The History of the Assassins: From Alamut to Modern Times

00:00According to legend, one of the Persian caliphs decided to restore order in his country. And I must say that at court he had a lot, as he believed, of all sorts of different foreign spies. And he began to catch these spies and execute some spies. One morning he woke up, and he was very well guarded and believed that he could not be killed. He had very strong security. One morning he wakes up  and found a dagger at the head of his bed and a note “If you don’t stop it the thing at your head  will be in your heart”

00:39This note was written to him by Hasan Ibn Sabah or the Elder  from the mountain - the head of the terrible sect of assassins. Let’s talk about them today. Hello! I am  Sergei Minayev and this is a history lesson.[music]

00:57Well, Assassins - this term is probably already  well known to you: in the game Assassin’s Creed, in all kinds of movies, serials and comics.  In general, Assassin is a word that is now used in English for murderers,  and actually came from the East. It came from a sect created by Hassan  Ibn Sabah. As a matter of fact, it was not a sect, but a whole state.  It was a state, it can even be said, that not just a state,

01:34but in general, such a philosophical socio-religious trend.  Without religion, nothing could have been done, and in fact everything began with religion.  In the seventh century, the prophet Muhammad united the divided peoples of the Arab East in  the midst of the religion of Islam - a young, passionate religion - and, in fact, this is the  first time that the entire Arab world has almost come together, and it has not lasted  long. After the death of the prophet Muhammad, the Islamic world is divided into two large  groups. They are still in these groups - they are

02:17Shiites and Sunnis. Talking about the history  of the split in Islam is generally a separate topic, so we will briefly observe this topic.  The split is natural, like any split, it occurs in the way people interpret or understand  religion and in the way they struggle for power. The same thing happened here. In the eighth century,  the Muslim world splits, the Sunnis believe that the Muslim community should be led by the elected Caliph, the  Shiites believe that power should be transferred only to the direct descendant of the prophet.  But even here in the Shia world, there was no unity,

03:02because exactly who must lead the Muslims.Here another  split occurred and the Ismaili movement came. It still exists in our time. Or adherents of ismail. Ismail was the eldest son of the sixth Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq. That's not all.  In the 11th century, a split occurred among the Ismailis. What happened? At that time Egypt was ruled by the  Fatimid Muslim dynasty and has two sons- Ali Mustali's younger son and Nizar's eldest son.  The eldest son should inherit after the death of the

03:43Caliph. Just before his death, the Caliph changes  his mind and actually transfers all power to his youngest son Ali Mustali. A significant part  of the Ismailis  does not accept Mustali and continue to consider their eldest son Nizar as their leader.  As a result of internecine strife, Nizar is captured and imprisoned, and in that prison he dies. The Nizari began  to be persecuted, and in fact, at this moment, the Nizari got a new Leader, social and spiritual at the  same time. His name is Hasan Ibn Sabah.

04:22He is a very educated person, according to legend,  he was friends with the elite of the Muslim world.In particular, with the famous poet Omar Khayyam,  whose "Rubaiyat" some of you must have read. He was an educated person, a very passionate,  very religious person, and in general, in our modern terms, he was both a social leader and a spiritual  leader. In this time he makes the persecuted Nizaris to follow him. The Nizarites flee from Egypt and  take refuge in hard-to-reach areas of Persia. There they find a fortress called Alamut. The fortress  stands on top of a rock, almost unapproachable.

05:02Here is the first legend about Hasan Sabah that  that practically by persuasion forced the defenders of the fortress, not numerous, to surrender and he captured  this fortress and settled in it together with his associates.

