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Money Has Its Favorites

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The following article is a suitable follow-up to last night’s story about war profiteers. It’s a reminder that making money off endless wars is just one form of corruption among many others. The EU in particular seems to have been deliberately designed to enable massive corruption of all types behind an opaque protective screen.

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Uncut News:

The Rockefeller and Bill Gates foundations on the sponsorship list of EU decision-makers

Many of the more than 12,000 lobbyists who approach the EU institutions are sponsored by the Rockefeller and Bill Gates foundations, which provide enormous sums of money. As a rule, lobbyists officially try to influence the political decisions of EU heads of government in the interests of their own organizations. The European Court of Auditors has warned in a special report that lobbying without transparency mechanisms can lead to undue influence, unfair competition and even corruption.

Lobbying in the European Parliament and the European Commission consumes hundreds of millions of euros and more every year. More than 12,000 non-governmental organizations and companies are trying to influence the policies of EU decision-makers. In its special report “EU Transparency Register — Useful but limited information on lobbying activities”, the European Court of Auditors warns that lobbying activities without transparency mechanisms can lead to undue influence, unfair competition or even corruption.

“Registered organizations can self-identify which category they belong to and this determines what financial reporting requirements apply. There is therefore a risk that registered entities funded by third parties may not disclose certain financial information, including their sources of funding, by declaring that they represent their own or the collective interests of their members. Significant limitations have also been identified in the information provided on the public transparency register website. Some important data are missing, such as data on individual meetings with members of the European Parliament or historical data on newly registered organizations. Furthermore, the website does not provide aggregated data on lobbyists and their activities in an interactive form,” says the European Court of Auditors report.

Big names behind the lobbyists

Pandemic Action Network, a non-governmental organization based in the USA, joined forces on the 18th of June, registered as a lobbyist with the European Union in 2020 and met with representatives of the European Commission in 2020 to specifically prepare EU legislative proposals or measures as part of the Covid-19 response and reconstruction plans as well as the EU vaccination strategy.

The 2022 financial report names the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation with almost €2.3 million, the Rockefeller Foundation with €715,000 and the pharmaceutical companies Merck and Johnson & Johnson as donors. The Rockefeller Foundation registered as a lobbyist in the EU Transparency Register in May 2023 and states that it works with the European Commission to combat poverty and promote a green future and has a lobbying budget of €294 million. The US-based International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc., which officially registered as a lobbyist in March 2021, claims to be a non-profit scientific research organization developing vaccines and antibodies against HIV, tuberculosis and emerging infectious diseases (including Covid-19).

The organization has received EU grants of €2.45 million in 2022 and €3.5 million in 2023. In 2022, the organization also received €21 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and €73 million from the US government.

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Daddy Warbucks is Doing Just Fine

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Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from JournalistenWatch:

Arms industry in full swing: global military spending is rising to a new high

After the political actors and henchmen of global economic powers have fed the pharmaceutical industry with taxpayers’ money in recent years, it is now the arms industry’s turn. And things are going really well for the “corpse makers”:

Global military spending rose to a new high last year. This emerges from a new report by the Stockholm Institute for International Peace Research (Sipri), which was published on Monday.

According to this, global military spending increased for the ninth year in a row — it climbed to a record level of 2.44 trillion US$. For the first time since 2009, military spending also increased in all five geographical regions defined by Sipri, with particularly high increases in Europe, Asia and Oceania, and the Middle East.

Russia’s military spending rose 24% to an estimated $109 billion in 2023, a 57% increase since 2014, according to the report. NATO members accounted for $1.34 trillion last year, equivalent to 55% of global military spending. U.S. military spending rose 2.3% to $916 billion in 2023, accounting for 68% of NATO’s total military spending.

China spent an estimated $296 billion on the military in 2023, up 6.0% from 2022. This was the 29th consecutive year-over-year increase in Chinese military spending. China accounted for half of total military spending in the Asia and Oceania region. Several of China’s neighbors also linked their own spending increases to China’s rising military spending.

It doesn’t really matter who goes to war against whom, the profiteers are the same everywhere.

Afterword from the translator:

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Lounging at Ease in the Infidel Paradise

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It’s been obvious for a long time that the “asylum seekers” who have infested Germany en masse since 2015 are parasites soaking up the wealth of the state — at least it’s obvious to anyone who isn’t hypnotized by government propaganda.

