Muruna: Violating Sharia to Fool the West
Westerners who understand Islamic deception often refer to “taqiyya” as being the tactic of lying in order to guard the faith. Sunni Muslim apologists counter that taqiyya is a Shiite doctrine, while accusing Shiites of being rabblerousers who sanction “mut’a” (pleasure marriage), which is nothing more than prostitution.
Shiites can easily find equivalents to taqiyya and mut’a in the Sunni Muslim world. They are called “misyar” and “muruna.”
While Westerners cringe at the thought of religiously sanctioned prostitution like mut’a, they are less familiar with the Sunni-sanctioned misyar, which literally means “the traveler’s marriage.” It was established to assist with the sexual needs of travelers — a Sunni Muslim male may enter into a contract with a woman in order to gain sexual gratification without the financial obligation necessary to maintain a wife.
As a consequence, the sin of adultery never takes place because the sex contract is an official marriage license. An abundance of misyar “middlemen” can seal these interim deals. For internet savvy travelers, there are countless websites like Mesiaronline that allow men to arrange these marriages globally, including in the United States, from the comfort of their hotel rooms.
Misyar was first made legal in Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Sunnis who approve of misyar may condemn the Shiite practice of mut’a, which does not require two witnesses as misyar does. Shiites argue that Allah and the Qur’an are the only two witnesses they need.
Arabic translations reveal that Sunnis and Shiites have much more in common than just sanctioned prostitution. Few Westerners are familiar with the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood revival of the doctrine of muruna, which literally means “stealth” or “flexibility.” It is far worse than taqiyya, since it sanctions all prohibitions that block Muslim interests, even blasphemous ones.
Muruna allows Muslims to sow division and confusion in the Western world. In a recent sermon, this doctrine was exercised by General Guide of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Muhammad Badei, who laid out his vision for the post-revolutionary era while revealing aspects of a strategy followers should use to deal with secularism in the meantime:
Do not fight the ways of the world because they are overpowering but try to overcome and use them, change their course, and pit some of them against others.
When Badei says to “overcome and use” the “ways of the world”, he is instructing Muslims worldwide on how to overcome Western secularism. It was precisely this purpose for which muruna was prescribed by Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the main Muslim Brotherhood intellect who initiated it in December 1989 while in the United States during the annual conference of the Association of Muslim Youth Forums. He was with Mohammed Hamadi, a leading rebel in Libya who participated heavily in the “Arab Spring.” Hamadi is also the head of the Muslim Brotherhood in Mauritania.
This doctrine and long-term plan should be of great interest to Westerners. In what the forum termed “The Priorities of The Islamic Movement in The Next Three Decades” (from 1990 to 2020), they planned to attain what they described as “the goals of the Islamic Movement.” The plan confirms Badei’s utopian hope for the “establishment of an Islamic state, governed according to Qur’anic law — first in Egypt and eventually in the entire world.” Accordingly, muruna calls for “organized, popular work to return to Islam in order to lead society, all of society … to bring back the caliphate … to announce Jihad either by arms, by pen, or by heart.”
Muruna was designed to catapult and advance Sharia by using Western means. If one thinks that Sharia, with its harsh code, is problematic enough, how about the elimination of the kinder, gentler laws? Muruna is literally accomplished by permitting behavior normally so eschewed by Sharia that Westerners logically assume a more moderate version of Islam when such prohibitions are suddenly permitted. Westerners’ eyes are, in fact, deceiving them. Muruna is about going to great lengths to gain interests through a much deeper level of deception while simultaneously lowering the guard and gaining the support of the infidels.
Note the following quote taken from the series titled Preparing the Atmosphere under the title The Workings of Al-Si’a and Muruna:
Sharia’s ability to be flexible and inclusive is that it cares for their needs while excusing the burdens Muslims have to endure. For the sake of their destiny, it was made lawful for them to have exceptions from the law that are appropriate for them since these exceptions match their general goals to make it easy for humanity by removing the chains of [Sharia] rules they were made to adhere to in previous Sharia rulings.
