Sri Lankan Buddhist Explains The Quran
He points out that political leaders just don't get it, and explains the reality of what the Quran commands:
Taqiyya, that he mentions several times, is religiously-permitted lying for the good of Islam.
via @blazingcatfur
I looked up "taqiyya" on Wikipedia. As the entry explains it, taqiyya is a Shi'ite doctrine which permits a believer to deny his religion or violate its strictures when he's under duress. That sounds ethically reasonable to me.
The article also mentions another interpretation of taqiyya, as an obligation to conceal the mysteries of Shi'ism from non-Shi'ites. That's annoying to the uninitiated but curious, but hardly unusual for a religion.
Eric Hanneken at May 6, 2014 7:22 AM
Amy Alkon
https://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2014/05/sri-lankan-budd.html#comment-4590362">comment from Eric HannekenEric, Wikipedia and a cursory web search do not make for solid information on what taquiyya is. I study this stuff. Do more than 30 seconds of reading and then get back to us.
Amy Alkon
at May 6, 2014 9:03 AM
Amy Alkon
https://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2014/05/sri-lankan-budd.html#comment-4590367">comment from Amy AlkonOn deadline today, but I grabbed something:
https://sites.google.com/site/islamicthreatsimplified/taqiya--islam-doctrine-of-deceit-to-further-islam
Amy Alkon
at May 6, 2014 9:04 AM
Taqiyya is one philosophy of which our government has been aggressively multi-culti. It doesn't hesitate to lie for the greater good of the peasants, and the good of the wise leaders currently in power.
Andrew_M_Garland at May 6, 2014 6:55 PM
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