Is Rick Warren Engaged In Islamic Creative Lying?

Rick Warren has created quite the cloud of confusion by his defensive twisting of the truth regarding the Saddleback's Islamic "King's Way" effort.

Which makes one wonder if Rick Warren is employing the Islamic doctrine of creative lying known as tawriya. 

Raymond Ibrahim , an Islamic and Middle East expert explains:

"Perhaps you have heard of taqiyya, the Muslim doctrine that allows lying in certain circumstances, primarily when Muslim minorities live under infidel authority. Now meet tawriya, a doctrine that allows lying in virtually all circumstances—including to fellow Muslims and by swearing to Allah—provided the liar is creative enough to articulate his deceit in a way that is true to him. (Though tawriya is technically not "new"—as shall be seen, it has been part of Islamic law and tradition for centuries—it is certainly new to most non-Muslims, hence the need for this exposition and the word "new" in the title.)

The authoritative Hans Wehr Arabic-English Dictionary defines tawriya as, "hiding, concealment; dissemblance, dissimulation, hypocrisy; equivocation, ambiguity, double-entendre, allusion." Conjugates of the trilateral root of the word, w-r-y, appear in the Quran in the context of hiding or concealing something (e.g., 5:31, 7:26).

As a doctrine, "double-entendre" best describes tawriya's function. According to past and present Muslim scholars (several documented below), tawriya is when a speaker says something that means one thing to the listener, though the speaker means something else, and his words technically support this alternate meaning."

A remarkable resemblance to another controversy Warren created in 2008:

Rick Warren Washes His Hands of SoulForce But Saddleback Sets The Table

Rick Warren's damage control behavior certainly resembles "tawriya".