By reversing Islamic law, muruna concludes an amazing doctrine that permits all prohibitions:
When evil and harm conflict as necessities demand, we must then choose the least of the two evils or harms. This is what the experts in jurisprudence decided … if interests and harms/evils conflict, or benefits conflict with evils, what is then to be decided is to review each benefit and each harm and its consequences, so the minor evils are forgiven for the sake of the greater long-term benefit. The evil is also accepted even if that evil is extreme and normally considered deplorable.






The 9/11 hijackers came to the West, attended flight schools, and masked their Islamism by going to nightclubs, drinking alcohol, etc.
I would call this prima facie evidence that they (being mostly Sunnis) were practicing the “Muruna” doctrine. With devastating consequences, for both the West, and the Muslim world.
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It merely tells me that Muslims will lie, cheat, and steal to further their goal of killing their targets.
Why do we continue to believe the myth that “Not all Muslims are terrorists”,,, yet we can recognize the fact that; “All terrorists are Muslims”. I think we have the cart before the horse here and it’s high time we got our thinking in line with theirs. They want to kill us, period. Why does anyone have a problem with this?
On the other hand, if I were to suggest that we should concentrate on killing Muslims, I’d be labeled a nutjob radical Christian. Where’s the logic and justice?
I’m confused.
If all Muslims were terrorists, the Islamists wouldn’t be killing more Muslims than non-Muslims every year. Which, statistically speaking, they do.
The problem is a belief system based on rule by a small, powerful group who, due to the system’s structure, supposedly have All The Answers- and therefore have the authority to kill anybody who questions their legitimacy. When based on the Qu’Ran, we call it Islam. Otherwise, it is called tyranny. (Except when based on “progressive” doctrines; then it’s called “revolutionary socialism” if internationalist in style, or “fascism” if more directly nationalist.)
Add in the fact that those in charge are also those who teach the belief system, and you can see why it takes real courage to question their interpretation of same. Also why those who do tend to end up dead.
The moral being that allowing religious authorities to also be secular ones is a bad idea. Roughly as bad as allowing either sort of authority to have a monopoly on the means of using physical force within the society.
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As Michael Burleigh points out, in “Blood and Rage”, the traditional Islamic bans cease to apply, once a believer is dead.
Blow yourself up in the name of the prophet, with any number of women and children around you, and you will still automatically go to heaven. There, you will be able to indulge all of the sins forbidden here on Earth. On Earth, you murder unveiled women, but in heaven, you have an almost unlimited supply of them. On Earth, you kill those who sell alcoholic drinks, but, in heaven, you drink wine by the gallon.
Has there ever been a more hypocritical religion than the muslim one?
On Earth, you kill those who sell alcoholic drinks, but, in heaven, you drink wine by the gallon.
In Paradise, you recline on bejeweled couches beside rivers of wine while virgins (they re-hymenate overnight !) attend to your slightest whim.
Pretty dissolute place, Paradise.
One comment: Most of those posting here know nothing about Islam OR are intentionally lying against Islam for financial gain, including the owner of the site, Walid “wa-lied” Shoebat.
Selective morality is what’s really the case here in religious terms: there are non-financially binding Urfi marriages and other versions of that sometimes referred to as “summer marriages” or “summer holiday” that amount to virtual prostitution.
In 2002 there was a gov’t sanction whore house in Istanbul and tens of thousands of women from Thailand, Indonesia and Eastern Europe are sucked into virtual slavery in parts of the middle east. Whore houses are not rare in the middle east nor is alcohol and drugs. You can score hash in Cairo with ease as it is popular among the men and have alcohol delivered to your hotel room without a problem or go buy it on any busy street.
Virtually every time I’ve used a public computer in Egypt I’ve had to scour the history from it which consisted of the most vile porn. Cable channels all over the middle east, emanating ironically from the Gulf states, have tens of channels devoted to calling women lying on beds in bikinis.
In Afghanistan, hundreds of opium farmers unashamedly produce heroin destined for the West while praying in the direction of Mecca 5 times a day. They know it is Haaram, forbidden by Islam.
Voices within Islam love to portray the West as decadent yet it is Islam that is obsolete, tottering and crumbling and which has long ceased to have any meaningful relevance in world affairs. While it is true that moral discipline has been on the decline in the West the wholesale collapse of anything resembling intellectual discipline within Islam on both a philosophical and material level is devastating.
