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2008, was not taken into active use; instead, linuxvision.com was redesigned
as HajjGateway. By March 2009, there was no active content behind the
Flash façade (which was maintained at http://salicehajic.startlogic.
com/darwish/hajjgateway/, the site of Samir Alicehajic, a Muslim
software engineer from Croatia, that also mirrored Allah.com). Curiously,
Ahmad Darwish submitted spurious contact information to the Whois record
for hajjgateway.com, including a telephone number belonging to the
National Transportation Safety Board in Washington, DC. By May 2009,
both linuxvision.com and salicehajic.startlogic.com had disappeared from
the net.
What drove this software broker to open the “first mosque on the
internet”? A"mad [b.] [Kamil] (al-)Darwish (as he refers to himself in
Arabic) was born in Cairo in 1952. He studied for a while at al-Azhar
University, but like many other Egyptians left his home country in 1976
to seek his fortune in the oil-rich Gulf, where he found work as a computer
specialist. It is from Sharjah that we have his first picture, showing
him as a devotee of al-Sharif al-Muhaddith Abdallah al-Ghumari—more on
him below.
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