>>A Muslim is permitted to lie if the goal is
permissible.
I guess the ancient Greeks were always permitted
to lie. Thucydides is chocked full of passages like:
"Come out of the Temple of Athena and we will not
slay you," said Pseudos Mendex Malakoi.
And so the Bosanova hoplites came out of the
temple, and the Tangoite soldiers slew them.
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