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New Age Islam (Hindi: न्यू ऐज इस्लाम, Urdu: نیو ایج اسلام, Arabic: نيو أج اسلام) is a liberal Muslim institution based in New Delhi, Delhi, India. It encourages progressive thinking among Muslims worldwide by exposing them to news, analyses and opinions on a variety of social, political, theological and spiritual issues related to Islam. It also provides a platform for debate on contemporary concerns facing Muslims, such as religious extremism, terrorism and relations with other religious groups. The institution runs a website, NewAgeIslam.com, which brings together reports, features and commentaries from a range of academic and journalistic sources, as well as original scholarship on Muslim affairs.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.newageislam.com )〕 It also publishes a daily email newsletter and prints an annual anthology of selected works from its website. Although the website is primarily in English, it makes selected articles available in Hindi, Urdu, Arabic and French as well. The institution also runs an online television channel, New Age Islam TV. The Times of India praised its "liberal, rational advocacy of Islamic principles."〔 Another Indian newspaper, The Hindu, said New Age Islam "provides its audience a wide range of original theological and political writing that does not figure in the mainstream media."〔 First Post said it "prompt(s) Muslims to ‘rethink’ Islam and challenge the petro-dollar funded Wahabi ideology." Pakistan's Viewpoint magazine called it "a success (that) deserves respect and attention."〔 == History == New Age Islam was established in April 2008〔 by a group of Muslims concerned that “the very word Muslim has become synonymous with terrorism, backwardness and ignorance.” Its founders are mostly South Asian, some of them based in the Middle East, Europe, North America and Australia. Sultan Shahin, the Indian editor of NewAgeIslam.com, said in a 2009 interview with The Hindu newspaper that the thinking behind the institution went back at least a decade, to the time he was “hectored by an earnest young man outside London’s Finsbury Park mosque” who said Indian Muslims were not “true Muslims” as they did not resort to violence.〔 In a still earlier incident, a 20-year-old member of the Ahle Hadees, a sect that propagates a puritanical interpretation of Islam, told him that all Muslims who did not belong to his sect should be killed.〔 Shahin said these experiences transformed him: “It became clear to me that the Islam that I believe in was under serious threat, and that I would have to do something if the religion I loved was not to be demeaned by the evil that was being spoken in its name.”〔 Shahin spent the next few years writing in various print and online publications against religious extremism, terrorism and sectarianism among Muslims and arguing for a return to Islam’s syncretic values, before establishing New Age Islam and launching its website.〔 The website soon became popular, gaining 29,000 subscribers for its newsletter within a year of its launch,〔 and 117,000 registered subscribers in two years.〔 It underwent a complete redesign in early 2012. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「New Age Islam」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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