“Ditto.”
Your experience is wrong. The fact that an Islamic website references FR and even casually refers to “freepers” should be of serious interest to us. Really, that should be quite obvious to you.
I’ll just tag on here Petronius Maximus and state that FreeRepublic.com is well read — globally.
Just 1 example:
stepping back in time...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1603333/posts?page=18#18
http://internet-haganah.com/harchives/002492.html