The latest official statistics confirm these grim conclusions: a full 40% of those who are permanently unemployed and subsisting on benefits are foreigners.

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Junge Freiheit. The translator’s comments are in square brackets:

40% of the permanently unemployed are foreigners

Once again, migration policy is proving to be a failure. The background is figures on foreigners and unemployment published by the Federal Employment Agency. The AfD is calling for drastic consequences.

Berlin

Foreigners are greatly overrepresented among the permanently unemployed in Germany. Of the 1.5 million “employable benefit recipients” who have been receiving citizen’s benefit for at least five years, almost 40% do not have a German passport. [Well, the solution would be to give out more and faster German citizenship. Nancy Faeser needs to resign over this type of blatant “racism” against foreigners. Shame on her and the Ministry of Interior. Sarcasm off.] This was the result of a special evaluation by the Federal Employment Agency, which was commissioned by the labour and social policy spokesman for the AfD parliamentary group, René Springer. The proportion of foreigners in the total population in Germany is around 15%. Bild first reported on the evaluation.

As of June 2023, a total of around 3.9 million “employable benefit claimants” lived in Germany. This refers to unemployed people who could work but still receive what is now known as citizen’s benefits. 1.5 million of them have received basic security for at least five years. Of the 1.5 million, 948,076 were German (61.3%) and 599,230 were foreigners (38.7%).

The statistics also show that around 270,000 of these permanently unemployed people came from the top eight asylum countries of origin — Afghanistan, Eritrea, Iraq, Iran, Nigeria, Pakistan, Somalia and Syria. [They call it jizyah in those countries, if I’m not mistaken.]

AfD wants to cut off citizen’s allowance for foreigners

AfD social expert Springer called for citizens’ benefits for foreigners to be canceled and for illegal immigrants to be consistently rejected at the border. “The message that is being sent to the world is fatal: once you have made it into citizen’s money, you can be permanently supported by the German taxpayer,” he told Junge Freiheit. This “mega pull factor and welfare state magnet” must be stopped immediately.

At the same time, the AfD MP took the federal government to task. “The fact that employable foreigners can apparently receive citizens’ benefits on a permanent basis is due to a lack of political will to end this unspeakable situation and to protect the German welfare state.” [Why the so-called opposition is asking such dumb questions boggles the mind. What’s going on has been part and parcel of the whole exercise of cultural and literal genocide of the West by the puppetician class for decades now.]

According to the evaluation, the federal states of Berlin and Bremen had the highest proportion of permanently unemployed people. In both city states, almost half of all employable benefit recipients have been receiving basic benefits for at least five years.

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Whose Face Will Be on the Trillion-Dollar Bill?

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Some of the things that President Biden and the Democrat Party have been doing over the past few months are pretty bizarre, considering that this is an election year.

Hispanics and even blacks are shifting away from the Democrats. Young people — the parti-colored Zoomer TikTok generation — are increasingly drawn towards Donald Trump. The way things are going, there won’t be enough dump trucks available to haul in the “found” ballots required to put Joe Biden over the top on the night of November 5th. The Democrats are virtuosos at rigging elections, but even in the dystopian twilight of 21st-century America, elections can only be stolen at the margin. The race has to be at least somewhat close in order to pull off an effective steal.

The Democrat apparat seems utterly unconcerned with making sure the race is a tight one. One unpopular policy after another is being pushed — open borders, criminals released without bail, the promotion of sexual perversion, the war against the internal combustion engine, uniformed soldiers with pink hair mincing around in high heels…

And, to top it all off, there was the “Transgender Day of Visibility” on Easter Sunday. Don’t they even want to win the election?

Well, maybe they really don’t.

I’d been thinking along those lines for a while, and then last week I happened to read something similar at ZeroHedge, an essay saying that they’re going to let Trump win.

These are the key paragraphs:

Let Trump back in, and fight him on home turf — in the maze of the executive bureaucracy. Some of his backers have announced their intention to become politically competent in the event that he wins — but compared to the alternatives, that’s a very manageable risk.

More importantly: let Trump hold the bag for the all-but-guaranteed economic calamity of the next four years. The regime could skate for another decade if they succeed in pinning the collapse on a dangerous, erratic right-wing upstart. [emphasis added]

Everything I say here tonight is pure speculation. I’m not an expert on any of these matters, and especially not on financial issues. I’m just a reasonably well-informed layperson who reads a lot of information from diverse points of view.

