Talk:Islamic Society of North America

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:INSA small.gif

message: I've removed several paragraphs from this article that were plagiarized from a 2006 Associated Press article (a reprint is available at http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_wires/2006Aug28/0,4675,AmericanMuslimsWomen,00.html). The information is encyclopedic and it should be included, however, it must be rewritten and properly sourced. It is NOT acceptable to copy other people's work. GabrielF 06:18, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright violations/plagiarism 

message: Why is the location of their headquarters in Indiana? Does Indiana have a sizeable Muslims population?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ahassan05 (talk • contribs) 08:29, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Indiana 

message: Most of the accusations that claim ISNA is connected to "terrorism" or "Wahhabiasm" are specious at best, fear-mongering at worst, or the citations are in no way suggesting what the author is claiming. SiberioS (talk) 23:54, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: These are properly sourced.  You can't delete because of your pov.  It is sourced to RSs.  It is not tantamount to what your friends have to say.--Epeefleche (talk) 21:54, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Well there are lot more "specious allegations" here: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/DN-NUsafi_07pro.ART1.State.Edition2.4be96ce.html. Good luck to anyone who has the chutzpah to incorporate that into this article. Bachcell (talk) 05:10, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I think there's sufficient evidence to the contrary of the general allegation made by Sen. John Kyl at the top of the section "Legal Issues" to erase the validity of this claim.  I believe this comment needs to come out.  I believe a general statement, "As the largest organization of Muslims in America, the ISNA has been a frequent and popular target for Conservative commentary and attack." should be put into it's place to make a more general statement about the nature of this criticism.  To that, Senator Kyl's comments and a host of other political figures and pundits can be documented to that statement.  And I certainly believe it's more true than the current (discredited) statement that sits there now.  It's source is Paul Sperry's diatribe "Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives have Penetrated Washington", anyway.  A second hand source that is removed from any specific context within the paragraph in which the author presents it, and used to discredit a 3rd party's validity in his attack against them.  I do not believe it merits a place here.  Can we agree to convert this statement to a more general statement on nature of the criticism itself, rather than trying to make it sound like it's a criticism that "stuck" and has factual merit (as in it's detailing a specific criminal conviction or ongoing/pending criminal litigation)?Meurdrac (talk) 15:09, 7 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Specious accusations 

message: The following don't seem like reliable sources:
*Cancer In America: The Enemy Within – The Latent Islamic Invasion Into The New World And Its Adverse Affect On America, by John U. Hanna
*Leadership Paradigms in Chaplaincy, by Joel Curtis Graves
Doing a search on the authors did not reveal any information that would qualify them as reliable. As a result I'm removing them. If someone has more information, please feel free to add.VR talk 23:59, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Reliable sources

message: Which branches does ISNA represent?  Is it inclusive of all branches, or limited to one or the other? --Zfish118 (talk) 07:57, 3 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a Sunni organization. Snuish2 (talk) 05:22, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sunni or Shia? 

message: A  of this page contained the following paragraph:
An audit of the separately run but loosely-affiliated ISNA Canada, from 2007–2009, found that only a quarter of the funds donated to the organization went to help the poor. Charity donations were mostly spent on the administration of the center or misdirected to private businesses. On September 21, 2013, the Canada Revenue Agency revoked the registration of ISNA Development Foundation, a defunct-charity that operated out of ISNA Canada's headquarters, due to the disbursement of funds to private businesses, including an organization linked to the Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist group. ISNA Canada was not affected by this move, and still has its charitable status, as can be found on the Canada Revenue Agency's website.
Of the six listed sources, only one mentioned ISNA-US. The Toronto Sun only had this:
The ISNA’s American parent organization referred the Toronto Sun to a statement released earlier this year, which distances it from the Canadian branch. “There has been no links of authority or responsibility between the United States and Canadian organizations for a few decades, despite similarity of names,” the statement said.
I have removed the paragraph as a result of WP:PROPORTION but added a link to ISNA Canada to the See also section. Snuish2 (talk) 05:53, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[ISNA Canada]]