AL-TAQIYA...
The Muslim Method Of
Conquest
By Professor Walid Phares
In the early years of the Tawheed (Islamic conquest
of the Arabian peninsula) and in the Fatah (Arab-Islamic
invasion and conquest of the upper Middle East and the
outside world), a Muslim concept was devised to achieve
success against the enemy, Al-Taqiya..
Al-Taqiya, from the verb Ittaqu, means linguistically
dodge the threat. Politically it means simulate whatever
status you need in order to win the war against the
enemy..
According to Al-Taqiya, Muslims were granted the
Shar'iya (legitimacy) to infiltrate the Dar el-Harb (war
zone), infiltrate the enemy's cities and forums and
plant the seeds of discord and sedition. These agents
were acting on behalf of the Muslim authority at war,
and therefore were not considered as lying or denouncing
the tenants of Islam. They were "legitimate" mujahedeen,
whose mission was to undermine the enemy's resistance
and level of mobilization. One of their major objectives
was to cause a split among the enemy's camp. In many
instances, they convinced their targeted audiences that
Jihad is not aimed at them, that indigenous people are
not targeted, only Bysantium power. They convinced many
Jews that they will be protected from Christians, called
pagans, and they convinced many Christians that Jews
were the mortal enemies, because they killed Issa
(Jesus). They convinced the Aramaics, Copts, and Hebrews
that the enemy is Greece, and signed peace agreements
with the Bysantines Greeks at the expense of Maronite
Aramaics, etc.
This Jihadic agency of subversion was one of the most
fascinating and efficient arms of the conquest. In less
them four decades the MIddle East fell to the
Arab-Islamic rule, followed by north Africa and Central
Asia.
Al-Taqiya was a formidable weapon, used by the first
dynasties and strategists. Today, scholars may identify
it as deception. But the Jihadic deception was and still
is more powerful than the James Bondian methods of
Western classical intelligence tactics, for the simple
reason that it has a civilizational, global dimension
versus the narrow state interest of the regular Western
subversive methods.
Al-Taqiya is still in use today but not necessarily
state-organized. One can easily detect Taqiya in the two
discourses used by Islamist strategists. On the one
hand, one comprehensive Islamist theory is attempting to
mobilize Middle East, and sometimes Western Christia
leaders and intellectuals, against "evil Jews." We see
considerable success on that level. And on the other
hand, another Islamist comprehensive theory is attemting
-with success also- to mobilize the Jews against "evil
and pagan Christians." One can easily detect the
sophisticated work of Taqiya, for the strategic
objective of Islamists is to destroy the foundations of
the Judeo-Christian civilization, as a prelude to the
defeat of an isolated Israel.
Taqiya is not a unique phenomenon in History, many
strategists from all backgrounds implemented subversion.
But the uniqueness of today's Taqiya is its success
within advanced and sophisticated societies. Taqiya is
winning massively because of the immense lack of
knowledge among Western elites, both Jewish and
Christian.
For interesting examples of Taqiya methods, visit
Christian discussion groups and forums and note the
discourse of Islamist visitors, aimed at undermining the
Christian perception of Jews, and visit Jewish
discussion groups and forums and note the subtle
anti-Christian discourse of Islamists visitors. It is
really informative and fascinating.
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Professor Walid Phares teaches in
the Department of Religion, Florida International
University. |