Taqiyya Trials in Europe
by Enza Ferreri
The issue of taqiyya – the religious permission, indeed virtue, of Muslim deception to infidels for the good of Islam – is such a uniquely crucial aspect of the relationship between Muslims and non-Muslims, especially, like in the West, when the former are a minority and the latter a majority, that there have been at least a couple of trials in Europe revolving around it, one recent and the other current.
In May 2013 there was a legal case in Italy in which a former member of the Muslim Brotherhood, Khalid Chaouki, a Moroccan Muslim immigrant to Italy and now MP, sued another Moroccan immigrant, Souad Sbai, a woman journalist and former Italian MP who had accused him of practicing taqiyya when he was saying that he had renounced the Brotherhood while in fact he still ’shared its goals and ideas of dangerous, extreme Islam’. He lost the case.
In Britain, in the last few days of 2013 Tim Burton, the Radio Officer of the newly-formed Liberty GB, an outspoken counterjihad, pro-Western and Christian civilisation party, got into trouble.
I have to declare an interest in the matter since I am the party’s Press Officer. Liberty GB has some similarities to Holland’s Freedom Party of Geert Wilders, although in no way, having started as recently as March 2013, it’s as yet so popular. We are running in the coming elections for the European Parliament in May.
Tim Burton has been charged by the Police with racially aggravated harassment for a few tweets and is soon due to appear in court.
At this point I must introduce the individual he tweeted about, a prominent albeit colourful Muslim whom Tim called ‘a mendacious grievance-mongering taqiyya-artist’ on Twitter. He is Fiyaz Mujhal, founder and director of Tell MAMA (Measuring Anti-Muslim Attacks), an organisation that acts like a sort of helpline for the victims of ‘Islamophobia’ and in so doing monitors the entity of what it must consider a grave social problem.
If you are looking for a balanced assessment of the impact of Muslim crime, violence, stealth jihad and terrorism on British society you will not find it on Tell MAMA’s literature or website. But you’ll see plenty of examples of ‘hate’ towards Muslims, a great number of which in the form of films, books, political campaigns and, of course, ‘cyber harassment’, ‘cyber bullying’, ‘cyber abuse’, ‘cyber incitement’, ‘cyber threats’, ‘cyber stalking’, or ‘cyber hate’ – which is what got Tim in a legal jam.
Tell MAMA and the other organisation founded by Mr Mujhal, Faith Matters, had been successful in their demand that the UK Home Office ban Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer from entering the country.
The group has a Working Definition of Anti-Muslim Prejudice that includes ‘insults or attacks against Islam’, of which it’s safe to assume well-documented criticisms will be seen as examples. It is also good at crafting new expressions like ‘Anti-Muslim Cultural Racism’, which is Liberty GB’s sin in Tell MAMA’s eyes, as it describes us as ‘guilty of racialising Muslims’. How somebody can achieve such a feat is anyone’s guess.
What prompted Tim Burton to label Mr Mujhal on Twitter “a mendacious grievance-mongering taqiyya-artist” and “a lying Muslim scumbag” were some revelations appeared in The Daily Telegraph. In the wake of the beheading of British soldier Lee Rigby in a London street by two jihadists crying “Allahu Akbar” and giving the Quran as their motive in May of last year, Mr Mujhal in June reported
“a wave of attacks, harassment, and hate-filled speech against Muslims … an unprecedented number of incidents”, including “a rise in street harassment of Muslims – unprovoked, opportunistic attacks from strangers as Muslims go about their lives”.
He added: “Over the past week or so, these sorts of hate crimes have noticeably increased in number and, in many instances, become more extreme.
“The scale of the backlash is astounding … there has been a massive spike in anti-Muslim prejudice. A sense of endemic fear has gripped Muslim communities.”
The media, especially the BBC, have accepted the claims without question. A presenter on Radio 4’s influential Today programme stated that attacks on Muslims were now “on a very serious scale”.
Talk of a “massive anti-Muslim backlash” has become routine. And it is that figure issued by Tell Mama – of, to date, 212 “anti-Muslim incidents” since the Woolwich murder – which has formed the basis of nearly all this reporting.
But when journalist Andrew Gilligan investigated a bit further, it turned out that 57 per cent of the 212 reports referred to activity occurring just online, like postings on Twitter and Facebook, a further 16 per cent of the 212 reports had not been verified and not all the online abuse even originated in Britain.
