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.
Ex-Tory chairwoman Baroness Warsi ‘quits’ Brexit campaign over claims of ‘lies and xenophobia’ – but Leave insist she never signed up in the first place Baroness Warsi’s high-profile ‘defection’ was greeted with bafflement Leave supporters could not remember her ever campaigning in their side Farage poster claiming migration was pushing continent to […]
Quebec city, Quebec Islamic cultural centre of Quebec City was also target of xenophobic messages, vandalism in 2014 CBC News Posted: Jun 19, 2016 10:30 PM ET Last Updated: Jun 19, 2016 10:31 PM ET In the middle of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, a regular at a Quebec City mosque finished […]
Hartford: Conn watch the video http://www.today.com/video/mosque-leaders-opens-their-arms-to-ted-hakey-jr-after-2015-shooting-708495939956?icid=rm_mhs3 Mosque leaders opens their arms to Ted Hakey Jr. after 2015 shooting On the night of the Paris terror attacks last year, Ted Hakey Jr. was enraged by the scenes he watched unfold on television so he grabbed his gun and fired shots […]
New Haven Register 2016/06/17 Anna Bisaro HARTFORD >> A man who fired rifle shots towards a Meriden mosque in the hours following the terror attacks in Paris last year, was sentenced Friday to six months in federal prison, with credit for time served, followed by a period of three years of supervised release. […]
Ramadan support group a ‘very Toronto type of community’ | Toronto Star Pacinthe Mattar can’t forget about her “worst Ramadan on record.”Ramadan support group a ‘very Toronto type of community’ | Toronto Star Pacinthe Mattar (right), says that during Ramadan in “Muslim majority countries . . . you feel like […]
The hip-hop group “We’re Muslim, Don’t Panic“ was conceived of by dancer Amirah Sackett in 2011, a moment Sackett referred to as “a really tumultuous time in history as far as Islam is concerned.” Just seven years earlier, France banned students from wearing hijab to school, the headscarves that in Islamic […]
By Asra Q. Nomani June 15, 2016 The massacre of partygoers at Pulse, a gay club in Orlando, took me back to the late summer of 2005, when an African American woman, wearing a tight headscarf over her staff uniform, stormed out of the kitchen and into a conference room […]
Bader Sayeed is one of the top lawyer-activists in Chennai, the first woman chairperson of the Tamil Nadu Waqf Board. – See more at: http://newageislam.com/interview/shobha-warrier/talaq-must-go-through-the-court-of-law/d/107673#sthash.R6qOzxYY.dpuf A schoolmate of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, she was the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam candidate in the 2004 parliamentary elections from the […]
Epigraph: Every human life is precious and sacred. Whoever saves one it will be as if he or she has saved the whole of humanity. (Al Quran 5:32/33) Source: Oneindia […]
By Paul Wright , Video by Sho Murakoshi June 15, 2016 14:06 BST ibtimes.co.uk British Muslim children as young as 11 are being given classes to prevent them being radicalised by violent Islamic State (Daesh) jihadists. This comes after community leaders feared they were being targeted by extremist online propaganda.Imam Muhammad Ehsan, headteacher […]
Convicted terrorist Larossi Abballa fatally stabs Jean-Baptiste Salvaing before killing officer’s partner in attack claimed by Isis The French government has denounced an “abject act of terrorism” after a man with a previous terrorist conviction carried out a gruesome knife murder of a police commander and his partner at their […]
ORLANDO / CAIRO / WASHINGTON: Fifty people died and another 53 were injured early Sunday when a heavily-armed gunman opened fire and seized hostages at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, police said, in the worst mass shooting in US history. Terrified survivors – who moments before were laughing and dancing […]
Jesse Jackson endorses Hillary Clinton – CNNPolitics.com 2016/06/11 <!– <!– Washington (CNN)The Rev. Jesse Jackson endorsed Hillary Clinton on Saturday, continuing a recent string of high-profile endorsements for the presumptive Democratic nominee. Jackson, speaking in Chicago, said he trusts that Clinton will look out for the interests of marginalized communities including […]
NORTH CAROLINA: A North Carolina man faces ethnic intimidation charges after leaving bacon at a mosque and making death threats to its members as they prepared for worship in observance of Ramazaan, Islam’s holy month, authorities said on Friday. Langford is charged with ethnic intimidation, assault with a deadly weapon, going […]
By Owen Hughes June 10, 2016 12:13 BST ibtimes.co.uk The world of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang has moved a step closer as Google co-founder Larry Page is personally funding two companies developing flying cars, according to reports. Page is said to have invested more than $100m (£70m, €89m) of his own […]
LOUISEVILLE: June 10, 2016 Thousands of people on Friday cheered and threw roses in the streets of Muhammad Ali’s hometown Louisville as they bade farewell to the boxing legend and civil rights hero known as “The Greatest.” http://tribune.com.pk/story/1120224/muhammad-ali-funeral-procession-begins/ A mass funeral procession, a private burial and public memorial service will wrap […]
The New York Times The Opinion Pages | Contributing Op-Ed Writer Timothy Egan Donald Trump speaking to the media on Tuesday night. Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times Earlier this month, the world’s most battle-scarred cable news network did something extraordinary in this year of vaporous political contrails. While Donald […]
Muslims remember Muhammad Ali, their champion Daniel Dale, The Toronto Star LOUISVILLE—A little Arab boy in Egypt, a little Gujarati boy in India, a little black boy in Baltimore. Hany […]
Source: Toronto Sun BY TAREK FATAH, TORONTO SUN, FIRST POSTED: TUESDAY, JUNE 07, 2016 February 28, 1964, would have been just another day for the boys of St. Lawrence’s Boys’ Catholic School in […]
New Delhi, June 8: Many Muslim leaders, worried about electoral marginalisation of the community, especially after the split in Muslim votes in Assam, have initiated a serious move to bring together all groups, sects and schools of thought under one platform to make the community of 160 million a strong […]