It’s undeniable that the country is headed towards some form of fiscal calamity. As I mentioned last month, money-printing is being taken to new extremes:

I swore off making specific predictions after the previous great fiscal crisis in 2009, when my prognostications were so completely wrong. I never would have thought they could keep the racket going for another fifteen years, but here we are. The Powers That Be have managed to do a lot with derivatives and real estate bubbles.

But the debt graph can’t keep going up with a steadily increasing slope — it just can’t. Someday the pyramid scheme will come crashing down, and the chickens will come home to roost. Based on the current debt acceleration, it won’t be much longer. It might take a week; it might take a decade. But the chickens will be roosting relatively soon.

The thing is, the people who keep the Ponzi scheme afloat know exactly what’s coming. They know the money-printing tactic will eventually stop working. It’s a complex process, what with cryptocurrencies, CBDCs, derivatives, paper and digital “futures” of precious metals, and now the BRICS alternatives. Keeping those plates spinning must surely be a tricky business.

And the people in charge know that a collapse of the dollar will eventually come. In order enrich themselves fully, and assure themselves an unbroken hold on the levers of power, they will need to time the crisis carefully. At exactly the right moment they will topple the pillars supporting the dollar-based economy, after having thoroughly prepared the replacement system that will be built on the smoking ruins of the old one.

So which patsy will be nominally in charge when the house of cards comes tumbling down? Who will preside over the Great Collapse?

Whose face will be on the Zimbabwe-style trillion-dollar bill?

For a long time I thought Brandon was being set up as the fall guy. He was always obviously a disposable president, a non-re-electable senile geezer who could be pushed aside when he was no longer needed. The people who crafted his policies and wrote his speeches clearly didn’t try to make him more popular. I assumed that when the time was right, he would be gently eased out (and Kamala, too, although that part would be tricky), and a substitute such as Gavin Newsom or Big Mike installed to run in 2024, someone who was at least plausible enough that the election could be rigged on his behalf.

But it never happened. And the scripts that Brandon has been following have been so damaging to him that it’s obvious that his handlers don’t really want him to win re-election. It is intended that he go down in flames, taking the Democrat Party with him.

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A Letter to the Cousins

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Our English correspondent Seneca III addresses his latest remarks to his American cousins.

A Letter to the Cousins

by Seneca III

On this side of the pond and then on over the ditch to Europe, there is increasing chaos. The political classes, the academics and the politicians we have elected are scrambling around and promoting this DEI excrement which has turned so much of our national socio-economic landscapes into moral wildernesses by selling out to these ‘new citizens’, the so called ‘immigrants’ and ‘refugees’ who are in fact illegally-entered black and brown criminals (mostly Muslim) from every failed country on earth. They are slowly and violently taking over the streets, public spaces and public transport across the continent.

Stabbings, street robberies, rape gangs and shootings are now an unwelcome integral part of our way of life, and parts of several major cities such as Londonistan, which is now minority white, are infested with dangerous no-go areas unsafe even in daylight. At night they become war zones where different factions, races and gangs fight it out for control. Europe, with a couple of notable exceptions, is much the same.

In Aberdeen, Shell’s headquarters were targeted today with orange paint as Just Stop Oil activists claimed responsibility. They seem not to understand that the Universe, even if only to the extent of the thirteen-billion-year time/distance limited horizons we can presently observe, is huge beyond our comprehension. It is deep, complicated, profoundly mysterious and interconnected in ways we do not yet understand… if we ever will. That Extinction Rebellion and its various analogues should presume to tell us how it works on our cosmological microscale and that we are responsible for perfectly natural events smacks of the destructive knee-jerk response of simple-minded children.

We still do not know if solar activity and climate are constructive partners or destructive antagonists, for our collective life span is too short compared with that of Mother Sun. Homo sapiens sapiens still has a long way to go to complete its evolution into Homo solaris and even further to Homo stellaris, but one wonders how those far-distant descendants of ours will look back and view the twitterings of these gullible drones so taken in by the great global warming/carbon tax scam.

