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MuslimSpace.com was started by Mohammed El-Fatatry, a 21-year-old UAE-born Egyptian software engineer, media specialist and documentary filmmaker who now resides in Finland. A student of media technology at the Espoo-Vantaa University of Applied Sciences, he calls himself a Muslim entrepreneur, and has set up several websites targeting the Muslim community the world over, including a peer-to-peer file sharing site called IslamicTorrents.net, a support site for the popular BitTorrent.Although you can do the same things you do on other social networking sites — create Web pages, write blogs, join groups, post pictures and even add their favourite audio and video favorite audio and video —the rules are stringent, and require rigorous adherence to an Islamic code of conduct. For instance, women posting their pictures have to pose in traditional Islamic clothing. Indeed, most of the pictures of women posted show them revealing only their eyes. El-Fatatry also bans “unIslamic” words like four-letter exclamations. And yes, you cannot use your membership to date other users.