In 2007, Göran Larsson, Professor of Religious Studies at
University of Gothenburg, argued that WikiIslam is an
Islamophobic web portal and that the stories on WikiIslam were selected only to show that Muslims are "ignorant, backward or even stupid". reiterated WikiIslam to be a "rampantly anti-Muslim website". Rabia Kamal, a cultural anthropologist based at
University of San Francisco, finds WikiIslam to be of the many Islamophobic websites dedicated to "surveillance" of Islam and Muslims. In a study published in 2024, Edin Kozaric of
Oslo Metropolitan University and
Torkel Brekke of
MF Norwegian School of Theology examined WikiIslam using a framework they termed the "scientification of Islamophobia," referring to how prejudice against Muslims can gain credibility through academic-style referencing and terminology. They noted that WikiIslam had made "a serious effort to re-invent itself as a scientific, neutral, and unbiased website", which they took as indicating that the site's current editors understood it "was in fact used in biased and problematic ways prior to this reformation". Nevertheless, their overall assessment was that the information WikiIslam presents about Islam is far from neutral: the site's topic selection is biased, and it continues to have hardly any information presenting Muslims positively or neutrally. Because WikiIslam's articles often present conflicting interpretations, they concluded it would be wrong to characterize WikiIslam as entirely Islamophobic. However, the site does not meet the standards set out in its vision document. Their primary concern was that WikiIslam positions itself as an objective encyclopedia while failing to acknowledge how its content is used elsewhere; their
backlink analysis found that
far-right websites such as
Breitbart regularly cited WikiIslam articles to support anti-Muslim arguments. ==Notes==