General Soleimani's entry in Wikipedia is extremely positive towards him, written entirely from the perspective that he was an Iranian figure exclusively, and encourages a romantic view of the General, making his life virtually a fable of modern Iranian folklore imbued with the moral that he was probably the number one opponent of ISIS in the whole region. As well as a warrior against drug trafficking.
Soleimani comes from a very large family whose current living members - cousins and nephews in particular - mostly all live in the West.
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| Ben Soleimain rugs - charcoal and gold |
Some of them run Persian carpet shops in London, some very large design studios, some interior decorating businesses - in London as well as Los Angeles. Some others have businesses in Switzerland, some in Germany, some in France.
The Wikipedia entry observes General Soleimani's involvement in crushing drug trafficking in the border parts of Iran. ...This is a bit like saying that in many past years, the CIA crushed drug trafficking in Afghanistan, and also in many South American countries. What is really entailed though, is that they crushed opposition drug trafficking. So if I mentioned the phrase 'Air America' it's not necessarily going to be viewed as slanderous or libelous against today's CIA, is it. Hopefully. You know, six ways from Sunday and all of that...
This much is totally true - General Soleimani was not a Salafist. Many of the armed groups under this black flag banner are Salafists. The 'black flag' is moreover a trade-mark symbol directly out of Islamic eschatology but it is one that is completely misunderstood, even by modern-day Salafists.
The coming of the 'black flags of Khorasan' signals the end of the world - at least in the sense of the end of tyranny and the overt dominant sway of Shaitan in the human world.
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| Dasht-E Lut - the salt desert of Iran |
Khorasan being some uncertain, almost mythical area, possibly comprising northeastern Iran, parts of Afghanistan, and Central Asia.
I believe that many parts of Islamic written material, and also its oral tradition, are nothing less than a text-book of supernatural ideas, most of which have some genuine source but rarely seen within the present-day renderings of what those passages really refer to. And so when people use them, it's a bit like Mickey Mouse in the Sorcerer's Apprentice...
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| Mansory custom Mercedes, Geneva Show (recent). |
One of our contributors just sent some pictures of the Dasht-E Lut desert taken from a para-glider. And probably we won't be able to post most of them here just yet!
Wikipedia's eulogizing of General Qassem Soleimani is a valuable exercise because when you see the unadulterated vision of a particular side, you find out who they are in their own mind. There's nothing wrong with that.
The Wikipedia entry never says how Soleimani suppressed the incipient student revolt of 1999 under Seyyed Mohammad Khatami - the 5th President of Iran who was ousted in 2005. Khatami is a friend of Klaus Schwab. I don't think this Schwab is related to Charles Schwab the other banking identity and rumored relative of Katy Perry and definite backer of Donald Trump.
Khatami was a proponent of the ideas of Al-Farabi - who we talk about in the up-coming Amazon book 'Q Disclosure Rainbow Bombs.'
Which is currently available in free review copy form for at least the next week or so.
https://www.inkitt.com/stories/thriller/422258
Makes sense. That billion dollar US embassy in Iraq was a known transfer station for Afghanistan's number one cash crop.
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