Deception is inherent in Islam: TAQIYYA

http://www.meforum.org/2095/islams-doctrines-of-deception

Islam's doctrines of deception
by Raymond Ibrahim
Jane's Islamic Affairs Analyst
October 2008

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The basis for Western treaties is pacta sunt servanda -- treaties (agreements) are to be obeyed. It has long been part of Western jurisprudence.The basis of Islamic jurisprudence dealing with treaties (agreements) is quite different.

Any agreement between Muslims and non-Muslims is subject to the rules that were established in Qur'an, Hadith, and Sira. And it is the Sira, the biography of Muhammad, that Model for All Time, that guides Muslims in their treaty-making with Infidels. When in 628 A. D. Muhammad made a treaty of peace -- really, a "treaty of truce" --with the Meccans, it was to last 10 years. Within 18 months, as he felt his forces had become stronger, Muhammad broke the treaty. That he did so deliberately, that he found a pretext, that he regarded this as the proper way to behave, is clear from all the telling and re-telling of this story. It was regarded as a splendid example of Muhammad's conduct of war against his enemies ( a very famous saying is War is Deceit )-- in this case, the Meccans who had refused to become followers of Muhammad, and of his still-developing (the Qur'an itself was dictated by the Angel Gabriel over 23 years) creed.

This is not an imaginary charge. It is laid out by all the relevant Muslim scholars, inter alia, "The Law of War and Peace in Islam" by the celebrated scholar Majid Khadduri.

Unless the basis of Islamic jurisprudence with Infidels is understood, the Infidel peoples and polities will be constantly disappointed -- and worse, they will be always at a disadvantage. They cannot rely on such treaties.

There is not a single agreement signed between Israel and any of its Arab (or partly-Arab) neighbors that has not been violated by the Muslim side, in ways little and big. Yet the Israelis will not learn, or have not learned, from their experience.

That is their problem. But the rest of the Infidel world can learn from Israel's unhappy experience with such treaties -- for the benefit of that larger Infidel world, if not for that of trusting, ever-hopeful, diplomatically awkward and tongue-tied Israel.