Beware
Islam's Doctrine of Deception
by Raymond Ibrahim
PJ Media
September 24, 2015
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Originally published under the title "Ben Carson Exposes Islamic
'Taqiyya,' But There's Even More You Should Know."
Of all the points presidential candidate Ben Carson made in
defense of his position that he "would not advocate that we put a Muslim
in charge of this nation," most poignant is his reference to taqiyya, one
of Islam's doctrines of deception.
According to Carson, whoever becomes president should be "sworn in on a stack
of Bibles, not a Koran":
"I do not believe Sharia is consistent with the
Constitution of this country," Carson said, referencing the Islamic law derived
from the Koran and traditions of Islam. "Muslims feel that their religion is
very much a part of your public life and what you do as a public official, and
that's inconsistent with our principles and our Constitution."
Carson said that the only exception he'd make
would be if the Muslim running for office "publicly rejected all the tenets of
Sharia and lived a life consistent with that."
"Then I wouldn't have any problem," he
said.
However, on several occasions Carson mentioned
"Taqiyya," a practice in the Shia Islam denomination in which a Muslim can
mislead nonbelievers about the nature of their faith to avoid religious
persecution.
"Taqiyya is a component of Shia that allows,
and even encourages you to lie to achieve your goals," Carson
said.
There's much to be said here. First, considering that the current U.S.
president has expunged
all reference to Islam in security documents and would have Americans
believe that Islamic doctrine is more or less like Christianity, it is certainly
refreshing to see a presidential candidate referencing a little known but
critically important Muslim doctrine.
As for the widely cited notion that taqiyya is a Shia doctrine, this needs to
be corrected, as it lets the world's vast majority of Muslims, the Sunnis, off
the hook. According to Sami Mukaram, one of the world's foremost authorities on
taqiyya,
Taqiyya 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.[1]
Taqiyya is often associated with the Shias because, as a persecuted minority
group interspersed among their Sunni rivals, they have historically had more
reason to dissemble. Today, however, Sunnis living in the West find themselves
in the place of the Shia. Now they are the minority surrounded by their historic
enemies—Western "infidels"—and so they too have plenty of occasion to employ
taqiyya.
As long as they are allegiant to Islam in their
hearts, Muslims are permitted to behave like
non-Muslims.
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Nor would making Muslims swear on Bibles be very effective. As long as their
allegiance to Islam is secure in their hearts, Muslims can behave like
non-Muslims—including by praying before Christian icons, wearing crosses, and
making the sign of the cross[2]—anything
short of actually killing a Muslim, which is when the taqiyya goes too far
(hence why Muslims in the U.S. military often
expose their true loyalties when they finally reach the point of having to fight
fellow Muslims in foreign nations).
For those with a discerning eye, taqiyya is all around us. Whether Muslim
refugees pretending to convert to Christianity (past
and present),
or whether an Islamic gunman gaining entrance inside a church by feigning
interest in Christian prayers—examples abound on a daily basis.
Consider the following anecdote
from Turkey. In order to get close enough to a Christian pastor to assassinate
him, a group of Muslims, including three women, feigned interest in
Christianity, attended his church, and even participated in baptism ceremonies.
"These people had infiltrated our church and collected information about me, my
family and the church and were preparing an attack against us," said the pastor
in question, Emre Karaali. "Two of them attended our church for over a year and
they were like family."
If some Muslims are willing to go to such lengths to eliminate the already
downtrodden Christian minorities in their midst—attending churches and baptisms
and becoming "like family" to those "infidels" they intend to kill—does anyone
doubt that a taqiyya-practicing Muslim presidential candidate might have no
reservations about swearing on a stack of Bibles?
A taqiyya-practicing Muslim presidential candidate
would have no reservations about swearing on a 'stack of
Bibles.'
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Precedents for such treachery litter the whole of Islamic history—and begin
with the Muslim prophet himself: During the Battle of the Trench (627 AD), which
pitted Muhammad and his followers against several non-Muslim tribes collectively
known as "the Confederates," a Confederate called Naim bin Masud went to the
Muslim camp and converted to Islam. When Muhammad discovered the Confederates
were unaware of Masud's deflection to Islam, he counseled him to return and try
somehow to get his tribesmen to abandon the siege. "For war is deceit," Muhammad
assured him.
Masud returned to the Confederates without their knowledge that he had
switched sides and began giving his former kin and allies bad advice. He also
intentionally instigated quarrels among the various tribes until, thoroughly
distrusting each other, they disbanded and lifted the siege, allowing an
embryonic Islam to grow. (One Muslim website extols this incident for being illustrative of how
Muslims can subvert non-Muslims.)
In short, if a Muslim were running for president of the U.S. in the hopes of
ultimately subverting America to Islam, he could, in Carson's words, easily be
"sworn in on a stack of Bibles, not a Koran" and "publicly reject all the tenets
of Sharia." Indeed, he could claim to be a Christian and attend church every
week.
It speaks very well about Carson that he is aware of—and not hesitant to
mention—taqiyya. But that doctrine's full ramifications—how much deceiving it
truly allows and for all Muslim denominations, not just the Shia—need to be more
widely embraced.
The chances of that happening are dim. Already "mainstream media" like the
Washington Post are taking Carson to task for "misunderstanding"
taqiyya—that is, for daring to be critical of anything Islamic. These
outlets could benefit from learning more about Islam and deception per the below
links:
- My expert
testimony used in a court case to refute "taqiyya about taqiyya."
- The even more elastic doctrine
of tawriya, which allows Muslims to deceive fellow Muslims by lying
"creatively."
- My 2008 essay, "Islam's
Doctrines of Deception," commissioned and published by Jane's Islamic
Affairs Analyst.
- Recent
examples of how onetime good Muslim neighbors turn violent once they
grow in strength and numbers.
Raymond Ibrahim is a Judith Friedman
Rosen fellow at the Middle East Forum and a Shillman fellow at the David
Horowitz Freedom Center.
[1] Sami
Mukaram, At-Taqiyya fi 'l-Islam (London: Mu'assisat at-Turath
ad-Druzi, 2004), p. 7, author's translation.
[2] Mukaram,
At-Taqiyya fi 'l-Islam, pp. 30
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