Deception is Islamic, despite attempts to deceive you into believing otherwise. My latest in PJ Media:
The establishment media is always ready to explain to us how, despite the ever-mounting body count of jihad warfare, Islam is entirely benign and teaches peace and tolerance.
To pull off this legerdemain requires advanced skill in the art of deception — a level of skill that was on display in a recent BuzzFeed piece designed to show us that Islam doesn’t teach deception at all, contrary to the claims of those nasty right-wing “Islamophobes.”
In assuring us that taqiyya, deception of unbelievers in Islam, is not really Islamic, BuzzFeed served up generous helpings of deception.
Ishmael N. Daro of BuzzFeed writes: “Mohammad Fadel, an expert on Islamic law at the University of Toronto, described taqiyya (and its many alternative spellings) as ‘a doctrine of prudential dissimulation’ that arose from a time when Muslims were minorities in hostile societies. It instructed Muslims that hiding one’s faith could be permissible to escape persecution. It’s more closely associated with the Shiite branch of Islam, whose adherents are themselves often minorities within Muslim societies.”
Fadel leaves out the fact that the Muslims who were “minorities in hostile societies” were Shi’a Muslims in Sunni Muslim societies. He gives a hint of this when he says: “It’s more closely associated with the Shiite branch of Islam, whose adherents are themselves often minorities within Muslim societies.”
Only an attentive reader will put together the fact that it was Muslim-on-Muslim persecution — Sunni persecution of Shi’ites — that led the Shi’ites to develop this concept.
As I explain in my book The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran, the concept of taqiyya was formulated during the time of the sixth Imam, Jafar al-Sadiq, in the middle of the Eighth Century, when the Shi’ites were being persecuted by the Sunni caliph al-Mansur. Taqiyya allowed Shi’ites to pretend to be Sunnis in order to protect themselves from Sunnis who were killing Shi’ites. Until the conversion of Persia to Shi’ism, taqiyya was an important element of Shi’ite survival. Sunnis, in the majority almost everywhere, would not infrequently take it upon themselves to cleanse the land of those whom they referred to as Rafidites, or rejecters: those who rejected the caliphates of Abu Bakr, Umar, and Uthman.
Fadel adds: “The Qur’an permitted Muslims in that situation, who were fleeing death or torture or other bad treatment, to dissemble about their true beliefs. And as long as they were faithful in their hearts, they would not be considered sinful.”
But then BuzzFeed adds that Fadel “said taqiyya does not allow for broad deceptions and has no connection to Sharia.”
How could something that the Qur’an permits have no connection to Sharia? Sharia is formulated from the Qur’an and Sunnah. Fadel is relying on the ignorance of his audience.
Fadel also glides by the fact that something that is permitted in the Qur’an is not just a Shi’ite thing, but something that applies to all Muslims. The great Islamic scholar Ignaz Goldziher points out that while it was formulated by Shi’ites, “it is accepted as legitimate by other Muslims as well, on the authority of Qur’an 3:28.” Qur’an 3:28 warns believers not to take unbelievers as “friends or helpers,” “unless that you but guard yourselves against them.” This is a foundation of the idea that believers may legitimately deceive unbelievers when under pressure. The word used for “guard” in the Arabic is tuqatan, the verbal noun from taqiyyatan — hence the increasingly familiar term taqiyya.
The Sunni commentator on the Qur’an Ibn Kathir says that the phrase “unless that you but guard yourselves against them” means that “believers who in some areas or times fear for their safety from the disbelievers” may “show friendship to the disbelievers outwardly, but never inwardly. For instance, Al-Bukhari recorded that Abu Ad-Darda’ said, ‘We smile in the face of some people although our hearts curse them.’ Al-Bukhari said that Al-Hasan said, ‘The Tuqyah [taqiyya] is allowed until the Day of Resurrection.” Abu Ad-Darda’ was a companion of Muhammad.
Also, there is Muhammad’s statement: “War is deceit” (Bukhari 4.52.259).
Muhammad also allowed for lying in battle and lying between a husband and wife. And when Muhammad gave permission to one of his followers, Muhammad bin Maslama, to murder one of his critics, Ka’b bin al-Ashraf, he also gave Muhammad bin Maslama permission to lie to Ka’b in order to lure him close enough to be killed (Bukhari 4.52.271).
This matters because Muhammad is the “excellent example of conduct” for Muslims (Qur’an 33:21).
