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'''Islam''': The founder of Faith Freedom International, Ali Sina, believes that Islam is not a religion but a political movement,<ref> [http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/FH10Aa01.html Asia Times: Islam: Religion or political ideology? August 10, 2004]</ref> that among other things allow the Muslims to wage war against the non-Muslims.<ref name="FPM"/> He describes Islam as "unflinchingly [[Violence|violent]], [[Extremism|extremist]], reactionary, intolerant, anti-Western and [[misogyny|misogynistic]]" and "as the disease of mankind, and the source of all these [[war]]s, [[terrorism|terror attacks]] and human miseries".<ref>[http://www.faithfreedom.org/book2.htm Islam and the Muslim mind]</ref>
'''Islam''': The founder of Faith Freedom International, Ali Sina, believes that Islam is not a religion but a political movement,<ref> [http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/FH10Aa01.html Asia Times: Islam: Religion or political ideology? August 10, 2004]</ref> that among other things allow the Muslims to wage war against the non-Muslims.<ref name="FPM"/> He describes Islam as "unflinchingly [[Violence|violent]], [[Extremism|extremist]], reactionary, intolerant, anti-Western and [[misogyny|misogynistic]]" and "as the disease of mankind, and the source of all these [[war]]s, [[terrorism|terror attacks]] and human miseries".<ref>[http://www.faithfreedom.org/book2.htm Islam and the Muslim mind]</ref>


He believes that Islamic holy war, [[Jihad]], is never done by Muslims when they are poor, as "they have instruction" to wait until they are rich enough to win.<ref name="letter">{{Cite web|url=http://www.iranian.com/Opinion/2006/July/Fallaci/index.html|title=Viva Oriana!|accessyear=2007|accessmonthday=September 23|publisher=[[Iranian.com]]|year=13 July 2006|author=Ali Sina|work=Point|language=English}}</ref>
'''Muslims''':Sina believes that Islamic holy war, [[Jihad]], is never done by Muslims when they are poor, as "they have instruction" to wait until they are rich enough to win. Thus he says "reduce them [Muslims] into poverty again and they will turn ass lickers", justifying this by pointing out that Muslim are bullies.<ref name="letter">{{Cite web|url=http://www.iranian.com/Opinion/2006/July/Fallaci/index.html|title=Viva Oriana!|accessyear=2007|accessmonthday=September 23|publisher=[[Iranian.com]]|year=13 July 2006|author=Ali Sina|work=Point|language=English}}</ref>


:'''Immigrants''': Sina says that Muslim immigrants' only objective is to conquer, subdue and dominate their hosts.<ref name="letter"/>
He believes that "Israel and American imperialism" are used as scapegoats in the Islamic world in much the same way that the Nazis used Jews as scapegoats; he believes that, without these scapegoats, those countries would be full of internal strife.<ref>http://www.faithfreedom.org/Articles/sina/fascisticislam.htm</ref>


'''BBC''': Ali Sina accuses the BBC of inciting people during the Iranian revolution and considers it as the "mouthpiece of the Islamists".<ref name="letter"/>
'''Muhammad''': Sina describes [[Muhammad]] as a "[[rape|rapist]]", a "[[pedophilia|pedophile]]",a "monster",<ref>[http://www.faithfreedom.org/oped/sina60523.htm Defeating Islam]</ref> and mass [[murder]]er".<ref name="WND"/> Sina claims that "Muslims are not fools"<ref>[http://www.faithfreedom.org/oped/sina60523p2.htm Defeating Islam]</ref> but "so much trapped in it (Islam) that they can’t leave it (Islam)".


==See also==
==See also==

Revision as of 07:04, 12 October 2007

Faith Freedom International
File:FFI-logo.png
File:FFI-2.png
Logo and Screenshot of FFI
Type of site
Religious/Political
Available inEnglish, Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Polish, Spanish
OwnerAli Sina
Created byAli Sina
RevenueDonations
URLhttp://www.faithfreedom.org
CommercialNo
RegistrationeNom, Inc. (R39-LROR)

Ali Sina redirects here, as it is the name the founder of Faith Freedom International uses.

