How a Violent Ideology Was Cultivated, Weaponized, and Funded by Global Elites
Why Do Elites Fund Their Own Enemies? It’s not about ideology—it’s about control. The world’s richest figures fund socialism, communism, and radical movements not to destroy wealth, but to centralize power. As Cleon Skousen, Bella Dodd, and Carroll Quigley each revealed in different ways, these ideologies are often managed from the very financial towers they claim to oppose.
Boogeyman Created: A virus outbreak spreads panic. Reaction: The public demands protection. Solution: A fascist regime seizes total control under the guise of safety. Takeaway: The government itself caused the problem to consolidate power.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
Boogeyman Created: SHIELD is infiltrated by HYDRA, creating staged threats. Reaction: Global surveillance and preemptive military action are greenlit. Solution: The public unknowingly gives tyrants more control. Takeaway: The enemy is within the system, creating threats to justify oppression.
The Dark Knight (2008)
Boogeyman Created: Joker unleashes chaos on Gotham. Reaction: People turn to extreme measures, even endorsing mass surveillance. Solution: Batman takes the fall so society can maintain its illusion of moral order. Takeaway: Fear manipulates public opinion to accept unethical solutions.
Wag the Dog (1997)
Boogeyman Created: A fake war is fabricated to distract the public from a political scandal. Reaction: National unity surges behind the manufactured conflict. Solution: The President’s image is restored. Takeaway: Media and public emotion are weaponized for political control.
The image of radical Islam as a spontaneous, religiously-driven uprising of angry Middle Easterners is a myth. In truth, radical Islamic ideology—especially its violent and politicized forms—has been strategically cultivated, militarized, and financed by state actors, financial elites, and intelligence agencies for decades.
This is not merely a story of ideology—it is a story of money, power, and global manipulation.
Just as the Rockefellers and Western banking elites funded Soviet Russia, and later helped open Communist China to global markets, they and their partners played a central role in financing and empowering radical Islamist forces. Why? Because radical Islam provided a convenient weapon against both nationalist secular governments and global populations who might resist the architecture of empire.
Wahhabism: The 18th-Century Deal That Became a Global Fire
Radical Islam as we know it began with a political-theological alliance:
Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, an 18th-century cleric, promoted a puritanical, rigid version of Islam that declared non-Wahhabis to be heretics worthy of death.
He formed a pact with Muhammad bin Saud, a local warlord.
The deal: Wahhabism would provide the ideological justification for conquest, and the Saud family would provide the sword.
This unholy union of state and extreme ideology became the foundation of the modern Saudi monarchy, whose official religion is Wahhabi Islam.
The Quincy Pact (1945): The U.S. and Saudi Arabia Join Forces
Fast forward to 1945. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Saudi King Abdulaziz met aboard the USS Quincy. This moment sealed an oil-for-protection pact:
Saudi Arabia would guarantee oil to the West.
In exchange, the U.S. would guarantee the military protection of the Saudi regime.
Later, in the 1970s, this alliance matured into the Petrodollar System:
Saudi oil could only be bought in U.S. dollars, forcing global demand for the dollar.
In return, Saudi surpluses were reinvested into U.S. assets, including Wall Street and defense contracts.
But critically: billions were also used by Saudi charities and state ministries to fund Wahhabi mosques and schools worldwide—from Indonesia to London to Pakistan.
Result: Radical Wahhabi ideology went global, bankrolled by U.S.-protected oil wealth.
Operation Cyclone* (1979–1989): The CIA’s Islamic Jihad Army
With the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, the U.S. saw an opportunity to “bleed the Soviets” through guerrilla warfare.
Enter Operation Cyclone—a CIA program, organized under Zbigniew Brzezinski (National Security Advisor to Jimmy Carter) and later expanded under Reagan.
The U.S. funneled over $3 billion to the Afghan Mujahideen, radical Islamic warriors fighting the Soviets.
Partnering with Pakistan’s ISI (intelligence agency) and Saudi Arabia, the U.S. helped train, arm, and radicalize fighters—many of whom were deeply steeped in Wahhabi and Salafist ideology.
Among these CIA-trained fighters? Osama bin Laden, who founded Al-Qaeda from this very network.
Brzezinski admitted the plan was to provoke the Soviets into invading, and later declared:
“What is more important in world history? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire?”
The Taliban, Al-Qaeda, and eventually ISIS all have direct ideological and financial roots in Operation Cyclone’s black budget jihad.
* To understand Operation Cyclone and its consequences, we have to break free from the Hollywood version of history—where nations always act independently, and enemies are always real.
In truth, both the United States and the Soviet Union were influenced—sometimes even funded—by the same global financial networks. Carroll Quigley documented how Wall Street bankers helped finance the Bolsheviks. These same elite interests later supported America’s endless wars.
Why? Because conflict creates crisis, and crisis creates opportunity—especially for those who already hold the reins of the global money system.
Operation Cyclone looked like a Cold War tactic—but it functioned as part of a much larger strategy: manufacture chaos through radical Islam, destabilize regions, and then offer centralized global control as the solution.
The dialectic is simple: Thesis – Fund radical Islam. Antithesis – Create global fear and blowback. Synthesis – Expand surveillance, wars, and international governance.
That’s how “enemies” become tools—and how empires, both communist and capitalist, are used to serve the same global agenda.
U.S. Intelligence and the Muslim Brotherhood**
The Muslim Brotherhood, founded in Egypt in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna, aimed to restore an Islamic Caliphate and enforce Sharia law.
While often portrayed as separate from jihadist violence, the Brotherhood served as an ideological incubator for nearly all Sunni jihadist movements, including Al-Qaeda and Hamas.
In the 1950s–60s, the CIA supported the Muslim Brotherhood as a counterweight to secular Arab nationalism, especially under Gamal Abdel Nasser.
