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Nut jihad: Taliban makes millions from pistachio farms

Apr 1, 2018 8:01 am By Robert Spencer

“The Taliban favor these nuts as they do not require cultivation.”

They don’t want to take valuable time away from killing Infidels to have to work at farming. Besides, once they are firmly in control, they will finance their activities by jizya from the Infidels they have subjugated; no need to learn a trade. This may require them to cross into Pakistan and India in order to find the requisite Infidels.

“Nut Jihad: Taliban Makes Millions From Pistachio Farms,” by David Brennan, Newsweek, March 26, 2018:

Heroin production, arms smuggling, kidnappings; the Taliban funds its ongoing war in Afghanistan with a wide range of illegal activities, putting its war-footing fund-raising ahead of any moral, or indeed religious, concerns.

A less obvious, but still lucrative, source of revenue has been brought to light by the Institute For War & Peace Reporting (IWPR): pistachio farming.

An IWPR investigation into Afghanistan’s pistachio forests have found that armed gangs and Taliban fighters control the vast majority of nut production, earning millions of dollars each year, which is then put towards fighting U.S., coalition and Afghan forces….The Taliban favor these nuts as they do not require cultivation.

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  1. 762x51FMJ says

    Apr 1, 2018 at 8:59 am

    More Americans get the nuts from the Taliban News Network than from any other source.

    Boycott pistachios from the region.

    • mortimer says

      Apr 1, 2018 at 11:21 am

      Pistachios also come from Iran, mr. FMJ

      • Mike says

        Apr 2, 2018 at 8:49 am

        Whenever possible, I try to source the California ones as a better alternative.

        Though sometimes I wonder about California, as well.

    • Asally says

      Apr 3, 2018 at 11:12 am

      Damn! I LOVE pistachios but now they won’t ever taste good again. Boycott them. Not worth it. If you think about it they won’t taste good to you either. Are almonds ok? I LOVE almonds!! Even more!

  2. Karen says

    Apr 1, 2018 at 9:33 am

    Buy California pistachios.

    • Indiana Tom says

      Apr 1, 2018 at 5:33 pm

      Land of fruits and nuts.

      • Karen says

        Apr 1, 2018 at 10:14 pm

        ?

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 1, 2018 at 10:02 pm

      Hear, hear, Karen!

      • Karen says

        Apr 1, 2018 at 10:15 pm

        ????

  3. 762x51FMJ says

    Apr 1, 2018 at 9:44 am

    In a side note has anyone noticed that the dried oily Moroccan olives arent on the shelf lately?
    Is this because of Hillary’s deals with the Moroccans that fell through?

    • 762x51FMJ says

      Apr 1, 2018 at 9:51 am

      I looked it up, the eastern Mediterranean Olive producers have had the worst harvest on record, a 50% yield. Olive oil futures skyrocketing, Morocco harvest abundant however worldwide demand has created a shortage and enormous spike in Moroccan olive prices.

      • Mike says

        Apr 2, 2018 at 12:58 pm

        And what is the cause of that poor harvest ?Is it natural ? Was it provoked ? What was the aim of that action?

        • gravenimage says

          Apr 2, 2018 at 11:46 pm

          Yes, it was natural, and it hit southern Europe, too–Italy and Spain as well as the Levant and North Africa. Poor weather and a real problem with pests due to the weather.

          Also, demand for olive oil is increasing in places like the US.

          Luckily, olives are being grown in more places for oil processing now–America, Australia, Argentina, South Africa.

          This is a cyclical thing right now.

  4. Westman says

    Apr 1, 2018 at 9:50 am

    Only the religion of Islam, through the doctorine of suppressing dhimmis and the collection of jizya, sanctifies extortion in the manner of Al Capone. While running his “protection” racket, Capone was likely unaware that he was following a religious model.

    It seems that jihad is similar to the old feudal system in that the rise from the “working class” to “noble” was through conquest, or, a reward for service to the conqueror. With the noble title came control of the inhabitants and resources of the domain.

    The Taliban is just one of the larger Islamic Mafias, of many, that offer a rise from the “working class” to “made man jihadist” with the religious sanction of the Quran and Sunnah. Whether cleric or jihadist, Islam’s ideology offers parasitism as a means of upward mobility.

    • mortimer says

      Apr 1, 2018 at 11:26 am

      Westman, excellent post, well-argued. The Mafia is deemed to have developed out of Islamic pirate gangs. The Sicilians copied the Arabs’ methods.

      Possible etymologies from ARABIC are:

      – mu’afa (معافى) = safety, protection

      – mahyas (مهياص) = aggressive boasting, bragging[5]

      – marfud (مرفوض) = rejected, considered to be the most plausible derivation; marfud developed into marpiuni (swindler) to marpiusu and finally mafiusu

      • gravenimage says

        Apr 1, 2018 at 10:04 pm

        True, Mortimer.

