Until the advent of materialism and 19th c. dogma, Western Civilisation was superior to anything Islam had developed. Islam has not aided in the development of the modern world; in fact civilisation has only been created in spite of Islam. Proof of this resides in the 'modern' world and the unending political-economic and spiritual poverty of Muslim states and regions. Squatting on richer civilisations is not 'progress'. Islam is pagan, totalitarian, and irrational.
Ideology not the individual counts. Lots of Germans were Nazis and not too keen on killing Jews. But it happened. Many Russians during Stalin's reign were indifferent about invading or controlling through proxies large parts of the world. But it happened. Many Muslims don't support Islamic Fascism and terror. But it still goes on. Perhaps most Arabs and Muslims do not countenance Taqiya or lying to the infidel to further Islamic aspirations. But it happens and this is a vital part of Muslim expansionism.
Ibrahim's critique of Taqiya or Deceit – is a must read [http://tool.donation-net.net/Images/Email/1097/Taqiyya_and_Islam_s_rules_of_war.pdf]. It is the best organized and lucid expostulation of Muslim perfidy and immorality. Lie to spread Islam. Deceive to break the infidel. Break contracts and agreements if it benefits Muslim objectives. Taqiya is a direct offspring of pagan Arab culture. It comes out of the Arab ethos that any action taken against the 'enemy' and which helps you achieve your objectives is valid. Morality, contracts, social norms can all be ignored and damned.
Taqiya is premised on the ideals of the 5.000 year old Arab moon cult and its associated deformed culture and attitudes. It just reinforces how old, how pagan, and how utterly pre-modern Islam is.
One can summarize the main ideas of Ibrahim's historically valid analysis with the following points – but I would urge people to read the 12 page article in its entirety:
Sunni doctrine makes Taqiya acceptable and mandatory when waging jihad or war against the infidel.
The Shia doctrine of Taqiya being 'fear' of persecution and lying to prevent such persecution has been supplanted by the Sunni ideal of using Taqiya to spread Islam. [Most of the Muslim world some 80%, is Sunni].
Deceit in Islamic theory and practice is often elevated to be better than military virtue or courage.
The Koran adjures the use of deceit towards non-Muslims [3:28, 3:54, 8:30, 10:21, for example).
Mohammed's ruthless, murderous career was full of Taqiya, the breaking of contracts, agreements, peace treaties and accords. As Mohammed said in one battle, 'For war is deceit.' He famously broke many treaties in his bloodthirsty expansion of his family's cult and his moon cult ideology.
The Koran and Islamic scholarly writing make it clear that Taqiya is a part of war; and since Islam must either subjugate or exterminate non-believers through jihad, Taqiya as deception is mandatory.
The Koran and Islamic writing make it clear that Muslims can break agreements if they 'feel' that the infidel are about to abrogate their contract. No proof of this is needed. Just the 'feeling' that the non-believer is 'up to something'. A pre-emptive attack and breakage of the treaty is thus permitted.
The Muslim world-view of the House of Islam at perpetual war with the Infidel, makes Taqiya in practice totally acceptable. This endless war will only end when the world is Islamic.
As Ibrahim states the implications of Taqiya in the real world are clear: “Yet most Westerners continue to think that Muslim mores, laws, and ethical constraints are near identical to those of the Judeo-Christian tradition. Naively or arrogantly, today's multiculturalist leaders project their own worldview onto Islamists....Right and wrong in Islam have little to do with universal standards....”
Nicely put. The Arab inspired pagan Fascism of Islam and the Koran are completely different than Western culture. These two world views share nothing in common. Islam is a universal will to power ideology with Orientalist, pagan pretensions. It is thus very similar in many respects to Nazism and Communism, modern European Fascisms which had designs to eradicate the modern world, freedom, individuality and return to the dark ages of cult control, communalism, and ritualized pagan practices.
The mistake that many people make is that they equate Islam with Christianity believing the Muslim lie that Allah is the same as the Jewish Yaweh or the Christian Father. Allah is ali-ilah or the male moon deity of Mecca. It is a 5.000 year old pagan object, worshiped by Arabs as part of a generalized and quite vast array of moon deities. Mohammed's 'invention' was to try and convince Jews and Christians that their God was the Arab moon deity and vice-versa.
The fact that Mohammed failed to argue his case persuasively to attract the 'unbelievers' to his program, resorting instead to 80 odd military campaigns which included, theft, rape, enslavement, murder, castration, and thousands of dead – not to mention deceit – should be enough to dissuade any modern do-gooder, that Islam is even remotely similar to the teachings of Christ, Moses, Maimonides, Bernhard, or Erasmus. Islam has precious little in connection with Judeo-Christianity. Not matter how hard academics, multi-cult blowhards, Marxist Leftards, or 'experts' try, the real world black and white fact is that Islam is diametrically opposed and the opposite of the foundations of Western culture.
Taqiya or lying, is just another example of this reality.