It’s all right. She promises “I won’t kill anyone.” What could possibly go wrong?

The Qur’an warns believers not to take unbelievers as “friends or helpers,” “unless that you but guard yourselves against them” (3:28). This is a foundation of the idea that believers may legitimately deceive unbelievers when under pressure. The word used for “guard” in the Arabic is tuqatan, the verbal noun from taqiyyatan — hence the term taqiyya.

Ibn Kathir says that the phrase “unless that you but guard yourselves against them” means that “believers who in some areas or times fear for their safety from the disbelievers” may “show friendship to the disbelievers outwardly, but never inwardly. For instance, Al-Bukhari recorded that Abu Ad-Darda’ said, ‘We smile in the face of some people although our hearts curse them.’ Al-Bukhari said that Al-Hasan said, ‘The Tuqyah [taqiyya] is allowed until the Day of Resurrection.” Abu Ad-Darda’ was a companion of Muhammad.

Lisa Smith “got into the witness box and after swearing on the Koran, she pleaded for bail to be with her child. She agreed with Mr O’Higgins that she would comply with any order made by the court.”

“Former soldier Lisa Smith granted bail with strict conditions,” RTÉ, December 20, 2019: