The Seat of Ismaili Imamat: From Aiglemont to Lisbon

When the news of Aga Khan moving his headquarters to Portugal was broken to the Ismaili community, no one exactly knew why the move was made. However, the only thing which each and every Ismaili was taught to say was how ‘great’ Portugal was, and that it was now the new ‘home’ to Aga Khan’s Imamate.

Nonetheless, some Ismailis did wonder that why didn’t Aga Khan move his global headquarters to Canada, which not only he has promoted as the new home for his followers, he is also an honorary citizen thereof. He also enjoys close ties with both – Justin Trudeau’s Liberals, as well as Stephen Harper’s Conservatives. Canada also hosts the Aga Khan Museum and the Global Center for Pluralism.

Canada would have been the perfect place for the Aga Khan to move his headquarters, or would it?

The reality is, that in recent times, Aga Khan’s name has been in the Canadian media. As opposed to Europe where his name is usually in the media due to his race horses, multi-million dollar divorces and court settlements, the focus here, has been his fortune, tax breaks, and business dealings.

The Aga Khan Museum’s Tax Break

The first huge debate in the Canadian media was about the tax deal which Aga Khan got for the Aga Khan Museum. Toronto city staff assessed the property at $90.9 million, which translated into a $331,700 annual property tax bill. Aga Khan wanted to pay none of it – ever. Due to a prayer hall being part of the property, the property had already been exempted $43.1 million from the base value, Aga Khan also wanted the rest of the property to be exempted. On September 30, 2015, Aga Khan requested support of Toronto City Council to obtain private provincial legislation that would exempt the property valued at $90.9 million dollar property of Aga Khan Museum from municipal and education taxes. This exemption which was supported by the Mayor, costs the government an annual $331,700 and to-date has benefited Aga Khan over a million dollars having availed this exemption for over three years.

Aga Khan Foundation Canada’s Lack of Transparency

When it comes to Aga Khan Foundation Canada (AKFC), the Toronto Star blamed it for for “lack of transparency” and as one of the charities which do not release their audited financial statements to the public and refused to provide them to an independent agency that evaluates charities. AKFC was investigated by charityintelligence.ca and it was revealed through Canada Revenue Agency that that AKFC had accumulated so much donations without spending them that they had enough cash-in-hand to operate “for up to 8 years without raising even a single penny.” Moreover, they had a heavily paid CEO with a salary of $350,000 to $400,000 per year. Also, AKFC held significant ‘idle’ property valued at $346.2m in F2013, including $27.3m acquired in F2013 and $43.3m in F2012.

The Global Center for Pluralism Scam

Aga Khan was also highly criticized when he milked the Canadian government to grant him $30 million dollars from the tax payers money to establish the Global Center for Pluralism (GCP). He got the prime piece of real estate, which was formerly the Canadian War Museum for just $1 for a 99-year lease. That wasn’t enough, he later got permission for sub-leasing half of the property at market rate to other tenants, which is generating a handsome income for Aga Khan and the GCP. According to CBC, the only thing which GCP does is that it “hosts an annual lecture and awards ceremony, as well as an annual roundtable discussion. It has also produced some reports and papers, with a focus on Kenya and Kyrgyzstan.” This has obviously irritated the Canadian taxpayers and question the entire policy of cooperation at the state level with the Aga Khan and his institutions, and most importantly, if the $30 million given to the GCP from the tax payers money as well as the lease of the multi-million dollar property for 99 years at just $1 is justifiable?

Snapshot of the CBC report which revealed that Aga Khan paid just $1 for the 99-year lease of the Canadian War Museum site for Global Center for Pluralism and then got permission to rent it out at market rates to Government of Canada itself, with the Canadian Royal Mint being the first tenant.

Aga Khan’s Connections to Off-Shore Tax Havens

Aga Khan’s name came to surface again as a part of an ethics probe when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau flew in Aga Khan’s private jet to one of the islands in the Bahamas owned by the Aga Khan. When the investigators hit the ground, they found that not only the island in Bahamas, but also Aga Khan’s aircraft which carried Justin Trudeau and his family to Aga Khan’s island – both were registered in the name of off-shore companies. The same notorious off-shore companies which the global capitalist elites use to conceal their wealth. These companies have several layers of ownership – such that each company is owned by another company – which is owned by another company – all registered in different off-shore tax havens such as the British Virgin Islands, Jersey, Bermuda, Panama and Cayman Islands – under strict privacy agreements – making it virtually impossible to trace the real ownership of these assets worth billions of dollars.

