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| {{Infobox Website | |||
| | name = Faith Freedom International | |||
| | logo = ] | |||
| | screenshot = ] | |||
| | caption = Logo and Screenshot of FFI | |||
| | url = http://www.faithfreedom.org | |||
| | commercial = No | |||
| | type = Religious/Political | |||
| | language = ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ] | |||
| | registration = ], Inc. (R39-LROR) | |||
| | owner = Ali Sina | |||
| | author = Ali Sina | |||
| | launch date = ], ] | |||
| | current status = | |||
| | revenue = Donations}} | |||
| ] | |||
| '' '''Ali Sina''' redirects here, as it is the name the founder of Faith Freedom International uses.'' | |||
| '''Faith Freedom International''' (FFI) is a ] organization which is ].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40473|title=Ex-Muslim's site trashes Muhammad|accessdate=2007-06-25|publisher=WorldNetDaily|language=English}}</ref> FFI was founded by Ali Sina, an ]ian ex-Muslim residing in ], who has issued a standing challenge that he will remove the FFI ] if proven wrong on a number of issues. Faith Freedom International is listed by ] in his book, '']'', as one of the few Islamic related "...friendly address(es), for individuals needing support in escaping from religion".<ref name="GD">{{cite book | title=The God Delusion| last=Dawkins| first=Richard| authorlink=Richard Dawkins| date=2006| pages=379| publisher=Houghton Mifflin Co.| location=Boston| id=ISBN 0-618-68000-4}}</ref> FFI's mission statement is included in ]'s book ].<ref name="Leaving Islam">{{cite book | title=Leaving Islam: Apostates Speak Out| last=Ibn Warraq| authorlink=Ibn Warraq| date=2003| pages=433-436| publisher=Prometheus Books| location=Amherst, NY| id=ISBN 1-59102-068-9}}</ref> | |||
| Faith Freedom International hosts the ] page ]. | |||
| ==Debates== | |||
| In 2001, Faith Freedom International issued a challenge to Muslims to disprove all his allegations against ], and if they succeed, the website will be removed, and they will receive US$50,000.<ref></ref> Since then, writers of FFI have held numerous debates with both Muslim scholars and non-scholars on the website. Prominent scholars among those who debated with members of FFI include ]{{Fact|date=April 2007}}, Prof. ]{{Fact|date=April 2007}}, Dr. ]{{Fact|date=April 2007}}, Khalid Zaheer, a student of ],<ref></ref> ]<ref></ref><ref></ref> and ].<ref></ref><ref></ref> Arguably the most prominent of the scholars with whom Sina exchanged a letter<ref></ref> with was the ], the former deputy of ] who later became a dissident and critic of the Islamic Republic.{{Fact|date=April 2007}} Sina also posted a letter in his website claiming to be sent to Dr. ]<ref name=FFI_Naik></ref> inviting him for an open online debate. Mr. Sina received the information that Dr. Naik does not debate online but rather in person in public view.<ref name=FFI_Naik></ref> Dr. Naik's office said "There are hundreds of such Ali Sina who have requested Dr. Zakir Naik to debate with him to gain popularity."<ref>http://www.faithfreedom.org/debates/ZakirNaikp2.htm</ref> | |||
| Several months prior to the establishment of Faith Freedom International, in January, ], Sina had a discussion via email with ], the son of the late ] of Iran, regarding a potential regime in Iran that could replace the current one. Sina argued it should be a ], Reza Pahlavi advocated a democratic government determined via a national ] which could lead to a ].<ref> – Ali Sina version</ref> | |||
| ==The Website's Challenge== | |||
| The challenge of the Faith Freedom International website is that Ali Sina, the founder of the website will remove the website if all his allegations against Muhammad are proven wrong.<ref></ref> Ali has promised a prize of $50,000 to "...anyone who can disprove my charges and prove Islam is a true religion in an objective (not subjective) way." He invites any refutation of the charges to be posted to his forum<ref></ref> and he publishes the resulting debates to allow people to judge the success or failure of the challenge.<ref></ref> | |||
| ==Website access in Muslim countries== | |||
| According to a 2002 study by professor Jonathan Zittrain and Benjamin Edelman of ], ] had banned the Faith Freedom Website .<ref></ref>. Khalid Zaheer, a former student of Ghamidi had earlier reported that he was unable to access faithfreedom.org in Pakistan.<ref name=Ghamidi>http://www.faithfreedom.org/debates/Ghamidip6.htm</ref> The website operates well in one of the most populous Muslim countries, ] and also Pakistan (ibid). | |||
| The Public Interest Registry (PIR)service<ref></ref> used by all .org domains,and Alexa.com<ref></ref> state that FFI website is hosted in Qoom province, Iran.<ref> http://www.whois.net/whois_new.cgi?d=faithfreedom&tld=org</ref>. | |||
| == Disambiguation == | |||
| There is another website with similar name, . 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 ] on the ''.com'' Top Level Domain (TLD). | |||
| ==Traffic rankings== | |||
| Traffic ranking for Faith Freedom International<ref></ref> has fluctuated since its inception in ]. According to the online source ], which reports traffic from Alexa toolbar users, in early ] faithfreedom.org was in the top ten thousand sites on the ]. Currently it is in the top thirty thousand.<ref></ref> It saw a significant spike in site traffic during February 2006. This occurred at the onset of the ] stemming from the ], but has since returned to average levels. 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.<ref></ref> | |||
| According to ], Faith Freedom International is in between the top 30,000 and 40,000 websites.<ref></ref> According to ], 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. <ref name="Site Meter">{{cite web | title = Faith Freedom International | work =Site Summary | publisher =] | date =July 14, 2005 | url =http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=sm7freefree }}</ref> | |||
| ==WikiIslam== | |||
| ] | |||