Faith Freedom International (FFI) is an organization of ex-Muslims[1] that aims to support Muslims who wish to leave Islam and to "give factual information about Islam for others."[2] FFI was founded by Ali Sina, an Iranian ex-Muslim residing in Canada, who has issued a standing challenge that he will remove the FFI website if proven wrong on a number of issues. Faith Freedom International is listed by Richard Dawkins in his book, The God Delusion, as one of the few Islamic related "...friendly address(es), for individuals needing support in escaping from religion".[3] FFI's mission statement is included in Ibn Warraq's book Leaving Islam: Apostates Speak Out.[4]

Faith Freedom International hosts the Mediawiki page WikiIslam.

The Website's Challenge

The challenge of the Faith Freedom International website is that Ali Sina, the founder of the website will remove the website if all his allegations against Muhammad are proven wrong.[1] Sina promises a prize of $50,000 to "...anyone who can disprove my charges and prove Islam is a true religion in an objective (not subjective) way." He invites any refutation of the charges to be posted to his forum[5] and he publishes the resulting debates to allow for his readership to judge the success or failure of the challenge.[6]

Alteration

On 29th July 2007, Sina altered the challenge so that he would now only debate with recognised scholars of Islam. The reward now stands at $50,000 to any scholar who proves him wrong and $50,000 to any non-scholar who persuades a successful scholar to debate. This alteration was explained on the grounds that the challenge had now stood for six years and those who took it up were increasingly using the same arguments repeatedly.[citation needed]

Debates

In response to the Challenge, Muslim scholars and non-scholars have debated with writers of FFI[citation needed]. Edip Yuksel held such a debate.[7]

Website access in Muslim countries

According to a 2002 study by professor Jonathan Zittrain and Benjamin Edelman of Harvard University, Saudi Arabia had banned the Faith Freedom Website .[8]. Khalid Zaheer, a former student of Ghamidi had earlier reported that he was unable to access faithfreedom.org in Pakistan.[9] The website operates well in one of the most populous Muslim countries, Indonesia and also Pakistan (ibid). The Public Interest Registry (PIR)service[10] used by all .org domains,and Alexa.com[11] state that FFI website is hosted in Qom province, Iran.[12]

Traffic rankings

Traffic ranking for Faith Freedom International[13] has fluctuated since its inception in June 2001. According to the online source Alexa, which reports traffic from Alexa toolbar users, in early 2003 faithfreedom.org was in the top ten thousand sites on the Internet. Currently it is in the top thirty thousand.[14] It saw a significant spike in site traffic during February 2006. This occurred at the onset of the cartoon riots stemming from the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy, but has since returned to average levels. The site has had significant highs and lows. During the end of September 2006 the site went below the top 100,000 and then spiked up and reached 20,000 by the beginning of October. During the same month it went back down to 60,000. It has fluctuated between 20,000 and 80,000 till February 2007, and has fallen down below 100,000 again.[15] According to Ranking.com, Faith Freedom International is in between the top 30,000 and 40,000 websites.[16] According to Site Meter, Faith Freedom International has had over 25 million views since its creation, receives approximately 10,000 visitors every day and about 1 million page views every month. [17]

WikiIslam

File:Wikiislam logo.png
WikiIslam: a wiki hosted by Faith Freedom International.

In September 2006, Faith Freedom International launched[18] WikiIslam, a community-edited wiki collecting negative and critical material about Islam.[19] According to the FAQ section on the website, "the main difference between WikiIslam and Wikipedia is that opinions critical of Islam are not censored on WikiIslam for political correctness."[19] Due to the controversial nature of the website, it has been subject to vandalism, due to which increased security measures have been employed.[19]

