Kesgrave, Wikipedia and me (part 1)

Would you disbelieve someone's account of the history of an English country house if you disagreed with their views on Muslim polygamy? Some people on Wikipedia apparently would!

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• kesgrave hall
• wikipedia
• codf1977
• islam
• polygamy

[shahidkamal]

Wikipedia is next to useless for accuracy and it is certainly hostile to Muslims.

You were almost certainly attacked because you're Muslim. It hasn't taken long for the word "Islamist" to become conflated with "Muslim", with the former easily extended to include a whole host of pejorative attributes.

An entry I have interest in is that of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad's, which is just a sell-sheet for the Ahmadiyya's notorious founder. It's a one-sided vanity entry, peppered with lies.

[IndigoJo]

Shahid, what I find mystifying about this is that I have no idea who this is or why he/she is doing it. Is it an old boy or some Islamophobe who surfed in off Jihad Watch or some such site? Why would such a person target my KH entry? I took time to write a fact-based entry with no slurs against anyone (someone else did post one, and a third party deleted it), and to keep my experience and these facts separate, and they still think my "Islamist" stances are relevant.

[shahidkamal]

There is a concerted, if not coordinated effort to discredit Islam and Muslims. I'm sure you've noticed that. Part of that effort seeks to discredit, or certainly disenfranchise those commentators like yourself, and to a lesser extent like me.

I've observed it at the national press level, but it exists on many levels. You're certainly a prominent target, to which your response should be "alhamdulillah" I guess...