Recall, too, the role that taqiyya (deceit and dissimulation) plays in the Da'wa campaign.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Ignoring the call to Islam will bring jihad

Dissimulation in the other direction pretending to be grander than income and occupation suggest is rarer, though it happens too.

ECONOMIST: Class

They deploy their traditional tactics of taqiyah (obfuscation), kitman (dissimulation) and ehtiat (caution) to confuse the "infidels" and divide their ranks.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: What is at stake

Moreover, deliberately misleading infidels holds a special status in Islam and goes by two forms: taqiyyah (deceit or dissimulation) and kitman (lying by omission).

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Answering a critic of 'Shariah: The Threat to America'

Years from now, when historians seek an overarching concept to define our times, they could do worse than refer to it as the Age of Dissimulation.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The Age of Dissimulation

Because the defeat and conquest of infidels by jihad is an explicit obligation defined in Islamic law, deceit, dissimulation, and outright lying to infidels in the execution of jihad is also obligatory.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Answering a critic of 'Shariah: The Threat to America'

With his dissimulation and compensating zeal, his accommodations and rationalisations, his mix of motives (careerism, but also fear and genuine belief) and his proximity to the suffering he nevertheless condoned, Simonov provides exemplary answers to the questions that weave through the book.

ECONOMIST: The Soviet Union

Spencer noted that the head of that Vatican Synod, Archbishop Cyril Salim Bustros, who presently heads the Eastern Catholic church in the US, and in the past served as archbishop of Baalbek in his native Lebanon follows a similar pattern of dissimulation.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The Age of Dissimulation