Ali Sina (activist) explained

Ali Sina is the pseudonym[1] of an Iranian-born Canadian ex-Muslim activist and critic of Islam. Sina is the founder of the anti-Muslim website WikiIslam and maintains a number of websites promoting what he refers to as "the truth" about Islam. He is associated with the counter-jihad movement.

Work

In 2001, Sina founded Faith Freedom International (FFI),[2] a popular anti-Muslim counter-jihad website[3] that describes its aims as "unmask[ing] Islam and help[ing] Muslims leave [the faith]."[4] He later founded WikiIslam in 2006[4] and also began the alisina.org blog "dedicated to attacking Islam."[1]

He hoped to begin filming a biopic of Muhammad in 2013, claiming to have raised $2 million out of a total $10 million goal for the film as of 2012.[5]

Sina is a board member of Pamela Geller's Stop Islamization of Nations,[3] an offshoot of the Stop Islamization of America, which the SPLC lists as a hate group. [6]

Views

Sina has questioned Islam's validity as a religion and called it "an unreformable, violent, militant political cult". He and his associates have used his platform to argue that Islam is an intrinsically evil and false religion and an "overgrown cult."[7] He has also made claims to offer $50,000 to anyone who can refute his accusation that Muhammad was "a narcissist, a misogynist, a rapist, a paedophile, a lecher, a torturer, a mass murderer, a cult leader, an assassin, a terrorist, a madman and a looter". Sina deemed the word "Muslim" to be synonymous with "stupid, barbarian, thug, arrogant, brain dead, zombie, hooligan, goon, shameless, savage and many other ignoble things".

Reception

Sina,[8] FFI,[9] [10] and WikiIslam have been noted for their anti-Muslim rhetoric.[11] Sina has been cited as an example of "anti-Islamic fanaticism"[1] and is considered a virulently anti-Islamic activist. He has been quoted by Geert Wilders, a Dutch far-right politician.

Publications

See also

Notes and References

  1. Encyclopedia: Hassan . Salah D.. Infinite Hijra: Migrant Islam, Muslim American Literature and the Anti-Mimesis of The Taqwacores . Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing . Ahmed . Rehana . Morey . Peter . Yaqin . Amina . 2012 . Routledge . New York . 87–100 . 9780415896771 . 811728001 .
  2. Book: Cottee . Simon . The Apostates: When Muslims Leave Islam . 2015 . C Hurst . London . 9781849044691 . 6 . There are two principal groups for ex-Muslims: the CEMB, founded in 2007 by Maryam Namazie, and Faith Freedom International (FFI), launched by Dr. Ali Sina in 2001..
  3. Book: Busher . Joel . The Making of Anti-Muslim Protest: Grassroots Activism in the English Defence League . 2016 . Routledge . London . 9781315661377.
  4. Book: Larsson, Göran. In the Tracks of Breivik: Far Right Networks in Northern and Eastern Europe. Lit Verlag. 2014. 9783643905420. Mays. Christin. Vienna. 155–66. Islamophobia or Legitimate Concern? Contrasting Official and Populist Understanding of Opposition to Muslims. 881140905. [WikiIslam] was begun by an Iranian ex-Muslim named Ali Sina and is maintained by an organization known as Faith Freedom International (FFI). According to a description found on the website, the aim of FFI is to 'unmask Islam and help Muslims leave [the faith]'.. Deland. Mats. Minkenberg. Michael.
  5. News: Is Islam's prophet Muhammad to have more screen time?. Los Angeles Times. 25 September 2012. Bensinger, Ken. Ryan, Harriet. 5 November 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20121006025325/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-muhammad-film-20120926,0,6289140.story?page=2. 6 October 2012. live.
  6. Web site: Dungca Globe . Nicole . November 23, 2015 . MBTA bans all ads on political and social issues - The Boston Globe . 2024-02-21 . BostonGlobe.com . en-US.
  7. Pulcini . Theodore . Cyber-apostasy: its repercussions on Islam and interfaith relations* . Journal of Contemporary Religion . 4 May 2017 . 32 . 2 . 194 . 10.1080/13537903.2017.1298902 . 152164600 . 23 February 2021 . Although clearly secularist in his perspective, Sina and his associates claim that they do not oppose belief and religion per se, but hate, on which, in their opinion, Islam feeds. Considering Islam a 'false religion' and an 'overgrown cult' that is intrinsically evil, they urge its adherents to repudiate it..
  8. News: O'Malley . Nick . One Nation, Australia's portal to Trump and the alt-right . 2 October 2021 . The Sydney Morning Herald . 27 January 2017 . en.
  9. Book: Christians . Clifford G. . Al Jazeera in the Gulf and in the World . 2019 . Springer . Singapore . 978-981-13-3420-7 . 237 . https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-13-3420-7_8 . en . The Ethics of Human Dignity and Freedom of Expression . Contemporary Gulf Studies . 10.1007/978-981-13-3420-7_8 . 182074651 . Anti-Muslim sites are strong and active, for example, Faith Freedom (faithfreedom.org).
  10. Book: Christians, Clifford G. . Media ethics and global justice in the digital age . March 21, 2019 . Cambridge University Press . 978-1-107-15214-4 . Cambridge, United Kingdom . 268 . 1083672825 . Anti-Muslim sites are vivid and morally repugnant, for example, Faith Freedom (www.faithfreedom.org/)..
  11. Book: Enstedt . Daniel . van Nieuwkerk . Karin . Moving in and out of Islam . 2018 . University of Texas Press . Austin, TX . 978-1-4773-1748-8 . 74 . First . https://books.google.com/books?id=uPxzDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA74 . Understanding Religious Apostasy, Disaffiliation, and Islam in Contemporary Sweden . Anti-Muslim rhetoric on internet sites such as WikiIslam.net ... and faithfreedom.org ... reproduce[s] a negative image of religion that is associated with Islam..

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