Crazy Shapiro: [After learning that Vinnie is waiting for Roz.] It's Roz! It's Roz! It's Roz! It's Roz!
Vinnie: [After finding out that the two girls he and Crazy picked up in a bar are prostitutes.] Well, listen, Ms. Movie star - Vinnie doesn't pay for it. OK? Vinnie NEVER pays for it.
Eva: [Watching Vinnie and Crazy fight each other.] Here I am right in the middle of it - defiant youth in action!
Peace TV is a Sunni
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ic
satelliteSatellite television is television programming delivered by the means of communications satellite and received by an outdoor antenna, usually a parabolic mirror generally referred to as a satellite dish, and as far as household usage is concerned, a satellite receiver either in the form of an...
television networkA television network is a telecommunications network for distribution of television program content, whereby a central operation provides programming to many television stations or pay TV providers. Until the mid-1980s, television programming in most countries of the world was dominated by a small...
broadcasting globally
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from
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, UAE. Peace TV programs are all in the
English languageEnglish is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
and telecast
free-to-airFree-to-air describes television and radio services broadcast in clear form, allowing any person with the appropriate receiving equipment to receive the signal and view or listen to the content without requiring a subscription or one-off fee...
. The
founderAn entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to...
and
presidentA president is a leader of an organization, company, trade union, university, or country.Etymologically, a president is one who presides, who sits in leadership...
of Peace TV and Peace TV Urdu is
Zakir NaikZakir Abdul Karim Naik is an Indian public speaker on the subject of Islam and comparative religion. He is the founder and president of the Islamic Research Foundation , a non-profit organization that owns the Peace TV channel based in Dubai, UAE. He is sometimes referred to as a televangelist...
, an Islamic preacher from Mumbai, India.
Since January 21, 2006, Peace TV channel has been telecast to more than 150 countries around the world, including in
AsiaAsia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
,
EuropeEurope is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
,
AfricaAfrica is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
,
AustraliaAustralia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
and
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. In 2009, its sister channel (Peace TV Urdu) was launched, which is dedicated especially to the
UrduUrdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...
-speaking viewers around the world.
Peace TV network covers live events, lecturing programs for adults and youths, as well as children learning shows. Its president, Zakir Naik, often calls it an "
edutainmentEdutainment is a form of entertainment designed to educate as well as to amuse.-Overview:...
channel".
.
History
Peace TV was launched on
ArabsatThe Arab Satellite Communications Organization is a leading communications satellite operator in the Arab World, headquartered in the city of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Arabsat owns and operates five satellites platforms at orbital positions 20°, 26° and 30.5° East...
on satellite BADR-3 in October 2006.
As of September 2007, Peace TV is available in the
United StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
and
CanadaCanada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
and in the UK on BSkyB.
It is also available free of charge from the LiveStation satellite television computer application.
In India the ministry of broadcasting has banned downlinking of Peace TV channel programmes. A cable operator booked for airing the same.
Staff and presenters
- From India
- Zakir Naik
Zakir Abdul Karim Naik is an Indian public speaker on the subject of Islam and comparative religion. He is the founder and president of the Islamic Research Foundation , a non-profit organization that owns the Peace TV channel based in Dubai, UAE. He is sometimes referred to as a televangelist...
- Mohammed Naik
- Mohammed Jafer Qureshi, Trustee (UK)
- Ather Khan
- Nisar Nadiadwala
- Shuaib Sayyed
- Shaikh Faiz-ur-Rahman
- Maulana Abdul Karim Parekh
Maulana Abdul Karim Parekh was renowned and well respected Indian Muslim scholar and translator of the Qur'an into Urdu. Besides Islam, he had a deep knowledge of other religions.-Biography:...
- Sheikh Sanaullah Madani
- From the United States
- Yusuf Estes
Yusuf Estes is an American Muslim preacher and teacher who converted to Islam in 1991. He was the National Muslim Chaplain for the United States Bureau of Prisons through the 1990s. He became the Muslim Delegate to the United Nations World Peace Conference for Religious Leaders held at the U.N....
- Yasir Qadhi
- Yassir Fazaga
- Ammar Amonette
- Abdullah Hakim Quick
- From Canada
- Bilal Philips
Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips is a contemporary Islamic scholar, teacher, speaker, and author, resident in Qatar...
- Jamal Badawi
Jamal A. Badawi is an Egyptian born Muslim Canadian former professor in the Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is a well-known author, preacher and speaker on Islam....
- Others
- Ahmed Deedat
Ahmed Hussein Deedat was a Muslim writer and public speaker of Indian South African descent. He was best known for his numerous inter-religious public debates with evangelical Christians, as well as pioneering video lectures, most of which centered around Islam, Christianity and the Bible...
- Hussein Ye
Hussain Yee is a Malaysian national of Chinese descent and a scholar of Islam and former Buddhist who lectures regularly in the Asia-Pacific region. His lectures on Islam are frequently aired on Peace TV.-Early years:...
- Israr Ahmed
Israr Ahmed was a Pakistani Islamic theologian followed particularly in South Asia and also among the South Asian diaspora in the Middle East, Western Europe, and North America. Born in Hissar, in India, the second son of a government servant, he is the founder of the Tanzeem-e-islami, an...
- Jafar Idris
- Salem Al Amry
Programs
| Name | Presenter | Duration | Frequency |
| Truth Exposed |
Zakir Naik |
1 hour |
six times a week |
| Dare to Ask |
Zakir Naik |
30 mins. |
five times a week |
| Let’s Ask Dr. Zakir |
Zakir Naik |
|
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| Da'wah Training Program |
|
|
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| Izhar-E-Haq |
Zakir Naik |
30 mins. |
|
| Man With a Mission |
Shaikh Ahmed Deedat |
30 mins. |
3 times a week |
| Peace Missile |
A. R. Green, Hussain Ye, Yusuf Estes |
30 mins. |
|
| Fire of Faith |
Bilal Philips |
30 mins |
|
| Crossfire |
Zakir Naik |
|
|
| Youth Talk |
Shaikh Ammar Amonette |
30 mins |
|
| Whiz Kids |
Young Muslim children |
30 mins |
|
| Rasool ki Baat |
Sheikh Rafeeque Madani |
30 mins |
|
| Faith Frontiers |
Internationally Acclaimed Speakers |
|
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| Peace Mission |
Internationally Acclaimed Speakers |
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