Taqiyya is a deception modailty used by Shiites and Sunnis?

Submitted by Justin Case (United States), Jan 25, 2012 at 11:47

Placing "Dr." before one's name (whether earned or not) is not necessarily an indication of one's scholarship in all areas. As evidence of this, this "Dr. Campbell" claims that both Shiite & Sunni uses the practice of taqiyya. NOTE: he doesn't even give a definition for said term and, like most Islamaphobes, is operating off of the false, Islamaphobic-assigned definition of the word (to lie to spread Islam).

To be clear, taqiyya means to "hide one's faith if threatened with bodily harm or death". PERIOD. There is no other application of that word!

Additionally, it is not even clear that all Shiite Muslims even use the practice (i.e. hiding their faith) and most Sunni Muslims have never even heard of the term until recently re-defined and introduced by Islamaphobes.

Bottom line: don't allow titles or the application thereof, deceive you into believing that a person who is commenting on an unknown topic actually is giving you the truth. Once you've researched the matter, you'll find out that this so-called Dr. Campbell is using an Islamaphobe's version of "taqiyya" (lying to deceive for the hell of it)!!

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