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| URL | http://www.faithfreedom.org |
| Commercial? | No |
| Type of site | Anti Islamic |
| Registration | eNom, Inc. (R39-LROR) |
| Available language(s) | 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 ex-Muslim 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). FFI's mission statement is included in Ibn Warraq's book Leaving Islam: Apostates Speak Out.[4]
Faith Freedom International hosts the Mediawiki-based site WikiIslam.
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Website access and traffic
According to a 2002 study by professor Jonathan Zittrain and Benjamin Edelman of Harvard University, Saudi Arabia had banned the [5] Website. The Public Interest Registry service used by all .org domains,[6] and Alexa.com[7] state that FFI website is Bellevue, Washington, USA. The traffic ranking for Faith Freedom International has fluctuated since its inception in June 2001.[8]
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 fifty thousand.[8] 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.[8]
According to Ranking.com, Faith Freedom International is in between the top 30,000 and 40,000 websites.[9] 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.[10]
Debates
Since issuing his challenge in 2001, Ali Sina has held numerous debates with both Muslim scholars and non-scholars on his website. Prominent scholars among those who debated with Sina include Prof. Abdul Hadi Palazzi, Javed Ahmad Ghamidi[11] and Edip Yuksel[12]. Arguably the most prominent of the scholars with whom Sina exchanged a letter [13] with was the Grand Ayatollah Montazeri, the former deputy of Ayatollah Khomeini who later became a dissident and critic of the Islamic Republic. Ali also posted a letter in his website claiming to be sent to Dr. Zakir Naik[14] inviting him for an open online debate.
After being challenged by many Muslims to debate with him, several requests sent by Muslims and non Muslims to Zakir Naik's website were ignored. Ali then wrote to Zakir Naik himself but in reply, the administration of his website wrote back saying that Zakir was busy and did not have time to debate. Ali said that it was clear from his correspondence that Dr. Naik is evading the discussion since he is not responding to the debate request. Zakir later agreed to have a live debate with Sina, stating that on-line debates took too much time and rarely presented a clear winner. Sina, however, refused to do a live debate, stating it is "time consuming, expensive and what can you say in just two hours?"[15].
Several months prior to the establishment of Faith Freedom International, in January, 2001, Sina had a discussion via email with Reza Cyrus Pahlavi, the son of the late Shah of Iran regarding a potential regime in Iran that could replace the current one. Sina argued it should be a democratic republic, while Pahlavi advocated constitutional monarchy.[16]
Wiki Islam
In September 2006, Faith Freedom International launched[17] WikiIslam, a community-edited wiki collecting negative and critical material about Islam.[18] 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."[18] Due to the controversial nature of the website, it has been subject to vandalism, due to which increased security measures have been employed.
Political views
Ali Sina has been very critical of Barack Obama and has launched a petition for presidential candidates to be subject to psychological analysis.[19] He believes that Obama is a narcissist who has no concern for other people. Obama is often compared to Hitler and other mass-murderers by Ali Sina and others on his site [20][21].
Alleged deaths threats and hacking attempts
Ali Sina claims to have received death threats from Muslims [22] and his website has been hacked and subject to DDOS attacks multiple times. [23]
See also
- Apostasy in Islam
- Criticism of Islam
- Internet censorship in Pakistan
- Islamophobia
- List of former Muslims
- MANIFESTO: Together facing the new totalitarianism
References
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- ^ "Ex-Muslim's site trashes Muhammad - Founder challenges: Prove me wrong and I'll take down page" (in English). WorldNetDaily. 16 Sept 2004. http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40473. Retrieved September 18 2007.
- ^ Jamie Glazov (31 Dec 2004). "Symposium: Gender Apartheid and Islam" (in English). FrontPageMagazine.com. http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=16440. Retrieved September 18 2007.
- ^ Dawkins, Richard (2006). The God Delusion. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.. p. 379. ISBN 0-618-68000-4.
- ^ Ibn Warraq (2003). Leaving Islam: Apostates Speak Out. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books. pp. 433–436. ISBN 1-59102-068-9.
- ^ Faith Freedom
- ^ Whois.Net
- ^ faithfreedom.org - Site Information from Alexa
- ^ a b c Alexa.com: Ratings for FaithFreedom.org
- ^ Faith Freedom at ranking.com
- ^ "Faith Freedom International". Site Summary. Site Meter. 2005-07-14. http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=sm7freefree.
- ^ FaithFreedom.org: Mr. Javed Ahmad Ghamidi vs. Ali Sina
- ^ FaithFreedom.org: Edip Yuksel vs. Ali Sina
- ^ Letter from Montazeri
- ^ Ali Sina's letter to Zakir Naik
- ^ http://www.faithfreedom.org/debates/ZakirNaik.htm
- ^ Debate with Reza Pahlavi II
- ^ On Monday Sept 4, 2006, (WikiIslam) was opened to the public.
- ^ a b Cyber-Islamophobia? The case of WikiIslam, Journal: Contemporary Islam, publisher Springer Netherlands, ISSN 1872-0218 (Print) 1872-0226
- ^ Understanding Obama: The Making of a Fuehrer by Ali Sina, 2008/09/22
- ^ [1]
- ^ http://www.faithfreedom.org/Articles/obama/obamahitler.html
- ^ Muslim Mindset: 'The hatred is in Muhammad himself' - Jerusalem post Interviews Ali Sina.
- ^ Jihad Watch,June 7, 2008, Faith-Freedom Hacked
External links
- Faith Freedom International - Home page
- WikiIslam home page
- Islam: Religion or political ideology? - Asia Times
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