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	== Views on Islam==
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	The founder of Faith Freedom International, Ali Sina, believes that Islam is not a religion but also a political movement, <ref> </ref> that among other things allow the Muslims to wage war against the non-Muslims.<ref> </ref> He describes Islam as "unflinchingly ], ], reactionary, intolerant, anti-Western and misogynistic" and "as the ] of mankind, and the source of all these ]s, ] and human miseries".<ref></ref>

	Sina has criticized Islam and Islams prophet Muhammad, and has among other things alleged that he was a ], a ], "monster",<ref></ref> and mass ].<ref></ref>

	He says that Muslims "have no pride, no self esteem, no dignity, no honor", and are thus "evil". He further says that Muslims are "bullies".<ref></ref>

	== Views on other faiths ==		== Views on other faiths ==

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Faith Freedom International
File:FFI-logo.png
Type of site	Blog
Available in	English, Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Polish, Spanish
Owner	Ali Sina Psedonym ( existence not proved)
Created by	Ali Sina Psedonym
Revenue	donations
URL	http://www.faithfreedom.org
Commercial	No
Registration	eNom, Inc. (R39-LROR)

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Ali Sina redirects here, as it is the name that the Faith Freedom International website gives its founder.

According to Faith Freedom International, it is a secularist organization which states on its web site that it is:

"a grassroots movement of ex-Muslim whose goals are to (a) unmask Islam and show that it is an imperialistic ideology akin to Nazism but disguised as religion and (b) to help Muslims leave it, end this culture of hate caused by their "us" vs. "them" ethos and embrace the human race in amity."

According to the Faith Freedom International website, the founder of Faith Freedom International is Ali Sina, who self-identifies as an ex-Muslim. He contributed to Ibn Warraq's 2003 book Leaving Islam: Apostates Speak Out. Ali Sina used to work on a website called humanists.net before he switched to the current website faithfreedom.org.

Disambiguation

There is another website with similar name faithfreedom.com. This website is contrary to Faith Freedom International and claims to provide the rebuttals of the accusations of 'Faith Freedom International' against Islam. Note that this website is typosquatted on the .com Top Level Domain (TLD).

Domain/Website Owner Information

WHOIS information provided by the owner of the website is not his own, but that of an arms-length organization.

Traffic rankings

Traffic ranking for Faith Freedom International 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. 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. According to Ranking.com, Faith Freedom International is in between the top 30,000 and 40,000 websites. According to Site Meter, Faith Freedom International has had over 20,000,000 views since its creation.

Debates

Faith Freedom issued a challenge to Muslims, meant to attract readers in 2001. The challenge is to disprove all his allegations against Mohammad, and if they succeed, the website will be removed, and they will receive $50,000. Since then, writers of Faith Freedom International have held numerous debates with both Muslim scholars and non-scholars on his website. Prominent scholars among those who debated with members of Faith Freedom International include Abu Saleh, Prof. Abdul Hadi Palazzi, Dr. Alireza Assar, Javed Ahmad Ghamidi, Yamin Zakaria and Edip Yuksel. Arguably the most prominent of the scholars with whom Sina exchanged a letter with was the Grand Ayatollah Montazeri, the former deputy of Ayatollah Khomeini who later became a dissident and critic of the Islamic Republic. Sina also posted a letter in his website claiming to be sent to Dr. Zakir Naik 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. Sina then wrote to Zakir Naik himself but in reply, he claimed the administration of his website wrote back saying that Zakir was busy and did not have time to debate. Sina claimed that it was clear from his correspondence that Dr. Naik is evading the discussion since he is not responding to the debate request.

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.

Faithfreedom.org banned in some Muslim countries

During Ali Sina's recent debate with Javed Ahmad Ghamidi, an Islamic Scholar in Pakistan, Khalid Zaheer, a former student of Ghamidi reported that he was unable to access faithfreedom.org in Pakistan. Other internet users have also reported being unable to access the site. According to a 2002 study by Prof. Jonathan Zittrain and Benjamin Edelman of Harvard University, Faith Freedom International is also banned in Saudi Arabia.

Views on other faiths

Faith Freedom International has commented on other faiths. They believe that Christians borrowed much of practices, myth and symbols from pagans e.g. mithraism. They believe Moses and Jesus are fictitious personages (myths) and that the Bible is false. He believes Muslims, Christians and Jews follow a false doctrine. Fiath Freedom believes that "every divine scripture" (including the Vedas) is scientifically "fallacious".

Although they claim with certainty that a person called Jesus existed and lot of what is attributed to him is true, Ali believes that much of Christianity is a fairytale and is for the feeble minded e.g. "The stories of virgin birth, walking on water, converting water to wine or resurrection and ascension." He believes that early believers added these stories to spice up the religion and make it look attractive for simple minded, illiterate and unsophisticated people. He states that once you strip Christianity of these fairytales and superstitions and separate the actions of church, Christianity is a good teaching, with its emphasis on love and forgiveness. Faith Freedom describes Jesus as a young eccentric man who was angry at the stupidity of the people and lashed out at them but despite his human flaw, what he taught was not evil and that he was a rabbi. For example, one writer has said,

"He called himself the son of God, the way I call myself the son of Universe. It does not seem that with this he intended to establish for himself a rank above others. In his view everyone was a child of God."

The website believes that unlike Islam, other religions have something to offer, saying that "most other religions, like Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Sikhism, Zoroastrianism, Bahaism, etc. are mixed bags of good and bad. You can compare them to ore. There is lots of dirt but in the midst of that dirt, there are gems and precious metals." The reason why Ali Sina primarily focuses on Islam may be because he is a former Muslim. Also he believes that Christianity and Judaism have been critically studied already by other scholars and that unlike Islam, they represent no threat to the peace and security of the world.

References

External links

Faith Freedom International
Humanists.net – Ali Sina's old website
Ali Sina representing Faith Freedom in an article on Iranian.com

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Opposing Websites

Answering-christianity.com Rebuttals to FaithFreedom.org web site and Ali Sina
Faithfreedom.com a website opposing the views of Ali Sina and Faith Freedom International]

Articles about Ali Sina and Faith Freedom International

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