Contrary to Tell MAMA’s claims of a climate of violence, only 17 of the 212 incidents, 8 per cent, involved the physical targeting of people and there were no attacks on anyone serious enough to require medical treatment.
The organisation has received a total of £375,000 from the UK government. But as a consequence of these revelations and even previous discoveries of discrepancies between its figures and police official figures – showing Tell MAMA’s inflated rates of and increase in anti-Muslim crimes – it had its public funding discontinued.
This hasn’t stopped its activity, though:
Mujhal asserted that tougher sentences were needed to tackle Islamophobic crime, noting that the guidelines by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to monitor social media were “not fit for purpose”.
“They raised the bar of prosecution significantly.
“Now unless there is a direct threat to somebody on Twitter or Facebook, the CPS will not prosecute. The CPS is just plainly out of sync with reality.
“We also need more robust sentencing. In one case, a pig’s head was left outside a mosque and the perpetrator came away with a community sentence.
Perhaps the lawsuit against Tim Burton is part of this campaign which seems apparently to target in particular social media.
Liberty GB is trying to make taqiyya the keystone of this trial. Given the special position of taqiyya in the relationship between Muslims and non-Muslims, especially in non-Muslim-majority countries, if we, by making this case public, manage to make the British and Western people understand the meaning and nature of taqiyya, we will have managed to make them understand the whole nature of Islam in relation to us through it.
The Western public has been misled about Islam and believes that the ‘religion of peace’ is fundamentally similar to Christianity in its ethical outlook. Replace God with Allah, Jesus with Muhammad, and you still have the same moral commandments: love your enemies, be benevolent towards non-Muslims, and thou shall not lie or give false testimony. If the authority of a court can establish that taqiyya was indeed practised, Westerners can start to see that lying to them is not only allowed but encouraged by Islam as one of the means of submitting them to it, which is the final goal. As a consequence of this, people in the West may gradually become more and more reluctant to accept everything that Muslims say about Islam and may begin to doubt all the distortions they are currently fed.
One issue that we intend to bring to public attention is this: how can a Muslim’s swearing on the Quran in court be accepted as declaration of the truthfulness of his testimony when the very book he is swearing on gives him divine permission to lie?
Enza Ferreri is an Italian-born, London-based Philosophy graduate, author and journalist. She has been a London correspondent for several Italian magazines and newspapers, including Panorama, L’Espresso, La Repubblica. She is in the Executive Council of the UK’s party Liberty GB.
She blogs at www.enzaferreri.blogspot.co.uk.

Salah says
Systematic lying to the infidel, must be considered part and parcel of Islamic tactics.
The Perfect Man of Islam and…LYING!!!
Narrated Jabir bin ‘Abdullah:
Allah’s Apostle said, “Who is willing to kill Ka’b bin Al-Ashraf who has hurt Allah and His Apostle?” Thereupon Muhammad bin Maslama got up saying, “O Allah’s Apostle! Would you like that I kill him?” The Prophet said, “Yes,” Muhammad bin Maslama said, “Then allow me to say a (false) thing (i.e. to deceive Kab). “The Prophet said, “You may say it.”
Bukhari 3.59.369
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/12/perfect-man-of-islam.html
gravenimage says
Very true, Salah—the “Prophet” himself was the model for this.
Champ says
Imagine! allah (satan) and the unholy quran encourage lying …
whereas the one true God condemns it:
“There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.” — Proverbs 6:16-19
“Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who act faithfully are his delight.” — Proverbs 12:22
“But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.” — Revelation 21:8
More here:
http://www.openbible.info/topics/god_hates_liars
Henry says
The far left has a similar stratagem of deception and lack of ethical standards, it’s the ‘any means to an end’ rule of conduct, whereby any dishonesty is permitted in the service of the cause.
Jay Boo says
Islam can no more survive without taqiyya than
fungus can survive without the protection of darkness.
Helga says
perfectly put…
dumbledoresarmy says
For those new to this site and this subject, here is a verse from one of the canonical texts of Islam, the Bukhari Hadith:
“Narrated in Sahih al-Bukhari, v7, p102, that Abu al-Darda’ said:
“(Verily) we smile for some people, while our hearts curse (those same people).”
Fluent-in-Arabic Raymond Ibrahim, an American son of Coptic immigrant parents, has written a series of brilliant articles on the subject of Taqiyya (and other forms of codified and sacralised Islamic deception).
It might be useful for new readers here to check them out, if they don’t know about them.