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06:51In 1090, Sabah began to build his own state.  I must say that at that time Alamut was in Persia under the rule of the Seljuks. And now the Nizars  are beginning to spread their teachings, they’re starting to take over nearby fortresses, settlements, large  fortresses, smaller fortresses. We can even say - they were entrenched there. So, he builds his own state.  Hassan founded a new teaching called Aidawa Al-Jadida, which means a call for a new Faith. You can’t call it  a branch of Islam, you can call it a trend. Let’s take

07:36a look at the term. What does Hassan do?  It repeals all sharia laws in the territory of its state, replacing  them with even stricter religious laws, for which they are simply punishable  by death. On these laws, he cancels all taxes that the Seljuks have established.  Instead, the people, in the form of taxes, in the form of a tribute  to the state, began to engage in the construction of fortifications, the construction  of canals and the construction of fortresses on the orders of Hassan.  In other words, it reinforces the state. This religion trend that Hasan founded, on the one hand, he used Islam

08:19and on the other hand, he used such mystical and  philosophical religious beliefs that exist in the historical environment of any nation.  Muslims have faith in the 13th Imam. Who is the 13th Imam? The 13th imam will face  the Last Judgment, who is currently asleep until the final judgment until the moment 13-th  of Last Judgment and communicates with the people, with the believers, through his messengers. In fact, the 13th imam  is such an important figure. And Hassan Ibn Sabah, of course, began to impersonate the 13th imam.  I have to say that after a while Hasan started to be called

09:01the Elder man in the mountain. Anyway, he wasn't an  old man. I think he was 30 to 40 years old at the time. This means that the Elder man actually comes from the  mountains. And it didn’t end there either, but it was later transformed into European history, which you  may have heard. It's called "The King beneath the Mountain". In different countries of Europe, there  is a folk legend that some famous king did not actually die, but fell asleep beneath the mountain,  and when the Fatherland is in serious danger, he will rise, gather the troops, take out the Sword and destroy the enemies.  Frederick Barbarossa did not die - but sleeps somewhere

09:41under the mountain, in Denmark there is such  a king, in Poland the knights are sleeping, who are waiting for their moment, in Austria, in the Teutoburg  Forest in France. There are so many personalities who are not asleep. In general - every  country has such legends. In England, King Arthur is still sleeping. Merlin, who wasn't assassinated and he is  sleeping on the islands. All these sleeping kings, they are waiting for their moment, that when some dangerous  mortal man will be born, they will rise from the dead and, in fact, with their army of the dead, will  destroy the enemy. If you watched "The Lord of the Rings ",

10:15then you remember that the future king of Mordor passed  through the Kingdom of the Dead and this is the army of the dead, who, with the king of the dead, initially  those who violated the vow, it helped to break all these hordes of hateful Orcs. Tolkien naturally showed this in  legend of the King beneath the Mountain. It is through this mixture of mystical and religious studies that Hasan  Ibn Sabah begins creations of own state. Of course, the Seljuk, who were such high tempered peoples located in  the area behind, does not accept it at all. They begin

10:53to fight with Hassan and with his young republic too.  It is not by chance that I say the republic, because indeed, for that moment it was a completely  different feudal state republic. In other words, it was even more similar not to the feudal state republic  of its time, but to the state republic of utopia, which Thomas More would later describe to us or Componella.  That is, this is a very specific thing, we will definitely return to it. In general, the Seljuks began to fight and in open  Nizari were not numerous, and the Seljuks had better weapons. And at the moment, a story is happening that pushes Hassan Ibn  Sabah to a very simple idea, and at the same time, a very

11:32practical one. And at the moment, a story is happening that pushes  Hassan Ibn Sabah to a very simple idea, and at the same time, a very practical one -why in an open field to resist hordes  of enemies, when, in principle, it can be possible to execute all their military leaders, clergymen, viziers, sultans, military  advisers and anyone with the help of a hired killer? We will simply chop off the heads of the enemy's leaders and they will  do nothing to us. And what he came up with lived for almost 200 years.

