Faith Freedom International

Faith Freedom International

Screenshot of FFI
Web address http://www.faithfreedom.org
Commercial? No
Type of site
 Anti Islamic
Registration eNom, Inc. (R39-LROR)
Available in English, Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Polish, Spanish
Owner Ali Sina
Created by Ali Sina
Launched October 26, 2001
Revenue Donations

Faith Freedom International (FFI) is a website that is critical of Islam.[1][2] FFI identifies itself as "a grassroots worldwide movement of ex-Muslims and all those who are concerned about the rise of the Islamic threat". According to the website, FFI was founded by an Iranian residing in Canada, going by the pseudonym of "Ali Sina." On the website, Ali Sina 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 the Appendix of his book, The God Delusion, as one of the few Islamic related "friendly address[es], for individuals needing support in escaping from religion"[3] (although it was removed from the website following protest from other ex-Muslims and atheists).[4] FFI's mission statement is included in Ibn Warraq's book Leaving Islam: Apostates Speak Out.[5] According to Internet Infidels, "Faith Freedom International echoes the voice of Muslim dissidents that strive for freedom of faith and freedom from faith in Islamic countries."[6]

Website access and traffic

According to a 2002 study by professor Jonathan Zittrain and Benjamin Edelman of Harvard University, Saudi Arabia had banned the website.[7] Ranking.com and Alexa list faithfreedom.org among the top 70,000 and 200,000 websites, respectively, as measured by traffic as of January 2016.[8][9]

Alleged deaths threats and hacking attempts

As a result, Ali Sina claims to have received death threats from "two imams in India" who he alleges have offered a reward of USD 20,000 (or 1 million Rupees) for anyone who kills him.[10][11] The site itself has been hacked and subject to DDOS attacks several times since the website opened, most recently in January 2010.[11][12]

Notable content

Articles

The website contains several articles authored by notable persons, including:

Debates

The website includes several debates between Ali Sina and Muslims, among them are prominent scholars such as Edip Yuksel.[19] and Yamin Zakaria of the ICSSA.[20][21]

Sina’s contention is that Islam promotes hate and disunity and as such it is an impediment to peace. According to his website, he has issued a challenge that should anyone prove him wrong he will publicly acknowledge his error and withdraw his charges against Islam, and will pay $50,000 to that person.[22]

Books

FFI contains several books of Anwar Shaikh:

Derogatory comments about Muslims

In a debate with the webmaster Mohammed Asadi, posted on January 22, 2006 on his website Faith Freedom International, Ali Sina stated that:

"This Muslim (I find the word "Muslim" very derogatory and insulting. It is synonymous to stupid, barbarian, thug, arrogant, brain dead, zombie, hooligan, goon, shameless, savage and many other ignoble things. I don’t know whether this most disgusting word elicits the same meanings in you or not. So when I want to show my despise of someone I call him "Muslim". But because Muslims are stupid, they don’t know all these things and they are proud of this name. This is a win/win situation because I insult them and they are happy and thank me for it. Isn't that smart?"[25]

WikiIslam

WikiIslam-logo

In September 2006, Faith Freedom International launched[26] WikiIslam, a community-edited wiki collecting critical material about Islam.[27] 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."[27] Due to the controversial nature of the website, it has been subject to vandalism, due to which increased security measures have been employed.

WikiIslam was the subject of an article in the 7/2007 issue of the journal Contemporary Islam, entitled "Cyber-Islamophobia? The case of WikiIslam",[27] which argues that the website commits selection bias by collecting only negative or critical material.[27][28] 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." Göran Larsson adds that "[m]y impression is that the stories reported by WikiIslam have merely been selected to show that Muslims are ignorant, backward or even stupid."[27][29] 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."[27]

In August 2008, the WikiIslam-site was moved to a new server and since then it has been operating independently.[30]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Ex-Muslim's site trashes Muhammad – Founder challenges: Prove me wrong and I'll take down page". WorldNetDaily. Sep 16, 2004. Retrieved September 18, 2007.
  2. ↑ Jamie Glazov (Dec 31, 2004). "Symposium: Gender Apartheid and Islam". FrontPageMagazine.com. Retrieved September 18, 2007.
  3. ↑ Dawkins, Richard (2006). The God Delusion. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. p. 379. ISBN 0-618-68000-4.
  4. ↑ Internet Archive of relevant Richard Dawkins Page
  5. ↑ Ibn Warraq (2003). Leaving Islam: Apostates Speak Out. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books. pp. 433–436. ISBN 1-59102-068-9.
  6. ↑ Islam - related sites by Internet Infidels
  7. ↑ URLs Blocked in Saudi Arabia – "F" Faith Freedom
  8. ↑ Alexa.com: Ratings for FaithFreedom.org
  9. ↑ Faith Freedom at ranking.com
  10. ↑ Muslim Mindset: 'The hatred is in Muhammad himself' – Jerusalem post Interviews Ali Sina.
  11. 1 2 Miller, A. "Recent Attacks On "Counter Jihad" Websites". International Free Press Society. Retrieved October 9, 2010.
  12. ↑ Jihad Watch, June 7, 2008, Faith-Freedom Hacked
  13. ↑ see here and here
  14. ↑ see here and Emerson's own website Archived October 21, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
  15. ↑ See here and here
  16. ↑ see here and here
  17. ↑ see here and here Archived October 23, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
  18. ↑ see here and here
  19. ↑ Peacemaker's Guide to Warmongers: Exposing Robert Spencer, David Horowitz, and other Enemies of Peace by Edip Yuksel, 2010, Published by Brainbow Press, ISBN 978-0-9796715-3-1; p. 145-267
  20. ↑ ICSSA, Exposing Blindness of "Freethinkers" about Islam; A Debate between YAMIN ZAKARIA and ALI SINA; Published: February 27, 2005 ]
  21. ↑ "Debates". FaithFreedom.org. Retrieved October 16, 2011.
  22. ↑ Sina's Challenge, Jerusalem Post
  23. ↑ Islam and Human Rights
  24. ↑ Islam: The Arab Imperialism
  25. ↑ Debate with Mohammed Asadi by Ali Sina, faithfreedom.org, January 22, 2006.
  26. ↑ On Monday Sept 4, 2006, (WikiIslam) was opened to the public.
  27. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Cyber-Islamophobia? The case of WikiIslam, Journal: Contemporary Islam, publisher Springer Netherlands, ISSN 1872-0218 (Print) 1872-0226
  28. ↑ "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)." ibid.
  29. ↑ Islamophobia: A Challenge For Us All, p. 5, Runnymede Trust (1997).
  30. ↑ WikiIslam

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