BuzzFeed’s Ishmael N. Daro engages in some taqiyya himself when he says: “Reported hate crimes against Muslims rose by 20% from 2015 to 2016, according to the most recent FBI hate crimes report. That’s higher than for any other group.” He omits the fact that the same report shows that hate crimes against Jews are twice as common as hate crimes against Muslims. But there is no national hand-wringing about anti-Semitism the way there is about “Islamophobia.” And why not?
Also, the “anti-Muslim hate crimes” that turn out to have been faked by Muslims are so numerous as to be commonplace.
Finally, BuzzFeed brings us the imam Omar Suleiman to complain that “bigoted groups” have supposedly hijacked Google with material that is false about Islam. In reality, it is Suleiman who has hijacked Google with misleading apologetic material about Islam that Google has allowed to take precedence over truthful information….
Read the rest here.
DBM echo says
Since Muslims only believe and want to live by Shariah law (law that they believe which came directly from their Allah), and not any man-made, stating that they consider the Constitution to be man-made law, how could they serve truthfully, in any federal elective/appointed office, since Article VI requires an oath of support to that constitution. And every state constitution requires each elected/appointed person in the state to take an oath to both that state’s constitution and the US Constitution. Maybe these Muslims are trying to put one over on us. Muslims practice taqiyya, lying for the advancement of Islam. We never know when they’re truthful, including when they take an oath.
Granddaddy says
A lot of them now take their oaths with one hand on the Quran. By doing this, they believe they are not bound under our law (Quran 66:2). They could lie anyway (Quran 3:28) and swear on the Bible, but apparently some of them feel a twinge of guilt.
J D S says
Why would any non muslim vote for a muslim for public office?
Why would any non muslim official appoint any muslim to public position?
Givin the fact that muslim follow the koran and hadith and imam teachings why would anyone want muslims in America?
America is full…we don’t need anymore people ..however it is possible to make more room for qualified persons with job skills who love American values. Especially those from the actual religion of peace…”Christianity”,,,
revereridesagain says
I’m always amazed by that photograph. I had no idea that a monkey could be taught to read arabic. Or to point to it, at any rate…
MCD says
I thought they were catching flies with their gaping mouths.
J D S says
I once captioned this picture muslim carolers singing for their god allah (unknown)
gravenimage says
Robert Spencer in PJ Media: Taqiyya About Taqiyya in BuzzFeed
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Taqiyya about Taqiyya indeed. There are also many more forms of Muslim lying, including Kitman, Tawriya, Taysir, Darura, and Maruna.
Shirley Cameron says
Most people are too lazy to read everything about islam, it will be too late to think, ”I should have”, when the time comes, it’ll be too late. The readers of rubbish like BuzzFeed, will believe the crap that comes out of that moslem’s lying mouth. Never, never take the word of a moslem, Taqiyya is the first thing they learn when invading other countries, like they have, they practice it constantly, but, sadly, the Western people are a gullible lot, ready to believe what comforts them, without a thought of what WILL be the future of their children and grandchildren.
Granddaddy says
I’m sure everyone here knows this, but I just want to point it out,
Deception is permitted by sharia:
One should compare the bad consequences entailed by lying to those entailed by telling the truth, and if the consequences of telling the truth are more damaging, one is entitled to lie…
r8.2, “Permissible Lying”, Reliance of the Traveller
Also,
Narrated by Um Kulthum bint Uqba
That she heard Allah’s Apostle saying, “He who makes peace between the people by inventing good information or saying good things, is not a liar.”
Sahih Bukhari, Volume 3, Book 49, Number 857
Also,
Indeed, Allah has allowed you to be released from your oaths. And Allah is your protector, and he is knowing, the wise.
Quran 66:2
And Allah himself is even allowed to lie,
Whatever a Verse (revelation) do We [Allah] abrogate or cause to be forgotten, We bring a better one or similar to it. Know you not that Allah is able to do all things?
