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| 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
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 began operating independently. In 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 July 2007 issue of the journal Contemporary Islam, entitled "Cyber-Islamophobia? The case of WikiIslam", which argues that the website should be seen as an "Islamophobic web portal" and that it commits selection bias by collecting only negative or critical material.Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).
In a survey of muslim critical 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
- ^ Larsson, Göran (2007-06-01). "Cyber-Islamophobia? The case of WikiIslam". Contemporary Islam. 1 (1): 53–67. doi:10.1007/s11562-007-0002-2. ISSN 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.