Most Islamic culture within the middle east seem headed for spectacular failures in the long run, both economically and socially because hypocrisy becomes such an onerous feature of their moribund cultures that they are eventually consumed from within.
Hypocrisy exists in all cultures – it is a part of human nature. However there is a difference between a certain normal level of hypocrisy and living and breathing it to the extent that it comes to define a culture. It is no surprise that Islamic Fundamentalists lie as casually as they breathe.
There is a really clear question here. What can the West define as a religion?
On the one hand, “deeply held beliefs” seem to qualify. But we have people in the U.S. who adamantly affirm their right to bear arms, but we don’t call that religion. By the same token, French-speaking people in Quebec insist on a dual-language, but they don’t call it religion.
So if, “deeply held beliefs” aren’t a signature of religion, what is? A belief in God, or a supreme being? There are religions that have posited several gods – or none.
I personally believe that Islam should not be granted the protections of a “religion” in the United States. It is committed to the overthrow of states by its writings and by its judges, clerics and pundits. It is quite clearly a political philosophy of subjugating others for the benefit of a few. Whether the others are Jews, “people of the book,” or simply “not Muslims” makes no difference. Islam espouses coercing all other people to its precepts, by force, lies, economics or whatever can do it.
There is no underlying principal of Islam except force, corruption, subjugation and power. The Koran and all the hadiths, comments and commentaries of powerful Imams prove this.
I have no quarrel with the millions of Muslims who accept the idea of subjugation to their deity. But Jihad, lying and the forced subservience of entire peoples is antithetical to everything I hold dear and what I think America was founded upon.
There is no way Islam qualifies as a religion. It is a political philosophy based on terror, brutality, racism, deceit, greed and expediency.
The person known as Mohammed was a lying, adultering, murdering, thieving pedophile who would have been lynched in his own time if anyone could have caught him and was reviled in later years by the entire Christian world. His followers have killed countless numbers in his name and enslaved millions more.
Calling this perversion and murder and sickness a religion is the epitome of the blindness and failure of multiculturalism and political correctness.
If slavery, lying, murder and terror are evil, then Islam is evil. And that thing should NEVER be called a religion.
An even broader question: “What is a ‘good’ religion?” What references shall we use to define “goodness”?
Clearly religion helps to build societies. Clearly there is a need for religious belief wired in to us. The question is whether and how we can evaluate such beliefs for compatibility with the goals of a society at large.
That said, this is a slippery slope. Evaluating a religion for “goodness” is a dangerous precedent and an opportunity for governments to pass judgement on religion. I agree that we can clearly see problems with Islamic traditions, but I fear the evaluation process and what could come of it…
“What can the West define as a religion?” Religions differ from each other in three things: doctrine, spiritualty and observance. Religion differs from science in that a false statement in science can be shown to be false, whereas a false statement in religion can only be felt to be false. It may take time for a false statement in science to be shown as false, but it is always logically possible. In religion it is never possible. Eg How can you disprove any of these statements?
a) The Devil is a soul in permanent rebellion against God, and the perpetual leader of like minded souls.
b) The devil is a metaphor for the spirit of rebellion against God.
c) The Devil is a moving title, similar to “The President” or “The King”, held at any time by the soul most rebellious against God.
You cannot prove any of those statements is wrong, but you can feel or think that one or more is wrong. Your feelings or ideas are legitimate, and are called religious feelings or ideas. All humans have religion, whether they like it or not.
That is why Islam is a religion. It has distinct doctrines, spirituality and observances. We have to accept that. W
We do not have to accept the crimes that flow from religious ideas or feelings. Freedom of religion is not freedom to commit crimes. Islam is not only a religion. It is also a totalitarian political movement and an organised crime syndicate. We do not have to accept those aspects of Islam. We do have to accept that Moslems have religious feelings and ideas which we do not have. They should not be despised or hated because of their barbaric ideas. God made the wolf. “The lions which roar after their prey – they seek their food from God.” (from a Psalm) “God is good to all, and his mercy is over all that He has made.” (ditto)
We are allowed to protect the innocent. The shepherd is allowed to stone the wolf. It is our democracy and we, the people, decide what is a crime. We are allowed to tell the Moslems to their face that Allah believes in hate and lying, and so no good person can believe in Islam. But if we love God then we try to love all that He has made, including the barbarians.
