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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>[http://www.faithfreedom.org/challenge.htm Ali Sina's challenge]</ref> He will remove individual allegations against Muhammad as they are proven wrong. 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>[http://www.faithfreedom.org/forum.htm Ali Sina's Forum]</ref> and he publishes the resulting debates to allow people to judge the success or failure of the challenge.<ref>[http://www.faithfreedom.org/debates.htm Ali Sina's debates]</ref>
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>[http://www.faithfreedom.org/challenge.htm Ali Sina's challenge]</ref> He will remove individual allegations against Muhammad as they are proven wrong. 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>[http://www.faithfreedom.org/forum.htm Ali Sina's Forum]</ref> and he publishes the resulting debates to allow people to judge the success or failure of the challenge.<ref>[http://www.faithfreedom.org/debates.htm Ali Sina's debates]</ref>


=="Death threats" and "fatwas" issued against FFI founder==
==Death threats and Fatwas issued against FFI founder==
According to the FFI website, various different "threats" and "fatwas" have been issued against Ali Sina, including offering a reward of Rs.1,000,000 (Indian rupees one million) for killing him.<ref name=Ghamidi>http://www.faithfreedom.org/debates/Ghamidip6.htm</ref>. These are detailed on the website, which lists the prominent Muslim individuals who are said to have made these threats.
According to the FFI website, various different threats and fatwas have been issued against Ali Sina, including offering a reward for of Rs.1,000,000 (Indian rupees one million) for killing him ”.<ref name=Ghamidi>http://www.faithfreedom.org/debates/Ghamidip6.htm</ref>. These are detailed on the website, which lists the prominent Muslim individuals who are said to have made these threats.


FFI claims that Ali Sina receives mail from "Muslims"<ref>http://www.faithfreedom.org/mcommets.htm</ref> which occasionally include "death threats".<ref>http://www.faithfreedom.org/oped/sina60209c.htm</ref><ref>http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/001924.php</ref>
Ali also receives mail from Muslims,<ref>http://www.faithfreedom.org/mcommets.htm</ref> which occasionally include death threats.<ref>http://www.faithfreedom.org/oped/sina60209c.htm</ref><ref>http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/001924.php</ref>


==Website "threatened with lawsuit"==
==Website threatened with lawsuit==
In July 2005, Ali Sina claimed that he received a letter from a Muslim in the UK in which he was threatened with a lawsuit. He communicated with the person who made the threat and asked them to proceed with the lawsuit saying that that would help him prove his claims about Islam in a court of law. The person did not proceed with the lawsuit and Ali has published the communication on his website.<ref>[http://www.faithfreedom.org/oped/sina50730.htm FaithFreedom.org: Ali Sina Threatened with Lawsuit]</ref>
In July 2005, FFI posted the following,
<blockquote>"I have been insulted, received death threats and now threatened with lawsuit. I don't give a damn about the first two, but the lawsuit is something I have been looking for. This will allow me to prove that Islam is a cult of hate, violence and terror in a court of law and win. This is the opportunity I have been looking for to slay Islam once and for all.
Ali Sina"
</blockquote>
The website proceeds to then display the alleged letters to and from Ali Sina. FFI claims the person in communication with Sina has not proceeded with the suit.<ref>[http://www.faithfreedom.org/oped/sina50730.htm FaithFreedom.org: Ali Sina Threatened with Lawsuit]</ref>


== Views on Islam==
== Views on Islam==

Revision as of 08:26, 4 March 2007

Faith Freedom International
File:FFI-logo.png
Type of site
Blog
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)
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.[1]

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.[2]

Debates

In 2001 Faith Freedom International issued a challenge to Muslims. 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.[3] 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,[4] Yamin Zakaria[5][6] and Edip Yuksel.[7][8] Arguably the most prominent of the scholars with whom Sina exchanged a letter[9] 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[10] 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.[10].

Several months prior to the establishment of Faith Freedom International, in January, 2001, Sina had a discussion via email with Reza 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, Reza Pahlavi advocated a democratic government determined via a national referendum which could lead to a constitutional monarchy.[11]

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.[12] He will remove individual allegations against Muhammad as they are proven wrong. 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[13] and he publishes the resulting debates to allow people to judge the success or failure of the challenge.[14]

Death threats and Fatwas issued against FFI founder

According to the FFI website, various different threats and fatwas have been issued against Ali Sina, including offering a reward for of Rs.1,000,000 (Indian rupees one million) for killing him ”.[15]. These are detailed on the website, which lists the prominent Muslim individuals who are said to have made these threats.

