https://wikiislam.net/index.php?title=WikiIslam:Frequently_Asked_Questions&feed=atom&action=historyWikiIslam:Frequently Asked Questions - Revision history2024-03-29T06:59:36ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.39.4https://wikiislam.net/index.php?title=WikiIslam:Frequently_Asked_Questions&diff=123938&oldid=prevIbnPinker at 03:24, 3 November 20202020-11-03T03:24:18Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>No it does not. Like the German Wikipedia, all of our pages are under "Pending-changes protection", meaning they are open for editing, but changes will only become visible to readers once they have been reviewed by a user with the appropriate access, known as a "reviewer", or by the administration. WikiIslam prides itself on being an accurate source of information on Islam. There is even a page dedicated to [[WikiIslam:Arguments Not To Use|arguments not to use]] on the website.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>No it does not. Like the German Wikipedia, all of our pages are under "Pending-changes protection", meaning they are open for editing, but changes will only become visible to readers once they have been reviewed by a user with the appropriate access, known as a "reviewer", or by the administration. WikiIslam prides itself on being an accurate source of information on Islam. There is even a page dedicated to [[WikiIslam:Arguments Not To Use|arguments not to use]] on the website.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">WikiIslam is only a wiki and seems biased. </del>Why should I trust <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">its </del>contents?===</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===Why should I trust <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">WikiIslam's </ins>contents?===</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>WikiIslam's focus on the criticism of Islam does not make it unreliable. The implementation of "Pending-changes protection" eliminates most of the common problems associated with wikis, and we also take great care in providing readers with copious references and footnotes that can be used to independently verify facts.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>WikiIslam's focus on the criticism of Islam does not make it unreliable. The implementation of "Pending-changes protection" eliminates most of the common problems associated with wikis, and we also take great care in providing readers with copious references and footnotes that can be used to independently verify facts.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Does </del>WikiIslam <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">use polemical sources</del>?===</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">What sources does </ins>WikiIslam <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">permit the usage of</ins>?===</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">No, it does not. Statements of fact concerning </del>Islamic <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">history </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">theology from polemic </del>sources <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">such as books</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">articles </del>or <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">commentaries </del>by <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">individuals such as Robert Spencer</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Pamela Gellar</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ayaan Hirsi Ali</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Mark A. Gabriel</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Wafa Sultan</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ali Sina, Walid Shoebat, Brigitte Gabriel etc</del>., <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">are not permitted under any circumstances as </del>[[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">WikiIslam</del>:<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Reliable Sources|references on WikiIslam</del>]<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]. Editors are advised to remove any such statements immediately if they come across them</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The wiki relies on </ins>Islamic and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">academic </ins>sources <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">which are readily available</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">either on the net </ins>or <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">through retailers. They are the same sources you will see being used and accepted </ins>by <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">thousands of Muslim websites. Wherever possible</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">we link directly to these Muslim websites which</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">for example</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">host [{{Compendium-of-muslim-texts-base-url}}/quran/ Qur'an]</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[{{Compendium-of-muslim-texts-base-url}}/hadith/ Hadith]</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[http://www.islam-qa</ins>.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">com/en fatwa]</ins>, [<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">http://bewley.virtualave.net/Risalatitl.html fiqh] and </ins>[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">http</ins>:<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">//www.theholybook.org/content/section/1/2/ Tafsir</ins>] <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">text</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">===Does </del>WikiIslam <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">use fabricated sources?===</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Statements of fact concerning Islamic history and theology from polemic sources such as books, articles or commentaries by individuals such as Robert Spencer, Pamela Gellar, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Mark A. Gabriel, Wafa Sultan, Ali Sina, Walid Shoebat, Brigitte Gabriel etc., are not permitted under any circumstances as [[</ins>WikiIslam<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">:Reliable Sources|references on WikiIslam]]. Editors are advised to remove any such statements immediately if they come across them.