Does WikiIslam use fabricated sources?
Wikiislam is an Islamophobic and a hate website (although it claims to be critical of Islam) that was created in 2006 by “Faith Freedom International” for the purposes of “helping Muslims leave Islam”. It has been reported by several news sources including the Associated Press as being a website that shows a “one sided view of Islam” to make “Muslims look backward and stupid” whilst disguising itself as a website that solely “criticises” Islam.[1]
Contrary to what is sometimes claimed, the site exhorts editors to use non-polemic and scholarly secondary sources, and to attribute statements wherever possible. It makes copious use of authoritative primary and secondary pro-Islamic sources, such as theCompendium of Muslim Texts, The History of al-Tabari and fatwas from some of the most popular mainstream Islamic sites on the net.
Statements of fact concerning Islam 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 to be used under any circumstances as references on WikiIslam. If you come across any such statements, remove them immediately.
Excluding the Islam in the News section, news sources that could be considered “right-wing” or “Jewish/Zionist” should also be avoided when possible (e.g. Fox News, WorldNetDaily, FrontPage Magazine, National Review, Daily Mail or Arutz Sheva). In the majority of cases, news sources such as the Associated Press, Agence France-Presse or Reuters would have also covered the story.
http://wikiislam.net/wiki/WikiIslam:Reliable_Sources#Sources_to_Avoid
No, we do not. We use Islamic 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 Qur’an, Hadith, and Tafsir text.
