Thank you everyone for the kind words. I guess I do have some resentment towards Islam and Muslims. Hopefully the latter will diminish but not the former!
So I'm curious, when and how did you learn about taqiyya?
I learned about Taqiyya when a young kid, probably about 16 or 17, came to our mosque just after maghrib and he was asking about Islam, about three years into my conversion. He was interested in Islam, and I guess he thought no better place to come to clear up his misconceptions than a mosque! He asked about women in Islam, and we told him that they are equals and that they inherit property (of course we didn't say only half) and that they wear headscarves to protect their modesty and be seen as people rather than objects. Of course, we never mentioned that it was a way for a Muslim man to demonstrate power over her.
Then the potential convert began to ask us about suicide bombing. Interestingly enough, me and a few other Muslims had just been talking about martyrdom around Asr, and we had all came to the agreement that martyrdom was a glorious thing, and that jihad was permissible. We all knew, of course, that no one who died in Allah's cause, would want to come back to earth even if he was given the whole world and whatever is in it, except the martyr who, on seeing the benefits of martyrdom, would want to come back to die again in Allah's cause. So we all came to the consensus that martyrdom was a good thing.
But when this guy was asking about it, all of my fellow Muslims, with whom I had spoken only a few hours earlier, explained that suicide bombing was completely forbidden, and that suicide bombers were going against the fundamentals of Islam. They even had the nerve to bring up the oft-quoted and oft-misused verse "Do not destroy yourselves." I was somewhat taken aback by their blatant lies. Only later that night, did one brother explain to me that it is permissible to "withhold the truth" if it helps Islam. Although, he didn't explicitly say "taqiyya." But I began to notice this this tactic practiced more and more, which I guess was one of the contributing factors to uprooting my faith, mostly subconsciously.
yees jeg snakker dansk, bor i dk
ja da flyt hertil for at møde og se din danske kultur.. haha tror bare de vil være glade for du ikke er muslim længere
Ja ja det er det, haha. Jeg er siggert mere fortrolig med Dansk cultur end Islam. Saa er de danskere, nej?
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