</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">No, it does not. The wiki relies on Islamic and academic sources which are readily available, either on the net or through retailers. They are the same sources you will see being used and accepted by thousands of Muslim websites. Wherever possible, we link directly to these Muslim websites which, for example, host [{{Compendium-of-muslim-texts-base-url}}/quran/ Qur'an], [{{Compendium-of-muslim-texts-base-url}}/hadith/ Hadith], [http://www.islam-qa.com/en fatwa], [http://bewley.virtualave.net/Risalatitl.html fiqh] and [http://www.theholybook.org/content/section/1/2/ Tafsir] text. </del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===What Qur'an translation <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">does WikiIslam </ins>use?===</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Unless otherwise stated, we use the respected and widely accepted translations of Yusuf Ali, Marmaduke Pickthal or M. H. Shakir. All Qur'an quotes are taken from the University of Southern California Muslim Students Association's [[Compendium of Muslim Texts]] and are properly sourced and linked with the context of three preceding and subsequent verses.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Unless otherwise stated, we use the respected and widely accepted translations of Yusuf Ali, Marmaduke Pickthal or M. H. Shakir. All Qur'an quotes are taken from the University of Southern California Muslim Students Association's [[Compendium of Muslim Texts]] and are properly sourced and linked with the context of three preceding and subsequent verses.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">===Does WikiIslam misquote Qur'an verses?===</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>If a misquoted Qur'an verse is brought to the editors' attention, it will be corrected immediately. Most claims of "misquoted Qur'an verses" consist of an apologists using an obscure translation of the Qur'an and pointing out that the translation on the wiki is different from theirs (e.g. see [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmybroadband.co.za%2Fvb%2Fshowthread.php%2F607524-I-am-islamophobic%3Fp%3D12428900%26viewfull%3D1%23post12428900&date=2014-04-07 here]). If someone fails to check the sources, they may assume that it is a misquotation on the part of the editors. However, the wiki's policy is such that it relies on the most widely accepted and established translations of the Qur'an (i.e. Yusuf Ali, Marmaduke Pickthal or M. H. Shakir). </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">No. Taqiyya does not mean "lying in Islam". It only refers to a specific doctrine, a predominantly Shi'ite one, used by Shi'ites in order to save their own lives or avoid some other form of severe persecution (often, historically, at the hands of Sunnis). Many tend to conflate this doctrine with that of lying in general, leading to the mislabeling of all forms of religious lying as an example of "taqiyya" (See, "[[Taqiyya]]" and "[[Qur'an, Hadith and Scholars:Lying and Deception|Qur'an, Hadith and Scholars: Lying and Deception]]" for more information on this subject). </del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
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</table>IbnPinkerhttps://wikiislam.net/index.php?title=WikiIslam:Frequently_Asked_Questions&diff=123908&oldid=prevIbnPinker at 22:15, 2 November 20202020-11-02T22:15:11Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The [http://wikiislam.github.io/wiki/Islam_Science_and_the_Problems_at_Wikipedia.html Jagged 85 incident] is a good example of the problems faced by Wikipedia with respect to Islam-related articles. Jagged 85 was an editor who contributed to 8,115 separate articles with over 67,000 edits made over a period of 5 years until they were caught in 2010. Focusing efforts on improving the image of Islam and downplaying the achievements of the western world, for 5 years he/she was left largely unhindered, misrepresenting sources in various ways, misrepresentations which were then reproduced all over the net by other sites which use Wikipedia as a source.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The [http://wikiislam.github.io/wiki/Islam_Science_and_the_Problems_at_Wikipedia.html Jagged 85 incident] is a good example of the problems faced by Wikipedia with respect to Islam-related articles. Jagged 85 was an editor who contributed to 8,115 separate articles with over 67,000 edits made over a period of 5 years until they were caught in 2010. Focusing efforts on improving the image of Islam and downplaying the achievements of the western world, for 5 years he/she was left largely unhindered, misrepresenting sources in various ways, misrepresentations which were then reproduced all over the net by other sites which use Wikipedia as a source.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Wikipedia's policies have also allowed for the use of some very suspect "reliable" secondary sources. A prime example of this would be Paul Vallely's "<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[How Islamic Inventors Did Not Change The World|</del>How Islamic inventors changed the world<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]</del>". And they also host a [[List_of_Fabricated_Hadith#Muhammad.27s_Farewell_Sermon|fabricated version of Muhammad's farewell sermon]] which was created by an Indian/Pakistani author in the 80's, simply because the version often features in Islamic propaganda, all while ignoring the authentic version of the sermon found in Tabari.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Wikipedia's policies have also allowed for the use of some very suspect "reliable" secondary sources. A prime example of this would be Paul Vallely's "How Islamic inventors changed the world". And they also host a [[List_of_Fabricated_Hadith#Muhammad.27s_Farewell_Sermon|fabricated version of Muhammad's farewell sermon]] which was created by an Indian/Pakistani author in the 80's, simply because the version often features in Islamic propaganda, all while ignoring the authentic version of the sermon found in Tabari.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>As WikiIslam concentrates on only one subject, it hosts fewer articles than Wikipedia. This enables the community to fine-tune the wiki's articles to a much higher standard.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>As WikiIslam concentrates on only one subject, it hosts fewer articles than Wikipedia. This enables the community to fine-tune the wiki's articles to a much higher standard.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Wikipedia focuses on "[{{Reference archive|1=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability,_not_truth|2=2012-02-10}} verifiability, not truth]". In essence, this means that anyone who falls under Wikipedia's classification of "notable/reliable" can make a statement about any subject, and regardless of its factual accuracy, it can be used in their articles. In regards to Islam, it has meant they accept what "notable/reliable" western commentators and apologists claim about Islamic scriptures and Muslims over what the religious text and Muslims actually say themselves.