With much time on my hands these days, this redneck from over the pond has used it to keep a beady eye on you guys and I have a subliminal feeling that a major geopolitical sea change is underway over there. It’s hard to pin down amidst the furore surrounding Trump, the November presidential election and what will happen after, but there are some clues to be found in these snippets I have picked up during my interweb meanderings:

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The Incredible Shrinking Dollar

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Last night I posted a graph of the increase in US national debt. The recent ballooning of the debt makes the slope of the graph quite steep, and it will undoubtedly get even steeper.

Our national debt is currently said to be about $34.5 trillion. The latest population estimate I could find for the country is 331 million (the actual figure is probably several million higher than that, due to the huge influx of illegal immigrants in the last few years, but I’ll go with the official figure).

$34.5 trillion divided by 331 million people equals approximately $104,000 per man, woman, and child in the USA.

That figure includes minor children, welfare recipients, and officially acknowledged illegal immigrants, rather than actual taxpayers. I looked at the IRS website to get the number of people who file federal tax returns, and it’s roughly 162 million.

$34.5 trillion divided by 162 million taxpayers equals approximately $213,000 per taxpayer.

Mind you, that includes people who pay little or no tax. And the latter group includes rich people, who usually pay no more in tax than the average minimum-wage employee. Instead they pay a much smaller sum to accountants, and more importantly to lobbyists who make sure that Congress enacts the requisite tax loopholes. It’s a very cost-effective strategy if you’re in the top 1%.

In other words, the tax burden for repaying the national debt will be borne by middle-class taxpayers. I can’t give you an exact figure, but we know the average middle-class taxpayer would be on the hook for well over $213K.

And that’s just for the debt at its current level. Remember, it’s increasing at a rate of approximately $1 trillion every 100 days. That’s $3,021 per person, and an annual rate increase of $6,173 per person. If we just count the taxpayers, that’s an increase every year of $22,531 on the back of each taxpayer. And that’s assuming the rate of increase does not increase (the “delta squared”), which seems unlikely.

The upshot of all this is that the national debt will never be repaid. Productivity cannot possibly rise quickly enough to raise GDP to a level that would bring in enough tax money to pay off the debt.

There are only two possible ways to deal with the debt: (1) Repudiate it, or (2) Monetize it. #2 means printing more money, which is the current strategy. As more and more non-Western countries abandon using “the world’s reserve currency” to settle their trade deals, to keep the debt engine steaming along the USA has to lend the money to itself. That is, the Treasury issues bonds, and the Fed buys them. That’s the same as printing money.

The end result of #2 is hyperinflation, of which we are seeing the earliest signs.

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Canary in the German Coal Mine?

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Continuing with the theme of “Post-Industrial Europe”, our Hungarian correspondent László sends this report on the decline of business conditions in Germany as experienced by a Hungarian entrepreneur.

Canary in the German Coal Mine?

by László

A Hungarian entrepreneur who currently runs his business in Germany says, in a viral video of 2.7m views, that he cannot really make a profit over there any more, so he’s decided to move back to Hungary. Which is quite something.

The Great Reset Impoverishment seems to proceed rather well in Europe.

Translation of the article of the Hungarian media outlet Mandiner:

A Hungarian entrepreneur is upset, says the German economy is in crisis, prefers to come home to Hungary (VIDEO)

The entrepreneur says the German economy will not “fall into recession”; it is already in recession.

February 22, 2024

In a video posted on social media, a Hungarian entrepreneur who has been living and working in Germany for years has voiced his dissatisfaction. The general consensus is that the state of the construction industry is an accurate measure of economic crises. It is precisely this sector that the Hungarian entrepreneur has now sharply criticised, detailing the negative aspects.

The man who made the video runs a large-scale painting company. At the beginning of the video, he explains that recently they were about to sign a framework contract for the painting of 80 flats in connection with a major construction project. However, in the video, he says that at today’s forint-euro exchange rate, they received a bid of 812 forints per square metre for two coats of paint, which he says is unacceptably low for the industry.

According to the contractor, it is getting to the point where Hungarian [contract] prices 20 years ago were even lower than German prices today.

In his view, since the start of the war, sanctions and the influx of Ukrainian migrant workers have driven prices down to the point where it is almost impossible for businesses like his to survive.

