Web of Deception: Don't Get Caught in It

The Internet is a great means of uniting Muslims from various backrounds as well as a platform for sharing knowledge about Islam with others. Anyone can build an Islamic website with no cost and little effort. While this is a great benefit for Muslims and non-Muslims alike, people who browse the Internet for Islamic information should be aware of the fact that some websites carrying the name "Islam" in their titles are actually quite anti-Islamic and designed with the intention to denegrate the religion and push people away from Islam. Such websites fall into various categories, including the following:

• Websites run by Christian missionaries with an agenda to convert Muslims to Christianity.



• Websites written by people posing as Muslims or former Muslims who simply wish to pollute cyber-space with lies about Islam.



• Websites promoting the views of deviant sects which have no legitimacy in mainstream Islam.

Such websites often confuse readers with quotes from the Qur'an and Sunnah taken out of context and given improper explanations. While I do not wish to give undue publicity to such sites, those seeking the truth about Islam should be aware of their existence and learn to recognize the signs of anti-Islamic sites which are typically of the following types:

• Sites which reject the Sunnah (traditions of the Prophet Muhammed, peace be upon him) and urge readers to rely on "Qur'an only" for information. The Sunnah is an integral part of Islam: for example, the Qur'an informs us that we must pray, and we know how from following the Sunnah.



• Sites which claim that there are prophets and or messengers after the Prophet Muhammed (peace be upon him) or which promote undue loyalty to specific individuals. Similarly, sites which attribute infallibility to their leaders or teach that one should worship other than Allah.



• Sites which claim that verses of the Qur'an are missing or have been altered. Also sites which claim to have "found" those verses. The Qur'an is unique in that it has remained unchanged in 1400 years of history: not even one letter of it has been tampered with in all that time.



• Sites which denegrate the Prophets (peace be upon them) and/or the wives and Companions of Muhammed (saas), may Allah be
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