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Aga Khan is the most dangerous person on the planet?
rom: SKH <astro4956@direcway.com>
Date: Sat Jul 12, 2003 5:22 am
Subject: Aga Khan is the most dangerous person on the planet?
The name Aga Khan' conjures up for most people images of a suave figure at the
races, savouring yet another triumph by one of his 450 thoroughbreds. Or skiing
down the slopes of some fashionable resort. Or yachting off the Costa Esmeralda
on Sardinia. Or they picture a polished businessman globesetting to inspect his
showpiece investments, along the way hobnobbing with highly placed politicians
and captains of industry. The images aren't exactly fantasy: in real life, the
Aga Khan does all of these things with a style that dazzles chroniclers of
haute society. He turned 50 on December 13, he is one of the world's wealthiest
men, and he is the possessor of one of its most famous faces and pedigrees.
The Aga Khan is also the hereditary Imam, or spiritual leader, of 15 million
Ismaili Muslims, who are scattered around North America, Western Europe, Asia,
and Africa, and who regard him with such reverence that his photograph adorns
every Ismaili household. A Harvard graduate, he is fluent in six languages. His
homes around the world are museums unto themselves, containing priceless
Islamic are and antiquities whose provenance the Aga Khan can explain with
scholarly commentaries.
http://globale.net/~heritage/intervue/i870216.html
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Six years ago in 1989, United States Federal Agents arrested three groups of
Agakhani Ismailis in Dallas, Seattle and New York on the charges of illegal
money-laundering. A total of thirteen Ismailis, eleven men and two women were
charged. Five pleaded guilty. The illegal money-laundering operation stretched
from United States to London and Switzerland, as well as from United States to
Canada, London and Belgium. This was the largest money- laundering operation
ever uncovered in North Texas and one of the largest in USA.
Vincent Perini, a lawyer representing one of the Ismaili Mukhis (the chief
representative of the community), who had illegally taken more than US$ 30
million in currency out of USA, between 1985 and 1987, said; the sect's members
are required to give 12 percent to 25 percent of pre-tax income to the Aga
Khan, a billionaire resident of Paris. "Traditionally, members of the community
literally take the money in the form of cash to the Aga Khan, and traditionally
there was secrecy involved," added Perini.
www.unn.ac.uk/societies/islamic/abuse/akpart2.htm --------------------
Son of Prince Aly Khan and Princess Tajuddawlah Aly Khan, the Aga Khan was born
on December 13, 1936, in Geneva. He spent his early childhood in Nairobi,
Kenya, and then attended Le Rosey School in Switzerland for nine years. He
graduated from Harvard University in 1959 with a BA Honors Degree in Islamic
history.
Like his grandfather Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah Aga Khan before him, the Aga Khan
has, since assuming the office of Imamat in 1957, been concerned about the
well-being of all Muslims, particularly in the face of the challenges of rapid
historical changes. Today, the Ismailis live in some 25 countries, mainly in
West and Central Asia, Africa and the Middle East, as well as in North America
and Western Europe. Over the four decades since the present Aga Khan became
Imam, there have been major political and economic changes in most of these
areas. He has adapted the complex system of administering the Ismaili
Community, pioneered by his grandfather during the colonial era, to a new world
of nation-states, which even recently has grown in size and complexity
following the newly acquired independence of the Central Asian Republics of the
former Soviet Union.
