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.
God, if you’re listening … My mum, of course, has instructed me to pray for a husband as I make my first hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca required of every Muslim. Also: the health of her best friend and the release, from jail in Egypt, of the son of my aunt’s […]
By SAN GREWALUrban Affairs Reporter Fri., Sept. 9, 2016, Thestar.com Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie has pushed forward a parking exemption for Monday’s Eid al-Adha celebrations across the city, after a councillor was accused of religious discrimination at Wednesday’s council meeting when the exemption was deferred. “We are an inclusive, multicultural, multi-religious […]
What Muslims Do on Hajj, and Why, By Diaa Hadid, September 8, 2016 It is incumbent upon every able-bodied Muslim who can afford to do so to travel to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Islam’s holiest site, at least once in his or her lifetime. The annual pilgrimage is known as the […]
Each bracelet carries a bar code readable by smartphone. It indicates the pilgrim’s identity, nationality, place of lodging in Mecca, as well as other information, the vice secretary of the ministry of hajj and umrah, Issa Rawas, told AFP. Close to two million pilgrims have converged on western Saudi Arabia […]
Fifteen years later, there are reasons to despair about the state of Muslims in America—but still more reasons for optimism about it. DEAN OBEIDALLAH, 09.08.16 1:05 AM ET So what’s it like to be Muslim in America 15 years after 9/11? We see concerning signs and poll numbers about how our […]
BY TAREK FATAH, TORONTO SUN, 2016/09/07 The debate about “Canadian values” — started by Kellie Leitch, one of the candidates for the leadership of the Conservative Party — erupted into the predictable insinuation that she was racist, xenophobic and guilty of the ultimate offence of the times: Islamophobia. Fortunately, for her, it […]
September 7, 20167:48 PM ET, NPR.ORG CARRIE JOHNSON Twitter Lawyer Abid Qureshi could become the first Muslim federal judge. President Obama nominated Qureshi for an open seat on the federal court in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. Enlarge this image Abid Qureshi, a partner at the law firm Latham & Watkins, […]
Although facing defeat in Iraq, the group continues to implement gruesome killings and new rules for everything from soccer to divorce. A round-up. Tue, September 6, 2016, https://www.clarionproject.org/news/even-islamic-state-has-banned-burqa-security-reasons In an ironic twist of fate, the (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)Islamic State has banned the wearing of burqas (that they had made obligatory on every […]
CAROLINE ALPHONSO – EDUCATION REPORTER The Globe and Mail Published Tuesday, Sep. 06, 2016 7:17PM EDT, Last updated Tuesday, Sep. 06, 2016 8:28PM EDT The issue of allowing children to withdraw from classes flared up at Canada’s largest school board after a group of Muslim parents were offered an accommodation, not a full […]
Jalsa Salana Germany 2016 concludes with faith-inspiring address by Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community ● TUESDAY, 6 SEPTEMBER 2016 More than 38,000 people attend three-day convention in Karlsruhe The World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad concluded the 41st Annual Convention (Jalsa Salana) of the […]
18-year-old Hindu girl Pooja Kushwaha has been teaching the Holy Quran to Muslim children in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Speaking to the Times of India, she revealed how she learned to read Arabic and begin teaching the Holy Quran, despite being a Hindu. “Many years ago, there was another woman […]
Peter Hartcher , The Sydney Morning Herald Saudi Arabia uses the proceeds of its oil exports to pay for, among other things, the missionary spread of the Islamic fundamentalist doctrine of Wahhabism. This has spread like a cancer to scores of countries. It has poisoned traditional local interpretations of […]
سلطان شاہین، بانی و ایڈیٹر، نیو ایج اسلام علماء اسلام کا اسلام پسند نظریہ سازوں کے خلاف نظریاتی جنگ میں شامل ہوناضروری 10 جولائی 2016 اس سال عید کے مبارک موقع پر خوشیوں کا نہیں بلکہ کشت و خون کا بازار گرم رہا۔ پوری دنیا میں اس سال رمضان المبارک کے مقدس […]
There is an uneasiness among many people at the speed and extent to which British society is changing. By Harcharan Chandhoke September 5, 2016 13:53 BST, IBTimes.co.uk How very sad that a turbaned Sikh man, born and bred in Britain, should suffer racial abuse for having the temerity to appear on […]
The Jamia Islamia Ghousia Trust of Luton – An Extremist Mosque in the Mainstream The Jamia Islamia Ghousia Trust of Luton would like people to think it runs a wonderful mosque. Fools and scoundrels will tell you that it most certainly does. The reality is rather different. Last Saturday, for […]
DEAN OBEIDALLAH 08.31.16 1:00 AM ET After the backlash when chicken hawk Donald Trump mocked the mother of American hero Capt. Humayun Khan, you might think he’d at least pause before launching another hateful attack on a grieving Muslim woman. But there he was Monday suggesting that Huma Abedin, […]
In a scathing criticism of the Pakistani elite, the former director of United Nations Development Program (UNDP) for Pakistan Marc-André Franche, said the only way a critical change could happen in the country was when the influential, the politicians and the wealthy, would sacrifice short term, individual and family interests […]
Hillary Clinton’s closest aide, Huma Abedin, said Monday that she intended to separate from her husband, Anthony D. Weiner, the former congressman and New York City mayoral candidate, after it was reported that Mr. Weiner had exchanged suggestive images and messages with a woman while the couple’s young child was beside […]
BY: Adam Kredo http://freebeacon.com/national-security/isis-terrorists-infiltrating-canada-suspected-plotting-attacks/ Government warns ‘violent act of terrorism could occur’ August 29, 2016 4:59 am The Canadian government is warning its citizens that it knows of at least 180 people who have traveled abroad to join terror groups and is tracking another 60 “extremist travelers who had returned to Canada,” according […]
I India’s tourism minister has said foreign women should not wear skirts or walk alone at night in the country’s small towns and cities “for their own safety”. Discussing tourist security in the north Indian city of Agra, site of the Taj Mahal, Mahesh Sharma said foreign arrivals to India were issued […]