As any self-edifying inspector of the Sacred Text will tell you, this end-time characteristic of deception, now quite public, is akin to another chief trait our Lord and Savior destroyed the power of for all who come to Him.
It would be no surprise to me that it likely has those who so participate gloating over using the infidel’s own efforts to mock anything contrary to Islam every time it’s reported. A sub-publishing mission of exposure wrought in a still further deception to covet the world, the grandest hallmark of demonic achievements.
“Muruna allows Muslims to sow division and confusion in the Western world…pit some of them against others.”
Divide and Conquer is an extremely important Islamic war strategy. For years, I have observed this on comments on articles where it appears the commentors were actually Muslims, but wrote as a Christian or a Jew, also using Christian and Jewish names. The comments clearly being made to attempt to make Jews hate Christians and Christians hate Jews. UNITED WE STAND. DIVIDED WE FALL.
Another evil thing is that some Muslim males in Israel, pretend to be Jews, and also use Jewish names in order to deceive Jewish girls into a relationship. The Jewish girls end up trapped in an Arab Muslim village unable to escape. Arutz Sheva has reported that some of the Jewish girls are as young as thirteen years old. It is disgraceful that these children are not rescued.
In Britain (and I would imagine, other countries) some Muslim Pakistanis pretend to be Hindus and also use a Hindu name in order to deceive Hindu and Sikh girls into a relationship. When some of the Hindu and Sikh girls end up in Pakistan with their supposed Hindu partner, it is too late. It is horrendous what happens to the Hindu and Sikh girls. God help them.
Do not fight the ways of the world because they are overpowering but try to overcome and use them, change their course, and pit some of them against others…It was precisely this purpose for which muruna was prescribed by Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the main Muslim Brotherhood intellect who initiated it in December 1989 while in the United States during the annual conference of the Association of Muslim Youth Forums…It is a tactical maneuver meant to deceive the West into thinking that the Muslim Brotherhood is acquiring western modernity.
Seems to be working pretty well, given stories like…
The NYTimes glossing over guys like al Banna, Sayyid Qutb, & the despicable al Qaradawi
Muruna is literally accomplished by permitting behavior normally so eschewed by Sharia that Westerners logically assume a more moderate version of Islam when such prohibitions are suddenly permitted.
Like the muscle guys who perpetrated 911 frequenting bars and getting lap dances ? Or a rather dissolute Major Hasan in Texas in the weeks before he opened fire ?
Just regular guys.
Muruna is about going to great lengths to gain interests through a much deeper level of deception while simultaneously lowering the guard and gaining the support of the infidels.
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Face it… Islam is a fraud, perpetrated long ago by men with money and connections, handed down to other men with money and connections.
Much as politics in the U.S. today. Screw ‘em all, where ever they prefer it.
Seems to me there was a theory that some or all of the 9-11-01 hijackers were under this belief system as well.
IIRC it had a name like “Hizb-ut-Tahrir,” or close to that.
This Muruna allows Muslims to drink, eat pork, whatever is needed to fool us into relaxing our guard.
So now apparent assimilation/Westernization will become suspect and really innocent Muslims will be lumped in with bad guys.
That really is bad.
The overambitious goal of ‘Taking over the World’, other than being just plain coo coo, can lead to only one thing…There is but one answer, as uncomfortable as it is to say what that collision course is, makes no difference. Nature will take it’s course. Personally, I believe we ain’t seen nothing yet.
Anything that spreads is going to meet resistance.
Buckle – Up!
I don’t think those guys hit the strip clubs to “fit in”, savvy?
The fact is they lie like other people breathe.
I agree: Muslims aren’t playing some purposeful and artful game of war but just dumb hypocrites. The problem is that Islam has no cultural tools for self-criticism or avoiding taking one’s self too seriously as does the West. An Islamic Bugs Bunny would be forbidden and would instead be stumping for Palestine against the evil Jew hunting him.