WikiIslam is the subject of an article in the 7/2007 issue of the journal Contemporary Islam, entitled "Cyber-Islamophobia? The case of WikiIslam",[19] which argues that the website commits selection bias by collecting only negative or critical material.[19][20] The article states that "In relation to the criteria set up by the Runnymede Trust... ...it should be quite easy to label most of the material published on WikiIslam as expressions of Islamophobia."[21][19] Because of the presence of material obtained from other websites, such as MEMRI, the article notes that "it becomes much more difficult to argue that all information posted on WikiIslam is Islamophobic by nature."[19]

Views of Ali Sina

Islam: The founder of Faith Freedom International, Ali Sina, believes that Islam is not a religion but a political movement,[22] that among other things allow the Muslims to wage war against the non-Muslims.[2] He describes Islam as "unflinchingly violent, extremist, reactionary, intolerant, anti-Western and misogynistic" and "as the disease of mankind, and the source of all these wars, terror attacks and human miseries".[23]

Muslims:Sina believes that Islamic holy war, Jihad, is never done by Muslims when they are poor, as "they have instruction" to wait until they are rich enough to win. Thus he says "reduce them [Muslims] into poverty again and they will turn ass lickers", justifying this by pointing out that Muslim are bullies.[24]

Immigrants: Sina says that Muslim immigrants' only objective is to conquer, subdue and dominate their hosts.[24]

BBC: Ali Sina accuses the BBC of inciting people during the Iranian revolution and considers it as the "mouthpiece of the Islamists".[24]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Ex-Muslim's site trashes Muhammad - Founder challenges: Prove me wrong and I'll take down page". TESTING THE FAITH. WorldNetDaily. 16 Sept 2004. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |year= (help); Unknown parameter |accessmonthday= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |accessyear= ignored (|access-date= suggested) (help)
  2. ^ a b Jamie Glazov (31 Dec 2004). "Symposium: Gender Apartheid and Islam". FrontPageMagazine.com. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |accessmonthday= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |accessyear= ignored (|access-date= suggested) (help)
  3. ^ Dawkins, Richard (2006). The God Delusion. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. p. 379. ISBN 0-618-68000-4.
  4. ^ Ibn Warraq (2003). Leaving Islam: Apostates Speak Out. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books. pp. 433–436. ISBN 1-59102-068-9.
  5. ^ Ali Sina's Forum
  6. ^ Ali Sina's debates
  7. ^ Edip Yuksel vs. Ali Sina; Intelligent People's guide to code-19 and a debate between Edip Yuksel and Ali Sina (Edip Yuksel's version)
  8. ^ websites banned in Saudi Arabia
  9. ^ http://www.faithfreedom.org/debates/Ghamidip6.htm
  10. ^ [1]
  11. ^ [2]
  12. ^ http://www.whois.net/whois_new.cgi?d=faithfreedom&tld=org
  13. ^ Alexa.com's traffic ranking for: Faith Freedom International
  14. ^ Alexa.com: Ratings for FaithFreedom.org
  15. ^ Alexa traffic detials
  16. ^ Faith Freedom at ranking.com
  17. ^ "Faith Freedom International". Site Summary. Site Meter. July 14, 2005.
  18. ^ On Monday Sept 4, 2006, (WikiIslam) was opened to the public.
  19. ^ a b c d e f g Cyber-Islamophobia? The case of WikiIslam, Journal: Contemporary Islam, publisher Springer Netherlands, ISSN 1872-0218 (Print) 1872-0226
  20. ^ "Compared to “Muslim homepages,” i.e. those set up by believing Muslims, WikiIslam contains only negative and critical examples. This bias is clearly represented in the section called “laughing with the prophet”, which presents stories and reports from the life of prophet Muhammad (i.e. hadith reports). My impression is that the stories reported by WikiIslam have merely been selected to show that Muslims are ignorant, backward or even stupid." ibid.
  21. ^ Islamophobia: A Challenge For Us All, p. 5, Runnymede Trust (1997).
  22. ^ Asia Times: Islam: Religion or political ideology? August 10, 2004
  23. ^ Islam and the Muslim mind
  24. ^ a b c Ali Sina (13 July 2006). "Viva Oriana!". Point. Iranian.com. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |accessmonthday= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |accessyear= ignored (|access-date= suggested) (help)

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