12:09The history of the Order of the Assassins begins in 1092 in  the city of Sava. Nizari preachers kill the muezzin because they're afraid he's going to betray them to the authorities.  They lead a secret life, they allow no one to approach them, and they keep everyone behind seven seals. The murderers were  captured by the Sultan and put to a painful death. This information was subsequently given to the Elder of the  Mountain, Hassan Ibn Sabah. When Hassan receives such news, he rises to the roof of one of the houses in Alamut  and says that to punish this Sultan, it will not just be a pleasing to God, but in general it is the sacred  obligation of every person, so that the flames of hell fall

12:52on the head of this damned Sultan. And a young man goes out,  according to legend, his name is Butakhira Rani, who says "I am willing to do so" and he goes to the Sultan.  Of course, the Sultan is guarded by a huge number of people. For several days, he went to the places visited by  the Sultan: the mosque, some places near the palace and he awaited him for several days. According to legend,  before the assassin, he stands motionless in some niche in the palace, leaning  his back against the wall for about 5 hours. Later, this will be a special test for all  killers. And at some moment when the Sultan's guard

13:29relaxes, our young man comes out of the niche and  thrusts a poisoned dagger into the Sultan's chest The sultan dies, the young man was murdered immediately also,  this news comes to Alamut. And on the wall gates, which are named as the city wall of  Alamut, a copper tablet has been placed with the name of the young man and the man whom  he killed. As time goes on, there will be a huge amount of those tablets. Because the Assassins will kill on the territory of the entire Arab world. Now actually, why do we call them – “assassins”?  Where does it come from?? What kind of name is

14:12"Assassins"? This word comes from the original name  of the Nizari sect, the sect of the Elder from the Mountain. Their enemies called them Hashishids  and they were people who smoked hashish and committed these horrific crimes, according to this version. According  another version is that the word “hashish” means the careless word “rabble”, that is, these people who  followed Hassan Ibn Sabah were a rabble from the point of view of the rest of the Muslim world.  And that's how they were derogatory. Subsequently, the Hashishids, the Assassins, and this  word were fixed in historiography, in fact,

14:52in cinema. Now the Assassins are hired  killers, you have heard this word so many times. And then after the first  murder, the order begins to acquire legends. First, about the management of this entire structure. Why did I say Republic. There was only one leader and he was the Elder of the Mountain Hassan Ibn Sabah. There were no castes, riches were forbidden by law. It was a country of equals, it was ruled by  communities. Each community had a leader who was subordinated to Hasan directly. Accordingly, religion  was of the utmost importance. The bans on everything

15:35were just the most severe. Hassan, according to  legend, killed two of his sons. He killed one on suspicion that he was preparing some kind of conspiracy  against him. You know that people are authoritarian and they are very afraid of conspiracies. And it means he killed his son.  He killed his second son for having wine. It was strictly forbidden and he actually killed his son. The next  time an incomprehensible situation started with his daughters and he banished them to work as yarn-spinners  for the rest of their lives. It means he was ruthless toward his inner circle,  towards his family.  By the way - the legend that Hassan's son was killed

16:10because of drinking wine does not match with the term  "Hashishids", because  further, when I will tell you how these assassins were trained in general,  many people blamed Hassan of having recruited people from childhood from a very young age and he makes  them addicted to drugs. And the hashish destroyed their conscience so much that they did not understand what  they were doing and followed only his orders. But how could that be? Wine was banned and most likely  drugs, of course, were also banned. Therefore, it looks like this is a "slander  on the grandfather". In other words, the

16:51grandpa on the mountain or the Elder on the Mountain, I don't  think he used a hash, but nobody knows exactly. So there was such a brutal paramilitary religious society, people  work instead of taxes, there's no wealth allowed. Everyone is equal, everyone is controlled by the communities, respectively,  the taxes of Seljuks all were canceled and Hasan started building his own story of hired killers.  According to legend, we didn't know much about the Nizari. They led a much closed way of life. They let nobody  approach them, and therefore the information doesn't come to their enemies. Sure, the enemies  (danger always looks greater through the eyes of fear)

17:31were speculated and imagined there, but there were hardly  any more accurate facts. What do we know from the legends? They were recruited  into contract killers, and Assassins, and, let us note this fact, they were not called "assassins" or  "hashish". They called themselves Fidaïens and Fidaïens. They were such persons, who set out on the path of this  sacred struggle and who performed all their works for the glory of God.  Those boys were taken  from poor families at the age of 13-14. They were trained most severely: they had to be able to fight, and  they had to be able to shoot from all types of weapons that only existed at that time - a bow   and, probably, a crossbow, which came later

