Ali Sina (activist)
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "other uses". Template:Use Canadian English Template:Use dmy dates Ali Sina is the pseudonym[1]Template:Rp of an Iranian-born Canadian ex-Muslim[2] activist and critic of Islam.[3] Sina is the founder of the anti-Muslim[4]Template:Rp website WikiIslam[4] and maintains a number of websites promoting what he refers to as the truth about Islam.[3] He was raised in a non-practicing Muslim family in Iran and was educated in Pakistan and Italy before relocating to Canada.[5] He is associated with the counter-jihad movement.[6]Template:Rp
Work
In 2001, Sina founded Faith Freedom International (FFI),[7] a popular anti-Muslim[8][9][10] counter-jihad website[6]Template:Rp 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]Template:Rp
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.[3]
Sina is a board member of Pamela Geller's Stop Islamization of Nations,[6] an offshoot of the Stop Islamization of America, which the SPLC lists as a hate group. [11]
Sina has stated that his ultimate goal is peaceful stating, "I do not want to kill the enemy. I want to win them as friends and allies. That is the real victory. In this way, we win because we eliminate our enemy, and our enemy wins by eliminating his ignorance and hate."[5]
Views
On Islam
Sina has questioned Islam's validity as a religion and called it "an unreformable, violent, militant political cult".[2] He and his associates have used his platform to argue that Islam is an intrinsically evil and false religion and an "overgrown cult."[12] Sina rejects the idea that Islam can be reformed by drawing a contrast with the Christian Reformation. He argues that in Christianity, "it wasn't the religion that needed to be reformed, but the church," whereas he believes that in Islam, "it's not the community that is bad, but the religion" itself. He claims his focus is not on the actions of extremist Muslims, but on what he describes as the foundation for those actions within the Quran and other core Islamic texts.[5]
On Muhammad
In his book, Understanding Muhammad: A Psychobiography of Allah's Prophet, Sina posits that Muhammad had several mental disorders, including narcissistic personality disorder, temporal lobe epilepsy, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. According to Sina, "These disorders... can explain the phenomenon known as Islam... which is nothing but one man's insanity."[5] 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".[2]
On Muslims
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".Template:Efn[2]
Reception
Sina,[2] FFI,[8][9] and WikiIslam have been noted for their anti-Muslim rhetoric.[10] Sina has been cited as an example of "anti-Islamic fanaticism"[1]Template:Rp and is considered a virulently anti-Islamic activist.[2] He has been quoted by Geert Wilders, a Dutch far-right politician.[2]
Publications
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See also
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