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Griefers Attack Muslim Virtual World Already Awash in Users

December 12, 2008
by Nate Anderson
Senior Editor, Ars Technica

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The idea for a virtual world focused on the Islamic lifestyle began five years ago, when CEO Mohamed El-Fatatry moved from Dubai to Finland in order to attend university. Raised in Dubai, El-Fatatry wanted wider horizons and a chance to see more of life. American universities were generally expensive, so El-Fatatry sat down at his computer, Googled for “media technology studies in Europe,” and found a Finnish university as his third hit. Finland offers free higher education, even for foreigners, so El-Fatatry applied, enrolled, and only then headed to his new country for the first time.

With €300 and an uncertain future, he took a job delivering newspapers to make some extra cash as he studied. The entire journey was a trip into the unknown for El-Fatatry, but after doing it, he found that he now had the “guts” to take more risks. By 2006, he had created the Internet start-up Muxlim, a social-networking and community site for Western Muslims.

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