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Qadri's admirable take on terrorism conceals another large elephant
in the room. Islam has for centuries used violence against non- National Defense
Muslims in what is considered a legitimate manner: through jihad. It
is not simply that Muslim armies have fought their enemies much as Persecution of Christians

Christian armies have engaged in war. Jihad is commanded in the

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later verses of the Qur'an, is endorsed in the Traditions and the
biography of Muhammad, and codified in the manuals of shari'a law.
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Qadri knows this perfectly well, and at times inadvertently reveals as
much in several ways.

Qadri does not just insist that Islam is a religion of peace and
security. By tucking all references to jihad in footnotes in
transliterated Arabic, he never has to explain what it is about and
how it relates to his rulings on what is and what is not permissible.

It is hard to be a reasonably knowledgeable Muslim and not know

that calls for violence pervade the Qur'an and sacred traditions, or
that Islamic armies have been fighting European Christians, Indian
Hindus, and others since the 7th century. FREE PASTOR HASSAN
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East, Greece, Spain and most of Eastern Europe -- until its armies sentence in Sudan on false charges of
were stopped at the gates of Vienna in 1683. espionage, inciting strife between communities,
and spreading rumors that undermine respect
for the state.
Following the terrorist attack outside Britain's Houses of Parliament on March 22,
2017, it was not surprising or wrong that many Muslims denounced the attack and
declared it to be un-Islamic. Two days afterwards, Dr. Mohammed Qureshi, chairman
of the Board of Trustees for the Shropshire Islamic Foundation, said:

We need to be united in this situation.

We should not give any religion a bad name and these people need to be
dealt with in full force and there should be zero tolerance when it comes
to dealing with them.

My heart goes out to these victims. And my heart goes out to the people's
families and those who are injured. I pray they all have peace in their
minds.
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We need to disassociate this with Islam, as Islam is a religion of peace. Victimization
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This view was echoed in a press release by the Foundation, in which sympathy for
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More recently, a document about Islamophobia published by the Green Party of the Links Between Islamism and Executions
United States affirmed the purportedly peaceful character of Islam: by Majid Rafizadeh

The highest goal of the Islamic faith is Peace. Peace is pursued over all Palestinians: Tomorrow's Secret 'Day of
and for Muslims the world over, 'holy war' has nothing to do with the Rage'
concept of jihad. The Arabic word translates as 'struggle,' and is used a by Bassam Tawil
handful of times in the Quran to speak of the struggle to stay on the
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what the Islamic scholars call a higher jihad. by Soeren Kern

These claims, however, seem innocent of the verses that say:

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So when you meet those who disbelieve [in battle], strike [their]necks
until, when you have inflicted slaughter upon them, then secure their
bonds.... And those who are killed in the cause of Allah -- never will He
waste their deeds. Surah Muhammad [47:4]

Or:

And prepare against them whatever you are able of power and of steeds
of war by which you may terrify the enemy of Allah and your enemy and
others besides them whom you do not know [but] whom Allah knows.
[Sahih International] Verse (8:60)

There are said to be 123 verses in the Quran concerning fighting and killing for the
cause of Allah -- more than a few.

These claims also show that many people seem to be buying into the narrative of
Islam as a perfect religion of peace, even if saying so runs counter to more than 1400
years of history and the official record of classical Islamic scholarship about jihad.
Islam, after all, conquered Persia, Turkey, North Africa and the Middle East, Greece,
Spain and most of Eastern Europe -- until its armies were stopped at the gates of
Vienna in 1683.

At the same time, there can be no doubt that Muslim leaders who speak out against
terrorism and radicalism need our support and that they must be the very people
governments, churches, and the security services speak to and work with if we are to
head towards the deradicalisation of Muslim communities in the West. Qureshi's
remarks deserve to be taken at face value. Neither he nor his foundation and its
associated mosque and academy has any known links to radicalism. They belong to
the largest mainstream form of Sunni Islam, the Hanafi school of Islamic law, and
there is no overt reason that Qureshi is not sincere in his belief that Islam is a religion
of peace.