18:16with the Crusaders, to throw a spear, to throw knives.  They must be able to use poisons and endure incredible torment at the time of the internship, at the time of training,  without food and water, and stand for 5-10 hours leaning in one position, without changing their poses  with their backs against a stone wall. You have to endure a battle with three or four more powerful adversaries. The  hazing was terrifying, meaning that when these young boys came and knocked at the door, they were kicked out of there.  When they knocked a second time, they were stoned from above. The third time, they were beaten with  wooden sticks.  This is how they had

18:56to go through their ritual to prove that they are  worthy and, accordingly, during training they were cut with knives and beaten with clubs, they did whatever they  wanted with them. They had to endure the pain. Do you recognize familiar notes there? This is a "Game of Thrones"  and the famous army of the unsullied, which knew no mercy and felt no pain. And the story about how to  come to the temple and then knock several times is “Valar Morghulis”- also the second story that was  used in the Game of Thrones. Boys come and they train them. And here is another important  legend, Hassan Ibn Sabah, who uses

19:37this story about the 13th Imam. How?  He had many doubles. At some point, his look came out and said, “I am Hasan Ibn Sabah,  I want to tell you something, or I want to advise you somehow. And after that, I got up and set myself on fire."  And after that, he got up on the fire. And this flame devoured him completely. The next morning,  Hassan Ibn Sabah went out into the courtyard or on the roof of the house and said: “So, what about the flame, by the way? You saw  it yesterday, right? I'm talking about the resurrection. So there I am. Look and feel!.” Of course, this made  such an impression on the people of that time,

20:15as the Copperfield towers later. The second story is  that he could bring people back to life. How did he do that? A hole bursts in the stone floor where the young  man sits, his head remains on the surface only. Around it are two halves of a copper dish  doused in blood. The head closes its eyes and thus becomes severed. Ibn Sabah has talked to his followers:  "Well, if there is something you do not understand about my teaching, let us ask the deceased  Abu Ali. Tell me,  please, what was your battle with the vizier you killed  four days ago?" The head opened its eyes and said: "Great Old Man, I want to tell you the following story”.  Everyone was naturally  trembling, falling:

20:59"He animates the dead!" Naturally, the young  man was then beheaded and shown as proof- there were no lies - the dead head was talking.  It was an almost incredible story, which just made everybody tremble. The third story is  the story about paradise. The youths were fed with hashish until they lost  consciousness, then transferred from the barracks to the courtyard. In this inner courtyard, they woke up,  around them beautiful girls, beauty in general simply indescribable, wine, sweets, fruits. They lived in this  paradise for a day, and then they were somehow put to sleep again and brought back, Ibn Sabah said to  them, "This is paradise, this is what it looks like,

21:42and you will get there after you complete my  biddings." You have already seen it. You want to see it again (sure, who wouldn't?) So, now you know you will."  Naturally, the religious people, uneducated people, just accepted it all with a bang.  Of course, no training was possible without the wise, without the scientists,  without the alchemists, and so on. They were stolen and brought to Alamut. From that place, they did  not leave but were engaged in training. They were close to Hasan and involved in his entire  sect of killers' training activity. But more importantly,

22:21you must know how to kill. You need to be able  to win trust. You had to be able to reincarnate. As a result, all restrictions are removed from  reincarnation. If you have to kill the victim, which Hasan ibn Sabah ordered,  you can renounce Islam publicly, convert to Christianity, live as a Christian,  watch over the victim and then kill him in church. Nothing was forbidden there.  You could pretend to be blind, poor, wretched. You must have spoken the languages of the region  where you directed. They were universal killers

23:02and very extraordinary killers. One of the  killers claimed to be a blind invalid and drew the enemy commanders one by one  killed them. The Crusaders, when they came (I’ll tell you later),  King Conrad of Jerusalem Monferath was first a friend of Hassan  and then a quarrel with him because he robbed Nizar merchants, and Hassan ordered  his death. Two Fidainas, two assassins, came, said we were the most devout Christians you’d  seen and lived there for 3 years. They lived for 3 years,

