"Modern Muslim" search and chat website
A Dubai-based Australian and his business partner are launching an Islamic search engine and chat site, said reports.
Sunday, 10.10.2010.
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A Dubai-based Australian and his business partner are launching an Islamic search engine and chat site, said reports. Australian-born Kerim Nu'man, the son of an Islamic cleric from Belgrade, and Marwaa El Hassan have co-created taqwa.me, whose global launch is expected soon. "Modern Muslim" search and chat website The 26-year-old, now based in Dubai, hopes his project will become an essential internet search tool for the world's 1.3 billion Muslims, he told Australia's theage.com.au website. The pair "became frustrated by the internet filtering they encountered from local search engines of what they considered innocent content, and by the lack of explanation for why it was blocked", says the article. ''Searching (for information about) certain musicians I was often faced with the 'blocked site' message. This made us wonder why such innocent and inoffensive sites had been deemed to be haram (forbidden)," Nu'man was quoted as saying. ''No explanation was given. We are both Muslims and didn't know the reasoning.'' The new website will aim to "allow users to search the internet freely, judge the content for themselves and share their thoughts with others". Taqwa.me users will be able to rate search results as haram or halal (permissible), or to open a topic for discussion with others, the article noted, explaining that this "differs from existing Islamic search engines that only search approved Muslim websites or return only acceptable results". Nu'man also told the Australian website that he felt his search engine "will help combat false interpretations of the Koran by Muslims and misconceptions about Islam from others by encouraging open discussion of how content should be regarded according to Islamic law". The website currently attracts about 50,000 hits a day said the article, while its official global launch is expected within the next fortnight. ''We are living in the modern world and practicing 'modern' Islam. We want Taqwa to reflect the complex multimedia world we live in,'' Nu'man told theage.com.au
"Modern Muslim" search and chat website
The 26-year-old, now based in Dubai, hopes his project will become an essential internet search tool for the world's 1.3 billion Muslims, he told Australia's theage.com.au website.The pair "became frustrated by the internet filtering they encountered from local search engines of what they considered innocent content, and by the lack of explanation for why it was blocked", says the article.
''Searching (for information about) certain musicians I was often faced with the 'blocked site' message. This made us wonder why such innocent and inoffensive sites had been deemed to be haram (forbidden)," Nu'man was quoted as saying.
''No explanation was given. We are both Muslims and didn't know the reasoning.''
The new website will aim to "allow users to search the internet freely, judge the content for themselves and share their thoughts with others".
Taqwa.me users will be able to rate search results as haram or halal (permissible), or to open a topic for discussion with others, the article noted, explaining that this "differs from existing Islamic search engines that only search approved Muslim websites or return only acceptable results".
Nu'man also told the Australian website that he felt his search engine "will help combat false interpretations of the Koran by Muslims and misconceptions about Islam from others by encouraging open discussion of how content should be regarded according to Islamic law".
The website currently attracts about 50,000 hits a day said the article, while its official global launch is expected within the next fortnight.
''We are living in the modern world and practicing 'modern' Islam. We want Taqwa to reflect the complex multimedia world we live in,'' Nu'man told theage.com.au
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