At the same time, however, he must know better. His own second name is Mujahid,
which means "a fighter in the jihad". Not only that, but his mosque is, like most
others in the UK, Deobandi in orientation; and it is out of Deobandimadrasas [Islamic
religious schools] that the Taliban originated. Deobandi Islam, although mainstream,
has over the years appealed to Muslims in Pakistan and abroad who have a
fundamentalist disposition. Qureshi cannot be unaware of that. It is hard to be a
reasonably knowledgeable Muslim and not know that calls for violence pervade the
Qur'an and sacred Traditions, or that Islamic armies have been fighting European
Christians, Indian Hindus, and others since the 7th century.

What we in the West know is that a string of modern politicians and churchmen in
Europe and North America have, like Qureshi, insisted -- perhaps in a sometimes-
desperate attempt to dissociate Islamic terrorism from the religion of Islam -- that
Islam is a religion of peace. The violence, they say, is a perversion of Islam, and they
say this even as terrorist after terrorist invokes Islam as his motivation and shouts
"Allahu Akbar!" ["Allah is the greatest!"] while committing the crime. Terrorist groups,
such as al-Qaeda and Islamic State, confidently quote the Qur'an, Traditions [Hadith]

and shari'a legislation to justify their attacks.

Western leaders often turn to Muslim imams and scholars to confirm their view that
Islam is essentially like modern Judaism or Christianity, if not a mirror image of the
Quaker religion. A major expression of this approach is a book by a leading Pakistani
scholar, Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri. Translated into English, this book of some 400
pages is entitled, Fatwa on Terrorism and Suicide Bombings (London, 2010). It has
been widely praised as an outstanding authoritative text that demonstrates that
terrorism of any kind is contrary to Islamic teachings and law -- an argument
reinforced by hundreds of citations from the Qur'an, Traditions, and a host of
classical Muslim authorities.

Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri (1951-) is a scholar and religious leader with an LLB and a
PhD in Islamic Law; a politician (he founded the anti-government Pakistan Awami
PhD in Islamic Law; a politician (he founded the anti-government Pakistan Awami
Tehreek party in 1989), and an international speaker. He is touted as having studied
since childhood the many branches of religious studies under his father and other
teachers, and having authored on Islamic topics one thousand books (not an
uncommon claim among Muslim writers). He comes from a Barelvi/Sufi background,
the main opposition to Deobandi Islam in Pakistan and abroad. Qadri is also the head
of Minhaj-ul-Quran, an international organization that promotes Islamic moderation
and inter-faith work.

Qadri and his organization have made a mark on political and religious leaders in
many places. On September 24, 2011, Minhaj-ul-Quran held a large conference in
London's Wembley Arena. Qadri and other speakers issued a declaration of peace on
behalf of representatives of several religions, scholars and politicians. The conference
was endorsed by the Rector of Al-Azhar University (the chief academy in the Sunni
Islamic world); Ban Ki-Moon (Secretary General of the UN); Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu
(Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation); David Cameron
(British Prime Minister); Nick Clegg (British Deputy Prime Minister) and Rowan
Williams (Archbishop of Canterbury), among others.

It is not surprising, then, that Qadri's fatwa has made a great impression on many
concerned about terrorism instigated and carried out by organizations that lay claim
to a connection with Islam. There can be no doubt that a condemnation of Islamic
terrorism coming from an eminent Muslim figure is an important contribution to the
struggle to contain and eventually eliminate not just the terror but the radicalisation
that inevitably precedes it.

At the same time, however, it may be argued that while Qadri presents strong
religious rulings that reject acts such as suicide bombings that characterise modern
movements as in Islamic State, he fails to prove his claim that, "Islam is a religion of
peace and security, and it urges others to pursue the path of peace and protection"
(p. 21). His fatwa, in fact, only proves that certain types of violence and certain types
of victims are illegal within Islamic scripture and law. It does not show that Islam is,
in its essence, a pacifist, peace-loving faith. Let us try to disentangle this.

