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.
By Elliot Friedland, Sun, August 28, 2016 Shireen Qudosi was banned after publicizing a spat with prominent Muslim leader Javed Ali, who accused her of being a corrupt neocon stooge.Facebook has intervened in a political dispute between Muslim reformist and activist Shireen Qudosi and Muslim leader Javed Ali by banning Qudosi […]
IANS/Islamabad- khaleejtimes.com Filed on August 28, 2016 | Last updated on August 28, 2016 at 07.04 am Pakistan Wildlife Department on Friday arrested a shoemaker who made Peshawari sandals with deer skin for Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan. With years of experience and one of Peshawar’s oldest chappal maestros, Jahangir […]
Libraries of the Muslim World (859-2000) By Zakaria Virk, Toronto, Canada I cannot live without books – Thomas Jefferson Public Libraries were first introduced by the Greeks. Libraries are considered […]
By Tom Porter August 26, 2016 10:08 BST . IBTimes.co.uk Birmingham education authorities buckled to pressure from sectarian hardliners and blocked a Muslim sect from being represented on an interfaith council, it is claimed. Members of Birmingham’s Ahmadiyya Muslim Community were told that in order to be represented on the city’s Standing […]
By Scott Shane August 25, 2016, nytimes.com/2016/08/26/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-islam.html#sthash.nqvD9sVc.dpuf Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump don’t agree on much, but Saudi Arabia may be an exception. She has deplored Saudi Arabia’s support for “radical schools and mosques around the world that have set too many young people on a path towards extremism.” He […]
Muslim Women in the Olympics; More than Hijab and Medals August 25, 2016Sara Ahmad Egypt Muslim women are not new to the Olympic Games as they have always participated and competed fiercely in the games, however, their presence this year is probably more obvious as more Muslim women athletes chose […]
The study conducted by a Canadian former intelligence analyst and a journalist assessed texts in mosques and Islamic Schools in Canada. BY ELLIOT FRIEDLAND, Wed, August 24, 2016 Extremist literature is widely available in mosques and Islamic schools in Canada, according to a new study, reported by the National Post. The study […]
By DANIEL DALEWashington Bureau Wed., Aug. 24, 2016 WASHINGTON—Noise, traffic, parking, the usual. When residents of Atlanta-area Newton County found out that imam Mohammad Islam was planning to build a mosque and cemetery on vacant land near a rural highway, they cited the standard list of benign objections. Then Monday’s public […]
Successful test in Auckland and New Zealand paves the way for Domino’s to deliver pizzas by drone. By Alistair Charlton August 25, 2016 11:20 BST , IBTimes.co.uk Updated 4 hr ago The Domino’s pizza chain is to start delivering orders by drone later in 2016. The announcement came after it successfully demonstrated how […]
Source: Newsmax By Daniel Pipes, who has taught at the University of Chicago, Harvard University, the U.S. Naval War College, and Pepperdine University. Pipes is the author of 12 books […]
The Mounties have adopted a new uniform policy to allow female Muslim officers to wear the hijab. Scott Bardsley, spokesman for Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale, confirmed that RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson recently approved an addition to the uniform policy to allow women officers to wear the head scarf “if they so choose.” “The […]
Source: One India New Delhi, Aug 24: Its raining rewards for PV Sindhu after she won India’s first silver medal in Badminton at Rio Olympics 2016. The 21-year-old shuttler from […]
Burkini Beach Ban: Must French Muslim Women Become Invisible? 22, 8,2016 It would be hard to find swimwear skimpy enough to cause offence on the French Riviera. It turns out that people are more easily shocked by the idea of covering up. With emotions still running high after the attacks […]
For 20 years, long before ISIS, he abetted terror plots in the U.K. and around the world. Now that he’s in jail, will he continue his work there? MAAJID NAWAZ 08.22.16 1:13 AM ET LONDON — Perhaps the world’s most mainstream pro-ISIS Western media agitator, Anjem Choudary, finally has […]
PARIS — An Islamic extremist pleaded guilty on Monday at theInternational Criminal Court to destroying shrines and damaging a mosque in the Malian city of Timbuktu, in the court’s first prosecution of the destruction of cultural heritage as a war crime. Prosecutors have said that Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi, a member of a […]
Promoted post: Urdu Drama: Shariah Law, Divorce, Halala and Fundamentalism? LONDON: The issue of divorce among Muslim women has taken a dangerous turn because clerics are out to exploit them […]
A boy genius from Texas has conquered high school at the age of 12 and is off to Cornell University this fall. If Jeremy Shuler of Lubbock obtains a degree in the next four years, he may be the youngest person ever to graduate from the university in Ithaca, N.Y. […]
Letters to the Editor theStar.com Aug 20, 2016 Aaron Driver, self radicalized youth killed by police in Strathroy, Ont. Can terrorism be justified? Is hatred more powerful than love? As an Ahmadi Muslim, the answer is clear that terrorism has no place in Islam or any religion. The tragic tale […]
Britain Is Full of Inspirational Muslim Women, They’re More Crucial than Ever Friday 19 August 2016 When I think of Muslim women, I think of Khadija, the prophet Muhammad’s wife and first convert to Islam, who was a successful merchant in her own right; of Fatima al-Fihri, who founded the […]
Source: The Telegraph Ahmed Zewail, who has died aged 70, became the first Egyptian – and the first Arab – to win a Nobel Prize for science when he won […]