Jews and Muslims use ‘ketman’, a strategy of concealment to infiltrate religions and culture
“In the present phase, secret agents in the Catholic and other churches are being used to implement Communist strategy.”
—Soviet defector Anatoliy Golitsyn – The Perestroika Deception
Jewish Ketman
Samuel Primo, personal secretary of Sabbatai Zevi, claimed that "by his conversion to Islam, Sabbatai established himself as the messiah. What he did is a kabbalistic mystery, which some writings had already foretold. Just as the first savior, Moses, had to spend some time in the court of Pharaoh, and that not as an Israelite, but pretending to be an Egyptian, so the final savior must live for some time in pagan disguise in a pagan court - outwardly sinful, but inwardly pure." One of the main theorists of Sabbateanism, Abraham Cardoso, believed that "every Jew must become such a Marrano before returning from exile." The duty of Sabbateans was therefore to officially adopt a foreign religion, but to practice their own secretly. They believed - as Jan Doktór writes - "that as long as the world is ruled by powers opposed to salvation, true faith must be cultivated in secret, so as not to succumb to the temptation of institutionalization, which would be tantamount to submission to the power of demonic forces. Therefore, the greater the contradiction between institutional forms that are respected externally and faith, the better for faith." This idea of worshipping one's Lord by serving another God created the phenomenon known as ketman, which was later described in a completely different context by Czesław Miłosz in The Captive Mind. He referred to Gobineau's observations: "Ketman fills the one who practices it with pride. Thanks to this, the believer achieves a state of permanent superiority over the one he has deceived, even if the latter were a minister or a powerful king; for the person who applies ketman to him, he is above all a poor blind man; he has been deprived of access to the only true path and does not even suspect it; on the other hand, you, ragged and starving, seemingly trembling at the feet of a cleverly mistaken power, have eyes full of light; you walk in splendor before your enemies. You mock an unintelligent being; You disarm a dangerous beast. How much fun at the same time!"
How to achieve this? Miłosz quotes Gobineau: "Not only must one then publicly renounce one's views, but it is advisable to use every trick in order to mislead one's opponent. One will then utter every creed that may please him, one will perform every ritual that one considers the most absurd, one will falsify one's own books, one will use every means of misleading. In this way, one will gain great satisfaction and merit, having protected oneself and one's own, not having exposed one's precious faith to the hideous contact of the infidels, and finally, having deceived the latter and confirmed him in his error, one has brought upon him the disgrace and spiritual misery which he deserved."
The followers of Sabbatai Zevi maintained that although he officially accepted the Mohammedan faith, in reality his conversion had a different, esoteric, meaning - it was about collecting the sparks of divinity from the fallen pagan world. A hundred years later, the Frankists claimed that this mission turned out to be incomplete, because the other part of the pagan world, apart from Muslims, was Christian - therefore it became necessary for Jacob Frank, as the new incarnation of Sabbatai Zevi, to be baptized and secretly complete the messianic work, collecting the sparks lost among the Christians. The Frankists managed to survive the death of their master. They continued in secret their ceremonies. For example, the testimonies of three followers of Frank given before the rabbinate in Furth in 1800 have been preserved. They told of orgies organized by Roch Frank, son of Jacob. In that same year, according to the prophecy of Eva Frank, daughter of the deceased messiah, the parousia, or second coming into the world of her father, Jacob, was to take place. When this did not happen, some of the Frankists returned to Judaism, some remained with Christianity, but the most ardent still persevered with the ketman, officially pretending to be Catholics, and secretly practicing maasim zarim (Kabbalah).
Source: https://www.fronda.pl/a/jak-falszywy-mesjasz-jakub-frank-chcial-zniszczyc-polske,46705.html
Taqiyya (Islamic ketman)
In Islam, Taqiyya (Arabic: تقیة, romanized: taqiyyah, lit. 'prudence')[1][2] is the practice of dissimulation and secrecy of religious belief and practice, primarily in Shia Islam.[1][3][4][5][6]
Generally, taqiyya is regarded as the action of maintaining secrecy or mystifying one's beliefs when one's life or property is threatened.[7][8] Hiding one's beliefs in non-Muslim nations has been practiced since the early days of Islam and early Muslims used it to avoid torture or getting killed by non-Muslims and tyrants with authority; it used to be acknowledged by Muslims of virtually all persuasions.[9][10]
The use of taqiyya has varied in recent history, especially between Sunni and Shia Muslims. Sunni Muslims gained political supremacy over time and therefore only occasionally found the need to practice taqiyya. On the other hand, Shia Muslims, as well as Sufi Muslims developed taqiyya as a method of self-preservation and protection in hostile environments.[11]
A related term is kitmān (lit. "action of covering, dissimulation"), which has a more specific meaning of dissimulation by silence or omission.[12][13] This practice is emphasized in Shi'ism whereby adherents are permitted to conceal their beliefs when under threat of persecution or compulsion.[3][14]
Taqiyya was initially practiced under duress by some of Muhammad's companions.[15]Later, it became important for Sufis, but even more so for Shias, who often experienced persecution as a religious minority.[14][16] In Shia theology, taqiyya is permissible in situations where life or property are at risk and whereby no danger to religion would occur.[14] Taqiyya has also been politically legitimised in Twelver Shi'ism, to maintain unity among Muslims and fraternity among Shia clerics.[17][18]