The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) – or the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) – a splinter cell of al-Qaeda, has used violence to antagonize the West, especially the United States, and wants to establish a caliphate in Iraq and Syria. To promote its message, it has beheaded journalists, blown up oil pipelines and shot at military personnel.
In recent months, the U.S. and its cohorts have launched attacks against this extreme jihadist organization, which is currently costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars, and is creating even greater confusion in foreign policy. Essentially, the international coalition forces have responded to this archaic violence with guns, bombs, advanced military equipment and so on.
With that being said, if terrorist groups really wanted to antagonize and terrorize Western states then they should put away the bombs and knives and instead use gold and silver as their currency. We all know how much central banks and federal governments detest precious metals and the lengths they’d go to protect this mirage!
According to a report by the Daily Mail, ISIS is planning to introduce its own currency and use gold and silver dinar coins. The militants ostensibly want to bring back the original ancient dinar currency, which primarily consisted of gold and silver coins.
The dinar is currently used by an array of nations, but the material of the coins comes from a variety of different sources. However, ISIS wants to completely adopt gold and silver practices in its currency. The report further states that the original Islamic dinar was a gold coin with the weight of 4.3 grams, while the Islamic dirham, a silver coin with the weight of three grams.
Although religious figures have been recorded on video for wanting to reintroduce gold and silver dinars, it hasn’t been made official by ISIS. But what would be the motive? Apparently, ISIS wants to use the gold and silver currency in areas it controls as part of its initiative to take down the West.
Here’s the thing, if ISIS really wanted to take down the West then it wouldn’t necessarily rely on beheadings and kidnappings to do it. Instead, it would peacefully create its own areas and use precious metals as its money supply and for transactions rather than fiat money like the U.S. dollar, euro or British sterling. This would certainly annoy the U.S. and the rest of the West.
Of course, the status quo would then accuse gold bugs and proponents of precious metals as supporting the terrorists and aiding the enemies of the West. You know, the similar type of propaganda we’re accustomed to coming out of the mouthpieces of Washington and the mainstream media.
ISIS has the resources to independently finance regions and this ongoing war since it generated $20 million in kidnappings this year, while it continues to receive donations from individuals all over the world. It also garners funds from robberies and extortion measures.
As history has proved, gold is the real enemy of the state, not some cave-dwelling organization that poses no existential threat to our national security. Gold provides checks and balances in government and provides real value for consumers and citizens, not something that is printed out of thin air.
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