CBC investigative report revealing that Aga Khan’s assets which came under scrutiny during the Trudeau vacation scandal were under the ownership of offshore companies whose names were leaked in Paradise Leaks.

Money Laundering

Aga Khan had a fair share of trouble on the southern end of the Canadian border too, as in the eyes of Federal Buearu of Investigation (FBI) and Internal Revenue Services (IRS), Aga Khan’s name is closely linked to the million-dollar ‘religious’ money laundering case of 1990’s, which still has unclaimed money lying with the IRS. All clues have pointed to the fact that Aga Khan was the one smuggling tithe money (which Ismāʿīlis call dasond) across the US-Canadian border with the help of top-ranked Ismāʿīli community officials. The entire case was exposed by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in an episode of their long-running weekly investigative program ‘The Fifth Estate’, in the episode titled ‘Gods Money’. 11 members of the Ismāʿīli community were caught red-handed in that case, took all the blame upon themselves and Aga Khan narrowly escaped indictment in the case.

With all of the above baggage, it wouldn’t have been a wise decision at all for Aga Khan to move to the North American region at all. But the question is, why did he leave France?

The French Connection

France had been the headquarters for Aga Khan for a number of years. The decision to leave France was taken in the making when Aga Khan had obvious difficulties in maintaining equal relations with both the French political parties – the conservative UMP and Socialist Party.

‘Exceptional Tax Breaks’ from  Nicolas Sarkozy

Nicolas Sarkozy, who gave him exceptional tax breaks using his “executive orders”, the opposition party wasn’t too keen on upholding that status and was looking to revoke tax exemptions extended to Aga Khan, as all of Nicolas Sarkozy’s decisions and tax breaks had been linked to corruption cases.

For example, in March 2012, a major criminal investigation into the affairs of L’Oréal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, established that at least 800,000 euros were funded from her secret Swiss bank accounts to Sarkozy’s election campaign in return for future tax breaks for the L’Oreal heiress. Later in July 2014, Sarkozy was put under official investigation for “active corruption”, “misuse of influence” and “obtained through a breach of professional secrecy”. Sarkozy had misused his political position as the president to issue the following tax exemption to Aga Khan:

Letter signed by Nicolas Sarkozy exempting Aga Khan from all kids of taxes.

In the above letter, which was leaked as a result of a corruption inquiry, Sarkozy gave the Aga Khan “exemption from direct taxes, stamp duty and wealth tax”. The French media soon stepped up and exposed Aga Khan’s business empire, calling Sarkozy’s favor an “extraordinary tax gift” and calling Aga Khan the “Golden Imām” for “his taste of private jets, luxury yachts and upscale ski resorts”. French paper “Regards” mentioned that Aga Khan is “head of a financial empire that controls worldwide companies with various activities: banking, telephony, hospitality, air transport and energy” and that Aga Khan is known to “celebrity gazettes for his passion for horse racing and expensive divorces” and therefore the tax exemption to such a rich person was unjustified.

Four years after exempting him from paying taxes, Sarkozy also played a key role in negotiating a divorce deal for Aga Khan , and took on the case when Aga Khan was ordered to pay GBP 54 million to his wife Gabriele Thyssen (also known as Inaara Aga Khan). The original appeal decision, made by a court in Amiens, had attributed all responsibility for the marriage breakdown to the Karim Aga Khan, after ruling that his affair with an airline stewardess, Beatrice von der Schulenburg, was to blame.

Aga Khan with his latest girlfriend, Beatrice von der Schulenburg – possibly his third wife.

Sarkozy’s fall came sooner than Aga Khan would have predicted, but Aga Khan had already found a safe haven in Portugal where the tax treatment he would receive would be predictable and the ruling authority would treat him consistently whether or not the government would be with the Socialist Party or with the Social Democratic Party. When Aga Khan’s news of his move to Portugal broke out, Portugal’s Foreign Minister Rui Machete of the Social Democratic Party mentioned that this move had materialized after six years of negotiations.

The Portuguese Solution

Aga Khan purchased the Mendonça Palace, located right in the center of Lisbon for 12 million euros and has promised to invest 10 million euros in the Portuguese economy.