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Wikipedia focuses on "[{{Reference archive|1=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability,_not_truth|2=2012-02-10}} verifiability, not truth]". In essence, this means that anyone who falls under Wikipedia's classification of "notable/reliable" can make a statement about any subject, and regardless of its factual accuracy, it can be used in their articles. In regards to Islam, it has meant they accept what "notable/reliable" western commentators and apologists claim about Islamic scriptures and Muslims over what the religious text and Muslims actually say themselves.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>These commentators who speak about Islam and who fall under Wikipedia's classification of "notable/reliable" tend to be apologists, because serious scholars, for instance <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Videos_on_Islam:_Quran#Bart_Ehrman_Explains_Why_He_Doesn.27t_Criticize_the_Qur.27an|</del>Bart Ehrman<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]</del>, are scared of violence against themselves or of being accused of bigotry if they criticize anything Islam-related. Thus, Wikipedia often uses notable apologists like Karen Armstrong (who is not a qualified historian or Islamic scholar) whilst ignoring some giant figures from the Islamic world and Islamic history as well as world-renown academic historians and scholars of religion, such as Michael Cook.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>These commentators who speak about Islam and who fall under Wikipedia's classification of "notable/reliable" tend to be apologists, because serious scholars, for instance Bart Ehrman, are scared of violence against themselves or of being accused of bigotry if they criticize anything Islam-related. Thus, Wikipedia often uses notable apologists like Karen Armstrong (who is not a qualified historian or Islamic scholar) whilst ignoring some giant figures from the Islamic world and Islamic history as well as world-renown academic historians and scholars of religion, such as Michael Cook.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Simply put, removing content that violates this website's policies is not censorship. If errors, incomprehensible English or bad formatting is inserted into articles, those edits are subject to reversion. If insults, threats and other forms of vandalism are inserted into articles, they will be wiped from the pages' history. The same principle applies to talk pages. If people violate the talk page guidelines, post insults, off-topic rants or questions on talk pages, they will be deleted or wiped from the talk page's history (depending on the nature of the comment itself). These are straightforward and commonsense policies, and in no way can they be construed as "censorship".</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Simply put, removing content that violates this website's policies is not censorship. If errors, incomprehensible English or bad formatting is inserted into articles, those edits are subject to reversion. If insults, threats and other forms of vandalism are inserted into articles, they will be wiped from the pages' history. The same principle applies to talk pages. If people violate the talk page guidelines, post insults, off-topic rants or questions on talk pages, they will be deleted or wiped from the talk page's history (depending on the nature of the comment itself). These are straightforward and commonsense policies, and in no way can they be construed as "censorship".</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>People are entirely free to voice their complaints or concerns about WikiIslam (this is why an [[WikiIslam:Contact Us|email address]] is provided for anyone who would like to reach out). However, WikiIslam will not pander to time-wasters who disrupt editors with inane questions in the name of "dialogue" or <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">hypocritical </del>vandals who seek to ''delete'' valid material while adding their own.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>People are entirely free to voice their complaints or concerns about WikiIslam (this is why an [[WikiIslam:Contact Us|email address]] is provided for anyone who would like to reach out). However, WikiIslam will not pander to time-wasters who disrupt editors with inane questions in the name of "dialogue" or vandals who seek to ''delete'' valid material while adding their own.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>No. Taqiyya does not mean "lying in Islam". It only refers to a specific doctrine, a predominantly Shi'ite one, used by Shi'ites in order to save their own lives or avoid some other form of severe persecution (often, historically, at the hands of Sunnis). Many tend to conflate this doctrine with that of lying in general, leading to the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">mislabelling </del>of all forms of religious lying as an example of "taqiyya" (See, "[[Taqiyya]]" and "[[Qur'an, Hadith and Scholars:Lying and Deception|Qur'an, Hadith and Scholars: Lying and Deception]]" for more information on this subject). </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>No. Taqiyya does not mean "lying in Islam". It only refers to a specific doctrine, a predominantly Shi'ite one, used by Shi'ites in order to save their own lives or avoid some other form of severe persecution (often, historically, at the hands of Sunnis). Many tend to conflate this doctrine with that of lying in general, leading to the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">mislabeling </ins>of all forms of religious lying as an example of "taqiyya" (See, "[[Taqiyya]]" and "[[Qur'an, Hadith and Scholars:Lying and Deception|Qur'an, Hadith and Scholars: Lying and Deception]]" for more information on this subject). </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Following a surge of vandalism efforts, it was felt that the net negative impact of continuing to allow IP edits outweighed its positives. Currently, a thorough cleanup of the website and refocusing of the website is underway, with the general objective of making the site focus on broader topics within Islam and not just its criticisms. While WikiIslam aspires to maintain its critical, non-dogmatic treatment of Islam, it is decidedly the case that openly antagonizing Muslims is contrary to and indeed undermines <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">our </del>purpose. After such content has been satisfactorily updated and removed, WikiIslam may once again open itself to IP edits, though such a return cannot be guaranteed.