Quran 2:106
So Muslims are allowed to lie even to each other. Their culture is based on ignorance and deception. And so they get monsters for leaders who break treaties and kill their own people. And they think nothing of it. Personally, I don’t care if they kill each other, good riddance. But the fact is, the Muslim “religion” teaches Muslims to do this stuff: how to lie, murder, hate, and not much else. And yet still, 17 years after 9/11, and 32,000+ terrorist attacks around the world, you’ll hear people saying Islam is a religion of peace and “radical” Muslims are corrupting the religion. Anyone who watches the news has to realize there’s something wrong with that. If Christians were fighting holy wars in the name of Jesus, you can bet they’d be all over it. Even though most people know nothing about it. The Quran is so much different from the Bible that explaining it to someone ignorant (as people who listen to this Mr. Daro and those like him, are ignorant) in either one (the Quran or the Bible) is an education in frustration. Allah teaches his followers just about nothing that we in the West would recognize as civilized. Jesus teaches love and peace and tolerance. They are savages and barbarians. We are not. And yet here they are, taking over our country right under our noses. They’re not stupid, they just like evil. And a whole lot of people who know nothing about either evil or good, and have no interest in doing anything but opening their big mouths and demonstrating their stupidity and ignorance, just follow along. And this has been going on apparently for 1400 years. It says something about the human mind.
Marc Sanders says
In fact, taqiyya is so central to Islam, that the sixth Imam, Ja’far al-Sadiq, said this: “al-Taqiyya is my religion, and the religion of my ancestors. He who doesn’t practice al-Taqiyya, doesn’t practice his religion.” He is one of the highest and most respected authorities in all of Islam.
gravenimage says
+1
gerard says
my title for the photo The Planet of the Apes
FYI says
Take a close look at that photograph of those evil,hypocritical ,demonic ,creatures of islam.Not one of these baying,fradulently pious moslems will have any concept of a genuine Love of God(because if they did they would obey His laws(10+2) without question,with loving obedience and humility,and not their god allah’s warped commandment-of -God violating koranic teachings:They would also obey the 2 chief laws which are COMPLETELY MISSING IN islam)
Look at that picture and then consider the following:-
“Love the lord your God with all your heart,with all your soul and with all your mind.
This is the greatest and the most important commandment.The second most important commandment is like it:love thy neighbour as thyself.
The WHOLE LAW of Moses and the teachings of the prophets depend on these two commandments”
Matthew 22 v 37-40
Do you see any sign of LOVE of God in heart,soul and mind of these baying creatures of islam,the religion of hate?No.
You will note that these TWO supreme laws of God are..
1.found in Judaism and in Christianity
2.Defined as being “the whole of the law”:the most important aspect of God
3.Placed ABOVE the 10 commandments,that’s how important they are
4 COMPLETELY MISSING in allah..in islam ..in the koran..the example of their “prophet”
So the “WHOLE OF THE LAW” is completely absent in islam!
That explains the hatred and the demonic behavior:that is why those who subscribe to islam will fail God’s Judgement because they do not obey nor conform to His laws(instead they follow allah’s commandment-of-God violating teachings in the “holy”koran..but allah is NOT the True Biblical God)
If muslims truly followed the true God(of Moses,of Elijah etc)they would know this.
They don’t.See if you can find any moslem,any scholar of islam,to explain HOW and WHY allah missed
“THE WHOLE OF THE LAW” in his “perfect” koran.
“They will perish because they did not welcome and LOVE the truth to be saved”
2 Thessalonians 2 v 11
Frank Day says
” a level of skill that was on display in a recent BuzzFeed piece designed to show us that Islam doesn’t teach deception at all, contrary to the claims of those nasty right-wing “Islamophobes.”
Not to mention those pesky Muslim enthusiasts.
Harbi says
One good rebuttal to Muslims who claim that only Shia Muslims practice taqiyya, is to ask them to explain the Oran fatwa. This fatwa was issued way back in 1504 by a Sunni Muslim mufti, and was addressed to Sunni Muslims living in Spain; it both permitted and encouraged them to use taqiyya, i.e. dissimulation, lying etc. against the Spanish Christians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oran_fatwa
Additionally, this fatwa is also backed up by a a brilliantly researched and in-depth study paper that outlines the historic usage of taqiyya within Sunni Islam generally, but which importantly concludes that the core texts that permit and encourage taqiyya (i.e. standard Sunni texts) were already widely prevalent and accessible to Spanish Muslims, at the time that this fatwa was issued to them.
The study paper can be found here entitled “Dissimulation in Sunni Islam and Morisco Taqiyya”: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/289938554_Dissimulation_in_Sunni_Islam_and_Morisco_Taqiyya
gravenimage says
There are many other kinds of Muslim lying.