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.
British Home Secretary Visits Baitul Futuh Mosque In Latest News, Press Releases, May 6, 2015 Home Secretary Rt Hon Theresa May made her first ever visit to the landmark Baitul Futuh Mosque in south London on Saturday 2nd May and paid tribute to the work of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in the UK […]
India: UP Girls Take a Stand, Say ‘No’ To Unfit Grooms and Mismatched Marriages 04 May, 2015 Minutes before solemnizing her wedding vows, Kanpur’s Lavli Kushwaha discovered to her horror that the man she was about to exchange garlands with was not the one she had agreed to marry – […]
India: UP Girls Take a Stand, Say ‘No’ To Unfit Grooms and Mismatched Marriages 04 May, 2015 Minutes before solemnizing her wedding vows, Kanpur’s Lavli Kushwaha discovered to her horror that the man she was about to exchange garlands with was not the one she had agreed to marry – […]
Rachel Notley rides stunning orange wave in Alberta: Tim Harper Alberta goes NDP in a sweep that ranks with the most seismic shifts in Canadian political history. Share on Facebook Alberta’s premier-elect Rachel Notley was almost giddy in her victory speech, promising new ideas and a fresh start after making […]
Free Speech: Theirs and Ours By Hussain Nadim May 02, 2015 What’s the cost of free speech in the ‘free world’? Scott McIntyre, a sports journalist for Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) in Australia, recently had a taste of it. Not only was he fired from SBS, but was also put […]
An Ottawa Imam Who Gets Things Done By Mohammed Azhar Ali Khan 01 May 2015 When I was president of the Ottawa Muslim Association, we installed a table tennis table in the basement hoping such facilities would attract youth for recreation, learning and prayers. Some Muslims were opposed, however. When […]
Source: The Clarion Project By Soeren Kern; April 30, 2015 British Politicians Woo ‘Muslim Vote’ With Pledges British Muslims — who voted overwhelmingly for Labour in the 2010 general election — […]
Source: The Clarion Project By Soeren Kern; April 30, 2015 British Politicians Woo ‘Muslim Vote’ With Pledges British Muslims — who voted overwhelmingly for Labour in the 2010 general election — […]
Source: Nature Why I Teach Evolution to Muslim Students By Rana Dajani, who is associate professor of molecular biology at Hashemite University in Zarqa, Jordan, and a visiting scholar at the Faraday Institute, University of Cambridge, UK. 22 April 2015 Certain problematic attitudes towards science have been imported into Muslim societies as […]
First Islamic State Birth Certificate: Guns and Grenade A newborn next to an Islamic State-issued ID with a gun and hand grenade by the infant’s head. Tue, April 28, 2015 This picture, dubbed the first Islamic State birth certificate, has been circulated on Twitter and is reported to be authentic. […]
Money is coming into Canada to promote extremist ideology and much of it is going to religious institutions, the prime minister’s national security adviser testified at a hearing Monday on the government’s counter-terrorism bill. Nationalpost.com April 28, 2015 Asked by Senate national security committee chairman Daniel Lang about millions of […]
To Know more how you can benefit from the Muslim Times, go to our Homepage or About Us page Source: Huffington Post By Stephen Schwartz 28 March, 2015 Zakir Naik, 49, an Indian Muslim […]
PART ONE: How great a scientist was Abdus Salam? Some vilify him, others praise him excessively. Only facts can tell the truth. Click here to watch it in English and here in Urdu. PART TWO: Abdus Salam often said his science was inspired by the Quran. So what inspired his atheist contemporary, Steven Weinberg?Click here to watch […]
Why Mona Eltahawy’s Provocative New Book, Headscarves and Hymens, Falls Short In Its Goal to Change the Arab World By Stephanie Nolen, Apr. 17 2015 Title Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution Author Mona Eltahawy, Genre Non-Fiction, Publisher HarperCollins, Pages 240 pages Price $26.99, Year […]
The U.S. Muslim Honor Brigade Strikes Again By Asra Q. Nomani 21 April, 2015Source: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/04/21/the-u-s-muslim-honor-brigade-strikes-again.html In Wilmington, Delaware, students at the treasured Cab Calloway School of the Arts can join a club, “Free to Be You,” and they can call a hotline to report bullying. In my anti-bullying stand for […]
Anjem Choudary claims all Muslim MPs and voters are ‘apostates’ sinning against Islam Radical preacher Anjem Choudary has claimed that all Muslim MPs and voters are “apostates” as the general election approaches. Writing on Twitter that voting is a “sin” against Islam, he argued that Parliament violated religious […]
Anjem Choudary claims all Muslim MPs and voters are ‘apostates’ sinning against Islam Radical preacher Anjem Choudary has claimed that all Muslim MPs and voters are “apostates” as the general election approaches. Writing on Twitter that voting is a “sin” against Islam, he argued that Parliament violated religious […]
Call for Indian Muslim Women to Seek Non-Shariah Rights Shabnam Hashmi, a human rights activist at the National Integration Council, argues that women in India’s Muslim minority should seek equal […]
How to keep wife happy . . . .! It’s really not difficult to make a wife happy. A husband only needs to be: 1. a friend 2. a companion 3. a lover 4. a brother 5. a father 6. a man 7. a chef 8. an electrician 9. a […]
It’s regrettable that we have elected bigots, racists, supremacists and idiots into these august houses. So to break the sorrow, have a good laugh. Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. ~Oscar […]