The move to Portugal is more than anything, a smart business move. While at his French headquarters, Aga Khan did receive a lot of favors from Sarkozy, the deal with Portugal was much sweeter and importantly, not at the risk of reversal by either of the ruling parties.

The agreement gives Aga Khan the status of a diplomat and gives Aga Khan the freedom to to transfer all of his global assets to Portugal (and from Portugal to the outside world) without any restrictions. Under Article 12 “Funds, foreign currency and assets”, it mentions that Aga Khan “may hold funds, securities, gold and other precious metals, or foreign currencies.” It also mentions that Aga Khan “shall be free to receive any such values from within or from outside Portugal and hold and transfer the same within Portugal or from Portugal to any country and to convert any currency held or bought into any other currency.”

Tax exemptions are obviously there exempting Aga Khan from any kind of national and local tax, including transfer or capital gain tax, income tax, wealth tax and stamp duty. Moreover, all gifts and donations given to Aga Khan will be tax deductible. Aga Khan will also not pay any duties on the purchase, ownership, registration, use or sale of land, air or sea vehicles, including spare parts and consumables. Any value-added tax which the Aga Khan would pay, would be fully refundable to Aga Khan.

Under the agreement, Aga Khan would also enjoy ceremonial diplomatic treatment which is given to foreign high entities. He would also be immune from any judicial action and legal proceedings. He also negotiated similar treatment for his family members and senior officials working for him.

The above diplomatic status and tax exemptions would have been impossible to achieve in an open democracy like Canada and would have only been possible in a country like Portugal – which is described as a ‘flawed democracy’ by the Economic Intelligence Unit of the Economist Group.

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Are Ismailis Muslims?

Some say that anyone who testifies – says the kalimah ‘lā ilāha illā -llāh, muḥammadur rasūlu -llāh (There is none worthy of obedience and worship except Allāh and Muhammad is the final Messenger of Allāh), makes them a Muslim and we have no right to question that.

Sincerity, however, is subject to proof.

First of all, Islam is the religion prescribed by Allāh for the whole of mankind. That means, it is to be accessible to all. That is why there is no part of a masjid where secret rituals are performed and from which any Muslim is excluded. Even non-Muslims are able to attend and observe. Ismailis, on the other hand, have a closed-door policy. Even within themselves –  several separate gatherings (majalis) are held from which other Ismailis, who are disqualified and excluded from attending on the grounds that they have not paid the requisite fee for attending that particular majlis.

Outsiders may reserve judgment on the grounds that they do not know enough about Ismāʿīlism because of that ‘closed-door’ policy. Those constraints, however, cannot apply to those who have knowledge of Ismāʿīlism, as well as Islam.   Allāh chose the name of His deen as Islam; He defined it and called those who follow it – Muslims – in the Qurʾān.

The Prophet (sallallhu alahi wa salam) (peace be upon him) summarized it for us in two clear criteria. On one he said – Imaan(faith) is:

That you affirm your faith in Allāh, His angels, His books, His meeting, His messengers and that you believe in Destiny.

He also said that Islam is based on 5 principles (pillars):

1. To testify that ‘none has the right to be worshipped except Allāh and that Muhammad is the slave and Messenger of Allāh’
2. To perform prayers (Salat)
3. To pay zakat (charity for the poor)
4. To perform Hajj
5. To observe saum (fast) in the month of Ramadhan

Does the Ismaili Kalima- where they add a third part “Amirul Momin Ali ul Allāh” (Ali, the Commander of the believers is of Allāh) take them outside Islam? By itself –  No! as other Shias do so, too.

However, their greeting – “Ya Ali Madad”  (‘O Ali help me’) and their supplications to “Ali” and “the Imam” – which they interchangeably use to supplicate to the Aga Khan, prove without a doubt, that they do not subscribe to that part of the Kalimah “that none has the right to be worshipped except Allāh.” Here they contradict themselves too, as they recite in their Holy Du’a, “You alone (Allāh) we worship and from you alone we seek help”!

In one of the Hymn (also called ‘ginans’) recited in the Jamatkhanas, they even sing to the Aga Khan:

“Haq toon, Paak Toon Baadshah” 

  حق توں پاک تون بادشاہ

Translation: “You are the Truth, you are the Holy, O Lord (King)”

These attributes of Truth and Holy ( Haqq and Quddus in Arabic) belong to Allāh and Him alone. However, Ismailis attribute these to Aga Khan.

