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Not Taqiyya

Reader comment on item: Confirmed: Barack Obama Practiced Islam
in response to reader comment: Sure, they run around during prayers!!!!

Submitted by Gandydancer (United States), Feb 7, 2008 at 18:05

Taqiyya. "A one-word translation would be'Dissimulation.'"( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taqiyya).

I don't get that impression. Muhammed says they run around during the sermon, not during prayer. My impression is that he is a serious, truthful person with a lot to tell us about the situation in Indonesia that we don't know, and I'd appreciate your not gratuitously attacking him.

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