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Petition update, 26 September 2008

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The muslims in the United Kingdom, feel that they require a national holiday to celebrate the Birth of the Prophet Muhammad. This day can be used as a public awareness day about the Prophet Muhammad and utilised as an event to create greater understanding and tolerance between communities. This is currently done in many countries world wide, muslim and non muslim. AFRICAN COUNTRIES: Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Tunisia, Togo MIDDLE EAST: Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestinian National Authority, Syria, United Arab Emirates/UAE, Yemen ASIA: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Brunei, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Uzbekistan OTHER: Fiji, Guyana (source: MQ International)

Current signatories

Tahseen Khalid, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• Mohammad Yasar
• Waqar Ahmad
• Tahir Mohammed
• Fatimah Zahir
• Sidra Zia
• Ali Javed
• Rizwana Yunis
• TABASSUM YUNIS
• halima
• rehmatullah
• Mohammed Siddiq
• m abdullah
• Kauser Akhtar
• Altaf Ali
• Huma Ayub
• mohammed rauf
• Umar Raj
• Maryam
• shabnum basir
• Safyah Akhtar
• Safora Akhtar
• Ruksana Khanom
• salimah akhtar
• Asma
• asif patel
• Rizwaan Mohammed
• Mohammad Ishtiaq
• Adnan Tufail
• Faisal Hussain
• ahsan hussain
• Kalsoom Hamid
• afsha ahmed
• Hafsa Khatun
• SHAFIQ ALAM
• ZEBY
• Mahboob Ghos
• nabila akhtar
• Rachel Nawaz
• Ifra Yusuf
• Ifsa Akhtar
• Billal Ahmed
• Mariam Khalid
• Jawed Iqbal
• want to
• Jonaid Khalid
• Mohayodeen Nawaz
• aysin khan
• Munir Qadiri
• Zunnaira
• bushra
• Iram Munir
• Aadal Shafiq
• Rukhsana
• Mohammed Anwar
• Nadeem Akhtar
• Usama
• Tanzeem
• Faizal Bheda
• faheem
• aasim jaffry
• Bilal Ullah
• Misba Dyer
• Mohammad Asad
• tasleem Iqbal
• Faizan Patel
• umar naveed
• Khalima Shakir
• Mohammad Sharaz Shafait
• Farhan Ahmed Qadri Jilani
• Rizwana Naz
• Amar Hafiz
• Zain Shabbir
• SHABANA
• faisal
• Mohammed Yaser
• ramzan
• Anwar
• nadia altaf
• akash munir
• Naqee Ahmed
• Rashad Hussain
• Waquas Mohammed
• Sobia Majid
• Arshad Hussain
• S. Minhas
• tasleem kosser
• gulfam qadri
• Rehaan Ijaz
• Amina Javed
• Marinah Butt
• Asima Zahir
• Naveed Tariq
• Tabbasum Nazneen
• zainab bhatti
• Mohammed Raza
• Zia
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• ziaur rahman
• Atif
• Gulshan Bano
• Mohammed Anis Patel
• Asmat Begum
• Irfan Khan
• Farah
• rizwan azi
• Hayder Khan
• Samiya Farooq
• Bashrat Hussain
• Asjad Hussain
• waqar ahmad
• habib khan
• Osman
• naheed
• Hasham A M
• Asma Bi
• Asima Parveen
• Halima
• Zahra Nazia Hussain
• Sajeda Haji
• Waseem Nazir
• Saiqa Irshad
• Inaaya
• Tafseer Shabir
• Shela Raza
• Ambreen Mehmood
• Noor Al-Naeme
• mehnaz
• Shoaib Shah
• saffy
• Somia Zaman
• Misbah
• Farhana Begum
• RESHMA SOOGUN
• zaigham khan
• papiaa khan
• Afeefa
• Syed Mohammed Fazil Biabani
• nazia khatoon
• sheeraz elahi
• Imran Younis
• Huma Parveen
• Hussain
• Mohammed Usmaan
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• AMIR MUHAMMAD
• Tayyibah Ali
• Osman Ahmed Riaz
• naurin fatima
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• asad
• Umar Ayub
• Noreen Akhtar
• Shahid Mursaline
• Ghulam Murtaza
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• Amna Ali
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• Armaan
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• Mohammed Raheel Shaikh
• Assma Banaris
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• M.Khan
• Mohammed Itsham Khan
• S.A
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• Maymoonah Ahmad
• saarah ally
• Haroon Mahfooz
• Charifa Eddahani
• Mohammad Imran Sulaman
• Mohammed Adeel Shaikh
• Asifa Ali
• mohammed faheem
• faisal hussain
