Ali Sina (activist)

Ali Sina is the founder of Faith Freedom International , a secularist organization dedicated to advising Muslims to leave Islam. His website describes him as an ex-Muslim and as a Canadian writer of Iranian descent.

Traffic ranking for Sina's website, faithfreedom.org, has fluctuated since its inception in June 2001. According to the online source Alexa, in early 2003 faithfreedom.org was in the top ten thousand sites on the internet. Currently it is in the top thirty-three thousand. It saw a significant spike in site traffic during February 2006, peaking at 29 million page views in a day. This occurred at the onset of the Danish Muhammad cartoon riots, but has since returned to average levels. Faithfreedom.org has become a meeting ground for people who use the internet to expound their criticism of Islam.

Ali Sina writes commentary articles on Islam on a number of other websites including Rational Thinking . His writings have also been included in Ibn Warraq's book Leaving Islam: Apostates Speak Out.

Views and observations

Sina considers himself a freethinker and a secular humanist. He argues that Muslims around the world suffer from a collective narcissistic personality disorder. They do so, he says, because Muhammad suffered from this disorder, and since they view Muhammad as the ideal person and strive to emulate him, they are inclined to take on this same disorder, and those who are disinclined to do so get pressured to conform or at least not speak out. According to Sina, the collective narcissism causes Muslims to have a victim mentality and feel perpetually oppressed. This sense of oppression leads to anger and lashing out in various forms, including terrorism. Sina claims that Islam should be singled out from other religions, because unlike all other religions, it is a "cult of hate". He also argues that, since he regards Islam as opposed to the Golden Rule, it therefore is an illegitimate religion.

Sina believes that in order to eradicate Islam people need to reveal the truth about it by quoting the Quran and the Hadith, which contains stories about the life of Mohammad, such as his pedophilic relationship with Ayisha, his ordering the assassination of critics such as the poet Ka'b ibn al-Ashraf and Abu Afak, his attempt to have sex with a woman, Safiyah, the night his followers had murdered her father and husband and many other members of her tribe , and many other examples which appear in Islamic sources such as the Hadiths of Bukhari, Muslim (a proper name), and Tabari. Once revealed, these acts, Sina instructs, should be questioned under "...the light of reason...". Sina has cautioned that the challenge to Islam is most safely done anonymously on the internet where it is impossible for jihadists to lay their hands on those who denounce them. He predicts the internet is the innovation which will cause millions of good people who are nominally muslim to leave it upon realizing the truth of its origins and problematic continuance since the 7th century. It is Sina's hope that sufficient numbers of people will leave Islam in this way and that Islam will then collapse in on itself, like the former Soviet Union did.

Apostasy from Islam

During an interview with Abul Taher Sina explained his experiences that led him to leave Islam:

"I saw many lives shattered by Islam. I witnessed the Islamic Revolution in Iran and saw how in the name of God the most heinous barbarities were committed. Young girls were raped before execution, dissidents were tortured, thousands and thousands of innocent people were just killed with no compunction accused of defying Allah and his representatives on Earth. At the time I dismissed all those savageries as "un-Islamic". Later, when my knowledge of Islam increased, I realized what the Mullas in Iran did was very Islamic. These thugs were following the examples of their prophet and doing his biddings."

"Why I have dedicated my life to disprove Islam and eradicate it? It is because now I know Muslims are victims of a huge lie. This lie is the cause of terrorism, upheavals, barbarity, much bloodshed, dictatorship, misogyny, discrimination, human rights violations, poverty, backwardness and misery of a billion people and fear and terror for the rest. How many more reasons you need? Once you come to this realization, it is impossible for you to sit quiet. You want to shout to the world and let everyone see the truth."

Criticisms

Critics of Sina have alleged that he:

• incites hatred of muslims.
• is racist and uses derogatory comments.
• views muslims as stereotypes.
• chooses specific translations (of Islamic sources) that best supports his arguments.
• uses Islamic sources out of context.
• has a distorted view on the history of Islam.
• uses controversial and unauthenticated Hadith during the debates to prove his arguments.

View on Hatred of Muslims

Regarding hate, Sina elaborates on the difference between the religion of Islam and the people who practice this religion in his mission statement:

"Islam feeds on hate and no one can overpower Islam by hating the Muslims. All doctrines of hate need enemies to survive. The feeling of being victimized is essential to promote hate. Therefore those antagonistic groups who promote hate of Muslims are actually helping Islam. Efforts such as ours who love our people and truly want to help them integrate in the rest of the world and emancipate from their backwardness will bear fruit while hate that fundamentalists of other religions foment against Muslims will be counterproductive."

Books

• Understanding Islam and the Muslim mind

This is Sina's first book which is yet to be released. It contains a preface by Ibn Warraq and is endorsed by several authors, including Robert Spencer and Serge Trifkovic.

See also

• Opposition to Islam
• Religious conversion
• Apostasy in Islam

References

1. ^ Faith Freedom International - Islamofascism by Ali Sina

External links

Online sources

• World Net Daily Article Headline: "Ex-Muslim's site trashes Muhammad"
• FrontpageMag.com Symposium: Gender Apartheid and Islam
• Asia Times SPENGLER on Sina
• Hugh Fitzgerald on Ibn Warraq and Ali Sina

Opposing views

• Faithfreedom.com, is a site created to refute Sina's writings.
• thetruereligion.org an article criticising Sina for among other things, re-hashing polemic orientalist material.
• Responses to FFI A collection of rebuttals to Ali Sina.
• Bassam Zawadi Rebuttals Rebuttals to Ali Sina's Articles.
• Nadir Rebuttals Rebuttals to Ali Sina. And collection of debates.