Taqiyya

Submitted by K.H. Ahmed (United States), May 19, 2008 at 18:42

al-Taqiyya" literally means: "Concealing or disguising one's beliefs, convictions, ideas, feelings, opinions, and/or strategies at a time of imminent danger, whether now or later in time, to save oneself from physical and/or mental injury." It is specifically observed if ones life is in imminent peril which of course in this case Obama's is not. He would in fact in this instance be guilty of a great sin to deny he was a Muslim.

While I can understand one disagreeing with Obama's politics I find this link to Muslim to usually be a cover for racial, ethnic or religious prejudice. Dislike the man, dislike the politics, but for your own sake retain your intellectual integrity.

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