i've never seen you this concerned about threads being derailed anwaar qureishi sahab, perhaps theres less altruistic/GS friendly reasons for wanting us to move on from this topic?
anyway, a closer reading of your sentence makes it hard to believe that 'prayers' meant 'dua' instead of namaz, atleast for me. you use 'dua' for 'dua' and 'pray' for namaz in the same sentence. at any rate, i hope that really was a bit of 'reminding' like you say it was and not using religion for argumentation.
Seriously, I will tell you the reason and move on…
you asked me a question and I explained what I meant.. you said: No Anwaar Qureshi, you are wrong.. I am the Judge:soldier: you said what I understood. so shut up and accept that you did not mean what you are saying but you meant what I am putting words in your mouth.
Now, I can not emphasize more on my intention for you are not ALLAH..
It would be pretty naive to think this event was solely for "justice" "goodwill" blah blah. This was about the entertainers and one big marketing ploy for them to create headlines and sign more contracts and ofcourse sell their old and new records :P
Already I heard in the news that sales of records for artists like The Who, Pink Floyd and Eurythmics (to name a few) have skyrocketd since this event.
If you wanna do something about Africa or somewhere else, do it quietly, no need to make a Hollywood event out of it.