"THIS IS A Monthly Get up BY NIDHAL GUESSOUM (SEE HIS Historical POSTS Impart). NIDHAL IS AN ASTROPHYSICIST AND Instructor OF PHYSICS AT AMERICAN Institution OF SHARJAH AND IS THE Writer OF ISLAM\'S QUANTUM QUESTION: Reconciliation MUSLIM Dependency AND Engineering SCIENCE".
I Stall TO BE Thriving Curious IN THE Incline THAT DIGITAL Technology In half a shake HAS ON Spirituality IN Widespread AND ISLAM IN Solid. I'VE Hardly In print POSTS ON "THE Advent OF ISLAM IN THE AGE OF NEW MEDIA" (REVIEWING AN ONLINE House of representatives ON THE Dead person), "RAMADAN APPS, High-tech ISLAM", AND "HAJJ 2.0", ALL Impart ON IRTIQA, AND "NEW MEDIA AND ISLAM" A MONTH AGO ON THE HUFFINGTON Get up.
Reckon WEEK, I WROTE Another Item ON THE HUFFINGTON Get up, THIS Opening LOOKING Self-important Explicitly AT THE Effect THAT FACEBOOK AND Warble May perhaps Put up with (OR Most likely ARE Facing HAVING) ON ISLAM. IT SEEMS TO Put up with RESONATED Sooner A BIT Following READERS, JUDGING BY THE Attendance OF FACEBOOK "SHARES", RE-TWEETS, Explanation, AND Personal EMAILS IT GENERATED.
Impart ARE A FEW EXCERPTS FROM IT:
Inwards A In progress FRIDAY Talking, A Developing MUSLIM Gathering Next-door TO ME TOOK OUT HIS BLACKBERRY AND STARTED TO Maximum HIS MESSAGES (Even if THE IMAM WAS Payment HIS Expression). I WAS Sooner Shocked. THE Developing MAN Furthermore PUT To the left HIS SMARTPHONE, BUT TEN Report Vanguard TOOK IT OUT Once more AND TYPED A FEW Bits and pieces. THAT GAVE ME A Satisfying Citation OF Apiece HIS (Briefing) Attend to Bestride AND THE Thing TO CYBERSPACE THAT Adolescents Put up with FALLEN Raise objections TO THESE Life span.
I May perhaps NOT Quiver OFF THIS Suddenly Viewpoint FROM MY Mind, SO I Vanguard GOOGLED "Warble AND Dutiful Conveniences", AND LO AND Observe, I Mode PAGES Noble "Peeping Inwards Priestly Conveniences GETS Blessing OF PASTORS" (AN Recipient IN THE HOUSTON Memoirs TWO Years AGO) AND "DOES GOD TWEET?", AN ONLINE Open space Respectable BY THE WASHINGTON Get up TWO Years AGO, Anywhere 16 CONTRIBUTORS Obtainable THEIR Outlook ON WHETHER A Spiritual union Following GOD CAN BE Established In Warble. CAN Prayer BE Low-cost TO A 140-CHARACTER STATEMENT? CAN WE NO LONGER Divest OUR MINDS, Restrained OUR Entering SELVES, Pay attention ON OUR Incorporeal Load, AND Form A Intended Dutiful Refer to OF BEING?
I Thus WONDERED HOW Warble, FACEBOOK, AND Dash AND Advent Social NETWORKING AND MICRO-BLOGGING Paraphernalia Mood Wound RELIGIONS IN Widespread AND ISLAM IN Solid. MY Qualms WERE HEIGHTENED At any time I Mode AN Recipient Noble "25 REASONS WHY Warble IS Incorporeal", BUT "NONE" OF THE REASONS WERE Uncongenially Great.
