Just paid a visit to Muxlim Pal, a trial version of the first virtual world aimed at the Muslim community “based loosely on other virtual worlds” such as Second Life. The current trial version is extremely simplistic, but then so was SL in its earliest versions. Having enjoyed the wonders of Second Life for several years, now – on and off — I’m finding it difficult to be enthusiastic about Muxlim Pal, for all its good intentions.
To be frank, it’s more like a poor man’s version of The Sims, and there rests the better comparison. It also has to be said that, at this very moment, 43,240 avatars are strutting their stuff on Second Life, and well over a million have logged in during the past month alone. By contrast, the current number of visitors to Muxlim Pal is precisely zero – there are more people using Muxlim’s run-of–the-mill chatroom.
Nevertheless, I wish Mohamed El-Fatatry, founder of Muxlim Pal and Muxlim.com, every success in his work, insha Allah.