The Aga Khan, has also the title “Mazhar of Allāh” meaning he is the “Shadow of Allāh” on earth. I leave it to you to decide that how can Allāh, who has no percieveable shape or form, have a light shining upon Him to form a shadow  on this Earth and what proof is there in Aga Khan’s claim that he is that shadow?

As far as salat is concerned, Ismailis try to put a smoke screen saying that their Dua’ is like  Namaaz – salat  by saying that we do sujud and they quote  Surat Al Fatiha, al-Ikhlas and few other verses from the Quran in their Holy Dua.

However, the format of salat has been with us from the Prophet’s (pbuh) times in which Muslims do qiyam, ruku, sujud, recite durud, face the qiblah and these are absent from the Ismaili 3 (instead of 5 daily Muslim) prayers . Incidentally, the way the Ismailis sit, it is not possible even to do a proper sujud.

Ismailis do not pay Zakat.  Instead, the Aga Khan claims Dasond – Tithe – 10 percent of one’s income regardless whether that income is sufficient or insufficient for one’s needs!

In case of Khoja Ismailis, he also claims an additional ‘two and half per cent’ contributions because he has given himself the role of a pir or dai. Then there are those Ismailis who belong to Mubarak Majalis (Gathering of the Blessed) they are required to give 25 percent of all their income, including personal allowance. So for example if the wife elects to join, and the husband who has given 12.5% on his income and gave $ 500 as personal allowance to his wife, she would pay $125 as Dasond and say on Eid or Birthdays children and husband gave Money and clothes ( purchased from monies left after already having paid their 12.5%) amounting to $200, she would be obliged to pay an additional $50!

The actual Islamic Zakat as prescribed by the Quran, is payable on “surplus wealth” i.e. excluding necessities such as home for residing in and a vehicle for transport held for 12 months at 2.5% only which means that poor people are exempted from paying and the monies collected are to be spent on those qualified e.g. poor, widows, etc. as specified in the Qurʾān.

By tradition, the Prophet and members of the household are specifically excluded from receiving any part of Zakat Funds. They were paid from Bayt-ul-Maal from voluntary donations towards building/running of Mosques and communal administration.  It is strange that Aga Khan claims to be from the household of the Prophet and still collects an inflated Zakat, called Dasond.

Hajj is neither compulsory, not encouraged in Ismailism. Instead, Ismailis believe that the glimpse of Aga Khan is equal to that of a Hajj. Every Ismaili should look at the Aga Khan (or perform a deedar) at least once in a lifetime.

Fasting is not obligatory and at times eating (sukhreet) and drinking of holy water – Niyaz which are part of the rituals on Fridays and certain Majalis (congregations  additional to daily religious rituals are performed)  take place during the time of fasting!

So we see from the forgoing that if a litmus test (which the Qurʾān and Hadith) provide is applied, Ismailism fails on several core areas.

There is one further point I would like to make. Allāh completed and perfected the deen of Islam and gave no one the authority to change it.

Interestingly, the late Aga Khan in his memoirs, states:

“What has been my own policy with the followers? Our religion is our religion; you either believe in it or you do not. You can leave a faith but you cannot, if you do not accept its tenets, remain with it and claim to ‘reform it’. You can abandon those tenets, but you cannot try to change them and still protest that you belong to the particular sect that holds them.”

Yet he can change the doctrine, rites and rituals of Islam and still claim to be a Muslim! This is a strange logic and sense of integrity which would befuddle any ordinary mortal! 

To be truthful, logic and rationality are sorely lacking in Ismaili rituals. For example they recite the Salwat: “Allahumma Salli ala Muhammad in wa ale ala Muhammad”  during Jamati supplication (Giriyazari Tasbih). So they beseech Allāh to bestow His peace upon Prophet Muhammad and his progeny (descendents) (followers) but then conclude by saying, “Ya Ali Ya Nur Mowlana Shah Karim Al Husseini tun salwatji tasbih toje hazur pur mein kabool kar” – ( O Ali, O Light of our Lord Shah Karim Al Husseini accept our supplication)!

In my opinion, by the criteria of the Ismaili Imam himself, they disqualify themselves from belonging to the Muslim Ummah.

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What Aga Khan does for the Muslim World

Recently there has been some feeble propaganda attempts by Ismailis to convince Muslims living the in the West and the ‘liberal’ Muslims living in Muslim lands about how ‘philanthropic’ is Aga Khan and how humanitarian are his projects for everyone and not just Ismailis.

