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| '''WikiIslam''' is a collaboratively-edited ] focused on the ].<ref name="CIWI">, Journal: ''Contemporary Islam'', publisher ''Springer Netherlands'', ISSN 1872-0218 (Print) 1872-0226</ref> The community differentiates itself from ] on the basis that "opinions critical of Islam are not censored on WikiIslam for political correctness"<ref name="CIWI"/> and describes itself as a "source of information on Islam . . . based primarily on its own sources."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://wikiislam.net/WikiIslam#About|title=About WikiIslam|website=WikiIslam|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180630175035/http://wikiislam.net/WikiIslam|archive-date=30 June 2018|access-date=5 July 2018}}</ref><ref name="EXMNA">{{Cite web|title=Ex-Muslims of North America takes ownership and operation of WikiIslam|url=https://exmuslims.org/ex-muslims-north-america-takes-ownership-operation-wikiislam/|date=2015-12-03|website=Ex-Muslims of North America|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-26}}</ref> The wiki has been the subject of two academic journal articles and described in one book, all of which have assessed its content within the context of ] or anti-Muslim discourses. | '''WikiIslam''' is a collaboratively-edited ] focused on the ].<ref name="CIWI">, Journal: ''Contemporary Islam'', publisher ''Springer Netherlands'', ISSN 1872-0218 (Print) 1872-0226</ref> The community differentiates itself from ] on the basis that "opinions critical of Islam are not censored on WikiIslam for political correctness"<ref name="CIWI"/> and describes itself as a "source of information on Islam . . . based primarily on its own sources."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://wikiislam.net/WikiIslam#About|title=About WikiIslam|website=WikiIslam|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180630175035/http://wikiislam.net/WikiIslam|archive-date=30 June 2018|access-date=5 July 2018}}</ref><ref name="EXMNA">{{Cite web|title=Ex-Muslims of North America takes ownership and operation of WikiIslam|url=https://exmuslims.org/ex-muslims-north-america-takes-ownership-operation-wikiislam/|date=2015-12-03|website=Ex-Muslims of North America|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-26}}</ref> The wiki has been the subject of two academic journal articles and described at length in one book, all of which have assessed its content within the context of ] or anti-Muslim discourses. | ||
| ==History== | ==History== | ||
Revision as of 17:57, 26 August 2020
| WikiIslam's logo | |
| Owner | Ex-Muslims of North America |
|---|---|
| URL | wikiislam |
| Commercial | No |
| Launched | 4 September 2006; 18 years ago (2006-09-04) |
| Current status | Active |
| Content license | CC-BY-SA 3.0 |
WikiIslam is a collaboratively-edited wiki focused on the criticism of Islam. The community differentiates itself from Misplaced Pages on the basis that "opinions critical of Islam are not censored on WikiIslam for political correctness" and describes itself as a "source of information on Islam . . . based primarily on its own sources." The wiki has been the subject of two academic journal articles and described at length in one book, all of which have assessed its content within the context of Islamophobic or anti-Muslim discourses.
History
The website was registered on October 27, 2005 and launched on September 4, 2006 in collaboration with individuals from Faith Freedom International. In August 2008, the WikiIslam site was moved to a new server and since then it has been operating independently. Since December 2015, the Ex-Muslims of North America took over ownership and operation of WikiIslam.
Reception
WikiIslam was the subject of an article in the 7/2007 issue of the journal Contemporary Islam, entitled "Cyber-Islamophobia? The case of WikiIslam", which argues that the website commits selection bias by collecting only negative or critical material. The article states that "In relation to the criteria set up by the Runnymede Trust ... it should be quite easy to label most of the material published on WikiIslam as expressions of Islamophobia." Göran Larsson adds that "y impression is that the stories reported by WikiIslam have merely been selected to show that Muslims are ignorant, backward or even stupid." Because of the presence of material obtained from other websites, such as MEMRI, the article notes that "it becomes much more difficult to argue that all information posted on WikiIslam is Islamophobic by nature."
The apostasy testimonies on WikiIslam have been characterized as being part of a "negative and biased" representation of Islam and "an important element in an Islamophobic world view that presents Islam and Muslims as diametrically opposite to all other world views."
In a survey of anti-Muslim websites, the "apparent aim" of WikiIslam was described as "present Islamic history, theology, and practitioners in a way which leaves the reader with an exceedingly negative image of the faith, discouraging them from either taking up or continuing its practice. The focus, in other words, is on violence, sexuality and gender conflicts, leaving WikiIslam's potential visitors without easy access to material that might counterbalance its narrowly-focused view and/or convey the fact that Muslim theologians hold differing opinions about many of the site's topics."
References
- ^ Cyber-Islamophobia? The case of WikiIslam, Journal: Contemporary Islam, publisher Springer Netherlands, ISSN 1872-0218 (Print) 1872-0226
- "About WikiIslam". WikiIslam. Archived from the original on 30 June 2018. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
- ^ "Ex-Muslims of North America takes ownership and operation of WikiIslam". Ex-Muslims of North America. 2015-12-03. Retrieved 2020-05-26.
- ^ Mays, Christin; Deland, Mats; Minkenberg, Michael, eds. (2014). In the Tracks of Breivik: Far Right Networks in Northern and Eastern Europe. Berlin: Lit Verlag. p. 162. ISBN 9783643905420. OCLC 881140905.
- "WikiIslam". Archived from the original on 2016-06-24. Retrieved 2016-07-06.
- Cyber-Islamophobia? The case of WikiIslam, Journal: Contemporary Islam, publisher Springer Netherlands, ISSN 1872-0218 (Print) 1872-0226. "Compared to “Muslim homepages”, i.e. those set up by believing Muslims, WikiIslam contains only negative and critical examples. This bias is clearly represented in the section called “laughing with the prophet”, which presents stories and reports from the life of prophet Muhammad (i.e. hadith reports)."
- Islamophobia: A Challenge For Us All, p. 5, Runnymede Trust (1997).
- Enstedt, Daniel; Larson, Göran (2013). "Telling the Truth about Islam? Apostasy Narratives and Representations of Islam on WikiIslam.net" (PDF). CyberOrient. 7 (1): 64,88. Retrieved 12 July 2020.