      • Kilfincelt says

        Apr 2, 2018 at 8:57 am

        You just confirmed my own suspicions about the mafia and its origins.

    • Mike says

      Apr 2, 2018 at 1:00 pm

      Italian mafia was born after watching the islamic mafia in action , according to first italian mafiosi themselves.

  5. Lydia Church says

    Apr 1, 2018 at 4:25 pm

    The NUT harvest is in!
    That is for sure…

  6. Indiana Tom says

    Apr 1, 2018 at 5:37 pm

    I don’t eat pistachios.
    The Taliban seems like a bunch of nuts to me.

  7. gravenimage says

    Apr 1, 2018 at 9:52 pm

    Hamas says disappointed by low turnout for Gaza border protest
    …………………..

    After the takeover of Iran by the Mullahs, the US had few sources of pistachios. The ones grown in the US at the time tended to be low-grade and used in children’s candy and snacks.

    So American farmers got to work–within a few years, they were growing pistachios every bit as good as the ones from Persia–first in California, then in Arizona and New Mexico.

    *No one* needs to buy these nuts from the Mullahs or the Taliban.

    One of my favorite companies is Heart of the Desert–some of the money goes to local Native American charities, and the owner is a military vet:

    https://store.heartofthedesert.com/heart-of-the-desert-pistachios-c49.aspx

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 1, 2018 at 10:18 pm

      Sorry–my header is from another story.

  8. infidel says

    Apr 1, 2018 at 11:38 pm

    Muslims are of the laziest U will ever see.. even beating the hood blacks…. Just want to sit around.. laze around, impregnate females and of course pray 5 times and indulge in hateful jehaad against khafirs. Rarely, U will find these fellows in occupations that require hard yakka and nation building. Trading is their fav.. ie taking goods from one source to another and making a cut in between and often the goods and services are illegal.. But it is not a problem because if this illegal activity is in the land of the infidel, then it is just excused as jehaad…….These shameless creatures of course have their 5 times prayer to come out of even mass murder and rape of khafirs. Not a single Muslim leader all over the world talks about jobs, development, economy while fully taking max benefits out the progress made by non-Muslims..

    • SweetOlBob says

      Apr 4, 2018 at 7:41 am

      You can safely bet that nuts harvested by these mucking fuslims are picked and handled and packed either by slaves or the next thing to it !
      The filthy muslims are widely known for their avoidance of work.

  9. infidel says

    Apr 1, 2018 at 11:48 pm

    Muslims abhor paying taxes, esp when living in the host infidel nations….. They would rather give the zakat that goes for terror. That is why, Islamic societies are very slovenly.. Even the lazy Saudis.. just dig and sell their oil to the khafirs and make easy cash out of it rather than work hard. In this case, it is the mother earth that is paying the jizzia to these mad animals… So if Islam has to survive, Jizzia is needed in one form or the other.. either parasiting it off the host infidel nation tax payer base, aid like the palestenians and the beggar Pakis get from the West or easy natural resources like oil. It is the typical parasite whose voracious hunger never ends… and yes it never contributes anything positive to society other than intolerance and violence..

  10. infidel says

    Apr 1, 2018 at 11:56 pm

    And to add finally, Islamic nations like Pak, Bangla, Maldives, Yemen etc bereft of any host and resources like oil become economic basket cases that beggar themselves to the West for non stop financial aid and specialize in various methods to mulct the West of their pounds and dollars and Euros. Jehaadi Pak is a classic example. After partition in 1947, they got some of the most fertile agri lands in the Indus valley of West Punjab but being habitually lazy, the Paki Muslims have wasted these lands.. How much they could have earned thru agri and hard work?? But U cannot expect these things from Muslims. And all this time, Hindu-India has steadily risen in the world economic rankings thru hard work and enterprise and intellect..

  11. infidel says

    Apr 2, 2018 at 12:03 am

    Is it any wonder that Muslims have the best standard and quality of life when living in infidel lands.. more than their own violent hellholes… other than those lands that have natural resources that they can lazily mine and sell and that thru infidel work and tech… Muslims in India are much better off than their brothers in Pakistan because they have the tax paying Hindu base on which they can endlessly parasite… The same parasiting happens on the Greater West tax base by its immigrant Muslims. And BTW, if U note, Muslims DO NOT and also NOT ALLOWED to parasite other Muslims .. Just look at Saudi and how it does not accept Islamic refugees..

  12. SweetOlBob says

    Apr 4, 2018 at 7:45 am

    I love the flavor of these things, but I hate to see people like major league ball players spitting the hulls all over everything. It looks filthy ! They are not to be excused by being hero athletes.
    I won’t buy another nut unless it says “Product of America”.

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