Ali Sina (activist)

Ali Sina is the pseudonym[1]:100 of an anonymous Iranian-born Canadian activist and atheist critic of Islam, who was raised Muslim.[2]

Overview

Sina is the founder of Faith Freedom International and WikiIslam.[3] He hoped to begin filming a biopic of Muhammad in 2013, claiming in 2012 to have raised $2 million out of a total $10 million goal for the film.[2]

Writing in the Asia Times as Spengler, David P. Goldman argued that Islam was both a religion and political ideology and asserted that Sina was incorrect for not accepting Islam as a religion.[4] Munawar Anees considered Sina to be among the writers on the internet producing Islamophobic literature[5] while Salah Hassan named Sina among a triad of apostates that he deemed "examples of anti-Islamic fanaticism."[1]:98

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References

  1. Hassan, Salah D. (2012). "Infinite Hijra: Migrant Islam, Muslim American Literature and the Anti-Mimesis of The Taqwacores". In Ahmed, Rehana; Morey, Peter; Yaqin, Amina (eds.). Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing. New York: Routledge. pp. 87–100. ISBN 9780415896771. OCLC 811728001.
  2. Bensinger, Ken; Ryan, Harriet (25 September 2012). "Is Islam's prophet Muhammad to have more screen time?". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 6 October 2012. Retrieved 5 November 2012.
  3. Larsson, Göran (2014). "Islamophobia or Legitimate Concern? Contrasting Official and Populist Understanding of Opposition to Muslims". In Mays, Christin; Deland, Mats; Minkenberg, Michael (eds.). In the Tracks of Breivik: Far Right Networks in Northern and Eastern Europe. Vienna: Lit Verlag. pp. 155–66. ISBN 9783643905420. OCLC 881140905. [WikiIslam] was begun by an Iranian ex-Muslim named Ali Sina and is maintained by an organization known as Faith Freedom International (FFI).
  4. Spengler (10 August 2004). "Islam: Religion or political ideology?". Asia Times. Archived from the original on 15 March 2011. Retrieved 19 January 2011.
  5. Anees, Munawar A. (24 July 2016). "Neo-Orientalist Islamophobia Is Maligning the Reputation of the Prophet Muhammad Like Never Before". The Huffington Post. Archived from the original on 11 August 2016. Retrieved 20 August 2016. The Islamophobic literature of the current decade, for which the Internet is a fertile breeding ground, has the omnipresence of former 'Muslims' (e.g. Ayaan Hirsi Ali , Wafa Sultan and Walid Shoebat) and others with pseudonyms (such as Ibn Warraq or Ali Sina) who have attempted to present neo-Orientalism in a theological garb — as opposed to Orientalism as a way of depicting people of the East in a condescending manner ('the other,' 'the savages').
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