The fatwa rightly devotes several chapters to important topics: "The Unlawfulness of
Indiscriminately Killing Muslims" (chapter 2); "The Unlawfulness of Indiscriminately
Killing Non-Muslims and Torturing Them" (chapter 3); "The Unlawfulness of Terrorism
against Non-Muslims Even During Times of War" (chapter 4); "On the Protection of
the Non-Muslims' Lives, Properties and Places of Worship" (chapter 5); and "The
Unlawfulness of Forcing One's Belief upon Others and Destroying Places of Worship"
(chapter 6).

This is certainly a massive improvement on the rulings of Salafi sheikhs who support
Islamic terrorist groups and issue fatwas to support things such as murder and
suicide bombings. The leading Muslim Brotherhood ideologue, Sheikh Yusuf al-
Qaradawi, for example, for a long time insisted that suicide bombings carried out by
Palestinian terrorists were a legitimate form of self-defence -- and his fatwas
encouraged other sheikhs to advocate suicide attacks.

The average reader is unlikely to read the entire book; even in a glance through it,
much will be missed. One might well assume that Islam, as portrayed by Qadri,
opposes terrorism for much the same ethical reasons that Jews, Christians and others
oppose it. But a close reading shows that he is operating from a different premise to
non-Muslims. His concern is to read everything in a close context of Islamic law -- not
ethics. This is particularly noticeable in the legal underpinnings he gives to almost
everything. He devotes chapters 8-11 (pp.171-237) to an extremely conventional
discussion of the evils of rebelling against an Islamic government even if its ruler

were corrupt. Terrorists, he asserts, are to be condemned because they take up arms
against their governments. By this definition, the rebel groups fighting against
Bashar al-Assad in Syria must be condemned because they have taken up arms
against their lawful ruler.

He also devotes chapters 12-17 (pp. 239-395) to drawing a comparison between

today's terrorists and the earliest Muslim rebellious group, the Kharijites. The
Kharijites emerged after the first schism in Islam, following the assignation of the
third Caliph, when they rebelled against both the fourth Caliph, 'Ali, and the man who
became the ruler of the Umayyad Caliphate (661-750), which created the first Islamic
Empire. The dissenters shocked followers of the young faith by declaring those with
whom they disagreed to be apostates worthy of death. In their first years, they
murdered hundreds of Muslims. Their use of terror against other Muslims and their
rebellion against the Islamic state earned them a reputation as the greatest threat to
the unity of the Muslim world. By focusing so narrowly on the Kharijites in his anti-
terror polemic, Qadri reveals that his concerns are based purely on Islamic
considerations, not broader concepts of justice. Christians, Jews, secularists, and
others, for instance, condemn terrorism as a breach of human rights, Judaeo-
Christian ethics, and international law. Qadri is not interested in any of those things,
just the impropriety of terrorist actions in relation to Islamic law. This narrow view
just the impropriety of terrorist actions in relation to Islamic law. This narrow view
allows him to ignore the wider questions of violence in Islamic scripture, law, and
history.

Qadri's admirable take on terrorism conceals a large elephant in the room. Islam has
for centuries used violence against non-Muslims in what is considered a legitimate
manner, through jihad. It is not simply that Muslim armies have fought their enemies
much as Christian armies have engaged in war. Jihad is commanded in the later
verses of the Qur'an, is endorsed in the Traditions and the biography of Muhammad,
and codified in the manuals of shari'a law. Qadri knows this perfectly well, and at
times inadvertently reveals as much in several ways.

The word jihad, for example, occurs many times in the fatwa, usually when he refers
in footnotes to chapters in the great Tradition collections -- records of prophetic
injunctions to holy war; the prophet's own engagements in jihad, or his sending out
raiding parties to engage with non-believers. Thus, when Qadri tells us that it is
unlawful to kill non-Muslim women and children, the elderly, traders and farmers, and
so forth, he is citing the rules of engagement in jihad, and not that holy war against
non-Muslims is foresworn in Islamic texts. Everything he cites against the use of
terrorism is actually taken from classical sources that explain the rules that apply to
fighting jihad; not that jihad is illegitimate.

Qadri does not merely insist that Islam is a religion of peace and security. By tucking
all references to jihad in footnotes in transliterated Arabic, he never has to explain
what Islam is about and how it relates to his rulings on what is and what is not
permissible. He expands on this theme:

"The most significant proof of this is that God has named it Islam. The
word Islam is derived from the Arabic word salama or salima. It means
peace, security, safety and protection. As for its literal meaning, Islam
denotes absolute peace. As a religion, it is peace incarnate." (p. 21).

