Islam promotes lying and killing disbelievers

I would point out that you wanted to limit our debate to two particular areas regarding Islam, Al-Taqiyya Fi Al-Islam permitting Muslims to use deception about their beliefs or deception in Islam as a general topic, and Jihad as it relates to Muslims engaging in warfare to kill and subjecate non-Muslims, which the quotation from Thomas Carlyle says nothing. I could have a whole debate disputing his contention. Anyhow, since you see fit to cite him, I will offer this quote by him saying, "...I must say, it [the Koran] is as toilsome reading as I ever undertook. A wearisome confused jumble, crude, incondite; endless iterations, long-windedness, entanglement; most crude, incondite; " insupportable stupidity, in short! Nothing but a sense of duty could carry any European through the Koran . . . It is the confused ferment of a great rude human soul; rude, untutored, that cannot even read; but fervent, earnest, struggling vehemently to utter itself in words...". [1] Hardly a ringing of endorsement. So your defense against there being deception practiced by Muslims in regard to non-Muslims, falls on the claim to being the fasted growing religion, which I would argue is mostly the results of higher birthrates in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. You have to contrast this with a strong secular tradition in the West, which has gravitated away from religion. The Pew Forum noted, "Statistical data on conversion to and from Islam are scarce. What little information is available suggests that there is no substantial net gain or loss in the number of Muslims through conversion globally; the number of people who become Muslims through conversion seems to be roughly equal to the number of Muslims who leave the faith." [2] To speak of deception, allow me to point out that allah is ironically the best deceiver according to the Qu'ran, which would certainly cast doubts on his being the God of Abraham, Issac, Jacob, and Moses. See S. 3:54, [3] S. 7:99, [4] S. 8:30, [5] S. 10:21, [6] & S. 13:42. [7] Also, allah supposedly created Christianity through deception by supposedly making it appear Christ died on the cross (S. 4-191-192 [8]) and he also deceived Muslims (S. 8:43-44 [9]). There are three verses in the Qu'ran permitting Muslims to break oaths (S. 2:225 [10]) and two verse in the Qu'ran permitting the use of Taqiyaa (S. 3:28 [11] & S. 16:106 [12]). Muhammad is quoted in the Sunna saying, "War is deceit" [13] and if Islam considers Al-Fitnah (disbelief) as something constituting aggression, and are commanded to fight and kill as a result, then it follows that deceiving unbelievers would be permissable. According to the Sunna, Muhammad permitted Muslims to commit cold-blooded murders of people for the trivial offense of insult by allowing them to lie (Sahih Bukhari 4:52:271 [14] & Sahih Bukhari 5:59:369 [15]). There were 43 assassination carried out on orders from Muhammad. We find lying is permissable for Muslim men who can falsely claim marriage to a woman if they can simply produce two false witnesses (Sahih Bukhari 9:86:98 [16]). We find support for it among classical Sunni Islamic scholars, such as Jami' al-Bayan 'an ta'wil ayi'l-Qur'an al-Ma'ruf: Tafsir at-Tabari, [17] "If you [Muslims] are under their [infidels'] authority, fearing for yourselves, behave loyally to them, with your tongue, while harboring inner animosity for them. " Allah has forbidden believers from being friendly or on intimate terms with the infidels in place of believers " except when infidels are above them [in authority]. In such a scenario, let them act friendly towards them." Muhammad bin Aqeel Shaafiyee said, "I say our scholars agree on the fact that when needed, telling a lie is allowed, and this is Taqiyyah. But if we name this Taqiyyah, a lot of the scholars raise an objection, since Shi'as use this term. So the difference between Shi'a and Sunni is only the word difference." [18] So there is quite a body of evidence in Islam that Taqiyya is permissable. There are numerous examples of the deception in the West; most notable is the case of Anwar al-Awlaki. For four years, al-Awlaki served as imam of the Masjid Ar-Ribat al-Islami mosque at the edge of San Diego, California, where he had a following of 200"300 people. Two of the 9/11 hijackers attended his mosque and met with him personally. He served as the vice-president of a "charity" called Charitable Society for Social Welfare that many years later the FBI would disclose was a front for funding Islamic terrorism abroad. Amazingly he served as imam at the Dar al-Hijrah mosque near Falls Church, Virginia while also leading academic discussions frequented by FBI Director of Counter-Intelligence for the Middle East, and served as the Muslim chaplain at George Washington University. The dissimulation was evident in an interview he gave saying, "There is no way that the people who did this could be Muslim, and if they claim to be Muslim, then they have perverted their religion." The New York Times said at the time that he was "held up as a new generation of Muslim leader capable of merging East and West." He even gave a presentation at the Pentagon on "moderate Islam!" He was the first imam to conduct a prayer service for the Congressional Muslim Staffer Association at the U.S. Capitol on behalf of staffers and the infamous Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). His mosque was also visited by Nidal Malik Hasan, who carried out a massacre at Fort Hood. Moving to the UK for several months, he gave talks to up to 200 youths at a time. He urged young Muslim followers: "The important lesson to learn here is never, ever trust a kuffar [non-Muslim]. Do not trust them! He gave a series of lectures in December 2002 and January 2003 at the London Masjid al-Tawhid mosque, describing the rewards martyrs receive in paradise. He was a "distinguished guest" speaker at the UK's Federation of Student Islamic Societies' (FOSIS) annual dinner in 2003. He began a grand lecture tour of Britain, from London to Aberdeen, as part of a campaign by the Muslim Association of Britain. He also lectured for the Islamic Forum Europe (IFE), based at the East London Mosque, and appeared at an event at the East London Mosque in which he told his audience: "A Muslim is a brother of a Muslim" he does not betray him, and he does not hand him over" You don't hand over a Muslim to the enemies." Al-Awlaki returned to Yemen in early 2004, and lived in his ancestral village in the southern province of Shabwa with his wife and five children. He lectured at Iman University, headed by Abdul Majeed al-Zindani. The latter has been included on the UN 1267 Committee's list of individuals belonging to or associated with al-Qaeda. Some believe that the school's curriculum deals mostly, if not exclusively, with radical Islamic studies, and that it is an incubator of radicalism. On August 31, 2006, al-Awlaki was arrested with four others on charges of kidnapping a Shiite teenager for ransom, and participating in an al-Qaeda plot to kidnap a US military attach". He was imprisoned in 2006 and 2007, reportedly under American pressure on the Yemeni authorities. His name was on a list of 100 prisoners whose release was sought by al-Qaeda-linked militants in Yemen. After 18 months in a Yemeni prison, al-Awlaki was released on December 12, 2007, following the intercession of his tribe. According to a Yemeni security official, this indicated the US did not insist on his incarceration, and that he said he repented. Moazzam Begg's Cageprisoners, an organization representing former Guantanamo detainees, campaigned for al-Awlaki's release when he was in prison in Yemen. Shortly after his release, Begg obtained an exclusive telephone interview with him. According to Begg, prior to his incarceration in Yemen, al-Awlaki had condemned the 9/11 attacks. In December 2008, al-Awlaki sent a communique to the Somalian terrorist group, al-Shabaab, congratulating them. He thanked them for, "giving us a living example of how we as Muslims should proceed to change our situation. The ballot has failed us, but the bullet has not." In conclusion, he wrote: "if my circumstances would have allowed, I would not have hesitated in joining you and being a soldier in your ranks." Al-Awlaki provided al-Qaeda members in Yemen with the protection of his powerful tribe, the Awlakis, against the government. By December 2009, al-Awlaki was on the Yemen government's most-wanted list. In March 2010, a tape featuring al-Awlaki was released in which he urged Muslims residing in the US to attack their country of residence. In the video, he stated: "To the Muslims in America, I have this to say: How can your conscience allow you to live in peaceful coexistence with a nation that is responsible for the tyranny and crimes committed against your own brothers and sisters? I eventually came to the conclusion that jihad (holy struggle) against America is binding upon myself just as it is binding upon every other able Muslim." In July 2010, a Seattle cartoonist was warned by the FBI of a death threat against him issued by al-Awlaki in the al-Qaeda magazine Inspire. Eight other cartoonists, journalists, and writers from Britain, Sweden and Denmark were also threatened with death. "The prophet is the pinnacle of Jihad", al-Awlaki wrote. "It is better to support the prophet by attacking those who slander him than it is to travel to land of Jihad like Iraq or Afghanistan." In 2010 it was reported that the London-based Islam Channel had in 2009 carried advertisements for DVDs of al-Awlaki's sermons and for at least two events at which he was to speak via video link. In a video posted to the internet on November 8, 2010, al-Awlaki called for Muslims around the world to kill Americans "without hesitation", and overthrow Arab leaders. He said that no fatwa (special clerical ruling) is required to kill Americans: "Don't consult with anyone in fighting the Americans, fighting the devil.." [18]