Hawzah News Agency - 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.