Ladies and gentlement, there is a good reason not to believe someone if they frequently defend Islamic politics but deny being a Muslim.  I frankly have little trust for people who claim to reject Islam, but then jump to rush to the defense of Islamic states in every single geopolitical discussion.  This includes both neo-nazis and neo-marxists.  The neo-nazi movement is completely and totally in the pocket of Islam.  Even if leaders try to focus on “white christian” heritage, they are tag team partners with Islam the same way that Bret Hart and Owen Hart were tag team partners.  It doesn’t matter if they deny it, I don’t believe that they are not controlled by Muslims.  And not just the neo-nazi movement, but the original nazi movement too.

As for Marxists, if your line is “I’m not a Muslim, but I support theocratic Iran, I supported theocratic Afghanistan against the Soviets, I support Al-Qaeda, I support Muslims over the ruling Chinese Communist regime, I consider Pol Pot a revisionist for alleged theoretical reasons (but really because he went after Muslims), I support east Caucasus Muslims when they went against the Soviets,” then I have good reason to be suspicious. If you support open theocratic regimes over their Marxist resistance labeling the resistance revisionist, then I definitely question the sincerity of your atheism and the sincerity of your Marxism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taqiyya

Within the Shia theological framework,[1] the concept of Taqiyya (تقية – ‘fear, guard against’, also taghiyeh)[2] refers to a dispensation allowing believers to conceal their faith when under threat, persecution or compulsion.[3]

The word “al-Taqiyya” literally means: “Concealing or disguising one’s beliefs, convictions, ideas, feelings, opinions, and/or strategies at a time of imminent danger, whether now or later in time, to save oneself from physical and/or mental injury.” A one-word translation would be “dissimulation.” [4]

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• 1 Shi’i View
• 2 Use in politics
• 3 See also
• 4 References
• 5 Further reading
• 6 External links

[edit] Shi’i View

An eminent Shia authority, Ayatollah Sistani describes the concept of Taqiyya as follows: “1)Taqiyah is done for safety reasons. For example, a person fears that he might be killed or harmed, if he does not observe Taqiyah. In this case, it is obligatory to observe Taqiyah.

2) Reconciliatory Taqiyah. This type of Taqiyah is done when a person intends to reconcile with the other side or when he intends to soften their hearts. This kind of Taqiyah is permissible but not obligatory.

3) Sometimes, Taqiyah may cause a more important obligation to be lost or missed, if so it is forbidden. For example, when I know that silence would cause oppression and infidelity to spread and will make people go astray, in such a situation it is not permissible to be silent and to dissimulate.

4) Sometimes, Taqiyah may lead to the death of an innocent person. If so, it is not permissible. It is therefore haram (forbidden) to kill a human being to save your own life.[5]”

The Taqiyah doctrine is based on the following verse from Qur’an 3:28: “Let not the believers take for friends or helpers unbelievers rather than believers. If any do that, in nothing will there be help from Allah; except by way of precaution, that ye may guard yourselves from them”. Sunni commentator Ibn Kathir explained that “believers that fear for their safety from the unbelievers… are allowed to show friendship to the unbelievers outwardly, but never inwardly”.

According to the Shia scholar Muhammad Husain Jafari Sahiwal, Shi’ism would not have spread if it wasn’t for taqqiyah. (Referring to instances where Shiites have been ruthlessly persecuted by the Sunni political elite, during the Umayyad and Abbasid empires.[6].

[edit] Use in politics

Muslims and Islamists are sometimes accused of practicing Taqiyya in contemporary political debates. For instance, this accusation has been levelled by Fouad Ajami at the theologian Tariq Ramadan,[7] by James Woolsey at Islamist terrorists,[8] and by Michael Rubin and others at the government of Iran.[9][10] Others have responded that the accusers misunderstand the meaning of the term and that politicians of all religions lie, including (presumably) Muslim politicians.[7][11][12]

[edit] See also

• Abdullah ibn Saba
• Hudna
• Doctrine of mental reservation
• Ketman
• Marrano
• Crypto-Islam
  • The Moriscos of Spain were the baptized descendants of Iberian Muslims. Among them there were faithful Christians and Crypto-Muslims.

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