Ali Sina (activist)

Ali Sina is an Iranian-born Canadian activist and critic of Islam, who refers to himself as an ex-Muslim. He is the founder of Faith Freedom International, which he describes as a grassroots movement of ex-Muslims.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

Background

Born and raised in Iran, educated in Italy and Pakistan, and now living in Canada, he began debating with people in the 1990s. What bothered him, he tells The Jerusalem Post, was not the penchant for jihad and intolerance that certain fanatical Muslims displayed, but the foundation for such ills in the Koran and core Islamic texts. The Jerusalem Post writes, "Sina, who runs Faith Freedom International – an Internet forum dedicated to debunking Islam – considers himself 'probably the biggest anti-Islam person alive.' His latest book is titled, Understanding Muhammad: A Psychobiography of Allah's Prophet. In it, Sina suggests that Muhammad suffered from a series of mental disorders, including narcissistic personality disorder, temporal lobe epilepsy and obsessive compulsive disorder. 'These disorders,' he says, 'can explain the phenomenon known as Islam... which is nothing but one man's insanity.'"[9]

Through the Faithfreedom.org Web site, Sina lists references to Muhammad's actions and offers $50,000 to anyone who can disprove his charge that Muhammad was "a narcissist, a misogynist, a rapist, a pedophile, a lecher, a torturer, a mass murderer, a cult leader, an assassin, a terrorist, a madman and a looter".[10]

In his October 2010 speech during the inauguration of the Freedom Party in Germany, Geert Wilders, leader of the third largest party in Netherlands said, "Ali Sina, an Iranian Islamic apostate who lives in Canada, points out that there is one golden rule that lies at the heart of every religion – that we do unto others as we would have them do unto us. In Islam, this rule only applies to fellow believers, but not to Infidels. Ali Sina says 'The reason I am against Islam is not because it is a religion, but because it is a political ideology of imperialism and domination in the guise of religion. Because Islam does not follow the Golden Rule, it attracts violent people.'"[11]

When asked why he fights Islam, he replied, "When I read the Quran and felt blood dripping from every verse of it, when I saw that Islam reduces humans into beasts and makes monsters out of good people, when it became clear to me that there is NOTHING good in Islam and that it is all evil, I knew what I had to do. The time for praying was over and now it was the time for action."[12]

Although he was an atheist in his initial years of activism, in his Twitter profile, Ali Sina describes himself as a "Christian, writer, anti Islam, anti UN, vegan, conservative and pro Israel."[13]

On reforming Islam

For this reason, Sina says that extremism in all religions can be eradicated if certain people are quieted, or if the followers are encouraged to embrace the universalist elements of their faith – but without addressing the extremism inherent in the religion's texts. "People ask whether Islam can undergo a reformation like the one that Christianity underwent. That's a poor parallel," he says. "In Christianity, it wasn't the religion that needed to be reformed, but the church; what Jesus preached was good." On the other hand, Sina continues, "In Islam, it's the religion that is not good."[9]

"With violent conquest and contempt for non-believers central to the tenets of the faith," Sina argues, "attempts to forge a moderate form of Islam are doomed... The only way to reform Islam is to throw away the Koran; 90 percent of it should be thrown away. You also have to throw away the history of Islam, and you have to completely disregard the Sira – the Arabic term used for the various biographies of Muhammad, from which historical information about his life and the early period of Islam is derived."[9]

Arguing that Islam cannot be reformed, Sina says, "This is the way to fight evil. 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. That is why I believe in my cause. That is why I think I am an instrument of peace."[9]

While disagreeing with Ali Sina for saying Islam is not a religion but a political ideology, David P. Goldman, writing in the Asia Times as Spengler, compares that claim to Immanuel Kant's claim that Judaism is not a religion but a set of laws and rejects both. Spengler continues, "Ali Sina and other Muslim secularizers are just as wrong. I shall argue that Islam is both a religion and a political ideology. Religion is what makes Islamic political ideology so dangerous." He adds, "Ali Sina is wrong: Islamic expansionism arises from religious motives, that is, a holy rage against the encroachment of death upon traditional society. In the form of Islam, the West confronts a challenge quite different from communism."[14]

