By Larry Elgin

Many are puzzled by the alliances between leftists, especially between the extreme ones that have become so prominent in today's Democratic Party and the adherents of Islam who are bent on turning the world into one large caliphate. Given the subjugation of women in that part of the Islamic world which adheres to Shariah law, its putting to death of homosexuals and other practices (compared to the trendy approval of homosexual "marriage" in the leftist world in America) and other practices of Islam, such as enslavement, to many this alliance makes little sense.

Those puzzled by this alliance need to study the Islamic doctrine of taqiyya in conjunction with the communist view of truth as that which serves the goal of world takeover through revolution. Let's take a look at the role of deception in the rise of communism:

Chapter II of the Communist Manifesto is entitled: "Proletarians and Communists." In the chapter it states:

There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, Justice, etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.

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Chairman Mao said, on his way up the ladder to bloodthirsty dictatorship, in 1937, in his pamphlet "On Practice":

Marxists hold that man's social practice alone is the criterion of the truth of his knowledge of the external world. What actually happens is that man's knowledge is verified only when he achieves the anticipated results in the process of social practice (material production, class struggle or scientific experiment).

To the dedicated communist, truth is not eternal. It is, instead, that which serves the accomplishment of the communist revolution as it carries on its "class struggle" to take over the world. This was set out Edward Jay Epstein in his 1989 book, "Deception," drawing on the CIA counterintelligence head, James Jesus Angleton. Of particular note is the pretense of peaceful intentions in order to lull the perceived enemy into inaction and disarming, such as in so-called glasnost.

Just as communism evolved from Marx and Engels through a number of German thinkers and then into the Soviet Union through Lenin and other founders of the USSR, so too did Islam evolve. This evolution occurred in the Quran itself in a confused way, a way that, because of the study which must be devoted to it to try and make senses of it, has been given its own name.

Differences in the surahs, or verses, of the Quran arose during the lifetime of Muhammad, rather than, as with the Bible, consisting of differences that grew through various translations over centuries in a chronological fashion. Over Muhammad's life, he put down surahs that contradict other surahs. So commentators of Islam developed what they called the doctrine of abrogation and developed a field of study devoted to analyzing which surahs abrogate other surahs (known as an-Nasikh wa'l Mansukh, the abrogater and the abrogated). Not all verses in the Quran have the same weight in assessment. Unlike the Old or New Testaments, the Quran is not organized by chronology but rather by size of chapters. Even within chapters, chronology can be confused. In surah 2, for example, God is represented to have revealed surahs 193, 216, and 217 to Muhammad shortly after he arrived in Medina. God only revealed verses 190, 191 and 192 six years later. This complicates interpretation. As a result Islamic commentators have from the beginning days of Islam after Muhammad engaged in interpreting when there is contradiction, which surah is to be believed over its conflicting surah.

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The word taqiyyah in Arabic is related to the word fear. Early communists in Russia feared the tsarist police and secret service and were willing to lie about their beliefs to avoid punishment and death. Likewise, Muslims in their early history feared those that persecuted and warred against them and were, as a result, advised in the Quran itself to lie in order to save themselves.

The surah that is often seen as the primary one that sanctions deception toward non-Muslims is 3:28, which states:

Believers are not to take disbelievers for friends instead of believers. Whoever does that has nothing to do with God, unless it is to protect your own selves against them. God warns you to beware of Him. To God is the destiny.

The reference to "protect [ing] your own selves" has been held by the commentators to justify deception practiced again non-Muslims when used to protect oneself against an infidel who poses a threat. A renowned Islamic commentator in the early centuries after Muhammad, a commentator named Muhammad ibn Jarir at-Tabari (d. 923), explained this surah as follows:

If you [Muslims] are under their [non-Muslims] authority, fearing for yourselves, behave loyally to them with your tongue while harboring inner animosity for them … [know that] God has forbidden believers from being friendly or on intimate terms with the infidels rather than other believers – except when infidels are above them. Should that be the case, let them act friendly towards them while preserving their religion.

The late professor Sami Mukaram, who was of the Druze faith, received his Ph.D. in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Michigan, where he taught for some years and then returned to Lebanon where he became a professor at the American University of Beirut. He was a published poet and author of some 25 books, mainly on the history of Islam, in addition to being an accomplished painter. One of his books was entirely devoted to the history of taqiyyah in Islam, "At-Taqiyyah fi'l-Islam" (London: Mu'assisat at-Turath ad-Druzi, 2004). In this book he thoroughly documents the development of taqiyya through the commentators, drawing from incidents in the life of Muhammad himself, to incorporate deeds as well as words and as a weapon of war against non-Muslims, with whom the Quran teaches all Muslims are engaged as a matter of duty to Allah. Indeed, it is even included in taqiyyah that Muslims may enter into treaties with no intention except to lull the enemy so as to break them when the time is ripe to do so in order to gain victory, a variant of glasnost.

We in this country should have this binding tie of deception in mind in considering the effect of an increasingly leftist elite element in one of the two major U.S. parties and of an increasing U.S. Muslim population. For whether it is communists under cover of a more palatable name seeking the conquest of our country in the manner that it was done in the once great constitutional republic of Venezuela or that element of Islam here engaged in hijira through the use of taqiyyah, both are bound for the nonce by the tie of their embrace of deception. Both see deception as their path to overcome the foundations of our Republic and destroy our Rule of Law with its reliance on evidence and truth. And such willing use of falsehood is being amplified by the overwhelming use of falsehood in the mainstream media, following the lead of those in high places, with blind sympathy toward Muslims so as not to elucidate the taqqiyah or the ongoing hijira, on the one hand, and a refusal to face and point out the use of falsehood in leftist maneuvers aimed to "transform" America, on the other. Leftists "mean well," they tell us; leftists, the media say, just want to end discrimination as do Muslims, so CAIR tells us. They will only go after each other once they have destroyed us.

Larry Elgin is a lawyer in Washington, D.C., who practices before federal and local courts and administrative agencies. He is also an author who publishes articles from time to time on Internet websites and is working on a book concerning the interaction between communications and the Rule of Law. He formerly worked with high-ranking ex-military officers in the non-profit U.S. Defense-American Victory group and with the Constitutional Rule of Law Fund. His email contact for comments on his articles is [email protected].