Islam Channel- Your own TV channel is bringing to you the biggest family entertainment of the year on the 4th December at Excel London.

This event will be ‘the biggest of its kind in the history of Europe’ and is open for both Muslims and non-Muslims with a projected audience of 15,000 people.

The Global Peace and Unity Event will be taking everyone to a journey of enriching spirtuality and extra ordinary family entertainment.

Artists performing:

Ahmed Bukhatir - - wwwww.bukhatir.orgwww.bukhatir.co.uk
Zain Bhikha - www.zainbhikha.com
Kamal Uddin - www.kamaluddin.net
Dawud Wharnsby-Ali - www.wharnsby.com
Mesut Kurtis

Speakers:

Dr Zakir Naik
Yvonne Ridley
Imran Khan
Salma Yaqoob
Qazi Hussain Ahmed

and many more...

Full details on: www.TheGlobalUnity.com

Islam Channel: www.IslamChannel.co.uk

I'm going inshallah

Alhamdulillah , make sure you speak to the MPAC members who will be attending.

Tomorrow inshallah

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Programme:

08:00 Excel Gates Open
08:15 Admission to Arena
09:25 - 09:30 Qur’an Recitation – Yahiya Hawwa
09:30 - 09:35 Quran Recitation – Mohd Aswat
09:35 - 09:50 Kamal Uddin- Nasheed Artist UK
09:50 - 09:55 Mohamed Ali- Welcome Note
09:55 – 10:00 Asghar Bukhari
10:00 - 10:05 Sarah Joseph – Editor of Emel magazine
10:05 - 10:20 Yasir Qadhi- Muslim Scholar USA
10:20 – 10-30 Yahiya Hawwa Nasheed Artist Syria
10:30 – 10:35 Brother Dash Islamic poet USA
10:35 - 10:40 Dr Daud Abdullah : Researcher on Palestian affairs
10:40 – 10:50 Simon Hughes: MP & President of the Liberal Democrats
10:50 - 11:00 Sadiq Khan MP Tooting
11:00 – 11:05 Daud Wharnsby Ali
11:05 - 11:20 Mohamed Ali-(CEO of Islam Channel) - Welcome address
11:20 - 11:30 Tariq Ghafoor- Assistant Commissioner Met Police
11:30 - 11:40 Sir Iqbal Sacranie- Secretary General of the MCB
11:40 - 11:55 Lord Falconer- Lord Chancellor (key note speaker)
11:55 - 12:00 Dhuhr Adhan
12:00 - 12:10 Saeed Anwar- Ex Pakistan Cricket Captain
12:10 - 12:30 Dawud Wharnsby- Singer/Song Writer Canada
12:30 - 12:50 Yusuf Estas- Muslim Scholar USA
12:50 - 13:00 Dr. Musharraf Hussain- Muslim Scholar
13:00 - 13:05 Sami Yusuf - Artist
13:05 - 13:15 Awards Ceremony
13:15 - 13:30 Junaid Jamshed-Artist
13:30 - 14:10 Dhur & Asr Prayers & Lunch Break
14:10 - 14:15 Khurshid Dradu- Judge
14:15 - 14:30 Preacher Moss- Comedian
14:30 - 14:40 Abdul Bari Atwan- Editor of Al-Quds al Arabi
14:40 - 14:50 Lord Nazir Ahmed-
14:50 - 15:10 Fund Raising
15:10 - 15:30 Zain Bhika-Artist
15:30 - 15:40 Tariq Suwaidan- Scholar
15:40 - 15:55 Sheikh ibrahim morgra)
15:55 - 16:05 Mike O’Brien- Member of Parliament/solicitor journal
16:05 - 16:25 Maghrib Prayers
16:25 - 16:30 Ahmed Versi- editor Muslim News
16:30 - 16:35 Salma Yaqoob
16:35 - 16:50 Najam Sheraz-Artist
16:50 - 17:00 Michael Mansfield- QC
17:00 - 17:10 Junaid Jamshed- Artist
17:10 - 17:50 Hameed Gul, Qazi Hussain Ahmed, Ejaz ul Haq (LIVE Link)
17:50 - 18:00 Preacher Moss- Comedian
18:00 - 18:15 Yvonne Ridley- Political Editor of Islam Channel & Journalist
18:15 - 18:40 Imran Khan- Ex Pakistan Captain (Chairman Tare In saf)
18:40 - 18:45 Najam Sheraz- Artist
18:45 - 19:25 Dr Zakir Naik-scholar
19:25 - 20:00 Ahmed Bukhatir- Artist