23:42went to a mass of people, and in one of the masses  when the guard relaxed, the killer ran up and stabbed Conrad of Montferath in the chest, poisoned. Weapons are  the most famous Myth about it (or not just the Myth) -all weapons used were poisoned, and there was no way to survive.  But Conrad did not die. This assassin was killed at the hands of Conrad's guards. Then the second assassin  came out of the crowd. So, he cut his throat. That's the way people act. Naturally, a cult that obeys  its leader, who can kill like no other, has brought horror to the entire Arab world. And one by one,  (this is also one of the important things),

24:25one by one, which began to cut and  kill warlords, viziers, and Seljuk clerics. And the Seljuk state began to weaken.  Because when intelligent people obtain stabbed-fools, they try to replace them.  When fools obtain stabbed - more insane people come to replace them.  The sect of Hassan (I cannot say that it has just destroyed them) was hardly degraded  anyway because of their activity. At the Seljuks a feud began.  Anyway, they did not threaten Elder from the Mountain anymore. Crusaders show up. (Watch  "The Crusades" video). The Crusaders came and started fighting the local Muslims. Here is  a small reference to Assassin’s Creed, where

25:09the main enemies of the assassins are the Templars.  Well, in reality, of course, this was not the case. The thing is that - the old man from the mountain  was not an ally, and when he saw the Seljuks starting to fight the Crusaders, he thought, "Okay, the Crusaders  will weaken my enemies". He befriended the Crusaders and, on the orders of the Crusaders, killed the Seljuks.  And when the Crusaders confronted him, he killed Conrad, King of Jerusalem, without sight.  Evil tongues said that Conrad had been ordered by Richard the Lionheart, who quarreled  with him and wanted to take the throne of the

25:46King of Jerusalem. Well, at some point, they were  friends with the crusaders, and then they argued. Another of Hassan’s victims was  Count Raymond II. By the way, he was the great-grandson of Anna Yaroslavna, Queen of France, and daughter  of Jaroslav the Wise. There is some Russian blood on the hands of the assassins too. I have to say that  the Assassins became a serious political power. More people have applied to the Elder  the Mountain, and he becomes a leader of the killer's center. If you ordered it will not work anymore because  this man will die anyway. If you ordered Khalifa, befriended him after, and later said:  "Hassan, now you don't have to complete that order". It

26:31will not work anymore because this man will die anyway. It was  a golden rule strictly observed. In many books, semi-historical and historical,  you will find a quote that  the Assassins have terrified even Western Europe. I honestly don’t believe that because how would  they get there? Do you understand it correctly, right? In our days, you can get on a plane and fly to the territory of  Iran, where the ruins of Alamut and say: "Here, we must kill a man in Paris". “No problem, now the killer  is coming”. It used to take six months so no killer had been in Western Europe.  But the merchants, the returning crusaders,

27:05and the Knights Templar spread the story of the  assassins. Yes, they operate even in our courts. We can identify them, and we can  find them. Understandably, the Templars thus gained political weight. But  the Arab world was frightened by the Elder of the Mountain. Crusaders got the same feeling.  One of the famous Arab heroes was Salahaddin or Saladin, who fought Richard the Lionheart,  who had many victories over the Crusaders. He quarreled with the mountain Elder, and according  to legend, there were eight attempts on his life, one resulting in serious injury. But he survived and  eventually reconciled with the Elder of the mountain

27:49somehow. So you imagine what it was. They were all  afraid of them as the world of shadows that comes to you, that gets you  into trust. You don’t know if he’s your closest servant who might be  preparing to kill you suddenly or spit at you with some poisoned dart. That’s the kind of people  they were, and they became a serious political force. Speaking of unquestioning obedience, I should  tell you one of the legends about the Elder of the Mountain. Hasan Ibn Sabah  dies, and an heir comes to his place, who also calls himself the Elder of the mountain. At some point,  Henri the Count of Champagne, a crusader, arrives