Here’s one.
http://www.meforum.org/2538/taqiyya-islam-rules-of-war
“How Taqiyya Alters Islam’s Rules of War: Defeating Jihadist Terrorism,” Middle East Quarterly, Winter 2010.
Here’s another:
http://www.meforum.org/2095/islams-doctrines-of-deception
Islam’s doctrines of deception
by Raymond Ibrahim – Jane’s Islamic Affairs Analyst , October 2008
Excerpt:
‘According to the authoritative Arabic text, “Al-Taqiyya Fi Al-Islam”:
“Taqiyya [deception] is of fundamental importance in Islam. Practically every Islamic sect agrees to it and practices it. We can go so far as to say that the practice of taqiyya is mainstream in Islam, and that those few sects not practicing it diverge from the mainstream…Taqiyya is very prevalent in Islamic politics, especially in the modern era.” [needless to say, this little book has not, I think, been translated into English – it’s just our good luck that Mr Ibrahim is fluent in Arabic and can, therefore, *read the enemy’s writings* – dda].
‘The primary Quranic verse sanctioning deception with respect to non-Muslims states: “Let believers not take for friends and allies infidels instead of believers. Whoever does this shall have no relationship left with Allah – unless you but guard yourselves against them, taking precautions.” (Quran 3:28; see also 2:173; 2:185; 4:29; 22:78; 40:28.)
‘Al-Tabari’s (838-923 AD) Tafsir, or Quranic exegeses, is essentially a standard reference in the entire Muslim world.
‘Regarding 3:28, he wrote: “If you [Muslims] are under their [infidels’] authority, fearing for yourselves, behave loyally to them, with your tongue, while harbouring inner animosity for them… Allah has forbidden believers from being friendly or on intimate terms with the infidels in place of believers – except when infidels are above them [in authority]. In such a scenario, let them act friendly towards them.”
‘Regarding 3:28, the Islamic scholar Ibn Kathir (1301-1373) wrote: “Whoever at any time or place fears their [infidels’] evil, may protect himself through outward show.”
‘As proof of this, he quotes Muhammad’s companions. Abu Darda said: “Let us smile to the face of some people while our hearts curse them.” Al-Hassan said: “Doing taqiyya is acceptable till the day of judgment [in perpetuity].”‘
More:
http://www.meforum.org/2066/war-and-peace-and-deceit-in-islam
War and Peace – and Deceit – in Islam
by Raymond Ibrahim , Pajamas Media, February 12, 2009
Excerpt:
‘The bottom line is, any Muslim who closely observes Sharia law — and that is, incidentally, the definition of a Muslim, “one who submits to (the laws of) Allah” — laws that, among other bellicosities, clearly and unambiguously split the world into two perpetually warring halves — such a Muslim will always have a “divinely sanctioned” right to deceive, until “all chaos ceases, and all religion belongs to Allah” (Koran 8:39). All Muslim overtures for peace, dialogue, or even temporary truces must be seen in this light.’
And there’s this, on another subspecies of Islamic lying:
http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11267/tawriya-lying
“Tawriya: New Islamic Doctrine Permits ‘Creative Lying'”
Paul Austin Murphy says
Apart from the use of taqiyya by Muslims to both protect and advance Islam, they are also using the law. More specifically, they are using Race Relations Law to good effect.
Tell MAMA is clear about its attempt to “racialise Muslims” (as in “cultural racism”). However, it is claiming that it is others who are doing when, legally speaking, Muslims have been trying to racialise Muslims – and even Islam itself – since the early 2000s, if not before.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/02/do_muslims_abuse_race_relations_law.html
Kel says
Well written, well said, well received. We’re onto these mendacious charlatans, and we will always catch them at their own taqiyya games.
~ RFB
Esmerelda says
Readers will find this of further interest
Have the Grievance-Mongering Taqiyya-Artists at TellMamaUK Finally Lost the Plot?
http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/142301/sec_id/142301
FatherJon says
Sadly the ‘far left’ are often the closest ally to the Islamic jihadis. In their part naivety/part anarchic stance they lend unqualified support to the slow march of Islamic evangelism across Europe. I anticipate the eventual ‘clash of civilisations’ as Huntington characterised it, if Islam can be considered a ‘civilisation’.
FJ
gravenimage says
In Islam, God himself is proudly considered a liar:
Qur’an 3:54:
“But they (the Jews) were deceptive, and Allah was deceptive, for Allah is the best of deceivers”
And this is not the only example. Can we expect honest from a creed that praises its own deity for falsehood?