• syed shah
• Zagham Ali Mohammed
• Rehana Ilyas
• Imrana Hamid Butt
• sarah
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• Zulfkar Hussain
• waheed ulhaq attari
• saleem ahmed
• A. ZERIA
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• maryam begum
• Rukhsana Hassan
• Gulamshahid Patel
• omar ghalib
• MOHAMMED SHAZAD
• Mohammed Hassan Patel
• reni
• Suleman Hussain
• Katarina Hirjakova
• ilas karim
• Waheed Nazir
• Moinuddin Qureshi
• Yaseen Khan
• Dr Yaqoob
• Wasim Dhada
• Naveed Ahmed
• Mohammed Ali
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• kamran shah
• mujibur rahman
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• omer
• fatima ali
• Kiran
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• Mohammed Sarfraz
• Zulqader Hussain
• Mohammad Chaudhry
• Abdul Haq
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• zaheer majid
• NAZMEEN AKHTAR
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• Annam Haq
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• Whaleed Mushtaq
• tahir
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• Usman Farooq
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• zakirhusen rakhda
• Waheed Shahzad
• Rafia Parvez
• nazkat ali
• ZISHAN EBRAHIM
• Amirah (Louise) Scarisbrick
• imran hussain
• Zahira
• Ismaeel Waseem
• Hifsah
• Mubashir
• Ikhlaq Ahmed
• tayyab
• ABDUL RAHIM
• waqaar
• Tahira Akhtar
• stephen graham
• Muhammad Usman Aziz
• Syeda
• Ahsan Rasool
• Basit Mahmood
• Sadia Khan
• Gulnar Khan
• Rahat Mughal
• Mohammad Azar
• Riza Akhtar
• Adnan Afzal
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• Wajid Hussain
• Faisal Noori
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• Ahlem
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• Yasser Mahmood
• Wahab Ali
• Ikhlaq Hussain
• m.sajid iqbal
• Asif Khan
• Sameenah Mahmood
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• jawad
• ANBREEN WAQAR
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• Hamza Mursaline
• Faisal
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• Israr
• Akhlaq Hussain
• muhammad umar
• Aslam Latif
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• Rosalean Shah
• iftiaq mobasher
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• Akila Hafez
• Ghuzala
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• abid hussain
• Mohammed F. Arif
• Samera Kouser
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• waqas Ali
• Hafiz Sultani
• Amjid Hussain
• muhammed qadir
• Nas Khan
• A Anwar
• N Khan
• Riyaz Chandia
• smeera ahmed
• Sophie K
• mubin hussain
• ashtiyaq ahmed
• usman hanif
• basharat ullah
• Mariea Ayub
• Nafeesa
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• Rubina Akhtar
• Zaib Aziz
• Imran Shah
• farzana latif
• naila khalid
• Umaira Hashmi
• Alina Haider
• Sakeena Ahmed
• Atta Ul Haq
• hafiz mohammed shahid
• Zanobia
• Mohammed Afzal
• sajjad ahmed
• Rukhsana Banaris (aka Ruki)
• S.Ali
• will
• shabnam
• Khadija
• Shabbirhussein Rajani
• irfan islam
• Ayesha Begum
• shamilah saghir
• Zainab Dhukai
• Azeem
• Sana Ilyas
• Mohammed Shakeel Jamil
• Sahdia
• Samiah
• Moneeb Minhas
• Saraj
• Ansar Javed
• Roshann Iqbal
• m.samad
• shameem
• Sadaf Anwar
• SHABZ .I
• tariq razzaq
• sharaz khan
• Atif Khan
• Nuzhat Fatima
• Ozma Hussain
• zreena hussain
• Mohammed Hameed Hussain
• memuda haji
• Tanzila
• Spen Crowson
• Memoona Shahzadi
• Abdullah Sheikh
• Sumaira Hussain
• steve helm
• Stacy Gill
• Marium Bashir
• Asad Habib
• Paul Salahuddin Armstrong
• Somia Akhtar
• hussain
• Shafeen Akhtar
• Raheel Akhtar
• Awais Ahmed
• sameera bi
• Richard the Lionheart
• miriam hollis
• waqas ahmed
• Fasil Mumtaz
• zaira t
• Iqbal Hamid
• Hashir Tamur
• gulam abbas
• Omar Khan
• Khalid Farooq
• Salimah Akhtar
• shanavaz suria
• abida majid
• P Hughes
• Boorhaan Hassam
• Stephen Booth