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Activists like Ibtihal Aboussad have been at the forefront, urging colleagues to consider their faith and oppose these contracts. Despite internal investigations by companies like Microsoft claiming no evidence of misuse of technology, many workers remain unconvinced. Religious leaders, like Imam Omar Suleiman, are being consulted to provide guidance on whether working at these tech companies is permissible under Islamic law, but clear answers remain elusive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muslim employees at major tech firms such as Microsoft, Google, and Amazon are grappling with ethical concerns regarding their companies&#8217; contracts with the Israeli military amid the ongoing conflict in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1434],"tags":[1473,419,276,799,10536],"class_list":["post-8646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-global","tag-amazon","tag-global-founder-news","tag-google","tag-microsoft","tag-tech-industry-ethics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - 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