Muxlim Profile

Reuters, Tapping a Muslim online community "Shabana Ahmadzai, 19, and Sara Bahmanpour, 20, like to hang out on a social network a fraction the size of Facebook. Their portraits enhanced by makeup or anime images, the women are logging on at Muxlim, a lifestyle community for Muslims."

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BBC News, Virtual world for Muslims debuts, 9 Dec 08

"A trial version of the first virtual world aimed at the Muslim community has been launched.

"Called Muxlim Pal, it allows Muslims to look after a cartoon avatar that inhabits the virtual world."

Social Networking 1: Muxlim Pal

Muxlim blog, 50,000+ Google Results for Muxlim Pal, 18 Nov 08 "Our upcoming virtual world Muxlim Pal, which is due to launch in a few weeks has generated a massive amount of attention. The term 'Muxlim Pal' on Google generates over 50,000 search results."

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startuparabia.com, Muxlim Pal To Be First Online Muslim Virtual World, 3 Nov 08

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machinist.salon.com, Muxlim Pal to be world's first Muslim-themed virtual world, 22 Oct 08 " ... "within the next few months," says Ashar Saeed, a vice president at Muxlim.com, the Internet will receive its first Muslim-themed virtual world, not unlike Second Life, complete with its own currency and culture.

"Saeed asserts that Muxlim.com, based in Finland and the United Kingdom, is the world's largest online Muslim community."

Also see Mike Butcher, Techcrunch, Muxlim plans Muslim world’s first virtual world, 20 Oct 08 "Muslim social network Muxlim.com, live since late 2006, is planning to launch a Muslim-oriented virtual world not unlike Second Life. The idea is that something tailored to the Muslim world would be allowed through the IP-blocks of countries like United Arab Emirates which currently stops access to virtual worlds and online games considered unsuitable or offensive to Muslim culture. The virtual world is said to launch in 4-6 weeks and will “allow the opportunity to wear a hijab, and go to prayer rooms.” Muxlim itself is your standard social network offering community features, blogs and video sharing. The revenue model will be VIP accounts, virtual gifts, virtual furniture/clothes, themes/styles, profile applications, advertising, branded communities and physical merchandise like t-shirts."

The Techcrunch article inevitably attracted a range of comments (before discussion was closed). Imran Ali suggested: "But I’ve *already* been promised a Second Life!"

Social networking themes are in my next book.

Nothing specific on this in Muxlim, apart from links to the story.

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Jerusalem Post, Muslim social site fast growing, 14 Apr 08 "As Islam continues to expand globally, surpassing Roman Catholicism as the world's fastest-growing religion, a social media Web site for Muslims - Muxlim.com - is hoping to compete with the popular online networking sites Myspace and Facebook."

Commentary/opinion piece on muxlim. The JPost article came with an advert for the matrimonial site Muslima.com attached!

sify.com, Net's latest celebrity — God 2.0, n.d., "Muxlim's founder, Mohamed El-Fatatry is the Muslim equivalent of Mark Zuckerberg, a fast-talking 22-year-old based in Finland with visions of tapping a largely untouched Muslim user base around the world. "If I wasn't a Mohamed, I would still want to target this market," he says. "There are 150 million Web-using Muslims that have yet to be unpacked. And the fact that I am a Muslim means I know what they need, that I have an edge.""