28:30at his court in 1130. He was around,  and the Elder of mountain invited him to Alamut. Here he comes to this impregnable fortress  (it really could not be taken), and they begin to talk. Henri says: "Well, dear Elder of the Mountain,  do people really obey you? He says, "Oh, I don’t know". Two young guys  were standing on the fortress wall. He makes a hand gesture, and they fall and crash. He says:  "Well, there are 8 men who can now stab themselves in the throat if you do not believe,  Henri". "Everything is clear, thank you very much". Such is the legend of unquestioning obedience.  If the Elder of the Mountain orders you to die you must

29:13die. People have fanatically been  loyal to him. It might be a fault of hashish usage, wine, or just this mystical story about the 13th imam.  But the fact remains that- legends were made all about unquestioning submission. After Hasan  Ibn Sabah's death, his state began to weaken. Why? Because heirs do not want to be the same  as the Elder of Mountain ascetic- they want luxury, women, wine, and drugs. We do not know exactly  (history does not tell us much about it). But history is not silent about luxury.  And this is the commune that exists, which is starting to crumble because elites are emerging. The elite got  the money. The Alamut mints his coin,

29:52which is found in ruins later.  The state begins to deteriorate and crack at the seams. It has been around for some time.  And yet, this mythology of a sect of assassins is still alive and reaches our days  because this faceless Game of Thrones is the Assassins- the people who can  transform into anything and kill you in five seconds. In June 1256, the kingdom of Lord Alamut,  the kingdom of Hassan Ibn Sabah, came to an end. The new wave was coming that  no one could stop at that moment: no Russians, no

30:35Europeans, and no Arabs, nobody. I’m talking about the Mongols.  So the Mongols reached the borders of the kingdom of Alamut, the state of Alamut, and began to take the fortress by  fortress, suppressing the fierce resistance, cutting out the garrison, and they approached Alamut.  Alamut resists for almost six months, but then according to legend one of the traitors  shows a bypass, and the fortress is seized by the Mongols. All people are being slaughtered. By the beginning of 1257  state of the Assassins was finished. There remain two

31:12fortresses of Lamasar, which resists for another year,  and the fortress of Girb Kuh, which stands to death and the Mongols will capture her only 20 years later.  There remain the most unshakable Nazarites and the unshakeable Assassins. Nevertheless, the fortress  has fallen, and the Mongols are staging a brutal massacre - 10,000 Nazarites they slaughter, and the  rest scatter. Some flee to Syria, some hides in the Iranian mountains,  and some move to other cities. But according to legend, the ties between them remain. This whole  stuff is about mercenary killers, which you cannot

31:56find because they’re all scattered in the Middle East.  This legend still exists. Let's talk about myths and legends. About hashish, I have already  told the story of hashish and the garden of paradise came up by Marco Polo himself, who traveled in  Asia. The story about such a sect was told to him by one old woman. And so, before the assassin completes the  order, he gets into the Garden of Eden, gets smoked hash there, and sees all this  paradise food. Then when he comes back to the real world, he wants to go back there.  He has been told: "Kill  a man, someone kills you, and you will come back

32:33into the Garden of Eden." This is why the assassins,  captured after the order fulfillment, die with a smile on their lips even under the cruelest torture.  Because they knew they were going back to heaven. That is the story that Marco Polo created  or told us. I’ve already told you about the hash too. It doesn’t comply with the strictest bans on  wine, women, and anything. Also, the story is turbid. And about the Templars. It is also clear, well, the Templars were not strong then. The Hashshashin would take orders  from anyone, anytime. The main thing is that they do not run counter to the interests of Alamut,  the interests of the Elder of the Mountain. That is one such

33:15history of this order, shrouded in such a plume  of legends. But on the other hand, the reality is that for 200 years, they have kept all the  neighboring states, viziers, and caliphs in fear. And they dealt with it perfectly. Rumor  has it the assassins have committed 850 contract murders. I got 15 from various sources, but  according to one of the legends, all the gates got covered with brass plates. The killer’s name and the victim’s name  combined.  And yet, in general, the legend seems to be realistic. Here it was possible to put a pointed end to it,  but we will put the dots, and here’s why: Ismailis,

