Taqiyya. The Shia Doctrine of „Holy Deception” as a terrorists tool

Abstract

Terrorism is not a new phenomenon but occurred in societies starting from the ancient times and the Middle Ages. A classic example are the sicarii in Palestine in the first century AD; they used first in the history the tactic of murdering randomly selected people in broad daylight – fighting against the “Romanization” as present terrorists fighting against the “Americanization”. Islam was split from the beginning into the two main, hostile camps - the Sunni majority and Shiite minority. Among the Shiites was created a sect of assassins, who have used similar methods of operation like the twenty-first – century suicide bombers carrying out acts of terror even at the cost of his own life. That's assassins, citing the words of the Prophet Muhammad, developed the doctrine of taqiyya, sacred lies, “religiously-sanctioned deception” that allows you to “keep beliefs in secret.” Today taqiyya is defined as a religiously sanctioned deception made for the purpose of concealing terrorism – and is used by all, not just Shia terrorist groups.