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Following a surge of vandalism efforts, it was felt that the net negative impact of continuing to allow IP edits outweighed its positives. Currently, a thorough cleanup of the website and refocusing of the website is underway, with the general objective of making the site focus on broader topics within Islam and not just its criticisms. While WikiIslam aspires to maintain its critical, non-dogmatic treatment of Islam, it is decidedly the case that openly antagonizing Muslims is contrary to and indeed undermines <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the site's </ins>purpose. After such content has been satisfactorily updated and removed, WikiIslam may once again open itself to IP edits, though such a return cannot be guaranteed.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>It is important to note that throughout all this and into the future, anyone and everyone hoping to contribute constructively to the wiki is allowed to contribute. Aspiring editors are simply required to request an account registration from the wiki administration and undergo a brief vetting process (to make sure such accounts are not wastefully handed out <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">for </del>vandals). Muslims, ex-Muslims, and non-Muslims are all welcome to contribute to the website, so long as adversarial and dogmatic commentary is absent from their contributions. WikiIslam <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">aspire </del>to give an objective, nonpartisan portrait of Islam; contributors from any and all backgrounds can help in achieving this.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>It is important to note that throughout all this and into the future, anyone and everyone hoping to contribute constructively to the wiki is allowed to contribute. Aspiring editors are simply required to request an account registration from the wiki administration and undergo a brief vetting process (to make sure such accounts are not wastefully handed out <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">to </ins>vandals). Muslims, ex-Muslims, and non-Muslims are all welcome to contribute to the website, so long as adversarial and dogmatic commentary is absent from their contributions. WikiIslam <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">aspires </ins>to give an objective, nonpartisan portrait of Islam; contributors from any and all backgrounds can help in achieving this.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Everybody, ranging from critics to apologists of Islam, is welcome to request an account on WikiIslam, so long as they do not proceed to suppress or distort perspective they disagree with. No discrimination on the basis of personal identity will be made in distributing accounts. However, editors activities are monitored. Anyone caught fabricating <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">hadiths</del>, presenting <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">purposeful </del>distortions of the historical or modern mainstream Islamic tradition, or engaging in personal attacks will be dealt with equally and swiftly, no matter their religious or irreligious self-identification.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Everybody, ranging from critics to apologists of Islam, is welcome to request an account on WikiIslam, so long as they do not proceed to suppress or distort perspective they disagree with. No discrimination on the basis of personal identity will be made in distributing accounts. However, editors activities are monitored. Anyone caught fabricating <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">sources</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">deliberately </ins>presenting distortions of the historical or modern mainstream Islamic tradition, or engaging in personal attacks will be dealt with equally and swiftly, no matter their religious or irreligious self-identification.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>While WikiIslam encourages requesting and recommending novel content on the site's discussions and talk pages, requests for help with everyday online debates are better suited to the various forums found online dedicated to this sort of discussion (e.g. [https://www.reddit.com/r/exmuslim/ Ex-Muslims Reddit], [https://www.councilofexmuslims.com/ Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain Forum], [https://www.religiousforums.com/forums/islam-dir.11/ Religious Forums], and [http://www.interfaith.org/forum/islam.html/ The Interfaith Forum])<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Open a thread under the [http://forum09.faithfreedom.org/viewforum.php?f=22&sid=d49039027d61629d68981293d3281497 Islam: Questioned, Defended, & Explained] or [http://forum09.faithfreedom.org/viewforum.php?f=21&sid=d49039027d61629d68981293d3281497 The Quran and Hadith] sub forums, and you should receive an answer</del>. Informing <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">us </del>of a claim by posting links to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">them </del>on <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">our </del>discussions <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">page </del>may be construed as a form of promotion or spam, so please do not do that<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Instead you are welcome to [[WikiIslam:Contact Us|email us]] your queries</del>. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>While WikiIslam encourages requesting and recommending novel content on the site's discussions and talk pages, requests for help with everyday online debates are better suited to the various forums found online dedicated to this sort of discussion (e.g. [https://www.reddit.com/r/exmuslim/ Ex-Muslims Reddit], [https://www.councilofexmuslims.com/ Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain Forum], [https://www.religiousforums.com/forums/islam-dir.11/ Religious Forums], and [http://www.interfaith.org/forum/islam.html/ The Interfaith Forum]). Informing <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">wiki editors </ins>of a claim by posting links to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">it </ins>on discussions <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">pages </ins>may be construed as a form of promotion or spam, so please do not do that. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Yes. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">We </del>are aware of the high risk of vandalism to this website and are prepared to effectively deal with any attempt to sabotage its content. In any case this is a wiki website, which means the website can always recover from any amount of vandalism. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">We also make regular </del>data backups in multiple locations. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">We did lose </del>5 day's worth of edits in April 2007 after the server was hacked, but fortunately there was little editing that was done during those 5 days. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">This </del>was <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the </del>only time <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">we have </del>lost <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">data</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Yes. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">WikiIslam admins </ins>are aware of the high risk of vandalism to this website and are prepared to effectively deal with any attempt to sabotage its content. In any case this is a wiki website, which means the website can always recover from any amount of vandalism. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">WikiIslam admins regularly generate </ins>data backups in multiple locations. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Once, the wiki lost </ins>5 day's worth of edits in April 2007 after the server was hacked, but fortunately there was little editing that was done during those 5 days. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">That </ins>was only time <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">site data was ever irreparably </ins>lost.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Besides this strict policy ''against'' censorship, the wiki also refuses to host irrelevant content. Content having nothing to do with Islam, such as an article about a certain make of car or aircraft, will be removed. This is also utterly unrelated to WikiIslam's anti-censorship policy and by no means violates it. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Besides this strict policy ''against'' censorship, the wiki also refuses to host irrelevant content. Content having nothing to do with Islam, such as an article about a certain make of car or aircraft, will be removed. This is also utterly unrelated to WikiIslam's <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''</ins>anti<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''</ins>-censorship policy and by no means violates it. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>When anyone refers to "Islam" without providing a qualifier, it is widely understood to mean [[Sunni]] Islam. For example, the [[Five Pillars of Islam]] is a set of beliefs specific to the Sunnis, but it is never referred to as the "Five Pillars of ''Sunni'' Islam". This is no surprise, considering the Sunnis (which include the Salafis or "Wahhabis") account for up to 90% of all Muslims. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">It is the original Islamic sect that all other smaller and mostly irrelevant sects broke away from. And </del>Sunni Islam itself is also <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">known </del>as "mainstream" and "orthodox" Islam. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">WikiIslam primarily focuses on aspects of Sunni Islam. When </del>referring to the beliefs of a version of Islam other than the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">mainstream, orthodox </del>version, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">we </del>always make sure the readers know this by specifying the name of the sect or cult (e.g. Shi'ite, Qur'anist, etc.).</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>When anyone refers to "Islam" without providing a qualifier, it is widely understood to mean [[Sunni]] Islam. For example, the [[Five Pillars of Islam]] is a set of beliefs specific to the Sunnis, but it is never referred to as the "Five Pillars of ''Sunni'' Islam". This is no surprise, considering the Sunnis (which include the Salafis or "Wahhabis") account for up to 90% of all Muslims. Sunni Islam itself is also <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">widely referred to </ins>as "mainstream" and "orthodox" Islam <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(indeed, in at least one sense, the word "''Shi'a''" literally means "sect")</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Therefore, when </ins>referring to the beliefs of a version of Islam other than the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Sunni </ins>version, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">editors must </ins>always make sure the readers know this by specifying the name of the sect or cult (e.g. Shi'ite, Qur'anist, etc.)<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. With these qualifications, content regarding any belief system that refers to itself as Islamic is welcome on the wiki, as WikiIslam is not in the business of distinguishing "true" or "false" forms of Islam</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Concerning possible variances of interpretations within Sunni Islam, there are four mainstream [[Madh'hab|schools of thought]], which are accepted by one another. Although there are some <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">small </del>differences in beliefs, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">these are negligible since </del>the schools generally agree on the more important issues (e.g. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">pedophilic </del>marriages to young girls, the death sentence for apostates, the positive view of female genital mutilation, and so on). In any case, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">we use </del>the majority views held by both the followers and fuqaha’ (scholars) of Islam. If a minority view is being quoted, the name of that particular Madh'hab <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">will </del>be provided. Some readers may find it worth noting that <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">many consider the </del>minority (<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">or </del>more pleasant) views <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">to be irrelevant since those who hold them also accept </del>the majority (<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">or more unpleasant</del>) views <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">as perfectly acceptable</del>. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Concerning possible variances of interpretations within Sunni Islam, there are four mainstream [[Madh'hab|schools of thought]], which are accepted by one another. Although there are some differences in beliefs <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and law</ins>, the schools generally agree on the more important <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and consequential </ins>issues (e.g. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">classically: </ins>marriages to young girls, the death sentence for apostates, the positive view of female genital mutilation, and so on). In any case, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">WikiIslam uses </ins>the majority views held by both the followers and fuqaha’ (scholars) of Islam. If a minority <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">or modern </ins>view is being quoted, the name of that particular Madh'hab <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">or sect is required to </ins>be provided. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>WikiIslam does not advocate ''any'' political positions. WikiIslam consists of an online community whose rules you agree to abide by when ''voluntarily'' joining it. If those rules are broken (e.g. through vandalism and other forms of disruption) then you will be sanctioned (given a warning or blocked, depending on the situation). Outside of our policies<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, the only position we hold is </del>that every individual, no matter their gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, nationality, religious beliefs or political views are equals and should be treated as such. This does not exempt any of the aforementioned groups from being required to adhere to the site's policies and guidelines. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>WikiIslam does not advocate ''any'' political <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">or religious </ins>positions. WikiIslam consists of an online community whose rules you agree to abide by when ''voluntarily'' joining it. If those rules are broken (e.g. through vandalism and other forms of disruption) then you will be sanctioned (given a warning or blocked, depending on the situation). Outside of our policies <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">maintain </ins>that every individual, no matter their gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, nationality, religious beliefs or political views are equals and should be treated as such. This does not exempt any of the aforementioned groups from being required to adhere to the site's policies and guidelines. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>WikiIslam does not "censor" people because it "has an agenda" or is "afraid of criticism"<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, as has been suggested by some people</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Unlike most pro-Islamic websites</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">we welcome an opposing </del>view and actually <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">host [[:Category:Pro-Islamic Content|pro-Islamic content]] </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">responses. It may be hard for a few individuals to comprehend our administrative actions but we will do our best </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">explain: take, for instance, </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">fact </del>that <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">removing pages about motor vehicles </del>in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a book about aircrafts is not censorship</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Nor is removing/updating/revising inaccurate </del>or <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">inappropriate information from a text book</del>. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>WikiIslam does not "censor" people because it "has an agenda" or is "afraid of criticism". <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Indeed</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">WikiIslam welcomes every legitimate point of </ins>view and actually and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">strives </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">document </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">developments and changes </ins>that <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">take place </ins>in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Islamic beliefs over time</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Modern </ins>or <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">reformed Islamic perspectives are welcome on the wiki, but must be described as such and cannot pretend to being historically mainstream</ins>. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Simply put; removing content that violates </del>this <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">website</del>'<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">s policies is not </del>censorship<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. If errors, incomprehensible English or bad formatting is inserted into our articles, we will revert them. If insults, threats and other forms of vandalism are inserted into our articles</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">we will wipe them from </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">pages' history</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The same principle applies </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">talk pages. If people violate the talk page guidelines</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">post insults, off-topic rants </del>or <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">questions on talk pages</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">they </del>will be <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">deleted or wiped from the talk page</del>'s <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">history (depending on the nature of the comment itself). These are straightforward and commonsense policies, </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in </del>no <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">way can they be construed as "censorship" (at least not in the sense of how some are trying to portray </del>it<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">)</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Besides </ins>this <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">strict policy ''against'</ins>' censorship, the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">wiki also refuses to host irrelevant content</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Content having nothing </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">do with Islam</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">such as an article about a certain make of car </ins>or <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">aircraft</ins>, will be <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">removed. This is also utterly unrelated to WikiIslam</ins>'s <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">anti-censorship policy </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">by </ins>no <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">means violates </ins>it. