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• EdwardsBot (talk) 04:09, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 06:00, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 18:14, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

The Muhammed al-Ahari article, revisited

Hi there!

Sorry to come back to this, but there are some new developments. To summarize briefly:

1) Mr. al-Ahari got upset with me (partly under the erroneous belief that the edit in which you deleted a whole bunch of personal stuff on December 16 was made by me), and started attacking me on the Talk page.

2) In the course of one of his rants, he wrote on the Talk page:

"...such as saying I was a character in Star Wars, an asshole, gay when I think that behavior is a mortal sin, etc."

3) I added the following to his article, as a new section titled "Homophobic views":

"Al-Ahari believes that homosexuality "is a mortal sin"."

4) He got upset at this, even though a) the statement is factually true, b) he professes this to be his sincere belief as a devout Muslim, and c) the statement is reliably sourced.

5) Since then he has repeatedly tried to censor his own article by deleting that statement, which he somehow views as slander and libel, or watering it down and adding editorial commentary.

6) I have asked him several times on the Talk page why he objects to his sincere beliefs about homosexuality being accurately reported in the article. He goes off into personal attacks each time, and has consistently refused to provide a coherent rationale for the edits he has repeatedly made to the "Homophobic views" section.

While he's entitled to be upset, if he chooses, and it's his prerogative to attack me, if he wishes, surely it is not okay for him to censor his own article to edit out or water down statements he wishes he had not made? If you agree, would you please protect the article and advise him that he cannot censor his own article?

Thanks! --Sarabseth (talk) 16:00, 27 January 2012 (UTC)