A Muslim organization is working to counter radicalization by providing the work of progressive Islam scholars online in simple, youth-friendly language.
Muslims for Progressive Values (MPV), a nonprofit group that has established liberal Muslim communities in the U.S. and Canada, created the “Literary Zikr” website to provide an alternative to the fundamentalist versions of Islam that pervade the Internet.
“We take the scholarship and present it to the people,” said Yarehk Hernandez, a board member of MPV.
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(RNS) Muslims Combat Radicalization with Online Tools
A Muslim organization is working to counter radicalization by providing the work of progressive Islam scholars online in simple, youth-friendly language.
Muslims for Progressive Values (MPV), a nonprofit group that has established liberal Muslim communities in the U.S. and Canada, created the “Literary Zikr” website to provide an alternative to the fundamentalist versions of Islam that pervade the Internet.
“We take the scholarship and present it to the people,” said Yarehk Hernandez, a board member of MPV.
Read it all.