Quite a nice initiative which will hopefully strengthen community and inter-faith relations..
[size=18][b]Radio station run by Jews and Muslims launched[/b][/size]
A new radio station which claims to be the first in the UK to be run jointly by Muslims and Jews will make history Thursday night when it begins broadcasting for the first time.
Bristol-based Radio Salaam Shalom has attracted media interest from around the world by bringing the two faiths together for the groundbreaking venture.
The station, which will be broadcast over the internet, will feature both Jewish and Muslim presenters and promises a lively mixture of music, talk and feature-led programmes.
While Radio Salaam Shalom hopes to focus on the faiths often overlooked similarities and shared culture, bosses have also vowed not to "duck" the potentially divisive issues over Palestine and Israel during live discussions.
Farooq Siddique, a presenter and member of the Bristol Muslim Cultural Society, said he hoped Radio Salaam Shalom would help improve community relations.
"Basically when you think of two communities who don't get on, the first one you think of is Jews and Muslims.
"The idea behind the station, at a time when chasms are opening up between communities here in the UK and around the world, is to act as a bridge and bring communities together to discuss their problems.
"There's so much we have in common. The Israel/Palestine issue has come to define Muslim and Jewish relations, but prior to that the relationship was the exact opposite."
The idea for the station was dreamed up by Jewish and Muslim students at Bristol University and the University of the West of England, as a means of forging closer links with each other.
Radio Salaam Shalom was set up after receiving a £50,000 grant from the government's Faith Communities Capacity Building Fund and has taken nine months to set up.
The group is made up of around 35 volunteers and will be broadcast in English.
The chair of the organisation, Peter Brill, who is Jewish, said the station would give the "moderate majority" in the two faiths a voice.
"We're not going to shy away from the controversial issues, but they will be discussed in an environment of understanding and respect rather than a shouting match.
"This is really about the voice of the moderate majority to be heard."
"It's the first station of its kind in the UK as far as we're aware and we've had a staggering amount of interest from around the world from the likes of Al Jazeera."
He said the most obvious similarity between the two religions was the language - the radio station's name means Peace in Jewish and Arabic.
Radio Salaam Shalom begins broadcasting tonight from 6pm on www.salaamshalom.org.uk.
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Is it any good?
That matters more than who runs it.
"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'" - David Cameron, UK Prime Minister. 13 May 2015.
It's a zionist islamist conspiracy to control the airwaves!!!
The above link doesn't work.
Here you go: [url]http://www.salaamshalom.org.uk/[/url]
The online radio doesn't play, it says "windows media cannot play this file....."
is 'Jewish' a language all of a sudden?
next thing you know they'll start calling Arabs 'anti-Semetic'.
O wait, they already do...
Don't just do something! Stand there.
That's such an irritating red-herring. Anti-semitism has [b]always[/b] specifically meant "Jews," not Jews "and technically Arabs too" or Jews "and well muslims kind of too" just "Jews." The fact they are also descended from Shem biblically is merely an oversight. It's like insisting "Anglophobic" includes northern Germans because technically they are Angles too.
Next thing they'll be setting up a joint Jewish-Muslim project in the name of peace. :roll: [color=black]Bloo[/color]dy Jews.
[size=10]The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.[/size]
[size=9]Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)[/size]
But you are right about the language thing. Shalom is a Hebrew word.
[size=9]Strictly the station's name means Salaam Peace in Hebrew and Peace Shalom in Arabic.[/size]
[size=10]The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.[/size]
[size=9]Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)[/size]
Actually wouldn't it be "Peace Salaam" in Hebrew and "Shalom Peace" in Arabic? Both languages read right to left.
For that reason, and because Islam is their favourite, they put the Arabic ABOVE the Hebrew:
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However, the script you can see is only the initials S.Sh. Therefore I hereby propose that in the name of fairness the station should be called Salom Shalaam.
[size=10]The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.[/size]
[size=9]Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)[/size]
oh my days the radio has just launched and u guys are bickering over which comes first salam or shalom flippin heck they may aswell abort the project right now, there's a war over words :roll: