While the West goes out of its way to accommodate Muslim migrants — still called "refugees" though most are not even from war torn Syria and some are Islamic State jihadis — an Arab Muslim from Kuwait recently explained why his nation refuses to take any.

According to Kuwait's Fahd al-Shalami, Chairman of the Gulf Forum for Peace and Security, among other reasons Kuwait refuses to take Arab/Muslim refugees is because, "In the end, you cannot accept other people — from a different background, from another place, who have psychological or neurological problems, or trauma — and just bring them into your society."

Such are the words of an Arab Muslim concerning fellow Arab Muslims — the same ones the West is eager to accommodate.

Imagine the more commonsensical reasons Shalami could've given if Kuwait were not Islamic, and those trying to enter it were screaming Islamic supremacist slogans — as they do in the West?

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By Joel B. Pollak

Glenn Kessler of the Washington Post has awarded Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson four Pinocchios for a statement justifying his skepticism of a hypothetical Muslim president: “Taqiyya is a component of Shia that allows, and even encourages you to lie to achieve your goals.”

Carson’s statement was not entirely accurate, but it was not an outright four-Pinocchio lie. Kessler ignores important aspects of taqiyya that go far beyond self-preservation, as he alleges.

Kessler reduces taqiyya to a defensive doctrine: “Essentially, the Koran suggests that a person who faces religious persecution can withhold the identity of their faith in order to avoid bodily harm or death,” he writes. He interviews a number of sympathetic experts, including the liberal Noah Feldman of Harvard Law School. But Kessler does not approach scholars who take a critical view of taqiyya, who point out its use in international relations and conflict.

In an article entitled “Taqiyya About Taqiyya,” expert Raymond Ibrahim concludes: “Deception—known under the broad term taqiyya—is permissible in Islam, above and beyond the limited issue of self-preservation. This assertion is not “Islamophobic”; it is true.”

That is not to say it is permissible to lie in the ordinary sense of the word, or that a hypothetical Muslim candidate would be allowed to lie to become president (any more than any other politician).

However, in the context of conflicts with non-Islamic civilizations, deception is permissible. Ibrahim notes that Yasser Arafat once defended peace accords with Israel in similar terms. The idea is relevant to the issue of Syrian “refugees,” many of whom may be neither refugees nor Syrians.

So Carson is wrong as regards the general conduct of law-abiding Muslim citizens. But taqiyya remains critical to understanding the external threat the U.S. is facing.