Ali Sina (activist)
Ali Sina is the founder of Faith Freedom International [1], 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 twenty thousand. It 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 [2]. His writings have also been included in Ibn Warraq's book Leaving Islam: Apostates Speak Out.
Views and observations
Sina argues that:
- Muhammad was a pathological narcissist and now a billion people who follow him evince signs of narcissistic personality disorder. [3].
- As narcissists, Muslims are paranoid, have victim mentalities, feel humiliated, have explosive personalities, are vengeful, lack empathy, are oblivious of the pain that they cause to others, lack conscience, consider themselves superior to others, demand preferential treatments while they deny the basic human rights of others, are scornful and abusive of others but expect respect and undeserving of recognition, lack self- esteem but are most concerned about their image. [4].
- When their faith is defied and the stupidity of their belief becomes manifest; Muslims display supercilious imperturbability and nonchalantly claim, "their faith is strengthened".[5]
- Muslims do not value personal integrity and do not respect the rights of other people.[6].
- Muslims have a grandiose sense of self-importance and expect to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements. [7].
- The transformation is gradual and incremental and often unnoticeable to the victims but it starts with their first flirt with Islam. [8]
Criticisms
Critics of Sina have argued that he:
- incites hatred of Islam [9].
- is racist and uses derogatory comments [10].
- views muslims as stereotypes [11].
- chooses specific translations (of Islamic sources) that best supports his arguments [12].
- uses Islamic sources out of context [13]
- has a distorted view on the history of Islam [14].
- is a hypocrite [15]
See also
References
- ^ Faith Freedom International
- ^ Rational Thinking
- ^ http://www.faithfreedom.org/oped/sina50827.htm
- ^ http://www.faithfreedom.org/oped/sina50827.htm
- ^ http://www.faithfreedom.org/oped/sina50827.htm
- ^ http://www.faithfreedom.org/oped/sina50827.htm
- ^ http://www.faithfreedom.org/oped/sina50827.htm
- ^ http://www.faithfreedom.org/oped/sina50827.htm
- ^ Faith Freedom International - Ali Sina Threatened with Lawsuit
- ^ Faith Freedom International - Yamin Zakaria vs. Ali Sina - Part IV Page 25
- ^ A Response to 'Why I Left Islam' by Amir Brooks
- ^ ExamineTheTruth Website
- ^ Polemic Rebuttals: Debate: Abu Aadam vs. afreethinker AKA "Dr. Ali Sina" (1/10)
- ^ ?
- ^ Exposing the real face of Ali Sina by YAMIN ZAKARIA
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
- Quran & Nature's Testimony, before Ali Sina made his appearance, this site was providing support for the Quran's claims.
- Faithfreedom.com, is a site created to refute Sina's writings, The goal of this site as described by its creators), is "to expose the well organized campaign of hate and deceit launched against Muslims and Islam on the Internet."
- 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's Islamophobia.
- Bassam Zawadi Rebuttals Rebuttals to Ali Sina's Articles.
- Nadir Rebuttals Rebuttals to Ali Sina. And collection of debates.