Nothing can be further from the truth. All of Aga Khan’s attempts at establishing institutions are strictly, compulsorily and firmly, for-profit institutions. The poster child of Aga Khan’s public welfare institutions is Aga Khan Hospital and the Aga Khan Hospital is also a testimony to the ‘for-profit’ claim which I mentioned above. The Aga Khan Hospital is not just one of the expensive, but the most expensive healthcare institutions in the cities where it is present. In Kenya, the cost of delivering a baby at Aga Khan Hospital is a whopping KSh 400,000. Together with that, it has had an outstanding number of malpractice and medical negligence cases in Karachi, Pakistan and Nairobi, Kenya. These are not mere claims of medical malpractice, but are civil cases against the hospital and it’s trustees and are publicly available for viewing on the internet. Click here for an example.

The newly opened Serena Hotel in Kabul offers rooms starting at $250-a-night, that’s what an average Afghan makes in a year – including the ones employed at the Serena Hotel in Kabul. These Serena Hotels also openly sell alcohol contradictory to what Islam teaches, but that’s another topic and already addressed in the Inside Ismailism blog previously.

The above is a photo of the bar at Kampala Serena Hotel serving a variety of whiskeys, wines and spirits is courtesy of TripAdvisor.

The above is a photo of a promotional campaign from Serena Hotels, sent from their official Twitter account.

An acknowledgement by General Manager of Serena Hotels, of the review posted on TripAdvisor for the Johnny Walker Black Tie Dinner. Courtesy of TripAdvisor.

Aga Khan’s institutions do focus on poverty alleviation, but these programs are only inward-facing – strictly focused towards the Ismaili community. The aim is to get as many family ‘on their feet’ as possible, for each family which is able to feed itself is required to pay 12.5% of it’s monthly income to Aga Khan.

This 12.5% paid by Ismaili families is called ‘dasond’ which means ‘tenth-part’. Modern day Ismaili missionaries claim that this is a combination of zakat (2.5%) and ushr (10%). However, that’s simply not true because zakat is never ever paid on income and is paid on excess and unconsumed wealth which lies with a Muslim for more than a year. The history of dasond is revealed in Ismaili ‘ginans’ or hymns which are written by their ‘pirs’ or saints in gujrati language.

Ismailis at that time were required to pay their dasond (tenth part) to the then present-day Imam (spiritual father), and were required to pay 2.5% to the pir (spiritual mother) – both from their monthly earnings, completely contradictory to Islamic teachings. However, when Aga Khan came into power, he claimed both positions, Imam and Pir, for himself and asked to be paid both of these shares to himself. This is also a reason why Ismaili missionaries, such as Kamaluddin Alimohammad and Abu Aly A. Aziz can be heard calling the Aga Khan as ‘ruhani ma baap’ or spiritual father and mother in their sermons. All of these historical facts are completely hidden from the present-day Ismailis and the dasond is just equated to zakat and ushr.

It’s not just the issue of dasond vs. zakat. It’s also the issue of the Islamic prayer vs. The Ismaili prayer and the issue of Hajj vs. The Glimpse of Aga Khan and the issue of Ramadhan fasting vs. Shukarvari Beej which distance Ismailism from Islam. All Muslims, including Shia and Sunni adhere to the five basic pillars of Islam of the testimony of faith, prayer, zakat, hajj and fasting whereas Ismailis come in and claim that prayer means not praying as the Prophet (pbuh) did, fasting does not mean abstaining from food and drink, zakat is not paid yearly on excess wealth to the poor but monthly on the income to the Imam (Aga Khan), and Hajj is just getting a glimpse of Aga Khan with your very own eyes.

The Ismaili version of Hajj.

Obviously on a religious ground, Ismailis have not feet to stand on, as all their claims of following Islam just do not make any sense whatsoever, and they then cite the Aga Khan Hospital and other highly profitable institutions which are just businesses run by Aga Khan. The list of these business is not small, it’s a HUGE list.

