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What Is 'Taqiyya' and Why Are You Hearing About It So Much Lately?

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Zohran Mamdani's rise in popularity has been something of a societal blitzkrieg, going from someone you've never heard of to someone you hear about incessantly in the blink of an eye. 

His fame is only eclipsed by his infamy. The man praises the terrorist group Hamas, loves to sing the praises of socialism and spouts phrases from the Communist Manifesto. Moreover, his performative love of Islamic third-world practices doesn't give anyone but the hard-left the tingles. 

The thing is, he's not an isolated incident. 

Suleman Lalani and Salman Bhojani, both Muslims in Texas who were sworn in to their offices as Representatives on Qur'ans, are also on the list. Ilhan Omar and Keith Ellison are also on the list. Then there are a slew of local offices that now have Islamists on them. 

People are now throwing around the word "Taqiyya," which is an Islamic principle of hiding your faith in enemy territory to protect yourself. The common idea around this from Americans is that this is what's being used to get Islamic practitioners into office so they can begin slowly changing America from the inside until it's firmly under Sharia, or have elements of Sharia openly operating in society. 

If you want an example of that, you can see it happening right now in the U.K., where Sharia councils have been implemented, and are operating in the light of day. In fact, much of Europe has become so overrun with Islamists that they're losing control of their countries thanks to a mix of Islamic population spikes and Europeans unwilling to do anything about it out of fear. 

But do I think it's "taqiyya?" 

Again, maybe there are elements of it here, but what I think we're seeing is called "entryism," which is actually straight out of the Communist playbook. 

Watching those who are taking power here in America, they're not exactly hiding it. Ilhan Omar tells you how much she hates America every chance she gets. Taking oaths on the Qur'an, a book that encourages jihad, conquering foreigners, and terminating all who refuse to bow, isn't exactly a quiet way of hiding your intentions. 

Entryism, coined by Leon Trotsky, encourages those who want to dominate with their societies to do so — not by creating parties that directly oppose the current system — but by infiltrating existing parties that closest align to the ideology. Then, from within, you slowly and surely begin bending that party more toward your ideological position. 

The Democrat Party is fertile ground for Islamic control. It loves to support anything that looks like socialism, supports Palestine, has some soft spots for those who hate Western systems, and is so indoctrinated with TDS that Islam looks like a reliable ally in the fight against Trump. 

As more and more Islamic activists make their way into the Democrat Party, it starts to pull it toward more Islam-friendly positions. You can see this already taking root in its voting base, which found Palestine to be a cause to rally around during Hamas's war with Israel, and as a result, found itself gravitating toward politicians who openly practice it. 

Now we've got Mamdani close to taking office in New York over someone like Andrew Cuomo, an established name in Democrat circles. 

The relationship between socialism and Islam is also good to go, because both want to see the overthrow of the West. The two have a common cause, a common enemy, and similar spirits, but the socialists/communists in America are fooling themselves if they think those who practice Islam will submit to any Communist institutions if America is actually destabilized to a point where conquering it becomes realistic. 

Those "queers for Palestine" and socialists waving the Palestinian flag will be some of the first to find themselves lined up on the wall for termination, and those that get the wall are the lucky ones. Horrible fates await those Islam detests. 

But bottom line, you're seeing what's happening in Europe begin to happen here, and while there are a lot of principles being used to achieve this, you'll find a lot of what's happening in Communist playbooks. 

Same old enemies, same old playbooks, but with new masks to wear.

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