Islamica
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Islamica is an Islamic company founded in Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

, Illinois
Illinois
Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...

 that sells apparel, accessories and media
Mass media
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 marketed towards Muslim
Muslim
A Muslim, also spelled Moslem, is an adherent of Islam, a monotheistic, Abrahamic religion based on the Quran, which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God as revealed to prophet Muhammad. "Muslim" is the Arabic term for "submitter" .Muslims believe that God is one and incomparable...

 youth and cultural
Culture
Culture is a term that has many different inter-related meanings. For example, in 1952, Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn compiled a list of 164 definitions of "culture" in Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions...

 fusion.

Islamica focuses on an emerging generation of Muslims in non-Muslim environments. Islamica apparel allows Muslims to express their identity through contemporary styles and humorous messages.
The company was founded in 1999 by Mirza Baig, Azher Ahmed and Afeef Abdul-Majeed. One of the best known products of Islamica is its community website, "Islamica", a popular internet forum and one of the busiest Muslim websites in North America. Islamica News offers Muslim-oriented parody news similar in style to The Onion
The Onion
The Onion is an American news satire organization. It is an entertainment newspaper and a website featuring satirical articles reporting on international, national, and local news, in addition to a non-satirical entertainment section known as The A.V. Club...

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