{"id":9895,"date":"2012-03-02T12:03:06","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T12:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/03\/02\/taqiyya-tawriya-and-creative-lying\/"},"modified":"2012-03-02T12:03:06","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T12:03:06","slug":"taqiyya-tawriya-and-creative-lying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/03\/02\/taqiyya-tawriya-and-creative-lying\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Taqiyya<\/i>, <i>Tawriya<\/i>, and Creative Lying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meforum.org\/3181\/tawriya-creative-lying-islam\" target=\"_self\">Here<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Perhaps you have heard of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meforum.org\/2538\/taqiyya-islam-rules-of-war\"><em>taqiyya<\/em><\/a>, the Muslim doctrine that allows lying in certain circumstances, primarily when Muslim minorities live under infidel authority. Now meet <em>tawriya<\/em>, a doctrine that allows lying in virtually <em>all<\/em> circumstances\u2014including to fellow Muslims and by swearing to Allah\u2014provided the liar is creative enough to articulate his deceit in a way that is true to him. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">[. . .] <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">As a doctrine, &quot;double-entendre&quot; best describes tawriya&#39;s function. According to past and present Muslim scholars (several documented below), tawriya is when a speaker says something that means one thing to the listener, though the speaker means something else, and his words technically support this alternate meaning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">For example, if someone declares &quot;I don&#39;t have a penny in my pocket,&quot; most listeners will assume the speaker has no money on him\u2014though he might have dollar bills, just literally no pennies. Likewise, say a friend asks you, &quot;Do you know where Mike is?&quot; You do, but prefer not to divulge. So you say &quot;No, I don&#39;t know&quot;\u2014but you keep in mind <em>another<\/em> Mike, whose whereabouts you really do not know.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here: Perhaps you have heard of taqiyya, the Muslim doctrine that allows lying in certain circumstances, primarily when Muslim minorities live under infidel authority. Now meet tawriya, a doctrine that allows lying in virtually all circumstances\u2014including to fellow Muslims and by swearing to Allah\u2014provided the liar is creative enough to articulate his deceit in a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/03\/02\/taqiyya-tawriya-and-creative-lying\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;<i>Taqiyya<\/i>, <i>Tawriya<\/i>, and Creative Lying&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[324,119,6,375,125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bullshit","category-islamism","category-language-matters","category-terrorism","category-truthfulness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}