That type is taqiyya. It has a long-standing tradition in Islam going all the way back to Muhammad…” (An elderly Jewish leader, Ka’b ibn Ashraf, mocked Muhammad, prompting the prophet to exclaim, “Who will kill this man who has hurt Allah and his messenger?” [Hadith 4:271]. A young Muslim named Ibn Maslama volunteered on condition that to get close enough to Ka’b to murder him, he needed to be allowed to lie to the Jew. Allah’s messenger agreed. Ibn Maslama traveled to Ka’b and began to complain about Muhammad until his disaffection from Islam became so convincing that Ka’b eventually dropped his guard and befriended him. After behaving as his friend for some time, Ibn Maslama eventually appeared with another Muslim pretending to have apostatized, slaughtered Ka’b’ and brought his head to Muhammad to the usual triumphant cries of “Allahu Akbar!”
