ABSTRACT In this article, the major barriers of using the Internet among Muslim population of Mysore have been discussed. Understanding these barriers provide explanations for the roots of the deep ‘digital divide’ among the members of this community. This article is based on an ethnographic study of the Internet conducted through three years fieldwork between 2011 and 2014 in the framework of a PhD research. The fieldwork was conducted on both “online space” as well as “real world”. Two qualitative techniques of interview and observation have been used among more than 500 Muslim who were selected as the samples of the study. In this ethnographic study, several aspects of the ways through which Muslims of Mysore encounter, interpret and assimilate the Internet on the context of their everyday lives have been investigated. As the result, five major groups of barriers of Internet usage have been recognized among them including 1) the financial inability to use the Internet, 2) illiteracy or low literacy, 3) digital illiteracy 4) negative evaluations of the Internet, and 5) lack of enough motivation to use the Internet.