ABSTRACT
With the ever increasing Muslim population of 2.04 billion (28.26% of world population) [https://www. muslimpopulation.com], millions of Muslims have joined the Internet bandwagon in extolling its merits as a primary source of information through the increase amount of Islamic sites on the Internet, where some of which devoted to Islamic education and dissemination (Ibrahim et al. 2008, Mehad et al. 2010). The number of internet users in the world has been growing steadily. According to Internet World Stats website, the world total Internet users as at June 30, 2012 was estimated to be more than 2.406 billion users. With the total growth of internet usage penetration of 566.4% from 2000 to 2012, many countries including the Muslim majority countries had recorded a reasonable increased number of Internet users. For example, currently some majority Muslim countries like Indonesia has more than 55 million Internet users with 22.4% penetration rate, Pakistan 29.1 million with 15.5% penetration rate, Egypt 21.6 million with 26.4% penetration rate, and Malaysia 17.7 m with the highest penetration rate of 61.7%. Similarly, the whole Middle East has only about 3.3 million Internet users as at 2000, but by June 30, 2012 the number has grown up to 90 million Internet users, which is about 40.2% penetration rate. [www.internetworldstats.com]. Largely the Middle East and North Africa region has the highest percentage of Muslim-majority countries (Mehad et al. 2010).