Concluding DUA – Jalal Ibn Saeed

http://www.theglobalunity.com/

What a day it was!

I didnt get to listen to any of the talks because I was attending a certain stall

It was tiring but great mashallah, was good to see so many thousands of Muslims together alhamidulillah!

Sounds great. Alhamdulillah.

More feedback, please!

Was Salaam
Afroz

The place was massive! It’s a purpose built conference centre for these sorts of events, there were about 20,000 Muslims mashallah, if not more, as I walked passed the open Auditorium there were people standing as the seats were all filled.

I cant comment on the talks because I didnt listen to any unfortunately If Shazan_Sami went, maybe he can inshallah

I was in the exhibition area the whole day - from 9am to 9pm! Yeah us lot had to wait until everyone left to leave. But it was great visiting the other stall holders and talking to them, Islamic Bank of Britain, Islamica, Awakening (got the new Sami Yusuf CD, the percussion one), Emel, MPAC, Q News, Al-Buraq, HSBC, Ambala etc some famous names also came to our stall to give their salaams!

In the exhibition area there was also a children’s section, with bouncy castles (it was tempting ), a children’s show where they sung nasheeds, competitions etc. Oh and there was a spectacular fireworks display over the river at the end of it! It was so beautiful

Well done Islam Channel

...

No theyre Muslim alhamidulillah



http://www.ambalafoods.com/about/index.php

Muslim peace rally attracts thousands

By Joanna Bale - December 05, 2005

MORE than 20,000 British Muslims gathered yesterday at a conference in London, the largest meeting of its kind to be held in Europe.

Ken Livingstone, Michael Mansfield, QC, and the former Pakistan cricketers Saeed Anwar and Imran Khan were among the speakers promoting “global peace and unity”.

Tariq Suwaidan, a Muslim scholar from Kuwait, echoed many of those who addressed the conference when he insisted that Muslims did not support the terrorists behind the 9/ll attacks in America and the London bombings in July.

He said: “We totally refuse to be looked upon as terrorists and we totally refuse that these people represent us — they don’t.” He said that the terrorists were “enemies of Islam”.

However, he was critical of the dominance of the West and said that Western values were “hurting the world”.

Sir Iqbal Sacranie, Secretary-General of the Muslim Council of Britain, attacked the Government’s proposed anti-terrorist legislation. The most “dangerous” aspect, he said, was the proposal for new powers over places of worship. “You cannot have the power of a government to close down a mosque. Who’s next in line?” he said.

Families from all over Britain travelled to the conference in the London Docklands, organised by the Islam Channel, Britain’s leading Muslim television station.

Sophia Qureshy, 21, a student from Woking, Surrey, said: “I was attracted by all the good speakers, many of whom I have seen on the Islam Channel.”

Asked if she thought that non-Muslims would feel threatened by such a gathering, she said: “No, non-Muslims are more aware that we are here, that we live in this society and that we engage and integrate in a peaceful way.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1904949,00.html

Read the feedback from a respected sister on Mpac forum

I think the event was nice in the sense that 20k muslims got together al-Hamdulillah i.e. the sheer number of people, but that credit goes to all those who paid for their tickets and turned up, THEY made the effort to come, and PAID for thier tickets, which paid for the venue. To book a venue is easy if you have 30,000+ people wanting to pay up to £200 a ticket and you have a whole TV station which is the monopoly in the market for the community blasting the advert to probably a million Muslims every 5 minutes! So it is no success to simply book a huge hall knowing you have the money almost gauranteed to come in to cover the cost!

