Bamboozling the Infidel

Raymond Ibrahim explains the Islamic concept of taysir and provides a modern case for illumination:

Qaradawi's Muslim Brotherhood colleague, Tariq Ramadan, provides an ideal example: he recommends that a "moratorium" — a temporary ban — be placed on the Muslim practice of stoning adulterers to death; yet he refuses to say that stoning is intrinsically un-Islamic. This, of course, is taysir in practice: because stoning people in the West is liable to get the stoner incarcerated or worse, upholding the Sharia mandate to stone adulterers is "hard" on Muslims living in the West, so best to put it on hold — that is, till circumstances are more opportune.

That's the idea.