The U.S. and U.K. allowed Brotherhood leaders exile in Saudi Arabia, where they merged with Wahhabi ideology.
A Frankenstein was born: Western intelligence patronage + Saudi religious extremism = radical Islam’s modern shape.
**Many people assume Sharia law is simply a religious legal code. But in practice, Sharia is more like a theocratic operating system—one that governs every aspect of life with authoritarian control. It tells people how to dress, think, worship, punish, and obey. There is no room for individual rights or freedom of conscience.
In the 20th century, Western intelligence agencies—particularly the CIA and British MI6—saw the Muslim Brotherhood not as a threat, but as a tool. When nationalist leaders like Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser began pushing for independence from colonial and oil interests, the West needed a counterforce.
They chose radical Islam.
So they propped up the Brotherhood—an organization obsessed with creating a global Islamic state (Caliphate) governed by Sharia. When the Brotherhood was banned in Egypt, the U.S. and U.K. helped relocate many of its leaders to Saudi Arabia.
There, Wahhabism (an already ultra-strict Islamic movement) fused with the Brotherhood’s revolutionary ideology. The Frankenstein monster that emerged became the intellectual backbone of modern jihadism—from Al-Qaeda to ISIS.
The irony? The very forces that claimed to fight terror helped build the ideological machine that fuels it—all under the guise of religious freedom, while pursuing global control.
Rockefeller Parallels: How the Playbook Repeats
While no document directly shows David Rockefeller wiring money to jihadists, the pattern of elite financing of enemy ideologies is familiar:
Rockefeller’s Chase Manhattan helped fund Soviet infrastructure, even as the Cold War raged.
Rockefeller-backed diplomacy opened Maoist China to global finance in the 1970s.
Elite organizations like the Trilateral Commission and Council on Foreign Relations consistently advocate using crises to justify centralized global control.
Just as Communism and Maoism were tools to break traditional sovereignty and consolidate globalist financial power, so too has radical Islam been used to justify perpetual war, surveillance, and foreign intervention.
Perpetual war profits for the military-industrial complex.
Domestic surveillance under the pretext of national security (e.g., Patriot Act).
Middle Eastern resource control (oil, pipelines, rare minerals).
Expansion of U.S. military bases worldwide.
Distracted, fearful populations easily manipulated by headlines and emergency powers.
“Terror” became a business model, not a threat to be solved.
ISIS and the Next Generation of Blowback***
By 2013–14, a new radical force emerged: ISIS.
Many ISIS fighters were former CIA-armed rebels in Libya and Syria.
Weapons from U.S. operations in Libya after Gaddafi’s fall were funneled to jihadists in Syria.
U.S. allies (like Qatar and Saudi Arabia) again funded radical Salafist factions to counter Assad.
Even Hillary Clinton admitted in private that the U.S. “helped create” the mess in Syria. General Michael Flynn (former DIA) confirmed the U.S. knowingly supported jihadists to overthrow Assad.
***Most people think ISIS rose out of nowhere—but it was actually part of a well-worn script.
After the fall of Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi (a regime toppled with U.S. and NATO help), U.S. arms depots were looted and funneled through covert CIA channels into Syria—where they were given to rebels trying to overthrow Bashar al-Assad.
Those “rebels”? Many were radical jihadists, including future members of ISIS.
According to U.S. government insiders—including General Michael Flynn and leaked Clinton emails—the U.S. knew they were empowering Islamic extremists. But it was seen as a necessary trade-off to weaken Assad, an obstacle to Western and Israeli regional goals.
This isn’t new. From Operation Cyclone in Afghanistan to regime-change wars in Iraq, Libya, and Syria, the U.S. and its allies repeatedly fund and unleash radical fighters to create chaos.
Once the region is destabilized, the public demands intervention. Troops move in. Resources are secured. A new Western-aligned “leader” is installed—often trained by U.S. or British intelligence.
ISIS is just the latest iteration of this tactic—a roving mercenary army that can be directed, blamed, and rebranded depending on the needs of the moment.
The real game? Not religion—but control, conquest, and consolidation.
Conclusion: Radical Islam Was Funded, Not Found
This is not a conspiracy theory—it’s a conspiracy history, and the receipts are everywhere:
Wahhabi ideology was armed by oil wealth, protected by the West.
Jihadist armies were built by intelligence agencies to serve foreign policy goals.
“Islamic terror” became a useful villain to justify wars, surveillance, and elite consolidation of power.
In each case, ideological radicals served economic empires. Radical Islam was never the root, only the instrument. And like Soviet Russia and Communist China, its rise and use were funded, engineered, and ultimately controlled—until the blowback became convenient too.
Sources:
1. Michael Flynn’s Admission
As Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (2012–2014), Michael Flynn confirmed that the DIA had classified reports warning the administration that jihadists—including those who later became ISIS and Al-Qaeda—were gaining control of Syrian rebel groups. He also stated that he felt the Obama administration refused to act on these warnings. MR Online+12Foreign Policy Journal+12YouTube+12MR Online+3London Review of Books+3Wikipedia+3
Flynn described the U.S. strategy as “willful support” for jihadist groups to overthrow Assad—claiming it was knowingly done despite knowing it risked empowering extremist factions. Foreign Policy Journal
2. Hillary Clinton’s Leaked Emails
In emails leaked by WikiLeaks, Hillary Clinton and State Department staff acknowledged that Gulf allies like Saudi Arabia and Qatar were funding extremist groups, including those connected to ISIS and Al-Qaeda, despite U.S. rhetoric to the contrary. YouTube+5Salon.com+5National Review+5
Clinton’s internal notes reveal awareness that weapons and resources intended for “moderate rebels” in Syria were often diverted to extremist factions. MR Online
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