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Ben Carson recently created controversy by warning against the Muslim doctrine of taqiyya, which allows Muslims to deceive non-Muslims. I already addressed the accuracy of Carson’s statements here, and the media’s attempts to discredit him here.

Soon thereafter, Daniel Pipes, the president of the Middle East Forum, brought an interesting anecdote to my attention.

Back in the 1980s, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, the president of Pakistan, explained to Ronald Reagan how it was no problem for the Pakistanis to sign the Geneva agreements and yet continue supplying weapons to the Afghan jihadis ("freedom fighters") combating the Soviet Union.

Why wasn’t it a problem? According to Zia, “We’ll just lie about it. That’s what we’ve been doing for eight years.” He added, “Muslims have the right to lie in a good cause.” (From the Cold War to a New Era: The United States and the Soviet Union, 1983-1991, p.280. Image below)

Compare this casual statement from the president of a Muslim nation with the claims of UCLA’s Abou El Fadl, whom the Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler quoted at length in an effort to prove Carson wrong about taqiyya. According to the Muslim professor, “there is no concept that would encourage a Muslim to lie to pursue a goal. That is a complete invention.”

So which Muslim do you believe? The strong and secure Muslim who said that “Muslims have the right to lie in a good cause" — in this case, jihad against "infidels." Or the Muslim minority surrounded by American "infidels" who claims that there is "no concept that would encourage a Muslim to lie to pursue a goal"?

Apparently it never occurred to the WaPo's Kessler that El Fadl himself may have been exercising, in Zia's words, his Muslim "right to lie in a good cause" — in this case, to prevent Americans from ever being suspicious of Muslim individuals and organizations in the U.S.

On August 11 in Dallas, I delivered an hour-long talk as part of the North American Lutheran Church's "Braaten/Benne Lectures in Theology." The title of my presentation was "Muslim Persecution of Christian Martyrs: Past and Present." Topics discussed include Islamic doctrine concerning Christianity; Islamic history as a manifestation of said Islamic doctrine; and, continuity — showing how the same things written in Islam's core texts, and that have manifested throughout history, are still happening today all throughout the Islamic world. The video follows:

The above 6-minute video is a must-see. It offers an up close and personal account of what Christian minorities are experiencing at the hands of jihadis and other Muslim “rebels” being supported in the Mideast by the Obama administration.

A Christian family from Iraq narrates how their young children were killed and burned alive, “simply for wearing the cross.” One of the remaining and traumatized children uses toy figures to show people how his siblings were slaughtered.

This family is identical to the other Christian refugees who fled the Islamic State in Iraq and came to America—only to be imprisoned and then thrown back to the lions by the Obama government.

Listen especially to the mother’s words starting around the 2:50 minute mark. She talks about how the “ISIS” that attacked and killed her children were their own Muslim neighbors, whom they ate with, laughed with, and even provided educational and medical service to.

For more on this theme, read When Muslims Betray Non-Muslim Friends and Neighbors.