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Silvia Sardone: The Suicide of Europe

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Silvia Sardone is an Italian MEP for the Lega (Matteo Salvini’s party). In the following video, Ms. Sardone points out the destructive absurdities of the “Green Deal” climate policies which are the current collective obsession of the European Union.

Many thanks to HeHa for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:

Video transcript:

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“The Netherlands is in the Service of the Migrant”

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The following video shows remarks made by a local politician for the FvD (Forum voor Democratie, Forum for Democracy) at a city council meeting in The Hague.

Here’s part of the introduction from RAIR Foundation:

Dutch politician Massimo Etalle from the Forum for Democracy party warned of the consequences of an ‘insane anti-Dutch policy,’ emphasizing the financial strain with ‘a gigantic tax burden of 60%’ to finance a ‘migrant resort,’ and lamented the loss of ‘centuries-old families’ due to government choices.

In a recent session at the Dutch city council of Den Haag (The Hague), a charged debate erupted over the issue of illegal immigration, igniting strong sentiments among political factions.

The discussion was instigated by concerns surrounding a new law mandating Den Haag to accommodate a significantly more significant number of asylum seekers, a decision met with widespread discontent among politicians and citizens alike.

Many thanks to Henk for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:

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Corrupt Governments Partnered With Corrupt Corporations — What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

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The following video from the AUF1 TV channel in Germany discusses the recently concluded conference hosted by the World Economic Forum in Davos. The topic in focus is “public-private partnerships”, where gigantic global corporations get their financial tentacles into the affairs of formerly sovereign states.

Many thanks to Oz-Rita for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:

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German Money Printer Go Brrr

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German Economics Minister Robert Habeck has proposed a solution for the country’s current economic woes: borrow more money to create a “special fund” so that subsidies for various groups can be increased. Seems like a good idea to me. What could possibly go wrong?

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Apollo News. The translator’s comments are in square brackets:

Habeck fantasizes about new trillion-dollar special assets — all financed with new debts

Economics Minister Habeck is causing outrage in the Bundestag. The Green Minister is fantasizing about a new special fund worth trillions using figures made out of thin air.

Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck spoke to the Bundestag on Thursday about the problems of the German economy. In response to considerable criticism from the opposition about the current dire economic situation, he then spoke of the possibility of another “special fund” to stimulate the German economy again. He knows “that a discussion about the debt brake is not right, given the current possibilities.” There is “maybe, but still a way to come together in this sense,” said Habeck in the direction of the Union faction. [What a word-salad this children’s book author can throw together.]

Habeck’s suggestion: “What if we introduced a special fund to solve the structural problems?” It seems to be Habeck’s new favorite word. If Germany has no money for its daring plans, then it will have to go through debts from a special fund.

The Economics Minister continued: “(A special fund) that then pays out with what the companies want: namely, through TaxCredit tax breaks, to create tax depreciation options.” That is what he is hearing from opposition circles and from the Liberals: “An Economic Opportunity Act times 10, maybe times 50, to move this country forward. What we need is a joint conversation.”

The already planned Growth Opportunities Act is currently stuck in the mediation committee between the Bundestag (Parliament) and the Bundesrat (Federal Council) because there is no agreement yet. The volume of this project is around €7 billion per year from 2024 and a total of over €32 billion in the next few years. An “Economic Opportunities Act times 50”, as Habeck calls for, would be a financial mega-project worth €1.6 trillion.

The Economics Minister seems to have simply plucked the “times 50” out of thin air in the debate. But that seems to be Habeck’s last line, under pressure from Germany’s increasingly gloomy economic figures: simply spend more money, take on more debt — without fully outlining the dimensions himself.

The special fund idea caused outrage even in otherwise Habeck-friendly public broadcaster circles. Gerd-Joachim von Fallois, the Phoenix correspondent in the ARD capital studio, said critically: “The economic figures in Germany are devastating. Germany is sliding into recession, something is wrong. And the only thing that occurs to the responsible federal minister is that we have to get more money in order to distribute more subsidies.”

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Robert Fico: Our Governments Bowed to the Pharmaceutical Companies

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The following video features remarks made by Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico to his country’s parliament. As far as I know, this represents the first time any head of a Western government has called out the corrupt predatory practices of governments in symbiosis with the pharmaceutical industry during the COVID-19 “pandemic”. He even highlights the corrupt relationship between Pfizer and Ursula von der Leyen, the current president of the European Commission. For his sake, I hope he has a food taster on his staff.

