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"Caution: There is Another anti-Islamic Site There"
"Caution: There is Another anti-Islamic Site There"
Why issuing an alert letter is precisely the wrong thing to do?
By Khalid Baig
Thealert 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 apassionate 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.
Thefailure is in realizing that the Internet is a very different mediumand the rules that applied to the previous media do not always applyhere. If there is a bad magazine or book out there, you can tell othersabout it. We can be sure that nobody will rush to the closestbookseller to buy it. The warning may be useful, if there was a chancethat some people could have bought the book out ofignorance.
In the click-click world of the Internet, the firstthing most people will do is to click on the URL, thereby increasingthe hit counts and boasting the morale of the site owners. Second, itwill help it with search engine placement, as some of them will use theincreased curiosity traffic as a sign of popularity. You just helpedcreate 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.
Itis very easy to setup a page on the Internet. It is very difficult todraw traffic to it. The most anti-Islamic site will die if it faces afrozen counter. That would happen if you just leave it alone. But ifyou are out there telling everyone about it and asking them to do thesame, you are in effect volunteering as their publicity department.That is exactly what they need.
If there is a well-establishedsite (like CNN) it makes sense to launch a protest campaign. But formost of the sites the prudent course is just the opposite. Leave italone. Let it die of neglect. A natural death. The greater the lack ofattention, the faster will be the death of this would be monster.
Sothe next time you receive an alert letter about an anti-Islamic site,just delete it. If you respond to the sender, do not include theoriginal text of his alert email, because even that may help somesearch engine ranking.
There were dozens of anti-Islamic sitesthat sprang up recently but died soon after because, luckily, ourenthusiasts had not noticed them and had not publicized them throughtheir alert letters. The ones that receive the alert letter mentionwill, 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.
"Caution: There is Another anti-Islamic Site There"
Why issuing an alert letter is precisely the wrong thing to do?
By Khalid Baig
Thealert 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 apassionate 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.
Thefailure is in realizing that the Internet is a very different mediumand the rules that applied to the previous media do not always applyhere. If there is a bad magazine or book out there, you can tell othersabout it. We can be sure that nobody will rush to the closestbookseller to buy it. The warning may be useful, if there was a chancethat some people could have bought the book out ofignorance.
In the click-click world of the Internet, the firstthing most people will do is to click on the URL, thereby increasingthe hit counts and boasting the morale of the site owners. Second, itwill help it with search engine placement, as some of them will use theincreased curiosity traffic as a sign of popularity. You just helpedcreate 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.
Itis very easy to setup a page on the Internet. It is very difficult todraw traffic to it. The most anti-Islamic site will die if it faces afrozen counter. That would happen if you just leave it alone. But ifyou are out there telling everyone about it and asking them to do thesame, you are in effect volunteering as their publicity department.That is exactly what they need.
If there is a well-establishedsite (like CNN) it makes sense to launch a protest campaign. But formost of the sites the prudent course is just the opposite. Leave italone. Let it die of neglect. A natural death. The greater the lack ofattention, the faster will be the death of this would be monster.
Sothe next time you receive an alert letter about an anti-Islamic site,just delete it. If you respond to the sender, do not include theoriginal text of his alert email, because even that may help somesearch engine ranking.
There were dozens of anti-Islamic sitesthat sprang up recently but died soon after because, luckily, ourenthusiasts had not noticed them and had not publicized them throughtheir alert letters. The ones that receive the alert letter mentionwill, 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.