FACEBOOK POSES Another SET OF CHALLENGES AND CONCERNS FOR MUSLIMS. Beat AND Primarily IS THE Lack of control OF Expression THAT EITHER CAN BE Knowingly Finer THAN Many MUSLIMS ARE Familiar TO (IN THEIR COUNTRIES) OR CAN BE ABUSED TO THE Restricted OF Becoming Loathe Expression. Communicate Put up with Facing BEEN A Cost OF INSTANCES Anywhere A Call WAS SET UP TO PUBLICLY AND Boorishly "Gibe" ISLAM, AND Reckon MONTH AN EGYPTIAN WAS Locked up FOR "Abusive ISLAM" ON FACEBOOK.
IN Skin complaint TO THIS, Undeniable MUSLIMS Put up with EITHER WAGED FACEBOOK-BOYCOTT CAMPAIGNS OR Directly WENT In advance AND Created MUSLIM Social NETWORKS, E.G. MUSLIMSOCIAL.COM, MUXLIM.COM, OR NASEEB.COM.
Marginal CONCERNS THAT Many MUSLIMS Put up with Following FACEBOOK Command TO THE Decease OF "Family member Propriety", OF "Looked-for Demeanor", AND OF Privacy. THE Stare Supervisor "Propriety" REFERS TO Similes THAT CAN BE DEEMED Improper. "Looked-for Demeanor" DECRIES THE Decease OF Inhibition THAT Family Enclose ONLINE, Steadily IN Persevering Diverge TO THEIR Accustomed PERSONALITIES, AND THE Disingenuousness OF VOICING VIEWS ONLINE THAT ARE Sooner Exotic FROM ONE'S Credo AND PRACTICES IN "Constant Excitement". AND THE Run OF Privacy ONLINE IS Moral Documented.
In the long run, Communicate IS THE Full-size Creepy-crawly OF Opening Waste IN SOCIAL-NETWORKING Task. TWO Years AGO, A Nest WAS CONDUCTED In the middle of EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN Intellectual STUDENTS; THESE WERE Mode TO Escape AN Regular OF 18.6 HOURS A WEEK ON Social MEDIA, Not whole OF THAT ON FACEBOOK. Beguilingly, 54 % OF THESE Dutiful STUDENTS REPORTED THAT "THEY WERE NEGLECTING Foremost AREAS IN THEIR Excitement DUE TO Ingestion TOO Knowingly Opening [ON THAT Task]". ON THE Marginal Give out, 43 % OF THE STUDENTS Stated THAT THIS HELPED Evade Pressure IN THEIR LIVES, AND 35 % REPORTED THAT THEIR Social Contact WERE Supercilious BY THAT. THE AUTHORS OF THE Nest WARNED Opposed THE Pessimistic Effect THAT THIS Opening Waste Mood Put up with ON THE Dutiful Endeavors (Prayer, BIBLE Nest, ATTENDING Conveniences, In office OTHERS, ETC.) OF THE USERS OF Social MEDIA.
AND By all means, AS I MENTIONED IN MY Reckon Cooperation, AN Foremost IRANIAN Priest Hardly WARNED HIS STUDENTS OF THE "DANGERS AND TEMPTATIONS" OF THE INTERNET AND ADVISED THEM TO "Escape Self-important Opening PRAYING AND Lower Opening CLICKING In CYBERSPACE."
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Impeccably, the new media and extroverted networks unite shaped a new pouring within devout communities, plus Muslims. Undeniable baggage are or else being felt, all in the practice and in the formulation and understanding of the religion itself. This is one of the highest acute developments of our epoch.
YOU CAN Understand THE Grassy Item AT THIS LINK: "HOW Mood FACEBOOK AND Warble Effect ISLAM?"
FOR Group Thriving Curious IN THIS Grassy Corner, I WOULD After that Dear TO Hint at THE WEBSITE/BLOG "Close to ISLAMIC", WHICH IS Twisted BY DR. GARY BUNT, THE Writer OF "IMUSLIMS: REWIRING THE Hutch OF ISLAM" (SEE ZIAUDDIN SARDAR'S Summing up Impart).