33:54as a religious movement alive up to now.  And after the disappearance of the State of Alamut, they scattered around the surrounding countries, as I told you.  But most of them settled in Persia. They begin to manifest and intensify,  they live as religious currents and perform their rites, but no one disturbs them.  The Shah of Iran treats them pretty well. At some moment, there was some friction between the  Shah and the head of the Ismaili Spiritual Order, the Ismaili spiritual movement. They argued with him, and  then leader Ismaili was forced to flee to India,

34:37where he found himself. Ismailis were pursued but  not killed. But in general, there is no patronage, much less any friendliness. and they were forced to  migrate to India. Some people also moved to Pakistan to survive. Because of the  movement, they were a closed group of very religious people. And  that’s how it dissipated into India and Pakistan in the 19th century. And where do you think the  leader of this movement from India goes? He goes to UK. In the United Kingdom, he  settles and becomes part of the aristocracy,

35:17many come with it, and they integrate into  English society. Someone joined the Army, many of them. And they’re doing pretty well.  And in fact, they have not disappeared anywhere to this day. Naturally, there is the general mystical  legend. The basis of the conspiracy theory that the secret knowledge of the Assassins, the secret knowledge of the Ismailis,  first came to the Templars (watch that video) then to the Freemasons (watch this video), and then to the Illuminati  (there is no video yet, but we will do it definitely). And thus, this secret sect controls  the world. We laughed but conspiracy

36:01theories are probably not only conspiracy theories. You know what  I mean. But the current leader of the Ismailis, Agakhan IV, is a handsome British aristocrat, a billionaire. I have seen him twice  in my life. Perhaps you have heard something, most likely heard, about the fashionable resort of Sardinia.  Sardinia was such an Italian province until the 1960s. Yes, the sea is clear there. Yes,  it was beautiful, but then the Aga Khan came and said: “It's so beautiful! Very beautiful! Let's build a  resort here.” Sardis are proud people but short-sighted, I need to say. How did they think?  If a Sardis has two children, for example,

36:39a daughter and a son, the son gets a good house  in the mountain because no one gets to the mountains, the elements, the pirates will not come to you,  do not rob you and in that place can safely slaughter sheep and eat meat live perfectly all life. And the daughter  (their situation is even worse), so let her in a hovel by the sea and huddle. Agha Khan bought all these shacks. On this site now,  you can find on the Internet what Costa Esmeralda looks like today. These are some of the best houses  in the world. And so Agha Khan created this story and this resort. There is only such a small part in the conspiracy.  Let’s go for the big part. Agha Khan, for example,

37:20was the founder of the international society for the protection  of animals, and he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. And he was nominated by the British, whether as  Queen or Parliament, and (I can’t remember who supported him exactly) for a leader of the United Nations organization,  but he didn’t succeed. Aga Khan led the Afghan Refugee Relief Organization.  We remember from the previous video where English instructors deployed all their camps  in Pakistan, where there were Afghan refugees. All humanitarian operations under the leadership  of Agha Khan Four then took place in

38:02Afghan territory. If you click on Wikipedia,  you will find a lot of information about him and his work experience in different organizations. He is known  as a very influential person who solved many issues practically. He is well-known in Uzbekistan,  Kazakhstan, France, England, and Italy. I mean, he’s got interests here, got business  interests here. He is a great benefactor a great patron, and I have to say, he still   holds the title of head of the Ismailis. And he is very well-known. There’s no conspiracy anymore.  I found one of the testimonies of a French ethnographer named Jean Millor, and I  honestly couldn’t find any scientific papers.

38:42But there is such evidence that he was  in Pakistan on an ethnographic expedition and met with Ismailis, who still live in Pakistan.  They told him that everybody in Ismaili was still paying tithes. And that’s why he’s so  rich. It is clear that it is also mythology, but these Ismailis-Assasin, broken once by Hulagu Khan and to  this day remotely, but present in our lives. So, you know, in  history, there’s no such thing as a legend, you know, and conspiracy is conspiracy.  As we talk, every legend has only a part of the legend. Everything else is true. That was  the story of the Assassin sect. I want to say

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