Talk:Bilal Philips
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According to whom are his books controversial?
Dear Wikipedia: It would be ridiculous to delete this article. Bilal Philips is a major figure of English-language Salafi Islam, which has a worldwide reach. While his name may not be known outside of the Muslim community, he is quite well-known within that community. The existing article neither mentions his several influential publications, nor his political views and role in Salafi Islam. He is controversial especially among Salafis because he belongs to one of the splintered Salafi groupings so that others attack him as a "deviant." In fact, it appears that sometime between 1991 and 1994, he was either expelled from Saudi Arabia or had his visa not renewed, so that he had to migrate to the UAE. When I am able, I will try to fix his article here, but I want to write this right now so no one deletes him. I also want to add that in general Wikipedia is poor on Islamic topics and personages. Hardly any of the famous shaykhs of the past are noticed, and many modern personages are overlooked. This is quite apart from the poor quality of many articles that omit salient facts in the subjects lives or are too one sided. Thus, to go around looking for Muslim personages to delete is not the way to go if one wants to claim universal coverage for Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia is just stupid as hell. We have a whole fucking article about Snappelopes, a whole article about "Soquids" tons of articles about seperate digimons and burger king items, but a popular religious figure is considered for deletion, because of the balant bias against Islam? Like I said, stupid as hell.
The Homeland Security Implications of Radicalization, testimony to the House Committee on Homeland Security
Terrorist Recruitment and Infiltration in the United States: Prisons and Military as an Operational Base., testimony to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary
