya UK and the 7th Convocation Ceremony for Jamia Ahmadiyya Canada took place in a combined event […]
Source: The Global News By Rahul Kalvapalle National Online Journalist Global News There were tense moments in cities including Montreal and Toronto Saturday between supporters and opponents of M-103, a […]
By Asif Javed http://niazamana.com/2017/03/does-the-islamophobia-exist-in-canadian-society/ The simple answer is no. There is no Islamophobia exists in Canadian Society. Islamophobia is a factitious controversy generated by hardliner Muslims in Canada for their ulterior motives. Islamophobia itself doesn’t exist in Canadian society. But there are genuine resentments related to orthodox Islam, which are […]