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Faith Freedom International
File:FFI-logo.png
File:FFI-2.pngLogo and Screenshot of FFI
Type of siteReligious/Political
Available inEnglish, Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Polish, Spanish
OwnerAli Sina
Created byAli Sina
RevenueDonations
URLhttp://www.faithfreedom.org
CommercialNo
RegistrationeNom, Inc. (R39-LROR)

Faith Freedom International (FFI) is a secularist organization which is critical of Islam. FFI was founded by Ali Sina, the pseudonym of an Iranian ex-Muslim residing in Canada, who 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 his book, The God Delusion, as one of the few Islamic related "...friendly address(es), for individuals needing support in escaping from religion". FFI's mission statement is included in Ibn Warraq's book Leaving Islam: Apostates Speak Out.

Faith Freedom International hosts the Mediawiki-based site WikiIslam.

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. Sina promises 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, and he publishes the resulting debates to allow for his readership to judge the success or failure of the challenge.

A different view of Ali Sina

Ali Sina is one of those who had to rant something about the former country in order to win asylum in new country. This an old trick used by many who left an Islamic country. Ali Sina received great fame for introducing something new and unique - although most of his charges are after ideas or practices followed by certain groups in certain countries who happen to follow Islam. It is not necessary true that whatever they practice is because Islam asks them to. Ali Sina claims that no one has proved him wrong and if they do, he will award $50,000. Yet, often he has refused to have open debate with top Muslim scholars. This is just another of his tactic to keep the fame he has received. Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H) lived on the earth for 63 years. He was orphaned at child age, and did not receive any formal education. At age 40, Angel Gabriel came to him and informed him that he was a prophet of Gold (Allah). Thus, in 23 years, he preached Islam and several thousand people followed him by the time he passed away. Today, over 1.5 billion people follow Islam. Islam's teaching offers comfort, honesty, peace to people, that is why it is still the fastest growing religion of the world.


Debates

In response to the Challenge, Muslim scholars and non-scholars have debated with writers of FFI. Edip Yuksel held such a debate.

Website access in Muslim countries

According to a 2002 study by professor Jonathan Zittrain and Benjamin Edelman of Harvard University, Saudi Arabia had banned the Faith Freedom Website. Khalid Zaheer, a former student of Ghamidi had earlier reported that he was unable to access faithfreedom.org in Pakistan. The website operates well in one of the most populous Muslim countries, Indonesia and also Pakistan. The Public Interest Registry service used by all .org domains, and Alexa.com state that FFI website is hosted in Qom province, Iran.

Traffic rankings

The 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 fifty 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. 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. 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 25 million views since its creation, receives approximately 10,000 visitors every day and about 1 million page views every month.


Views of Ali Sina

According to the columnist Spengler in the Asia Times, Ali Sina believes that Islam is not a religion but a political movement. Spengler disputes this claim, forwarding that Islam is both a religion and a political ideology. He also suggests that, among other things, Islam allows the Muslims to wage war against the non-Muslims. Sina has accused Muhammad of being a a rapist, a pedophile, and a mass murderer.


References

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  1. ^ "Ex-Muslim's site trashes Muhammad - Founder challenges: Prove me wrong and I'll take down page". TESTING THE FAITH. WorldNetDaily. 16 Sept 2004. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |year= (help); Unknown parameter |accessmonthday= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |accessyear= ignored (|access-date= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
  2. ^ Jamie Glazov (31 Dec 2004). "Symposium: Gender Apartheid and Islam". FrontPageMagazine.com. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |accessmonthday= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |accessyear= ignored (|access-date= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
  3. Dawkins, Richard (2006). The God Delusion. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. p. 379. ISBN 0-618-68000-4.
  4. Ibn Warraq (2003). Leaving Islam: Apostates Speak Out. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books. pp. 433–436. ISBN 1-59102-068-9.
  5. Ali Sina's Forum
  6. Ali Sina's debates
  7. Edip Yuksel vs. Ali Sina; Intelligent People's guide to code-19 and a debate between Edip Yuksel and Ali Sina (Edip Yuksel's version)
  8. websites banned in Saudi Arabia
  9. ^ http://www.faithfreedom.org/debates/Ghamidip6.htm
  11. Whois.Net
  12. faithfreedom.org - Site Information from Alexa
  13. ^ Alexa.com: Ratings for FaithFreedom.org
  14. Faith Freedom at ranking.com
  15. "Faith Freedom International". Site Summary. Site Meter. July 14, 2005.
  16. Asia Times: Islam: Religion or political ideology? August 10, 2004

External links

Articles related to Faith Freedom International or Ali Sina

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