{"id":3077,"date":"2009-05-20T06:00:22","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/?p=3077"},"modified":"2009-05-20T06:00:22","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T11:00:22","slug":"divan_2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2009\/05\/divan_2-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming events: Divan 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altmuslim.com\/ee_images\/divan_2_0.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"right\">\n<div class=\"caption\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>When people discuss Muslims and the internet, there is still a tendency to describe it as a dark place where extremists hide and an unreliable source of Islamic information for impressionable youth. And yet, for a European Muslim population of about 20 million, with 4-6 million more in North America, there is a surprising amount of diversity of Islamic thought and opinion. What does it all mean and is it making a difference in the way Islam is practiced?<\/p>\n<p>This Friday, I\u2019ll join a distinguished panel of experts at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radicalmiddleway.co.uk%2Fevents.php%3Fid%3D1%26art%3D141\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Divan 2.0<\/a>, a debate sponsored by an online pioneer of sorts -Britain\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radicalmiddleway.org.uk\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Radical Middle Way<\/a> \u2013 who have an influential website and podcast of their own (I spoke about their podcast on BBC\u2019s Radio Five Live \u2013 you can hear the interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.altmuslim.com%2Fmedia%2Fbbc_10_2006.mp3\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>). Now that young people get their primary Islamic information from the Internet (<i>Shaykh Google<\/i>, if you will), who is controlling the discourse (or, better yet, should there be any control)? Is it just chatter or is a consensus forming about how Islam should be practiced, discussed, and debated in the modern world?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Date: Friday 22 May 2009<br>\nLocation: Old Theatre, London School of Economics<br>\nAddress: Houghton Street (off the Aldwych) London WC2A 2AE<\/p>\n<p>Time:  Doors open 6:45 pm; Starts 7:15 pm; Ends 8:45 pm<\/p>\n<p>Guests:<br>\nShelina Zahra Janmohamed, Author of Love in a Headscarf and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spirit21.co.uk\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spirit21<\/a> blog<br>\nOmar Tufail, Web Guru and Founder, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deenport.com\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">DeenPort.com<\/a><br>\nMusab Bora, Blogger at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mooslim.com%2Fblog\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mooslim.com<\/a><br>\nIndigo Jo, Blogger at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk%2Fblog\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www,blogistan.co.uk\/blog<\/a><br>\nZahed Amanullah, Editor, altmuslim.com<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Post questions for us beforehand <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radicalmiddleway.co.uk%2Fbookings%2Fcomponents%2Fcom_rmwevents%2Frmw.php%3Fact%3Dforms%26task%3Dshow%26id%3D36\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>Zahed Amanullah is associate editor of altmuslim.com. He is based in London, England<\/i><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming this Friday, a debate on the future of the Muslim Internet, sponsored by the Radical Middle Way (the debate, not the Internet) and held at the London School of Economics. 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