Aga Khan has cleverly banded all of these institutions under AKFED (Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development) which on the face of it, sounds very philanthropic, but it’s not. AKFED is nothing but a private holding company under which all of Aga Khan’s highly profitable institutions including banks, insurance companies, telecommunication companies, airlines and hotels operate such as:

Banks and Insurance Companies:
Habib Bank Limited
Development Credit Bank
Kyrgyz Investment and Credit Bank
Jubilee Insurance
Diamond Trust Bank

Airlines:
Air Mali
Meridiana Fly
Air Uganda

Telecommunication:
Roshan Telecommunications
Mwananchi Communications
Tcell Tajikistan

Hotels:
Kabul Serena Hotel
Faisalabad Serena Hotel
Islamabad Serena Hotel
Quetta Serena Hotel
Swat Serena Hotel
Nairobi Serena Hotel
Amboseli Serena Safari Lodge
Mara Serena Safari Lodge
Kilaguni Serena Safari Lodge
Serena Mountain Lodge
Polana Serena Hotel
Kampala Serena Hotel
Lake Victoria Serena Resort
Mivumo River Lodge
Selous Wildlife Lodge
Lake Manyara Safari Lodge
Serengeti Serena Safari Lodge
Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge
Arusha Mountain Village
Zanzibar Serena Inn

Energy:
Azito Energie
Pamir Energy

Auction Houses:
Arqana – One of the world’s largest racehorse auctioning and breeding houses

The Aga Khan Foundation in Canada (AKFC) was recently under investigation and did not reveal it’s audited financial statements to the public. It received $41.9 government funding in 2013 and did not spend that money. In fact, it was found that the AKFC had “enough cash-in-hand to operate for 8 years without even raising even a single penny”. This was reported in Toronto Star and Bloomberg.

Aga Khan’s relationship with the current prime minister was also recently questioned, and is currently under investigation for calling Justin Trudeau’s family to a vacation. Canada has given AKFC $310 million since 2004 and Aga Khan’s vacation call to Trudeau seemed more like a ‘generous cut’ than a generous gift.

Investigation into the Trudeau-Aga Khan relationship resulted in the striking discovery that the island at which Aga Khan hosted Justin Trudeau was owned by an off-shore company. The Panama Leaks database contained the name of this company through which it was found that this company is owned by two other companies. Even the helicopter which was used for transport was owned by an off-shore company. This is the modern way of weaving private property ownership into layers and layers of companies registered in off-shore tax havens. It is impossible for anyone to determine wealth of individuals who use these off-shore companies.

 

Above: Ismaili priest Nasiruddin Hunzai performing a Ismaili religious ritual with Ismaili women. Nasiruddin Hunzai was the leader of Ismailis in Chitral and Gilgit-Baltistan areas and frequently toured globally. He passed away in 2017.

A few weeks into this and the Paradise Papers were revealed in which Aga Khan’s name was prominently featured. Aga Khan was found to hide the ownership of his expensive multi-million dollar yachts under an off-shore company called Bravo Romeo. Just one of the yacht he owns was valued at 200,000,000 British Pounds in 2014.

Aga Khan was also highly criticized when he milked the Canadian government to grant him $30 million dollars from the tax payers money to establish the Global Center for Pluralism. Moreover, Aga Khan got the premises for the Global center for Pluralism against just $1 for a 99-year lease and later got permission for sub-lease half of the property at market rate to other tenants. This prime piece of real estate was formerly the Canadian War Museum.

Aga Khan and his Ismaili community were also under investigation, this time by the FBI for money laundering when Ismaili community members were found smuggling dasond money (yes, the same 12.5%) across the US-Canadian border. Fortunately for Aga Khan, the Ismailis involved took the blame and the prison sentence upon themselves. The entire saga was covered by CBC’s Fifth Estate documentary called “God’s Money”.

Aga Khan was also revealed to have funded Tajik separatist terrorists against the current Tajik government and the story was published as ‘West plans new country for Ismaelites’ [sic] in Press TV.

The Aga Khan also owns a $100 million island in the Bahamas, a superyacht with which he breaks speed records, racehorses which win him derby money and settles record million-dollar divorces with Western supermodels who go back to Christianity after ‘accepting Islam’ while married to Aga Khan. But that’s a another bunch of topics.

Above: Aga Khan enjoys a vacation on one of his yachts in the Summer of 2017. Just one of his yachts was valued at 200 million pounds in 2014.

Whether you are a Ismaili or a Muslim, whenever you are giving your ‘time and money’ to anything owned and operated by Aga Khan, know where you time and money is going, as the money trail always leads to the truth behind the façade.

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