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>People are entirely free to voice their complaints or concerns about WikiIslam (this is why <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">we provide </del>an [[WikiIslam:Contact Us|email address]] for anyone who would like to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">contact us</del>). However, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">we are </del>not <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">here to </del>pander to time-wasters who disrupt <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">our </del>editors with inane questions in the name of "dialogue" or hypocritical vandals who <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">almost always </del>''delete'' valid material while adding their own<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, by leaving their useless edits on display</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Simply put; removing content that violates this website's policies is not censorship. If errors, incomprehensible English or bad formatting is inserted into articles, those edits are subject to reversion. If insults, threats and other forms of vandalism are inserted into articles, they will be wiped from the pages' history. The same principle applies to talk pages. If people violate the talk page guidelines, post insults, off-topic rants or questions on talk pages, they will be deleted or wiped from the talk page's history (depending on the nature of the comment itself). These are straightforward and commonsense policies, and in no way can they be construed as "censorship".</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Yes. We are aware of the high risk of vandalism to this website and are prepared to effectively deal with any attempt to sabotage its content. In any case this is a wiki website, which means the website can always recover from any amount of vandalism. We also make regular data backups in multiple locations. We did lose 5 day's worth of edits in April 2007 after the server was hacked, but fortunately there was little editing that was done during those 5 days. This was the only time we have lost data.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Yes. We are aware of the high risk of vandalism to this website and are prepared to effectively deal with any attempt to sabotage its content. In any case this is a wiki website, which means the website can always recover from any amount of vandalism. We also make regular data backups in multiple locations. We did lose 5 day's worth of edits in April 2007 after the server was hacked, but fortunately there was little editing that was done during those 5 days. This was the only time we have lost data.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===Why <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">not disallow </del>IP edits to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">minimize vandalism</del>?===</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===Why <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">were </ins>IP edits <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">disabled? Is WikiIslam trying to restrict who is and is not allowed </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">edit? Does this mean the wiki will be biased</ins>?===</div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Following a surge of vandalism efforts, it was felt that the net negative impact of continuing to allow IP edits outweighed its positives. Currently, a thorough cleanup of the website and refocusing of the website is underway, with the general objective of making the site focus on broader topics within Islam and not just its criticisms. While WikiIslam aspires to maintain its critical, non-dogmatic treatment of Islam, it is decidedly the case that openly antagonizing Muslims is contrary to and indeed undermines our purpose. After such content has been satisfactorily updated and removed, WikiIslam may once again open itself to IP edits, though such a return cannot be guaranteed.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The reasons </del>are <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">threefold:</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">It is important to note that throughout all this and into the future, anyone and everyone hoping to contribute constructively to the wiki is allowed to contribute. Aspiring editors </ins>are <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">simply required to request an account registration from the wiki administration and undergo a brief vetting process (to make sure such accounts are not wastefully handed out for vandals). Muslims, ex-Muslims, and non-Muslims are all welcome to contribute to the website, so long as adversarial and dogmatic commentary is absent from their contributions. WikiIslam aspire to give an objective, nonpartisan portrait of Islam; contributors from any and all backgrounds can help in achieving this.