| In ] ], Faith Freedom International launched<ref>On Monday Sept 4, 2006, </ref> WikiIslam, a community-edited ] collecting negative and critical material about Islam.<ref name="CIWI">, Journal: ''Contemporary Islam'', publisher ''Springer Netherlands'', ISSN 1872-0218 (Print) 1872-0226</ref> According to the FAQ section on the website, "the main difference between WikiIslam and Misplaced Pages is that opinions critical of Islam are not censored on WikiIslam for political correctness."<ref name="CIWI"/> Due to the controversial nature of the website, it has been subject to vandalism, due to which increased security measures have been employed.<ref name="CIWI"/> | |||
| WikiIslam is the subject of an article in the 7/2007 issue of the journal ''Contemporary Islam'', entitled "Cyber-Islamophobia? The case of WikiIslam",<ref name="CIWI"/> which observes that the website commits selection bias by collecting only negative or critical material.<ref name="CIWI"/><ref>"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). My impression is that the stories reported by WikiIslam have merely been selected to show that Muslims are ignorant, backward or even stupid." ibid.</ref> The article states that "In relation to the criteria set up by the ]... ...it should be quite easy to label most of the material published on WikiIslam as expressions of ]."<ref>Islamophobia: A Challenge For Us All, p. 5, Runnymede Trust (1997).</ref><ref name="CIWI"/> Because of the presence of material obtained from other websites, such as ], the article notes that "it becomes much more difficult to argue that all information posted on WikiIslam is Islamophobic by nature."<ref name="CIWI"/> | |||
| ==Views of Ali Sina== | |||
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| '''Islam and Muhammad''': The founder of Faith Freedom International, Ali Sina, believes that Islam is not a religion but 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 ]" and "as the ] of mankind, and the source of all these ]s, ] and human miseries".<ref></ref> | |||
| Mr. Sina suggests that removal of "Israel and American imperialism" will eventually defeat Islam from within. Non existence of these so called enemies will render Islam to have feuds within its own sects.<ref>http://www.faithfreedom.org/Articles/sina/fascisticislam.htm</ref> | |||
| Sina describes ] as a "]", a "]",a "monster",<ref></ref> and mass ]er".<ref></ref> | |||
| Sina claims that because of ], Muslims "have no pride, no self esteem, no dignity, no honor", and are thus "evil". He further claims that Muslims are "bullies"<ref></ref> because of this low self esteem. Sina claims that "Muslims are not fools"<ref></ref> but "so much trapped in it (Islam) that they can’t leave it (Islam)". | |||
| Sina also believes the Muslims "deface the character of the Western cities," and has described the ] as a "bloody book of terror." <ref name="letter"></ref> | |||
| He believes that Islamic holy war, ], is never done by Muslims when they are poor, as "they have instruction" to wait until they are rich enough to win.<ref name="letter"/> | |||
| Sina believes that the "] in France had nothing to do with ] just as the ] had nothing to do with poverty." Instead, he asserts that Muslims were just "testing the waters" before planning another "attack." These, Sina says, are part of "maneuvers to take control of Europe."<ref name="letter"/> | |||
| ''']''': Ali Sina has stated that he considers "communism is an atheistic dogma/religion which has nothing to do with freethinking and democracy", and that the 20th century was "bloodied" by "] Terrorists." He has also criticized Iranian communist activist ] for not accepting that ] is a "hoax" and it is "finished". <ref name="letter"/> | |||
| Sina criticizes the Iranian communists as "anti patriotic" for the same reason as "the Muslims are anti-patriotic," and compares their similarity to Islamists, saying that the two both "lie without scruples, twist the facts and even contradict their own words."<ref name="letter"/> | |||
| '''Other faiths''': Sina is on record stating he believes Muslims, Christians and Jews follow a false doctrine.<ref></ref> Another writer at FFI, Avjit Roy, believes that "every divine scripture" (including the ]) is scientifically "fallacious".<ref>, Avjit Roy </ref> Despite some disagreements with religious views in general, Sina has also stated that he has no problem with people becoming Christian or any other religion, as long as it helps that person to behave kindly towards others.<ref>, Ali Sina in reply to Kamakazi41050</ref> 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."<ref name=FFI_DefeatingIslam></ref> He adds that there is a good in Christianity, which makes it worth to preserve. | |||
| 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."<ref name=FFI_DefeatingIslam></ref> 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.<ref></ref> | |||
| ==Death threat claims== | |||
| Ali Sina claims that he receives death threats.<ref>http://www.faithfreedom.org/mcommets.htm</ref><ref>http://www.faithfreedom.org/oped/sina60209c.htm</ref> In July, 2005, FFI posted that it had been threatened with a ], however the lawsuit never occured. The archive copy of Ali Sina's interview with ] has been removed "as Ali Sina has been receiving Death Threats".<ref></ref> | |||
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| ==References== | |||
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| ==External links== | |||
| * -Official Home page | |||
| * - Archived home page | |||
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| ===Articles related to Faith Freedom International or Ali Sina=== | |||
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| * by ] of ]'s radio station ] | |||
| * - Barbara J. Stock Comments on Ali Sina and Yamin Zakaria's Debate | |||
| * - ] | |||
| * in an article on ] | |||
| * - 19.org, website by ] | |||
| * - International Institute of Peace | |||
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| === Opposing Websites === | |||
| * - Rebuttals to FaithFreedom.org web site and Ali Sina | |||
| * - A website opposing the views of Ali Sina and Faith Freedom International | |||
| * - A website claiming to expose lies Against Islam by Ali Sina and Faith Freedom International | |||
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