Islam and the Internet: Progress or Radicalization?
29/11/2004
Professor Albrecht Hofheinz
Recently
voices in the Western media have been warning for the possibility of the media
as a meeting place for extremists. Is radical Islam on the Internet truly a
serious threat to global security or is the danger seriously overstated while
moderate Muslims are actually working hard to create a platform for religious
diversity on the World Wide Web. On the other hand, is it not true that the
nature of the Internet as a mass medium reduces and simplifies diverse and
complicated religious knowledge?
Islamonline.net
hosted a live dialogue with Islamologist and Arabist Professor Albrecht Hofheinz
to answer these and many other questions.