Success? How do you measure success?

Success for the stall holders is lots of sales etc
Success for the speakers is a moved crowd who understand the message (Sister Yvonne)
Success for the nasheed artist is a crowd who was stirred and reminded of Allah through art

But here is the crucial point:

Success for the organisers is how well organised it was. In this regard it was an absolute SHAMBLES.

Also Success for the organisers is how much it catered for Islam. In this regard it was very poor too, except the good ISLAMIC speakers e.g. Yvonne, Naik, & the scholars.

I'll give you a few examples:

THERE WAS NOWHERE TO PRAY! Sisters (including me) had to pray on dirty floors with men possibly behind them looking at their shape when they bent down! IT FELT LIKE IT DIDNT EVEN OCCUR IN THE MIND OF THE ORGANISERS THAT MUSLIMS PRAY!!

THE TOILETS HAD NO WASHING FACILITIES! people had to line up for hours to pay shamless prices for a bottle of mineral water so they could go to the loo!

OVERPRICING & RIBA The prices of food from Shaziana etc were HARAM & shamless! £5 for a little tub of boiled rice with hardly any sauce or curry after a 2 hour wait! The prophet (SAW) explictly forbade extreme overcharging to people who have travelled to a particular place & tourists, it is on par with RIBA according to some of the Ulema.

BREAKING OF CONTRACTS: PEOPLE PAID £200 BUT GOT A BACK SEAT! An old man complained to one of the organisers that he paid £200 for a special ticket to sit near the front but he didn't get a seat, they the organisers shrugged at him, and said that they themselves don't know what's going on! This violates the contract Islam Channel made with him!

MISELLING & DECEPTION: SPEAKERS & ARTISTS ADVERTISED DIDN'T COME! Instead I had to listen to openly GAY and ZIONIST, PRO-IRAQ-WAR MPs & Public figures! If I wasn't Muslim, trading standards would have a field day.

ELDERLY PAKISTANI BIAS It was supposed to be an Islamic & Muslim event mainly for Muslims in Europe & UK, not a Pakistani event. Athough they constitute the largest group of Muslims (43%), they are not the majority! Non-Pakistanis are and ENGLISH is the common language, then arabic (for islam)! So why on earth do we want to see 'has beens' like "junaid jamshed" who arrogantly declared unashamingly that he will only be available for autographs for 10 minutes so he will wait "over there" for people to come to him! And this point goes for all of the pakistani pop-stars, celebs and politicians: Junaid jamshed, Najam shirazi, Saeed anwar, general hameed gul, Imran Khan, and the religious affairs minister of Pakistan ijaz-al-haq (General Zia's son) etc etc. Even the vast majority of Pakistanis in the UK are below the age of 25, so some of them I know didn't know or even care about these people, they told me only their 50 year old aunts and uncles cared.

WERE THE HOT DOGS HALAL? None of the organisers / stewards or security gave me an answer, and i saw poor Muslims lining up to dig-in, assuming they were Halal when i think they were simply businesses from the venue (ExCel)!

THE NON-MUSLIM SECURITY STAFF PROVIDED WERE INSULTING AND AGGRESSIVE


WEBSITE HALF-FUNCTIONAL & WRITTEN BY SOMEONE WHO OBVIOUSLY DOESNT SPEAK ENGLISH:
http://www.theglobalunity.com/ is not even complete and half the pages still say "coming soon", and when you get lines like "Imam E Kaba", "Qazi Sahib" and "The Global Peace and Unity Event will be taking everyone to a journey of enriching spirtuality? and? extra <space> ordinary family entertainment?? " you know it is an foreign ex-pat who wrote it. See how much description is dedicated to our Dawood Wharnsby compared to how long the introduction Najam Shirazi gets on the website!

But my main criticism is not the speaker line-up, but the sheer lack of any coordination, organisation, or planning, I saw a group of the stewards wondering themselves about why there was no radio or walkie talkies for them!