A few pages later, he expands on this, writing a long passage "On the Literal Meaning
of the Word Islam" (pp. 25-34), interspersed with quotations illustrating this. He
correctly links the word "Islam" to the three-consonant root "s-l-m", which has
undisputed connections to concepts of peace and security. He even writes at one
point "... every noun or verb derived from Islam, and every derivative or word
conjugated (sic) from it, essentially denotes peace, protection, security and safety".

Just a minute. Qadri is a fully trained Arabist; he even makes references to major
Arabic dictionaries. So he really has no excuse for writing such nonsense. It is exactly
that on at least two levels. Arabic roots create dozens of words with different
meanings, and "slm" is particularly rich in vocabulary. Salma and silm may indeed
mean "peace", but salam means both "forward buying" and a variety of the acacia
tree. Sullam means a ladder, stairs, a musical scale, a means, instrument or tool.
Salama means "blamelessness, flawlessness, and success". Salim can mean
"healthy" or "sane". Sulama means the "phalanx" bone. Sulaymani is mercury
chloride there are many more examples.

At a deeper level, most Arabic verbs can have up to fifteen (more usually ten) forms,
each with different meanings. The root that Qadri relates to peace has almost no

forms that relate to peace at all. The fourth form, aslama, is the one that gives us the
verbal noun islam. The fourth form has several meanings, none of which refers to
peace. Instead, it means "to forsake, leave, abandon, to deliver up, surrender, to
resign oneself or to submit". The most reliable Arabic-English dictionary by Wehr
translates islam as "submission, resignation", including submission to the will of God.
Unfortunately for Qadri, therefore, Islam does not mean peace. The word for peace is
salam. The word Islam means, unambiguously, submission [to the will God or Allah].

Let us return to Chapter 5, where Qadri inadvertently reveals the extent of the
pretence he is making that Islam is a religion of peace that cares for non-Muslim lives
and property. The examples he gives are genuine, but he omits a crucial fact. Only
Jews and Christians (and later, Zoroastrians in Iran) are entitled to protection within a
Muslim state or empire. Qadri calls them "citizens", but the truth is that only Muslims
can be regarded in that light. Jews and Christians are dhimmi peoples, tolerated
under certain humiliating conditions. They are somewhat favoured on account of
their having been sent scriptures and prophets, but disfavoured because they have
not accepted Allah, or God's last prophet, Muhammad. Moreover, if they initially
resist Muslim invaders, they must be fought through a jihad war. Once defeated,
they only have the right to keep their lives, property, and places of worship on
payment of a special tax known as jizya, a form of protection money. They are also
forced to live under severe restrictions, penalties and mistreatment designed to
humiliate them and keep them in their place as the inferiors of Muslims. By not
speaking of dhimmitude, the payment of jizya, or more than one thousand years of
vulnerability of Christian nations to jihad wars, Qadri again pulls the wool over
unquestioning, if well-meaning, eyes of non-Muslims.
So what exactly is Qadri up to? He is concealing important information and distorting
the Arabic vocabulary in order to drive home a narrative of Islam's deep connection
to peace and security. His strictures against terrorism are sincere and valuable, yet
his whitewashing of historical, legal and scriptural treatment of non-Muslims and the
actual practice of jihad only serves to perpetuate a myth.

Qadri and many others who adopt this position are, sadly, engaged in setting up a
smokescreen. The tactic, as a comment explains, may be found online:

"To get people to believe in two contradictory beliefs, present them both
as part of a larger belief system where it is more important to accept the
whole system than question 'minor' inconsistencies within it."

That, surely, is exactly how Qadri and so many others (even members of America's
left-leaning parties) come to function.

It is crucial to be able to see and identify this smokescreen if we do not want to throw
the baby (opposition to Islamic terrorism) out with the bathwater (whitewashing the
truth). Nevertheless, it is vital to expose and to challenge it if we are ever to come to
terms with the true nature of Islam as an expansionist, religio-political ideology.

When Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri conceals important information and distorts Arabic vocabulary in order
to drive home a narrative of Islam's deep connection to peace and security, he is engaged in setting up a
smokescreen. (Image source: ServingIslam/Wikimedia Commons)

Dr. Denis MacEoin has spent a lifetime studying Islam and related
matters. He has been a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone
Institute since 2014.

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15 Reader Comments

Elizabeth May 2, 2017 at 23:35

A very scholarly article. But for ordinary thinking people, there is so much ambiguity
in the Koran and by what is sprouted by various defenders of and spokespersons for
Islam, that at the end of the day it all seems like TAQIYYA.
We therefore judge by what we see of Islam; a religion/system seeking hegemony
over the world, shows no love or compassion, but promotes murder and mayhem, to
say the least (in case I will be found guilty of slurring a religion). And all this in the
name of a their god called Allah.
For all the Westerners who cannot see the truth but believe the lie, I can only think
that their minds have been influenced by an unholy spirit.
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Newsel May 2, 2017 at 09:24

Point on Doublethink "with the lie always one leap ahead of the truth" taken, but are
we missing the Taqiyya / Muruna process where we are constantly being lied to
regarding the truth of the longer term objective of Islamization?
Reply->

Terence Curry May 2, 2017 at 04:34

As the article states, no reasonably educated Muslim can be unaware of the
promotion of and glorification of violence and killing in this manual of terrorism
known as the Qu'ran. Having said that I cannot understand any such individual
swallowing this as a religion. Yes they are allowed to lie, not only allowed, but
encouraged to do so as a form of jihad. Deceiving the infidel until such time as they
are strong enough to force their will on us. For that reason and that reason alone. I
cannot be bothered to listen to the man elected Mayor of londonistan. Oh yes it's a
religion of peace all right. they can't even get along with each other. A strong leader
is needed, ruthless even. That is he sad truth. Democracy plays no part in their world.
People like Saddam Hussein al Tikriti, or Colonel Gadddafi. Yes they were monsters
by our standards, but is Iraq a better place since we got rid of him, is Syria a better
place since various factions decided they wanted to take over. It wasn't us, or the
Americans, nor yet the Russkis who started the civil war there. Without that, would
we have armies of refugees coming across, boosting the numbers, and hastening the
day when their flag flies over Europe. I wonder what will become of the EU then?
very sadly that is what is going to happen unless we wake up, and then what? they

only understand force, this religion of peace. The longer we tolerate it, the harder it
will be.
Reply->

ken Apr 30, 2017 at 18:03

The apologists for Islam who create smokescreens are in fact engaging in VERBAL
jihad to disguise the work of their friends and allies, the terrorist jihadis who carry out
military jihad or 'kinetic' jihad.
LYING about jihad is also a form of jihad... verbal jihad. The verbal jihad is the most
common form of jihad. Ordinary Muslims are often more informed about jihad than
they let on in conversations with kafirs.
One must have a complete knowledge of jihad in order to get behind the
smokescreen and force the apologists for jihad to admit that you have figured out
what they are up to.
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David Apr 30, 2017 at 07:10

Thank you Denis for a very informative explanation pertaining to the widely held
misconceptions of what Islam is really about. I have come to the conclusion that non
Muslims who have studied this toxic ideology are more clued up concerning the facts
that you have presented than the majority of its adherents.
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Alan Canter Apr 30, 2017 at 07:08

One could go further and say that the expression "Islam is a religion of peace" is a
smokescreen which could apply to any authoritarian system. Putin could say that
Russian gangsterism is a system of peace because when all submit to it (in fear of
their lives) there will be no more trouble. Ditto for the 'Assad Family regime of
peace', the political Fascism system of peace. We can all have "Peace" as long as all
those pesky dissenters are silenced or killed.
Reply->

