Islamic Central Council of Switzerland to Hold Program Terrorism, Islamophobia
Called "Islam Salam: Longing for Peace 2017”, the gathering external link is expected to draw almost 1,000 people to the World Trade Center in Zurich.
Planned by the
Islamic Central Council of Switzerland (IZRS) for May 6 and 7, it includes food
stands, film screenings, and a children’s day-care center and bazaar.
Also on the agenda
are speeches, music, and poetry, Swissinfo news reported.
Organizers described the gathering as a peace-promoting reaction to the "inhumane appearance and actions of the so-called ISIS (Daesh) group, which has used extreme brutality to establish itself in Syria and Iraq and claimed responsibility for recent terror attacks.
To help reverse
perceptions of Islam as characterized by "horror, terror, and war”, the
organizers are calling for attendees to begin by changing themselves. "And it
must reflect on the ways and means of how we learn to work together instead of
working against each other,” their website's external link noted.
Source: Islamic News