Ali also receives mail from Muslims,[16] which occasionally include death threats.[17][18]

Website threatened with lawsuit

In July 2005, Ali Sina claimed that he received a letter from a Muslim in the UK in which he was threatened with a lawsuit. He communicated with the person who made the threat and asked them to proceed with the lawsuit saying that that would help him prove his claims about Islam in a court of law. The person did not proceed with the lawsuit and Ali has published the communication on his website.[19]

Views on Islam


The founder of Faith Freedom International, Ali Sina, believes that Islam is not a religion but also a political movement, [20] that among other things allow the Muslims to wage war against the non-Muslims.[21] He describes Islam as "unflinchingly violent, extremist, reactionary, intolerant, anti-Western and misogynistic" and "as the disease of mankind, and the source of all these wars, terror attacks and human miseries".[22]

Sina has criticized Islam and Muhammad, and has, among other things, called him a "rapist", a "pedophile",a "monster",[23] and "mass murderer".[24]

He claims that because of Islam, Muslims "have no pride, no self esteem, no dignity, no honor", and are thus "evil". He further claims that Muslims are "bullies" [25] because of this low self esteem. Sina claims that "Muslims are not fools" [26] but "so much trapped in it (Islam) that they can’t leave it (Islam)".

Views on other faiths

Many members of Faith Freedom International have commented on other faiths, and their views are primarily expressed in the FaithFreedom Forum.[27] One writer at FFI believes that Christians borrowed much of practices, myth and symbols from pagans e.g. mithraism.[28] Some members believe Moses and Jesus are fictitious personages (myths) and that the Bible is false. Sina is on record stating he believes Muslims, Christians and Jews follow a false doctrine.[29] Another writer at FFI, Avjit Roy, believes that "every divine scripture" (including the Vedas) is scientifically "fallacious".[30] 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.[31]

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."[32] 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."[32]

The website believes that unlike Islam, other religions have something to offer, saying that "most other religions, like Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Sikhism, Zoroastrianism, Bahaism [sic], 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."[32] 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.[33]

Web site banned in some Muslim countries

Saudi Arabia has banned the Faith Freedom Website according to a 2002 study by professor Jonathan Zittrain and Benjamin Edelman of Harvard University.[34] Khalid Zaheer, a former student of Ghamidi reported that he was unable to access faithfreedom.org in Pakistan.[15] The web site is also banned in Iran. [citation needed]

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).

Traffic rankings

Traffic ranking for Faith Freedom International[35] 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.[36] 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.[37] According to Ranking.com, Faith Freedom International is in between the top 30,000 and 40,000 websites.[38] According to Site Meter, Faith Freedom International has had over 20,000,000 views since its creation.[39]

See also

References

  1. ^ Faith Freedom international mission statement
  2. ^ about FFI
  3. ^ Faith Freedom International's challenge
  4. ^ Mr. Javed Ahmad Ghamidi vs. Ali Sina
  5. ^ Yamin Zakaria vs. Ali Sina
  6. ^ Exposing Blindness of "Freethinkers" about Islam- A Debate between Yamin Zakaria and Ali Sina (Yamin Zakaria's version)
  7. ^ Edip Yuksel vs. Ali Sina
  8. ^ Intelligent People's guide to code-19 and a debate between Edip Yuksel and Ali Sina (Edip Yuksel's version)
  9. ^ Letter from Montazeri
  10. ^ a b Ali Sina's letter to Zakir Naik
  11. ^ Debate with Reza Pahlavi II – Ali sina version
  12. ^ Ali Sina's challenge
  13. ^ Ali Sina's Forum
  14. ^ Ali Sina's debates
  15. ^ a b http://www.faithfreedom.org/debates/Ghamidip6.htm
  16. ^ http://www.faithfreedom.org/mcommets.htm
  17. ^ http://www.faithfreedom.org/oped/sina60209c.htm
  18. ^ http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/001924.php
  19. ^ FaithFreedom.org: Ali Sina Threatened with Lawsuit
  20. ^ Asia Times: Islam: Religion or political ideology? August 10, 2004
  21. ^ FrontPageMagazine.com: Symposium: Gender Apartheid and Islam, by Jamie Glazov, December 31, 2004
  22. ^ Islam and the Muslim mind
  23. ^ Defeating Islam
  24. ^ Worldnetdaily.com: Ex-Muslim's site trashes Muhammad, September 16, 2004
  25. ^ Defeating Islam
  26. ^ Defeating Islam
  27. ^ Free Thought and Religion
  28. ^ The Origin of Christmas
  29. ^ Debate between Dr. G. R. Farhad Assar and Ali Sina
  30. ^ An Open Challenge to my Muslim Friends, Avjit Roy
  31. ^ Allah vs. God, Ali Sina in reply to Kamakazi41050
  32. ^ a b c FaithFreedom.org: Oped - Defeating Islam
  33. ^ FaithFreedom.org: FAQ
  34. ^ websites banned in Saudi Arabia
  35. ^ Alexa.com's traffic ranking for: Faith Freedom International
  36. ^ Alexa.com: Ratings for FaithFreedom.org
  37. ^ Alexa traffic detials
  38. ^ Faith Freedom at ranking.com
  39. ^ "Faith Freedom International". Site Summary. Site Meter. July 14, 2005.

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