Taqiyya.
Prior to the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, and the tsunami of Islamophobia it unleashed, I’d never heard of taqiyya. Nor had any of the Muslims, or those identified as Muslims, that I had encountered before that time. More precisely, the topic never came up. Not once.
As explained by Islamophobes, and pro-Israel flunkies in particular, taqiyya means not only “liar” but much, much more. In their telling, taqiyya not only permits but positively requires Muslims to lie and conceal, about anything and everything, in order to achieve their collective objective of global domination, thus transforming the entire planet into an Islamic caliphate. Through subterfuge, of course. It is a divine license, directly provided by Allah, to fabricate and dissemble at will. It is the primary religious obligation of every Muslim, whether religious or not, exceeding the Shahada and the other pillars of the Muslim faith. …more