Stop Islamization of Nations

Sina is a board member of Stop Islamization of Nations (SION), an organization founded by Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer and Anders Gravers of Stop Islamisation of Europe (SIOE), and listed by the SPLC and ADL as a hate group. Other board members are Wafa Sultan, Syrian-born American activist and author; Stefan Herre, a German author for Politically Incorrect; Mordechai Kedar, an Israeli author; Babu Suseelan, a Hindu activist; Oskar Freysinger, a Swiss politician; Cliff Kincaid, editor of the Accuracy in Media (AIM) Report; and Ashraf Rameleh, the President of Voice of the Copts. Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer are President and Vice President of SION.[15]

A Biopic about Muhammad

On September 25, 2012, LA Times announced Ali Sina is working on a biopic of Muhammad. The movie will cost a total of 10 million dollars and he hopes to start filming in 2013. "Sina began contemplating a biopic about Muhammad a decade ago," writes LA Times "but stepped up his effort in the last two years as technological advances made it feasible to circumvent government censors and wary exhibitors. "We can bypass theaters completely and sell the movie online with a profit to a large number of people, especially Muslims," Sina said. "They can download it and watch it even if they are living in Karachi or Mecca or Medina."[16] His viewpoints have been described as Islamophobic for maligning the Prophet Muhammad.[17]

References

  1. ↑ Egon Friedler (August 23, 2010). "Peor que una ingenuidad". LaRed21. LR21.com.uy. Retrieved February 3, 2012.
  2. ↑ Susan Crimp, Joel Richardson (2008). Why We Left Islam: Former Muslims Speak Out. ISBN 0979267102. Retrieved February 3, 2012.
  3. ↑ Diana West (2008). The Death of the Grown-Up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization. Macmillan. ISBN 0-312-34049-4. Retrieved February 3, 2012.
  4. ↑ Paul E. Sperry (2005). Infiltration: how Muslim spies and subversives have penetrated Washington. ISBN 1-59555-003-8. Retrieved February 3, 2012.
  5. ↑ Kim Ezra Shienbaum, Jamal Hasan (2006). Beyond jihad: critical voices from inside Islam. Academica Press, LLC. ISBN 1-933146-19-2. Retrieved February 3, 2012.
  6. ↑ Christian Wolff (2008). Muslime und Araber in den USA- Die Gefahr der Stereotypisierung. GRIN Verlag. ISBN 3-638-93763-1. Retrieved February 3, 2012.
  7. ↑ Ophelia Benson (Winter 2007). "Leaving Islam: Apostates Speak Out, by Ibn Warraq, Prometheus Books, 2003, 471 pp" (PDF). Dissent Magazine. Retrieved February 3, 2012.
  8. ↑ Mohammad Hassan Khalil (2004). "Leaving Islam: A Preliminary Study of Conversion out of Islam" (PDF). Retrieved February 3, 2012.
  9. 1 2 3 4 Sam Ser, "Muslim Mindset: 'The hatred is in Muhammad himself'", The Jerusalem Post, June 19, 2008, Retrieved February 5, 2012
  10. ↑ Ali Sina (2008). Understanding Muhammad. ISBN 0-9809948-0-2. Retrieved February 3, 2012.
  11. ↑ Geert Wilders (October 3, 2010). "Speech Geert Wilders in Berlin". Geertwilders.nl. Retrieved October 16, 2011.
  12. ↑ http://www.faithfreedom.org/oped/sina80128.htm
  13. ↑ https://twitter.com/alisinaorg
  14. ↑ Islam: Religion or political ideology?, Asia Times, August 10, 2004, Retrieved February 5, 2012
  15. ↑ Reuters.com; Press Release, "Stop Islamization of Nations (SION) Calls on UN to Protect Christians of Syria", January 20, 2012, Retrieved February 5, 2012
  16. ↑ Ken Bensinger; Harriet Ryan (September 25, 2012). "Is Islam's prophet Muhammad to have more screen time?". LA Times.
  17. ↑ "Neo-Orientalist Islamophobia Is Maligning the Reputation of the Prophet Muhammad Like Never Before". The Huffington Post, July 24, 2016.
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