Sharing 'Peace TV'

PEACE TV? 

Google it... you will find peace (?)... yes...perhaps...for those who are still searching ... and for those who really have the spirit of 'tablighan' and at least to be a Daei.

 About PeaceTV: -

1. Telecasting ‘Free to Air’ state-of-the-art TV Programmes in English and Urdu.
   
   
2. Backed by the Best available Media Technology, Creativity, Research, Programmes Softwares and Operational Management.
   
   
3. Quest for Promoting truth, Justice, Morality, Harmony and Wisdom for the whole of Humankind.
   
   
4. Now can be received in more than 125 countries… in Asia, Middle East, Europe, Africa and Australia. Shortly it would be telecast to the rest of the world too.

The most important Peace TV is not just another Islamic TV channel. Nor will it promote any particular Islamic sect or dogma.  It is a mission of peace, like its name, by giving vast understanding on religion of Islam as a religion of peace and tolerance, the forum for answering misconception on Islam by western influenced mass-media.

The speakers among others:-

DR. ZAKIR NAIK - PRESIDENT, IRF

A medical doctor by professional training, Dr. Zakir Naik is renowed as a dynamic international orator on Islam and Comparative Religion. Dr. Zakir Naik clarifies Islamic viewpoints and clears misconceptions about Islam, using the Qur'an, authentic Hadith and other religious Scriptures as a basis, in conjunction with reason, logic and scientific facts. He is 43 years old.

Dr. Zakir is popular for his critical analysis and convincing answers to challenging questions posed by audiences after his public talks. In the last 12 years (by the year 2008), Dr. Zakir Naik has delivered mo re than 1200 public talks in the U.S.A., Canada, U.K., Saudi Arabia, U.A.E., Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, South Africa, Italy, Mauritius, Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, Hongkong, Thailand, Guyana (South America), Trinidad and many other countries, in addition to numerous public talks in India.

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He has successfully participated in several symposia and dialogues with prominent personalities of other faiths. His public dialogue with Dr. William Campbell (of USA), on the topic, “The Qur’an and the Bible in the light of Science” held in city of Chicago, U.S.A., on April 1, 2000 was a resounding success.

His Interfaith Dialogue with prominent Hindu Guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on the topic ‘The Concept of God in Hinduism and Islam in the light of Sacred Scriptures’ held at Palace Grounds, Bangalore, on 21st Jan. 2006, was highly appreciated by people of both the faiths.

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ABDUR RAHIM GREEN

• Lanky, blonde, green-eyed, 33-years-old Abdur Rahim Green appears to be a character straight out of a Hollywood movie Ben Hur.

• He was born to British parents in Darussalam in Tanzania in 1964.

• He was educated at a famous Roman Catholic Monastic School called Ampleforth College and went on to study history in the London University. However, he left his education unfinished.

• He was dissatisfied with Christianity since the age of eight.

• He was practising Buddhism for nearly three years though he never formally embraced it.

• His study of the Noble Qur’an immediately attracted him to Islam and he embraced Islam in 1988. He has been a Daw’ah practitioner in Britain since then.

• He wears a look that instantly evokes comparison with the popular portrayal of the Prophet Jesus (Pbuh) in the imagery of Christian Europe.

• He has two wives, both British-born Muslims of Indian origin and six children.

• Currently, he is working with an Islamic media company based in England and engages himself in da’wah activities including lectures on Islam in London’s famous Hyde Park. He is well known for his efforts at the renowned "Speaker’s Corner" in London’s Hyde Park.

• He also delivers talks and lectures for Muslims, and concentrates on the pure teaching to the say of Prophet Muhammad (May God’s peace and blessing be upon him), and the early Muslims.

YUSUF ISLAM

• He was born Steven Demetre Georgiou, in London, 21st July 1948. His mother was Swedish and his father was a Greek Cypriot restaurant owner, they lived in the centre of London and Steven went to Roman Catholic Primary School.
• Having left school at the age of 16 with an ‘A’ grade O-Level in Art, he entered Hammersmith Art Colleges and the following year, 1966, as ‘Cat Stevens’, he recorded his first single. From then right up to 1977 Cat Stevens composed and sang many hit records including ‘Mathew and Son’, ‘Here Comes My Baby’, ‘Wild World’, ‘Morning Has Broken and ‘Moonshadow’, selling approximately 40 million long playing records throughout the world.
• Following a bout of TB during his career, Cat Stevens undertook an ongoing search for peace and ultimate spiritual truth. This yearning often expressed in his songs and reflected through his investigations into eastern faiths such as Zen Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism and Astrology, resulted in this embracing the Islamic faith in December 1977. ‘Cat Stevens’ became Yusuf Islam. ... Read more here 

YUSUF ESTES

• He was raised as a strong Protestant Christian, born in Ohio, raised and educated in Texas and was a successful marketing entrepreneur and preacher of Christianity.

• At present he is the National Muslim Chaplain for American Muslims, sponsored by a number of organizations in Washington, DC and delegate to the United Nations Peace Summit for Religious Leaders.

• He has travelled around the entire world lecturing and sharing the message of the Christ of the Quran in Islam.

• He hold dialogs and discussion groups with all faiths and enjoy the opportunity to work alongside of rabbis, ministers, preachers and priests everywhere. Most of the work is in the institutional area, military, universities and prisons.

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JEFFREY LANG

• Dr. Lang is an associated professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Kansas, one of the biggest universities in the United States.

• He was was born in a Catholic family in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He was brought up as a Roman Catholic and educated in a Catholic school. The first 18 years of his life were spent in Catholic schools, which left him with many unanswered questions about God and the Christian religion. He found that his religious beliefs could no longer provide satisfactory answers to his questions.

• He read the Noble Qur’an and thereafter embraced Islam in 1982, a year after receiving his Ph.D. from Purdue University.

• He married a Saudi Muslim woman, Raika, 12 years ago and has three daughters.

• Lang has written several Islamic books which are best sellers among the Muslim community in the US. One of his important books is Even Angels ask; A journey to Islam in America. In this book, Dr. Lang shares with his readers the many insights that have unfolded for him through his self discovery and progress within the religion of Islam.

HUSSAIN YE

Shaikh Hussain Ye is the President of Al Khadim Organization in Malaysia. He is a Malaysian national of Chinese descent. Although born into a Buddhist family, he embraced Islam at the age of 18 in 1968.

He pursued further studies at the Islamic University of Madinah in Saudi Arabia majoring in Hadith. After graduating in 1978, he joined the Muslim Welfare Organization, ‘Perkin', in Malaysia, which focuses on the well being of the new converts to Islam.  Later he seconded as director of Islamic centre in Hong Kong. With his vast experience in Islamic Social Welfare and Da'wah work, he founded Al Khadim with a group of volunteers in 1984.

He also studied under one of the great scholars on Hadith of his time, Shaikh Muhammad Nasiruddin Al Albani. Today, Ustaz Muhammad Hussain Ye is a well-known personality in the Islamic world. He gives regular lectures in the Asia Pacific region and conducts a lot of summer camps in UK and Europe by the invitation of local and international organizations.

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