No, there is no "taqiyya" doctrine that lets all Muslims lie for the good of the faith

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@Paranoid_Randroid

I’m generally sympathetic to your position contra BrainGlutton, but I urge you to be a little fairer here. Nowhere in this thread has anyone called the Muslim Brotherhood “moderate”.

You’re correct that it wasn’t in this thread, it was a couple back.

@BrainGlutton

Based on this article, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt has changed in recent decades and is changing still and yet is still too stuffy and old-fashioned for the younger membership. These are not your Ayatollah’s Islamists. Now they’re a lot like the American religious-right (only less violent, less bigoted and less ignorant). Really, they’re more like the center-right Christian Democrat parties of Europe than anything else. What’s the big deal?

And while I haven’t seen much in the news about the MB and taquiya, that the MB was used as an example to open this thread put me in mind of the earlier comment.