Muslims use tech. We need tech. We need to be creating tech for our Muslim community. If we don’t then we risk the continued degenerative power of social media, algorithms and AI to lead society further away from their true purpose. A moral and ethical decay of society over time is a future we would have co-created for our youth, if we don’t step into tech innovation.
How can we protect our muslim identity? How can we use and build tech that is not trying to harm our youth? Tech that is concerned with moral, social and ethical use.
Protecting Values & Cultural Identity
Many global platforms are built on secular, commercial frameworks which are based on algorithms that push haram content. Content that promotes isolation and feeds off our basic human tendencies of leaning in towards our primal negative bias thereby creating an array of mental disorders over time.
Muslim innovation ensures values-aligned design. This is where privacy, modesty, ethics, and family structures are respected.
It preserves cultural diversity in a digital world dominated by a few Western companies.
Economic Power & Opportunity
The global Muslim population is 2 billion with spending power exceeding $2 trillion annually in food, travel, fashion and media.
Tech innovation channels wealth into Muslim-led ecosystems instead of bleeding into platforms that don’t reinvest in Muslim communities. Our reliance on platforms like AirBnB and booking.com, can be diminished Inshallah.
Supporting Muslim tech innovation builds Muslim entrepreneurs and jobs.
Future-Proofing the Ummah
Social Media, AI, blockchain, biotech and VR are shaping the future.
If we don’t build in these spaces, Muslims will be consumers of someone else’s rules and ethics.
Innovation ensures we are stakeholders in setting standards that align with Islam and not just adapting to frameworks that go against our shariah.
Muslim tech innovation isn’t about isolation; it’s about meeting unique needs, protecting our identity, unlocking economic power and contributing to global progress on our own terms. Progress that enhances communities (progress that does NOT fund weapons for you know who).