Yep, it’s Alinsky on steroids. And it works…
It’s almost like the replay of the Germanic tribes fighting the Romans ‘honourably’ man against man, and losing terribly, until they figured out how to fight in formations and keep discipline.
Imagine if Jim Jones and his gang of armed thugs scored a series of military victories across South America, eventually conquering the entire region, imposing both their political and ideological beliefs on the populations they held at gun point. That’s Islam today. Islam is a death cult writ large.
Good thing Charlie Manson didn’t pick up on Shariah and the concept of muruna – who knows where he’d be today.
Some rationalizations for depraved behavior are more effective than others, I guess.
This article seems a bit hysterical to me. Much of what is going on here is not a Fiendish Plot, it is Moslems trying to reconcile their pretensions to religious purity with the necessities of life in the modern world.
This seems to be a necessary consequence of the rigidity and extent of sharia, and the intense literalism preached by the likes of Qaradawi.
Moslems who follow this line of thinking paint themselves into a corner where they can’t function in a modern economy or society.
If literalists like Qaradawi insisted on literal adherence, they’d force a substantial number of Moslems to choose between literalist affiliation and making a living.
Muruna may be useful to jihadists, but here it sounds mainly like a dodge for Moslems to avoid that choice; they can continue to affiliate with literalist clerics (and give them money) without giving up jobs in “forbidden” business areas, or not being able to have mortgage, and so on.
Not everything every Moslem does is about jihad.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/federal-agents-arrest-man-who-allegedly-planned-suicide-bombing-on-us-capitol/2012/02/17/gIQAtYZ7JR_story.html
Was this guy a moderate? Or did he just spend too much time with the literalist cleric you warned us about? Why would a moderate, job holding, mortgage paying, fun to be with moderate Muslim, want to affliate and give money to the literalist cleric? I understand in a Muslim county, he may need to keep up the appearance of piety under pain of death, but here in the US, is there the same kind of cultural pressure? Of course not, yet guys like this keep popping up all over.
To paraphrase what was said above, not everything every Muslim does is about jihad – but all the jihadists are Muslims. (even the ‘moderates’ who get tricked into wearing a phony suicide belts)
Taqiyya and maruna justify any kind of behavior, any time, if it’s to the benefit of Allah. It’s a free pass to commit mayhem under the pretense of religion. You can’t defeat evil if you can’t recognize it.
“Death, mayhem and prostitution”
What more could a young man want? If Islam finds a way to allow video games, drugs and pornography our youth will convert in large numbers.
I maintain that islam is a tribal totalitarian ideology with a white-wash of religion. Look at it in that fashion and it makes much more sense. Also, on the subject of lying to hide one’s agenda. Are they any different than the liberals infecting high office? Besides having early childhood training in their schools, president zero may have that ideological tie allowing such a close adherence to our enemies. Enemies – as in “shores of Tripoli”. They have been causing us trouble since 1805. Actually before, but that was the first time we stood up to them. It’s time to study history and repeat it.
I have always been amused that all of the world’s major religions except one require truthfulness and honesty to be considered as a “good” believer.
The lone exception being the followers of Mohammed whose edicts require and a “good” islamic to lie and deceive to advance the cause
Add into the mix something that I have seen pointed out in only a few recent articles—few because of the taboos on reporting differences in abilities, and in psychological types/characteristics among different genetic/ethnic populations–and that is chronic inbreeding in the Muslim world.
The result of 1,400 years of marrying only other Muslims, and very closely related relatives at that i.e. things like repeated marriages of double cousins; an abnormally high percentage of birth defects and genetic based illnesses, a generally lower average IQ , and a tendency towards easy excitation, decreased ability to control emotions, aggression, violence, and hysteria (see, for instance http://www.rightsidenews.com/2010081111313/life-and-science/culture-wars/muslim-inbreeding-impacts-on-intelligence-sanity-health-and-society.html).
Add in Islam and, voila.
What utter nonsense that you’ve posted!!
Anonymous is right.
Anonymous is right. Check the stats from UK hospitals on Pakistany children born with birth defects from inbreeding. The BBC is finally acknowledging it.
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