Controversy
MWU! has been criticized by Muslims from across the political spectrum. Critics have taken issue with what they consider to be the website's lack of depth in Islamic theology, unnecessarily offensive style, and intolerance of the views of other Muslims.
The website's "Sex and the Ummah" section offended some readers with its sexually explicit articles (mostly fiction), as well as articles expressing support for same-sex marriage.
Some have accused Muslim WakeUp! of serving as a front for American neoconservatives, or at least of having harmed the progressive Muslim movement in North America. After MWU! co-founder Ahmed Nassaf announced the founding of the Progressive Muslim Union (North America) in November 2004, progressive Muslims who had refused to serve on the PMUNA board of directors published a statement describing their concerns "that this venture is a Trojan horse for 'religion-building' along the lines of 'nation-building' now being witnessed in Afghanistan and Iraq where people with no organic links to Islam, to the Muslim community or to the progressive movement become instruments of 'humanizing' the so-called primitive Muslims."
In December 2004, MWU! was relabelled "Murtad WakeUp!" by hackers calling themselves the "Islamic 0xChallenge Brigades".
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