Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Muhammad al-Asi

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The result was soft delete. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. RL0919 (talk) 19:28, 8 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Muhammad al-Asi (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)

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Non-notable Islamist cleric. He was fired as imam in 1983 and since then has become famous for supporting Iran and making inflammatory remarks about Jews. He has an ADL profile and a profile on David Horowitz's "Discovering the Networks" which I doubt meets the criteria to be a non-biased source. Second citation is dead, third is his personal website, fourth is 2006 memri quotes, sixth link is dead, seventh is dead. He does appear briefly in the book "The Enemy of my Enemy". Many sources online are self-published. He does have a relatively unknown tafsir of the Quran, but I think he and the tafsir could be covered under the page for ICIT. Almost all sources on him are extremely biased and unreliable. They're either far-right Islamophobic or self-published, or anti-Semitic/pro-Iran/Hezbollah. Zaynab1418 (talk) 17:17, 1 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: A notable asshole is still notable, but in this case, I'm not sure the notability is there. ADL is the main source, and that is not a reliable source, so we have a fairly negative BLP profile largely supported by an unreliable source, and very poorly supported by anything else. So I don't see WP:GNG or any other criteria even nearly being met here. Iskandar323 (talk) 17:40, 1 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Academics and educators, Islam, and Michigan. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 17:56, 1 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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