This explains everything. Especially for the dhimmi inclined, and they will howl about being called upon this. And these three reasons differ from the reasons why plenty of people lie in practice, Freepers and Christians include, how, exactly? I would argue, for example, that plenty of Freepers are taking liberties with the truth when it comes to Islam because they feel they are at war with Islam. Is this wrong? Yes, you can criticize Muhammed for not setting the bar higher and I'd probably agree with you. That said, all this quote does is condone the situational ethics that I think large majorities of people follow in practice in those situations.
>"Yes, you can criticize Muhammed for not setting the bar higher and I'd probably agree with you."<
Perhaps you might want to question the assumptions you have about the founder of Islam?
It is documented that Muhammed did more then just encourage lies...he killed and/or condoned the killing, of many helpless innocent people, including a pregnant woman:
Sunan Abu-Dawud Book 38, Number 4348
http://www.faithfreedom.org/Articles/sina/WhyILeftIslamp2.htm
How low of a bar are you willing to accept, for the founder of this religion?
granted, I'm only relying on the expert testimony of Dr. Sina, who claims:
http://www.faithfreedom.org/Articles/sina/WhyILeftIslamp3.htm
"Thus we have two Islams. One that makes strives to attribute mystical significance and otherworldly meanings to the inane teachings of the Quran, as is professed by Sufis, and the other that rejects any interpretation of these verses beyond their literal meanings, as is practiced by the majority of Muslims with their hub in Saudi Arabia among the Wahhabis. And of course there is a myriad of sects that go in between these two extremes, each interpreting the Quran according to their own whims and caprices, each calling others mortad or heretics and constantly making war among themselves to impose their own "right" version of the pure Islam on others.
However, the real Islam is not what its philosophers and mystics have inferred but what is in the Quran and that is the Islam of the fundamentalist and the terrorist. The real Islam is the Islam that abuses women, that allows men to beat their wives, that imposes penalty tax on the religious minorities, that wants to dominate the world by subduing all the non-Muslims, that calls for Jihad and killing the non-believers until Islam becomes the only dominant religion of the World.
My rejection of Islam is not based on the bad deeds of the Muslims but on the bad teachings of its holy book and on the bad deeds of its founder."- Dr Sina
http://www.faithfreedom.org/Articles/sina/WhyILeftIslamp3.htm