The subtitles were timed using the official English translation of Mr. Fico’s remarks. Many thanks to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:

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Islam: Abolition of Civilisation

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After an extended sabbatical, our Indian correspondent The Kafir returns with an overview of the civilization-destroying ideology that is Islam.

Islam: Abolition of Civilisation

by The Kafir

“Moreover, whatever may be the respective crimes, virtues and deserts of various races, classes and nations, civilized society requires a certain rule and order to hold back from the edge of anarchic savagery where it is always precariously poised. Human beings must have at least a minimum security in life and property, must be able to move through the streets and between the cities, must accept certain common rules in their mutual inter-course, or civilization does not exist. If this necessary order is subverted, the civilization is destroyed, whether the subversion take place from the best or worst of motives, whether or not it is in some supposedly moral sense justified, whether it is carried out by saints or devils. At some point the guardians of a civilization must be prepared to draw the line.” — James Burnham (Suicide of The West, page 227 [Kindle edition])

Human perception is a very strange thing. Man’s mind may have perceived everything needed to visit the moon. But sometimes it may fail to see the most obvious, glaring thing, not for a few moments or days, but for centuries.

What exactly is Islam? A man born in the Arabian city of Mecca around 1400 years ago claimed that he had been contacted by the God who created this world, had been given a book, and had been commanded to preach that man should worship only that God, in formlessness. So far so good.

Each of us believes so many claims by our fellow men. Men are totally free to believe this man also. They are fully entitled to believe that he was a messenger of God, and should worship God the way he said He should be worshipped. There is no problem so far. The world will go about its business, some nations will have good rulers and hence will be rich, others which have not so good rulers will remain poor. There will be aid for the starving.

But that man said something else also. He said that his fellow men had no choice in the matter. They Must either believe that he was a messenger of God, and worship the way he said, or they ‘will have no security in life and property, will not be able to move safely through the streets and between the cities, and his followers are bound by no rules in their mutual intercourse with non-believers.’ (James Burnham paraphrased) That is, he abolished Civilisation. He abolished the moral laws that make Civilisation possible. (Qur’an 8.39, 9.5, 9.29 and hadith Bukhari 1.2.24).

Kafirs have made mistakes in their response to him from the very first day he proclaimed his mission. They did not figure out his true intentions, and they did not even translate his words properly. For example, jihad.

Jihad is variously translated as Holy War, warfare, or just war. But in a war, an army comes, challenges the army of the target country, the two armies fight, and the victorious army gains possession of the country. People start paying taxes to the new government. This is a war. The only way of war between the civilised countries.

Does this happen in jihad? No. From the very first “battle” the Muslims fought, jihad means something else entirely. In jihad, you can attack trade caravans, you can kill non-combatants, you can simply attack a home/village, kill all the men, rape women and sex-enslave them, and enslave children and trade them around like goods; and loot the goods of household. This is sanctioned in the Qur’an, this is sanctioned by the examples of early Muslims, this is sanctioned in hundreds of hadith, and there are whole chapters of sharia manuals devoted to detailing this. The only condition is that you have to share 20% of the looted women, children and goods with the leader of the moment, the Imam/Caliph/Amir.

Does it all sound like a war? This is actually dacoity.

Merriam Webster defines dacoity as “robbery by dacoits — now used in the Indian penal code of robbery by an armed gang of not less than five men” Dacoity is word taken into English from India. The synonym is robbery/loot. The same dictionary defines robbery as “larceny from the person or presence of another by violence or threat.” So the correct translation of jihad is dacoity/robbery. The man made dacoity/robbery lawful against those who did not believe him. He made dacoity/robbery a religious duty.*

And civilisations died. Wherever his followers went, the places they seized, civilisations died. Baghdad or Cordoba are paraded around as examples of Islamic civilisation. That is, Islam is claimed to have established civilisation of its own kind after it has conquered a non-Islamic civilisation. But what are the creations of Baghdad or Cordoba except some translations of Indian/Persian/ Greek texts? Any literature, science, architecture, paintings, roads, canals, dance forms, music, universities? Anything that we take as achievements of a civilisation? In reality, every Muslim kingdom meant only one thing: regular raids on the kafir villages and cities, the killing of men, the looting of women, children and household goods. That is, dacoity.

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