Imagine the U.S. canceling the Fourth of July holiday due to high crime in our cities, and you get a sense of what has occurred in France. Cities across France canceled Bastille Day observances July 14 because of rioting that ignited when a police officer shot and killed 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk, a French citizen of Algerian and Moroccan descent, during a traffic stop in Paris on June 27.
The Islamic doctrine of "taqiyya," dissimulation, permitting Muslims to deceive non-Muslims to advance the cause of Islam, is back in the news. In a speech delivered on May 20, 2023, Iran s Supreme Guide, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to a report,
Iran s Supreme Guide, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei "used the Islamic concept of Taqiyya to describe the regime s decision to accept the 2015 JCPOA nuclear deal with the West. Taqiyya means the permissibility to deny or conceal one s real beliefs to secure a