TIL Following the 2017 Barcelona attacks, the mayor of Venice, Luigi Brugnaro, has said that anyone shouting "Allāhu akbar" in St Mark's Square will be shot by snipers within a few paces.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taqiya

Sami argued that the concept should be considered "mainstream" and ubiquitous in modern Islamic politics, "Taqiyya is of fundamental importance in Islam. Practically every Islamic sect agrees to it and practices it. We can go so far as to say that the practice of taqiyya is mainstream in Islam, and that those few sects not practicing it diverge from the mainstream...Taqiyya is very prevalent in Islamic politics, especially in the modern era."[48][49] 

You use it to conceal the name of your radical views. And that name is salafi. Not because of threat, but because that would make you more unpopular. Maybe kitman would be a more appropriate name.

The thing is that you're arguing for classic wahabbi/salafi Islam but denying the label, because it has a bad rep. Pretty simple

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