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Dec, 9, 2002
Dear Huda Dodge,
I am an ex-Muslim and my understanding of Islam is
very much different from those who still believe in Islam. I have created
a site to expose the fallacies of Islam as a religion. According to
Alexa.com my site is attracting a huge number of readers.
I know that as a Muslim you certainly do not want to
see any criticism made against your cherished belief. Nevertheless I am
challenging you for the benefit of the freedom of opinion to include my
site in your directory. If Islam is truth, you should not fear from sites
such as mine. Truth will always win. It is the falsehood that needs
censorship and protection. This is my site www.faithfreedom.org
Have a look at it, if you have not seen it yet, and if you do not agree
with it write a refutation to it and post it in your site.
Also please note that I have issues a challenge that
should anyone disprove my claims against Muhammad and his religion, I will
remove my site from the Internet. You can call upon your Muslim readers to
meet my challenge. Bombing civilians, blowing up discos and office towers
does not prove the truth of Islam. Where are the Islamic scholars to prove
Islam with logics?
Since I have little confidence that you would place a
link to my anti Islamic site, I am going to publish this letter everyone
know that I have approached you.
I remain sincerely yours
Ali Sina
Huda can be reached at
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Huda's page at About.com
Dear Ali,
Thank you for your email.
I certainly do not object to you posting whatever you like about Islam on
he Internet. As an About.com Guide, I have an obligation to provide
my users with truthful and accurate information about the faith. I
would be interested in reviewing your site. However I am accessing
he Internet from Saudi Arabia at the moment, and your URL comes up as
"blocked." The government of Saudi Arabia has strict
Internet access control, and any sites that are perceived as blasphemous
against the faith are blocked at the server level. Thus, I cannot
access any of the pages.
Regards,
Huda
Dear Hoda,
Thank you for responding to my email. I had no idea
hat you live in Saudi Arabia. Yes I know that my site, although very
popular in the rest of the world, is censored in Saudi Arabia. What do you
hink about this that a group of men decide what others should or should
not read? Who gives them this right to determine what is good for others
and what is not? Don’t you think that this is precisely the root of the
backwardness of Islamic countries? But you are advocating for Islam. I
wonder if this is the kind of society you envision for the rest of the
world? Are you trying to change the American constitution and the First
Amendment to the Sharia law, were a Mufti in Washington would decide what
he whole nations should read? In your letter you wrote "I
certainly do not object to you posting whatever you like about Islam on
he Internet." But it seems that you are in favor of
Government's censorship of what you or they believe to be
"blasphemous". Since you contradicted yourself in just that
short email. Would you please define your position more clearly. Do you
really agree with my right to post whatever I like about Islam on the
Internet? If so, would you announce publicly that the Saudi Government is
wrong in censoring my site? Would you agree that this government is
violating the Human Rights of the Saudis by blocking the information from
hem? Would you agree that this constitutes the control of mind? If this
is not the violation of Human Rights, please define what it
is?
Anyway I hope when you travel outside the Kingdom,
you will have time to review my site and perhaps participate in our forum.
There you’ll find many ex-Muslims with ample knowledge of Islam and very
outspoken against it. It would be enlightening to read your comments on
heir scholarly articles about this religion of terror and why they left
it.
But if you are not planning to go out of KSA any time
soon, I recommend you equip yourself with a new software created by a
group of Human Rights advocates that would allow you to bypass the
censorships imposed by the dictatorial governments who fear the truth like
a vampire dreading the light. I hope you agree with me that truth does not
need protection. It is the falsehood that needs the heavy hand of the
censorship to keep out the truth.
Here is the news about the software.
Also check out my old site that has not been updated
for the last 12 months (if it is not also banned). It can give you an idea
of what we are talking about. Here is the URL. http://www.humanists.net/alisina/
You said that it is your responsibility to provide
your users with truthful and accurate information about Islam. If you
ruly are sincere about this statement, I invite you to debate with me,
even if it is through email. I will publish our correspondence (as I am
doing these exchanges) and hope you do that too. If you are honestly
convinced that Islam is the truth, you should not fear debating with me.
Truth will certainly win and if Islam is the truth, you’ll be
victorious. What do you say dear Huda? This challenge is now public.
Thousands of people read faithfreedom.org and it certainly would not look
hat good that an advocate of Islam such as you shirks a debate with
Mushrik like me?
Before I say goodbye I would like to ask whether you
can access the About.com’s anti Islam site?
http://atheism.about.com/cs/islam/
What do you think of that? If you think that your
version of Islam is the truth, do you think Austin is lying? Or perhaps,
his subject is not as clear as you think it is and just as we could be
wrong, you could be wrong too. That is why I invite you to debate with me
so the truth may come out.
What do you say?
I remain sincerely yours
Ali Sina
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