This makes a lot of sense.I received it in response to my post of last night
regarding " the new quraan" Please read and pass on.

Jabou

>
> as-salaamu alaykum
>
> JazakAllah khayran for the e-mail - May Allah (swt) reward you for seeking
> to alert the Muslims
>
> However please DO NOT forward this message and tell your
> friends - it is an old trick used by the people who
> make these anti-islamic sites to get their sites more
> publicity, more hits and thus higher places on the
> search engines when people type in "islam" or "quran"-
>
> Please read what is written in brackets in the original message
>
> >Kindly send this message (with the web
> > > sites
> > > > > shown below) to inform as many persons as you can.
>
> That tells you all about the intent of the e-mail
>
> Its obvious upon visiting such sites they are false -
> surely virtually every non-Arabic Muslim would have a "proper" English
> translation of the Quran and surely everyone with a degree of intelligence
> knows not to believe everything they read on the internet particularly
> about Islam - particularly converts who would have been intelligent enough
> to have rejected a great deal of false propaganda and lies about Islam to
> have converted in the first place
>
> So why publicise them ? How does publicising them help resolve the problem
> ? What is needed is just one brother/sister with particular computer
> "skills" to deal with the site.
>
> We really need to be sharper and more alert in dealing with the plots of
> the kufar against Islam - in many cases they are running rings around us
>
> Please read the articles below
> Apologies for any offence caused
>
> wasalaam
>
>
> >Dear Brothers and Sisters in Islam,
> >
> >  Assalaamu Alaikum.
> >
> >  The purpose of this email is to bring to your
> attention an act of Satan
> >in
> >which Muslims are the
> >biggest and probably the only aids. Almost every
> other day you get an email
> >that gives a link to some
> >  website that has either insulted Islam, the beloved
> Prophet Muhammad
> >(salallahu alaihay wassulam), his
> >  companions, or the Muslim nation.
> >A very important and a must feature of such an email
> is the emphasis that
> >you forward  this email to as many Muslims (not just
> anyone, but Muslims)
> >as
> >possible so that the website can be removed by the
> ISP on their request.
> >  On receiving such an email here is what we
> typically do. We read it, go
> >to
> >the mentioned website, read
> >  all the contempt that is displayed, get mad about
> it and sometimes
> >confused.
> >  After this, perceiving it as our religious
> obligation, we forward this
> >email to all the Muslims we know. Next, some of us
> simply move on to the
> >next email in the Inbox while some others write to
> the person responsible
> >for that website or the ISP that hosts the site to
> stop the nonsense right
> >away or else...
> >  There are a few things that Muslims need to realize
> here. First of all,
> >it
> >is very rare that such a website  gets deleted. If
> you are threatening the
> >person of the "dire consequences", then please note
> that he went through
> >all
> >the pain of making the website and is probably
> willing to face those
> >"consequences". If you are contacting the ISP then
> you should know about
> >"freedom of speech" concept.
> >An ISP cannot predominate your concern  over its
> customer's freedom of
> >speech.
> >
> >
> >  The cases where there was success were the ones
> involving big names like
> >Yahoo etc. They provide
> >  FREE web hosting and don't mind deleting a user's
> site in interest of
> >their
> >image. On the other hand a
> >  smaller ISP, which takes money from the user will
> never delete the site
> >just because the Muslim community got offended.
> >
> >
> >  Next and more importantly, we need to know how
> these web sites surface
> >and
> >what keeps them there. While
> >  making a search, the Internet search engines do not
> simply check the text
> >on that site. Now a great deal
> >  of emphasis is being laid on the amount of Internet
> traffic for a
> >particular site.
> >
> >
> >  So every time you go to that site, "just to see
> what's there", you
> >increase
> >the traffic record of that web site. Then all your
> Muslims friends go there
> >and end up doing the same. Consequently, next time
> when someone makes a
> >search using Islamic keywords, this site comes up as
> it has been  visited
> >very frequently and hence must have what the person
> making the search is
> >looking for.
> >
> >
> >  Do you know that simply writing the address of a
> website in your email,
> >increases the chances of it being picked up by a
> search engine? So even if
> >you do not go to the site, but forward it to other
> Muslims, and then they
> >do
> >the same, you are basically increasing the chances of
> that site to surface.
> >
> >
> >Normally web companies spend a lot of money for their
> sites to surface, but
> >for these enemies of Islam, we provide this service
> free of charge.
> >
> >
> >  The next very crucial point is that in this age of
> the Internet, it is
> >very
> >difficult to establish the authenticity of what you
> are reading. You might
> >be a very learned person about Islam and might be
> able to distinguish