John MacArthur Apr 30, 2017 at 05:18

One might ask the purpose of Qadri's public disavowal of violence; surely it is yet
another thread in the expansionist strand. Like all other Muslim sects, whether
Deobandi, Wahhabi or the multitude of others, their mandate, their mitzvah, their
unwavering intention, is to propagate the worship of Allah all over the world by
whatever means presents as most expedient. The tactic of peddling the 'religion of
peace' narrative finds favour with the political left - the natural allies of Islam - and
Qadri well knows it. If the lion can be persuaded to lie down with the lamb, even
temporarily, it makes the resultant conquest so much easier when the time comes.
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Glenn Nelson Apr 29, 2017 at 23:17

An in-depth examination that helps a novice like myself better understand the
nuances of those Muslims who make the claim of "religion of peace". Another
revealing aspect of Islam that makes me doubt its motives is the almost total lack of
integration of Muslims into any non-Muslim societies that they migrate to. Why is
this? It seems to me that this isolation, followed by attempts to override and
dominate (by violence or stealth jihad} the secular and religious communities they
migrate to reveals that they are not peaceable at all. They NEVER EVER respect or
adjust to their host countries traditions, laws, etc.
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 Judy Wall Apr 29, 2017 at 21:02
"Islam is a religion of peace" is an oxymoron. When we hear someone in a crowd yell
"Allahu Akbar" we know that he will not be throwing out $100 bills but bullets,
bombs, death and destruction. By their fruit shall ye know them.
Reply->

Ron McCracken Apr 29, 2017 at 16:55

Not only have Islamists regarded Christians and Jews as enemies for many centuries,
they regard one another similarly. Consider that after 1,500 years there is not a
single Islamic democracy anywhere in the world. Note that Saudi Arabia has taken
not a single refugee/migrant from the Syrian war. Recall Mohammed's instruction to
Muslims, in the Quran, to feign friendship with other groups and then betray them.
There is nothing to commend Islam. It is a domineering, abusive, religion/political
system. It relies entirely on compulsion and submission, wherever it exists, to benefit
a very few powerful individuals or families.
Reply->

Elizabeth Apr 29, 2017 at 14:57

A very scholarly article. But for ordinary thinking people, there is so much ambiguity
in the Koran and by what is sprouted by various defenders of and spokespersons for
Islam, that at the end of the day it all seems like TAQIYYA.
We therefore judge by what we see of Islam; a religion/system seeking hegemony
over the world, shows no love or compassion, but promotes murder and mayhem, to
say the least (in case I will be found guilty of slurring a religion). And all this in the
name of a their god called Allah.
For all the Westerners who cannot see the truth but believe the lie, I can only think
that their minds have been influenced by an unholy spirit.
Reply->

jayell Apr 29, 2017 at 13:37

Excellent article, but it only seems to exemplify yet again the practices of taqqyia,
kitman or/and the four other kinds of codified islamic dishonesty. Can't it just be
accepted that, behind the monumental fraudulent religious facade, Islam is basically
a barbaric pseudo-theocratic totalitarian political ideology formulated by its founder
et al in order to further his personal ambitions?
Reply->

Russell Apr 29, 2017 at 10:52

One of the most famous Imams from around the year 1000 stated that it is perfectly
ok to lie to fulfill an Islamic goal. One cannot trust anything an Islamic says, because
lying is part of the religion/culture. Never forget that one.
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JIMJFOX Apr 29, 2017 at 10:45

There are SIX VARIATIONS of deception that are mandated in Islamic Shariah:
1Taqiyya (Shia) or Muda'rat (Sunni): tactical deceit for the purposes of spreading
Islam.
2Kitman: deceit by omission.
3.Tawriya: deceit by ambiguity.
4Taysir: deceit through facilitation (not having to observe all the tenets of Sharia).
5Darura: deceit through necessity (to engage in something "Haram" or forbidden).
6Muruna: the temporary suspension of Sharia to make Muslim migrants appear
"moderate."
Muslims imitate Allah 'THE GREATEST OF DECEIVERS'.
Can you identify any of the 'approved' Islamic lies he uses??
Reply->

Helena Apr 29, 2017 at 10:14

It is twelve before midnight! Isn't it about time that we do something about this? The
article is very clear and I totally agree with it, since I also know these facts. What are
we going to do about it?
It will be all out war against us if we physically do something because it is too late
now. What we CAN do about it is continue to inform people about these facts. Not
just in articles in the Gatestone Institute.
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