Circles Of Money And Power

I am absolutely a great fan of His Highness Prince Karim, the Aga Khan. He is, as you know, one of the only real living descendents of the Islamic World's Holy Prophet Mohammed.

The Aga Khan

What you don't know is that he is Greek.

The usual narrative goes that he is partly of Persian descent but let me tell you, if it is 'Persian' it is only Persian in the sense that Alexander The Great's wife Roxana was Persian; and she wasn't really Persian either but sort of Russian, as it would be now called although not at that time.

And what you also don't know is that whilst he is called the Imam of the Nizari Ismaili's (which he indeed is), his religious philosophy is rooted in genuine traditional Platonic teachings. And therein lies a most uncommon understanding about who and what the original 'Holy Prophet Mohammed' was and what this religion is really all about. Now there are things that I know about Nizari Ismaili innermost teachings that few anywhere in the world today would have any clue about, dare I say, not even the NSA!

But let me indulge in my usual Socratic irony - if I might egregiously call it that - and say that some Ismaili learned men hold that the Aga Khan possesses a holy right or privilege, to own and/or be able to befriend, the highest ranks of aristocractic Jinn, and that in fact, both he and his family have actually been photographed with Jinn females many times and that they even marry them and have children by them...

Aga Khan, friend of geniis

The secret of what I know about Ismailis is so powerful that I tell you, if the NSA knew it too, they would be able to quell all the present problems of radicalized Muslims around the whole world. But as they do not know it, I suppose we are destined for much more trouble still to come as they all blunder their ways through the minefields of religious sensitivities and cultural suspicions.

Alexander the Great, as you will also no doubt know from your readings of history, was a great horseman. And so is the Aga Khan. He has owned winners of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe although not on this occasion this year. This good fortune befell the Qatari Royal Family, which has also won races like the Mebourne Cup in very recent times and so their star must be on the rise, one might suppose.

Frankie Dettori is also a great horseman, and he should have been the jockey on this year's winner but apparently he 'hurt his foot' and couldn't ride on the day.

Dettori has a sore foot

And so I tell you all of this nonsense as a way of demonstrating that when it comes to big money people and big money horses and big money races, all kinds of smoke is blown everywhere obscuring what went on or is really going on and it's hard to see where the fires were or are, if any, and really, whether or not such fires might not even be from the flameless shimmer of geniis in the business in there somewhere. As you know, I do believe in geniis; they make things fall out of the sky that ought to keep flying, and other things fly away that ought to have stayed put.