So for the Muslims that came we enjoyed our own company in large numbers in a sense of collective brotherhood & sisterhood, but as far as the organisers are concerned they should consider it a failure in the spheres they were responsible for i.e. the organisation!

That's somewhat surprising akh as I was lead to believe that the Brits [Muslims] are normally far more professional and organise things way better than we do.

Do you share similar sentiments?

Ukht Hiti?

salam alaikum

Is that really you?

read the the feeback from British Muslim on the mpac forum:

MPACUK Global Unity

Would any doubt in my mind the best speech was by Yvonne Ridley. The British journalist seized by the Taleban then she converted to Islam. Subhanallah

Unless I've been cloned, yes I am me.

Inshallah if you want I send you the DVD of the Global unity event as an Eid Adha present

Well I'd *prefer* Sterling and lots of it, but I can do a dvd.

Btw cool sig bro.

So like erm...you're an intrepid traveller? [smile]

I like to think so too ukhti, there are nearly 2 million British Muslims (as opposed to 400,000 Australian Muslims) and they have quite alot of experience in events, they still have a long way to go mind you, but in recent years, the professionalism is really showing through I think, based on the many events Ive gone to There are, as in all things, exceptions to the rule, and the criticism only helps us to improve inshallah

The CEO of Islam Channel, Mohammed Ali did mention this in his speech- he was humble enough to apologies for any mistakes and any feedback received will be look at as open criticising

Organising an event for over 22,000 people is no easy task, they deserve alot of praise for their work, there were so many volunteers mashallah, the constructive criticism is needed but we must never forget to praise and thank inshallah, credit where its due

Well you guys are not alone.

We too have our problems.

In July I attended a series of lectures over a weekend by Dr Jamal Badawi and Dr Anas Tikriti, and was very disappointed by the so-called prayer facilities and wash-rooms.

Organisers should make this a priority. Seriously, salaat is Fard so that in itself should warrant the utmost attention. Sadly, at this event, more emphasis was seemingly placed on the monotonous and time-consuming 'opening' speeches, and yet when it came to pray, we had to line up to wash up which in turn, made us late in praying in jamaat. The basin was tiny [ie you couldn't even wash your feet] and then when it came to prayer, we virtually had to pray side by side or wait till the jamaat dispersed.

To some this is nit-picking, but for some of us, having a proper area to pray takes priority over everything.

There's nothing more off-putting than having to pray Amina Dawud 'style'.

Personally I enjoyed it- been to similar TJ marches in Bangladesh, over 1 million, but they with all their numbers, have largely detached Islam from politics, otherwise that 1 million rally could establish Islam in Bangladesh if they were made political activists rather than religious recluses, I’m going off topic-

I’m use of chaos and being in a hustle bustle environment- Islam Channel as a whole….. Alhamdulillah, had a fund raising appeal last night very emotional. To any future Islamic celebrates, Islam channel is now recruiting

I've traveled to few exotic places, my trip to Jerusalem this month was cancelled , the signature is taken from a song (can’t remember) by Songs of Hagr (Islamic rap group) it’s actually a riddle and the answer is: Injustice.


Back to your point, did you complain to the organizers regarding the lack of prayer and wadu facilities?

BUMP.

Pictures taken form Global Unity Event 2 , wanted to share them with you all.


Outside Excel Exhibition London



River Thames



Prayer space (Empty taken at 9.00 am )



Kiswa







Model of Prophet (saw) Masjid in Medina







Masjid Al Haram Makkah

Interpal stall, Apartheid wall





Al Quds



Dome of the Rock



Cage Prisoners stall

George Galloway at the Global Peace and Unity Conference Video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4XZP8LW9_0


Sister embraces Islam at GPU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEnu4AEGFTY

Azan: By Muazzin from MakkaIn Excel, Global Peace and Unity

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDhng-DRi0w

More video will be added when my sources get back to me . Insha’Allah