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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." WikiIslam further focuses on the inclusion of primary and traditional scholarly references (including the Quran, Hadith, and early Islamic authorities) in its articles on various, controversial topics of Islamic law and belief, sources its editors suggest are generally hidden from the public.

History

Since December 2015, the Ex-Muslims of North America took over ownership and operation of WikiIslam and has started working on transforming the site from a purely polemical and even Islamophobic site into an objective resource. There remains, however, some ways to go in achieving this.

In September 2006, WikiIslam was launched 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.

Reception

Since coming under new management in 2015, much of the Islamophobic content has been removed from the site. While some such content still exists on the website, it continues to be removed.

In 2007, however, 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, that have since been removed, were described as "an important element in an Islamophobic world view that presents Islam and Muslims as diametrically opposite to all other world views."

References

1. ^ Cyber-Islamophobia? The case of WikiIslam, Journal: Contemporary Islam, publisher Springer Netherlands, ISSN 1872-0218 (Print) 1872-0226
2. "Ex-Muslims of North America takes ownership and operation of WikiIslam". Ex-Muslims of North America. 2015-12-03. Retrieved 2020-05-26.
3. On Monday Sept 4, 2006, (WikiIslam) was opened to the public. Archived 2015-10-01 at the Wayback Machine
4. "WikiIslam". Archived from the original on 2016-06-24. Retrieved 2016-07-06.
5. "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)." ibid.
6. Islamophobia: A Challenge For Us All, p. 5, Runnymede Trust (1997).
7. Enstedt, Daniel; Larson, Göran (2013). "Telling the Truth about Islam? Apostasy Narratives and Representations of Islam on WikiIslam.net" (PDF). CyberOrient. 7 (1): 88. Retrieved 12 July 2020.

External links

• Official website

• Internet properties established in 2006
• Wiki communities