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*Our pages are under "[[</del>WikiIslam<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">:Pending Changes Protection|Pending-changes protection]]"</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">meaning that all attempts at vandalizing </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">site are pointless because readers </del>will <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">never see any of it</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Everybody, ranging from critics to apologists of Islam, is welcome to request an account on </ins>WikiIslam, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">so long as they do not proceed to suppress or distort perspective they disagree with. No discrimination on </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">basis of personal identity </ins>will <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">be made in distributing accounts</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">However, </ins>editors <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">activities are monitored. Anyone caught fabricating hadiths</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">presenting purposeful distortions </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the historical or modern mainstream </ins>Islamic <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">tradition</ins>, or <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">engaging in personal attacks will </ins>be <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">dealt with equally and swiftly</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">no matter their religious or irreligious self-identification</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*More often than not</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">IP vandals inadvertently contribute positively to the site. They do this by alerting editors of pages that may need to be improved </del>or <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">new pages that may need to </del>be <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">created. For example</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[http://www</del>.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikiislam.net%2Fw%2Findex.php%3Ftitle%3DQuestions_to_Ask_a_Muslim%26action%3Dhistorysubmit%26diff%3D50196%26oldid%3D50068&date=2012-09-06 this bit] </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">vandalism resulted in an unreferenced page now </del>being <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Questions to Ask About </del>Islam<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">|fully referenced]]</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and [http://www</del>.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikiislam.net%2Fw%2Findex.php%3Ftitle%3DAisha%2527s_Age_of_Consummation%26action%3Dhistorysubmit%26diff%3D41569%26oldid%3D41361&date=2012-09-06 this bit] of vandalism resulted </del>in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">an [[Aishas Age of Consummation|entire new page]] refuting </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">popular Muslim apologetic</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Modern reinterpretations </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">classical Islamic doctrine are always welcome on the site, </ins>being <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a part of the intellectual history and development of </ins>Islam, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">but must always be described as such</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Attempts to present modern reinterpretations as somehow historically mainstream will (whether to recast the historical tradition </ins>in a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">more positive or negative light) result in content deletion and account deactivation. This applies equally to, for instance, attempts to present modern Salafi perspectives as historically mainstream as it does to attempts to present Islamic modernist or Islamic feminist perspectives as historical mainstream</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>No, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">we are </del>not a recruiting ground for <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Wikipedians</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>No, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">WikiIslam is </ins>not a recruiting ground for <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Wikipedia projects. Editors and readers are allowed to network for such purposes on personal talk pages and through other means however they see fit, but such activity is not otherwise permitted on WikiIslam</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===Muslims are claiming XYZ about Islam. Can I have some help refuting this?===</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===Muslims are claiming XYZ about Islam. Can I have some help refuting this?===</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Such </del>requests are better suited to the [http://<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">forum09</del>.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">faithfreedom</del>.org/ <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">FFI </del>forum]. Open a thread under the [http://forum09.faithfreedom.org/viewforum.php?f=22&sid=d49039027d61629d68981293d3281497 Islam: Questioned, Defended, & Explained] or [http://forum09.faithfreedom.org/viewforum.php?f=21&sid=d49039027d61629d68981293d3281497 The Quran and Hadith] sub forums, and you should receive an answer. Informing us of a claim by posting links to them on our discussions page may be construed as a form of promotion or spam, so please do not do that. Instead you are welcome to [[WikiIslam:Contact Us|email us]] your queries. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">While WikiIslam encourages requesting and recommending novel content on the site's discussions and talk pages, </ins>requests <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">for help with everyday online debates </ins>are better suited to the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">various forums found online dedicated to this sort of discussion (e.g. [https://www.reddit.com/r/exmuslim/ Ex-Muslims Reddit], [https://www.councilofexmuslims.com/ Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain Forum], [https://www.religiousforums.com/forums/islam-dir.11/ Religious Forums], and </ins>[http://<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">www</ins>.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">interfaith</ins>.org/forum<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">/islam.html/ The Interfaith Forum</ins>]<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">)</ins>. Open a thread under the [http://forum09.faithfreedom.org/viewforum.php?f=22&sid=d49039027d61629d68981293d3281497 Islam: Questioned, Defended, & Explained] or [http://forum09.faithfreedom.org/viewforum.php?f=21&sid=d49039027d61629d68981293d3281497 The Quran and Hadith] sub forums, and you should receive an answer. Informing us of a claim by posting links to them on our discussions page may be construed as a form of promotion or spam, so please do not do that. Instead you are welcome to [[WikiIslam:Contact Us|email us]] your queries. </div></td></tr>
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