Presumably sourced from this Islamophobic website> http://www.thereligionofpeace.comQuestion: Are Muslims permitted to lie?
Summary Answer: Muslim scholars teach that Muslims should generally be truthful to each other, unless the purpose of lying is to "smooth over differences."
There are two forms of lying to non-believers that are permitted under certain circumstances, taqiyya and kitman. These circumstances are typically those that advance the cause Islam - in some cases by gaining the trust of non-believers in order to draw out their vulnerability and defeat them.
Which has distorted the answer somewhat from a prudent pragamatic historical rational for lying into a more aggressive reason for them doing so.
Are Muslims allowed to deceive non-muslims through a practice called Taqiyya?
Wikipedia says,
In Islam, taqiyya تقية (alternative spellings taqiyeh, taqiya, taqiyah, tuqyah) is a form of religious dissimulation, or a legal dispensation whereby a believing individual can deny his faith or commit otherwise illegal or blasphemous acts while they are in fear or at risk of significant persecution.
However it's not "non-muslims" who are allowed to be deceived. Ibid. says,
The doctrine of taqiyya was developed at the time of Ja'far al-Sadiq (d. 148 AH/765 AD), the sixth Imamiya Imam. It served to protect Shi'ites when Al-Mansur, the Abbasid caliph, conducted a brutal and oppressive campaign against Alids and their supporters.
An evidence confirming this would be an unambiguous historical or Quran example of a lie to a non-Muslim that was officially explained away as "OK" because of Taqiyya
Ibid.,
In 16th century Spain, following the end of the Reconquista of the Iberian Peninsula in 1492, Muslims and Jews were persecuted by the Catholic Monarchs and forced to convert to Christianity or face expulsion. The principle of taqiyya became very important for Muslims during the Inquisition in sixteenth century Spain, as it allowed them to convert to Christianity while remaining crypto-Muslims, practicing Islam in secret. In 1504, Ubayd Allah al-Wahrani, a Maliki mufti in Oran, issued a fatwā allowing Muslims to make extensive use of taqiyya in order to maintain their faith.
Heck in WW2 Jewish GIs, fearful of being identified as such by their Nazi captors, were left with the following options:
http://www.hakirah.org/Vol15Males.pdf1) Have no letter of religious preference stamped on their dogtags.
2) Make the “H” stamped on their dog-tags illegible.
3) Discard their dog-tags completely prior to being taken captive.
4) Have a letter signifying a different religious preference stamped on their dog-tags.
In the course of researching this topic, I discovered that during WWII, all four of these options were, in fact, employed by Jewish GIs.
In a letter to the editor of The New York Times, dated June 22,1994, Paul Lippman of Hoboken, New Jersey wrote:
… Many Jewish G.I.’s omitted from their dog-tags the indication that their religious identity was Jewish for the prudent reason that in the event of falling into German hands, their lives would be at greater risk if they were identifiable as Jewish
… As a combat veteran I know that my dog-tags and those of many of my Jewish companions were religiously anonymous.
In a 1999 San Diego Jewish Press–Heritage article about WWII-era Jewish US prisoners of war, several soldiers’ experiences are reported. Seymour Brenner was
… a field medic when he was captured in France after being knocked unconscious by an artillery blast. A quick thinking non-Jewish member of his unit broke Brenner’s dog-tag in half, burying in the snow the part which had the “H” for his religion engraved upon it. When their capturers asked why Brenner’s dog-tags were broken, the buddy said it was because they had been engraved with the wrong blood type and were expected to be replaced.
The lie may have saved Brenner’s life. Unaware that he was a Jew, the Germans decided to use his training as a medic to treat fellow prisoners at Stalag 5-A, which they reached after a 14-day forced march ‘without food or water’.”
Earlier in that same article, the author writes of Sam Kimbarow, who
… threw away his US Army dog-tags identifying him as a Jew before he was captured by German soldiers during World War II’s famous Battle of the Bulge. Later, at a camp for prisoners of war, he was in the middle of a crowd when a German officer asked if there were any Jews among the prisoners. About five American soldiers stepped forward, but Kimbarow was not among them. He watched as they were led away to uncertain futures.