Maldives

Azra Naseem, minivannews.com, Internet and ignorance to blame for religious extremism in the Maldives, says Dr Bari29 Sep 2010 "Religious extremism in the Maldives is the long-term result of the previous government’s repression of religious debate and learning, Minister of Islamic Affairs Dr Abdul Majeed Abdul Bari has said ...

" ... Dr Bari’s conclusion that some Maldivian extremists were radicalised online is in line with emerging Western literature on the subject as well as new anti-radicalisation laws in the West."

Ramadan

Haveeru Online - BML enables alms via internet, 10 Aug 2010: "Islamic Ministry has partnered with Bank of Maldives (BML) to introduce alms giving via the internet ahead of the holy month of Ramazan expected to start Wednesday."

Maldives

Ahmed Naish, minivannews.com, Maldivian featured in al-Qaeda video, 8 Nov 2009 "A video clip of a Maldivian man, who went to Pakistan for Jihad and was reportedly killed in a suicide attack in Lahore, has surfaced on the internet.

"In the clip, Ali Jaleel (Mus’ab Sayyid), 30, from H. Moscowge in the capital Male’ says he wants to wage Jihad and die a martyr.

"“I want my blood to be the bit of carpet which the Mujahideen are taking from their blood. The red carpet which would take the Ummah to its glory...So I want to be among that caravan so that I can be a brick upon which Islam will stand,”"

Maldives

Global Voices Online, Maldives: Free Speech Under Threat, 23 Mar 09 "In early March Mohamed Nasheed, the new President of the Maldives, met with Frank La Rue, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression. In the meeting Nasheed expressed his government’s commitment to free speech and announced that Maldives will be made a haven for dissident writers from countries such as Burma. However, within a week writers from Maldives found their right to expression at risk as the government instructed the two Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the country to ban several websites and a blog."

Maldives

Nova Scotia Scott, Maldives censors Christians and dissidents, 18 Mar 09 "The Ministry of Islamic Affairs in the Maldives has been busy blocking access to dissident, Christian, and other unIslamic websites. Ironically, this occurs only one week after President Mohamed Nasheed announced his intention to make the Maldives a safe haven for oppressed journalists from other countries."

Report draws on several bloggers' accounts on events in the Maldives.

AP/indianexpress.com, Terror ripples under calm waters of Maldives, 13 Nov 07, "The global outburst of Islamic anger after the US invasion of Iraq and the spread of Internet access to this country’s remote islands played a major role in the growing fundamentalism, said Hassan Saeed, the Maldives’ former attorney general.

""Suddenly, an island nation cut off from the rest of the world became part of the global village," he said. "