"Verses 28-32 is mainly concerned with warnings of Allah’s judgment, but v. 28
warns believers not to take unbelievers as “friends or helpers” (َأَوْلِيَا — a
word that means more than casual friendship, but something like alliance),
“unless (it be) that ye but guard yourselves against them.” This is a foundation
of the idea that believers may legitimately deceive unbelievers when under
pressure. The word used for “guard” in the Arabic is tuqātan (تُقَاةً), the
verbal noun from taqiyyatan — hence the increasingly familiar term taqiyya. Ibn
Kathir says that the phrase Pickthall renders as “unless (it be) that ye but
guard yourselves against them” means that “believers who in some areas or times
fear for their safety from the disbelievers” may “show friendship to the
disbelievers outwardly, but never inwardly. For instance, Al-Bukhari recorded
that Abu Ad-Darda’ said, ‘We smile in the face of some people although our
hearts curse them.’ Al-Bukhari said that Al-Hasan said, ‘The Tuqyah [taqiyya] is
allowed until the Day of Resurrection.” While many Muslim spokesmen today
maintain that taqiyya is solely a Shi’ite doctrine, shunned by Sunnis, the great
Islamic scholar Ignaz Goldziher points out that while it was formulated by
Shi’ites, “it is accepted as legitimate by other Muslims as well, on the
authority of Qur’an 3:28.” The Sunnis of Al-Qaeda practice it today."
I don't know of any religion that condones lying to others, just because they are not of the same faith as you. I don't know of any other religion that advocates lying in wait, pretending to be friends with someone until you have a chance to over come them. The more I read about Islam the more I find that it is a religion that is focused on conquest at any cost.
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