Thursday, June 06, 2013

FYI: Taqiyya- The Art of Dissembling

Prof. Paul Eidelberg

No one should be surprised, let alone shocked, by the scandalous and illicit behavior of various members of the Obama Administration. Nor should anyone be amazed by the laxity and irresponsibility of this Administration: its fostering the penetration of various government agencies by Muslims, including members of the Muslim Brotherhood. Spreading throughout the Middle East, the long-known goal of that terrorist organization is the subversion of the United States to facilitate the global ascendancy of Islam.

Only fools and useful idiots fail to see that the name of the game, which was evident even before 9/11, is not international terrorism but theologically animated ISLAM. This is the Islam of the Quran and the Hadith and not any euphemistic or abbreviated version of Islam. It is the Islam of Muhammad, now armed by the technique of twentieth-century propaganda and Internet and approaching the nuclear threshold this is the name of America’s enemy.


And if this were not enough, today Islam has the support of no less than the President of the United States, whose Muslim outreach policy leaves no doubt about the subversion now taking place in America. 

Nothing less should be expected given two obvious facts: Mr. Obama is a post-American president not only animated by the doctrine of moral relativism propagated by all levels of American education, but he is also a self-professed Muslim who has publicly and unabashedly exalted n his words the “Holy Quran,” a creed that exemplifies absolutism! 

The contradiction is dissolved by Islam itself, by its military concept of taqiyya, the art of dissimulation. As Professor Y. Harkabi, a former director of Israel military intelligence has indicated, mendacity is "second nature" to Muslims. This mendacity is concealed by another eastern talent, the art of ingratiation. Arabs excel in this art.

A sociologist of Arab birth notes that the Arab changes his identity with little reluctance. With Asians he is oriental, with people from the West he is occidental, with the old societies he is a traditional man, with the new a modern.[1]

An American journalist observed that Egyptian President Abdel Nasser was an engaging man to meet. He was equally endowed with natural charm and cunning, and he used his charm advantageously. His visitors were immediately at their ease. He was the incorruptible puritan revolutionary who never lost the simplicity of his tastes or the naturalness of his manners; the autocrat who disliked elaborate formalities and used the relaxed approach of democracy.[2] .
Secretary of State William Rogers experienced the same ingratiation in his meeting with Nasser’s successor Anwar Sadat. As Rogers was later to say of his meeting with Sadat: “We felt at ease in each other’s company.”
No wonder: Sadat constantly referred to Rogers, whom he had met for the first time, as Bill. When Kissinger replaced Rogers, he became “dear Henry” just as quickly. The American media hailed Sadat as a man of peace. Forgotten was his cunningly planned attack on Israel in the Yom Kippur War.
But thanks to his mastery of taqiyya, the avuncular pipe-smoking Sadat conned Washington as well as Jerusalem and recovered the Sinai without firing a single shot.[3] ?
One last word: Since Barack Hussein Obama was raised as a Muslim, who to this day exalts the “Holy Quran,” did his preceptors produce in this rather mysterious man another master of taqiyya?


[1] Gil Carl AlRoy, Behind the Middle East Conflict (New York: Capricorn Books, 1975), 107.

[2] Ibid., 108.

[3] See Paul Eidelberg, Sadat?s Strategy (Montreal: Dawn Publications, 1979), Ch. 1.

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