Millions of Young Muslims Online Generate a New Muslim Cool By Suad Abdul Khabeer

"Notably, M-team is one of many independent American Muslim artists who are using the web, through personal websites, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, iTunes, and now Twitter, not only to build their careers but to put forward their versions of America and Islam in a mixture of pride and self-critique. As they attract Muslim and non-Muslim fans online, the Internet is becoming a key location of a new "Muslim cool"-an accessible Islam that relates to the concerns of young people through an aesthetic that produces and is the product of popular culture."

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