> >between right and wrong as if it were black and
> white. I on the other hand,
> >might be a person with a weak faith and a slight
> knowledge of Islam. On
> >reading what you introduced me to, the Satan is more
> likely to convince me
> >into believing some of that nonsense, or at least be
> more confused  about
> >it.
> >
> >
> >  A non-muslim, on the other hand is very less likely
> to go to such a  site
> >because remember, you sent out
> >  all the emails to your Muslim friends and the only
> reason why they went
> >to
> >this site was that email. So we should realize that
> such sites are not
> >addressed to the non-believers, but the  Muslims. It
> is only when we make
> >them surface, the non-believers get to see them too.
> Without a slightest
> >doubt in my mind, I attest that we have been  ordered
> to fight disbelieve,
> >but in this case we are only helping it out.
> >
> >  It is also very probable that the Webmaster himself
> implanted the email
> >and
> >while we go around spreading
> >  the word about it, he sits back, and is surprised
> to see his mischief
> >become a success.
> >
> >  Now here is the remedy.
> >We should delete the email as soon as we get it
> (especially for web based
> >accounts like hotmail, netaddress, etc).  Never go to
> that site "just to
> >take a look at what's it all about". Never  forward
> the email to anyone. Do
> >not
> >even reply to the sender using the same email (never
> Autoreply). Instead
> >you
> >can forward all the recipients this email> so as to
> prevent further
> >propagation.
> >
> >  In the end have faith in Allah (SWT) who says in
> Quran:
> >
> >  "It is he whom Allah guides, that is on true
> Guidance; but he whom He
> >leaves astray - for such wilt thou find no protector
> besides Him". - 17:97
> >  And "If Allah so willed, He could make you all one
> people: But He leaves
> >straying whom He pleases, and
> >  He guides whom He pleases: but ye shall certainly
> be called to account
> >for
> >all your actions." - 16:93
> >
> >This email is something that you MUST forward to all
> the MUSLIMS you know.
> >I cannot stress more that you
> >  should not let this email sit in your mailbox and
> let this nonsense, in
> >the
> >name of protecting Islam,
> >to continue.
> >
> Wassalam
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
> There is Another anti-Islamic Site"
>
> Why issuing an alert letter is precisely the wrong
> thing to do?
>
> The alert letters keep coming. Beware here is the
> latest anti-Islamic site. Then a URL so you can verify
> that it is indeed as described. Then a passionate
> request to tell all the Muslims in the world about it.
>
>
> Sincere. Misguided. Counter-productive. Little do the
> senders realize that they are actually helping the
> very sites they are trying to fight.
>
> The failure is in realizing that the Internet is a
> very different medium and the rules that applied to
> the previous media do not always apply here. If there
> is a bad magazine or book out there, you can tell
> others about it. We can be sure that nobody will rush
> to the closest bookseller to buy it. The warning may
> be useful, if there was a chance that some people
> could have bought the book out of ignorance.
>
> In the click-click world of the Internet, the first
> thing most people will do is to click on the URL,
> thereby increasing the hit counts and boasting the
> morale of the site owners. Second, it will help it
> with search engine placement, as some of them will use
> the increased curiosity traffic as a sign of
> popularity. You just helped create the monster you
> wanted to fight!
>
> It is common sense. If you don't want people to visit
> a site, just don't tell them about it.
>
> It is very easy to setup a page on the Internet. It is
> very difficult to draw traffic to it. The most
> anti-Islamic site will die if it faces a frozen
> counter. That would happen if you just leave it alone.
> But if you are out there telling everyone about it and
> asking them to do the same, you are in effect
> volunteering as their publicity department. That is
> exactly what they need. If there is a well-established
> site (like CNN) it makes sense to launch a protest
> campaign. But for most of the sites the prudent course
> is just the opposite. Leave it alone. Let it die of
> neglect. A natural death. The greater the lack of
> attention, the faster will be the death of this would
> be monster.
>
> So the next time you receive an alert letter about an
> anti-Islamic site, just delete it. If you respond to
> the sender, do not include the original text of his
> alert email, because even that may help some search
> engine ranking.
>
> There were dozens of anti-Islamic sites that sprang up
> recently but died soon after because, luckily, our
> enthusiasts had not noticed them and had not
> publicized them through their alert letters. The ones
> that receive the alert letter mention will,
> unfortunately, survive and may thrive.
>
> On the Internet, the best use of your energies is to
> promote the good Islamic sites. Let the good drive out
> the evil.
>
> Now, may we request that you send this article to all
> your friends?
>
> By Khalid Baig
>
>
> http://www.jamiat.org.za/caution.htm
>

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