Posted on 09/15/2001 7:32:06 AM PDT by Chuckmorse
The Assassins
The Islamic terror network, the one which just shoved a dagger into our hearts, has astonishing similarities to an ancient Islamic terror sect known as the Assassins, founded by Hasan bin Sabah, 1094.
The modern term assassination is derived from their name.
During the Crusader period, they became famous for their policy of using murder as a ritualistic tactic of terror.
Like their modern counterparts, the Assassins indoctrinated their adherents into believing that murder was a religious duty.
The Assassins were also known as the Hashshasin or hashish smokers.
Their adherents would smoke hashish as a means of preparing for their missions of murder.
In 1094, Hasan bin Sabah, a friend of the great Persian poet Omar Khayyam, established himself in a mountain fortress on the Caspian Sea called Alamut where he would cultivate a violent personality cult.
According to Nesta Webster, a source that, admittedly, should be approached with a grain of salt, The final object was domination by a few men consumed with the lust of power under the cloak of religion and piety, and the method by which this was to be established was the wholesale assassination of those who opposed them.
The Assassins, a tightly knit secret society, established a pyramidal structure of organization and initiation that would later be imitated by Freemasonry and most other fraternal orders.
According to Webster, the higher initiates into the order of the Assassins believed that Nothing is true and all is allowed.
Jim Marrs, the author of Rule by Secrecy states that a belief of the Assassins was that everything in creation, including humankind, is part of a universal whole, a concept along the lines of Einsteins unified field theory.
The atheistic and amoral Assassins believed in the concept of might makes right, an early version of Social Darwinism.
They, like their modern counterparts, cloaked themselves in Islam while in fact they, like their modern counterparts, sought to subvert and destroy Islam.
Hasan, according to the writings of Marco Polo, built elegant palaces with lush landscaping in a hidden valley.
Future recruits would be drugged, taken to the palace where they would spend several days in the company of opulence and beautiful women, and then, after having been drugged again, returned to their ordinary lives.
After a couple of repeat visits, Hasan would promise his new recruit this paradise eternally.
The gateway to this paradise, however, was through assigned murder.
This sounds an awful lot like the belief of todays modern Assassins.
I wonder if their modern handlers are taking their new young recruits to some modern paradise, perhaps under the influence of hashish or some other drug, with the same promises in exchange for suicide.
It certainly seems familiar and entirely plausible.
The Assassins, at their pinnacle of power, held great influence over most of the rulers of the Middle East.
This was accomplished through spectacular acts of violence and maintained through a threatening network of terror cells.
The Assassins had no particular loyalty to Islam as they allied themselves with the Crusader Knights Templars in their war against the Saracens.
They were early practitioners of what is presently called realpolitique.
Total power was the goal and unspeakable violence was the means.
The Assassins would eventually be weakened by their own murderous nature, as Hasan would be assassinated by his son, Mohammed, who would in turn be poisoned by his son, who had learned of a plot by his father to kill him.
Mongol hoards would eventually finish them off altogether.
Perhaps our government should consider these terrorists, who just assassinated many of us, as a modern version of the Assassins because that is exactly what they appear to be.
Through violence and threats of violence, they are controlling many of the worlds governments outright while others are trembling with fear.
They operate as a secretive syndicate who employ assassination to terrorize anyone, including Muslims, who gets in the way of their power.
They are probably involved in international drug trafficking and also probably employ secretive pyramidal organizational techniques.
By understanding the nature and means of this subversive international conspiracy, our leaders should be able to thwart these modern Assassins as the Mongol hoards did to their predecessors.
Chuck Morse www.chuckmorse.com
The rise of the Thugs, the secret society of assassination of India, followed the Mongol invasion of Persia. indeed, at least one of the Thug recognition-signals (Ali bhai Salam!) indicates salutations to Ali, the descendant of the Prophet most greatly revered by the Assassins.
If true, this would fit in with the Assassins M.O. of adopting whatever guise and worshipping whatever religion they needed to (which in the case of the Thugs was Hinduism) in order to better conceal themselves. Based on this M.O., I am very concerned that there may be many more Assassins who have infiltrated themselves into our country and who are lying low until they receive their assassination orders from their Prince.
Drawing on the historical tactics of the Assassins, this also may explain why they phoned the White House in order to let the White House people know that they had inside information about Air Force One and the President's security procedures. A standard tactic of the Assassins was to let leaders they were opposed to know that the leaders were vulnerable to assassination. Sometimes this was done by leaving a blade on the pillow of the sleeping leader so that he would realize that he had Assassins planted among those he most trusted. Often, such leaders would then alter their policies and actions so as to not offend the Assassins. A prime example of this was Saladin, who had vowed to destroy the Assassins, and who then survived through several assassination attempts only to cut a deal with the Assassins whereby he promised not to carry out any further attacks against them if they would stop trying to assassinate him.
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