Kazakhstan and Russian businessmen invest into Muslim Facebook

Businessmen from Kazakhstan and Russia have been investing into the Muslim social network Salamworld, Deutsche Welle writes. The launch of the website is scheduled for April 2012. The authors are, however, planning to open access to Halal website by the beginning of the saint month Ramadan in the end of July 2012. The website will operate in 9 languages, including English, Arab, Russian, French, Farsi, Urdu, Malay, Indonesian and Turkish. Despite of the fact that the head office of Salamworld is in Istanbul, the project is managed by the chairman of the public wing of the Union of Russia Muftis Abdul-Vakhed Niyazov. Besides, a major part of the capital for development of the project is provided by private investors from Russia and Kazakhstan. The names of the investors and the amounts of their investments are not disclosed. The total amount of investments will make $50 million in the nearest 3 years. The company is planning to attract 30-50 million users to the website in the first 3 years of work. The founders promise that the website will filter the content of the network to maintain Muslim family values around the world. The project will also be boosted by the fact the 54 percent of the world's Muslims are young people under 25.