Muslims Condemn

Muslims Condemn is an interactive website containing lists of Muslims who condemn negative things[1] such as terrorism, climate change, discrimination against women, and more.[2] The website was inspired by a 712-page long list with sources, produced by Heraa Hashmi, a 19-year-old American Muslim student.

Muslims Condemn
Available inEnglish
URLmuslimscondemn.com
CommercialNo
LaunchedMarch 2017

Origination

Muslims Condemn website was originally a Google spreadsheet containing a 712-page list of Muslims condemning things with sources produced by Heraa Hashmi, a 19-year-old American Muslim student at the University of Colorado.[1] It took three weeks for Hashmi to create the spread sheet after she engaged in a discussion with a classmate asking why Muslims did not "condemn violence when perpetrators committed such acts in the name of Islam."[3][4] She posted the list to Twitter where it was shared 15,000 times within 24 hours.[1] Muslims Condemn was then created based on the spreadsheet by two Nigerian software developers; Ire Aderinokun and Timi Ajiboye that randomly stumbled on her tweet.[5][6]

Content

The website is designed to show that Muslims are constantly condemning terrorism and also to demonstrate how ridiculous it is that Muslims are constantly expected to apologise for terrorist acts. Muslims “held to a different standard than other minorities: 1.6 billion people are expected to apologise and condemn [terrorism] on behalf of a couple of dozen lunatics. It makes no sense,” Hashmi said.[1]

gollark: The precise time is tunable, after some amount of time it would probably cease to be discussed. And why should they *not* exist? The logreading issue is fixable as I said, search... maybe less so, but I'm not sure how many search queries actually turn up that stuff *now* and how big an issue it would be.
gollark: For logreading, it could probably put in a divider of some kind.
gollark: It could be semiautomated based on keywords (or, indeed, the criteria used to decide whether to have a conversation or not under your proposal), and disable it after, say, 15 minutes of no activity.
gollark: So, not working.
gollark: It didn't isolate all the NSFW stuff and it is dead now.

References
  1. Mahdawi, Arwa. "The 712-page Google doc that proves Muslims do condemn terrorism". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
  2. Orenstein, Hannah (17 November 2016). "When a Classmate Made an Ignorant Comment About Muslims, This Teen Shut Him Down in the Best Way Possible". Seventeen. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
  3. Soldani, Bianca. "Teen compiles 700-page list for anyone who thinks Muslims don't condemn terrorism". Special Broadcasting Service. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
  4. Lim, Clarissa-Jan (20 November 2016). "This Muslim Teen Had A Sublime Rebuttal To A Classmate Asking Her To Defend Her Religion". A Plus. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
  5. Odufuwa, Damilola (17 November 2016). "Meet The Nigerian Developers Fighting Islamophobia One Code At A Time". Konbini Nigeria. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
  6. "Looking for where muslims have condemned acts of terrorism? There's a site for that now | TechCabal". Retrieved 24 May 2017.
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