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

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> [@Paranoid\_Randroid](#):
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> 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.

> [@Is Islamism in Egypt really worth worrying about?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-islamism-in-egypt-really-worth-worrying-about/571453/1):
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> Based on [this](http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-egypt-brotherhood-20110215,0,4895817.story) 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.

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