Thread by @jimstewartson

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The “Knights of Malta” was a medieval military Order called “Hospitallers” that the Catholic Church wielded in the Crusades along with the “Knights Templar.”

Today it’s a small but powerful “remnant” of a nearly thousand year old racist crusade to remove Islam from the Earth.

⚠️ TRIGGER WARNING
This story involves the motivations and actions of white supremacists. To give evidence and context I need to share difficult content.

While I will avoid explicit language and imagery as much as possible, please be warned. This is not easy material.

NOTE: This is going to be a long thread and will take a while to finish. But this is not a history lesson. This group is almost certain to cause more violence and potentially represents a long-term danger to geopolitical stability.

You may have seen DaVinci Code and are thinking... What? Templars? That can’t be real. No, it really is.

Part of the way this group has escaped serious alarm is that it sounds like Christian Dungeons & Dragons. It launders its purpose with the trappings of Catholicism, with lots of robes and fancy titles and talk of “gentlemen.”

Who wants to take the idea of terrorists from a medieval Catholic Order featured in Assassin’s Creed seriously?

I take it seriously. We all should. You can’t look at the connections among the killers who are members as a conspiracy theory, because all of them openly embrace it.

Underneath it all is an ancient blood oath. It’s white supremacy calcified over countless generations.

It’s important to note that the “Knights Templar” and the “Knights of Malta” are not the same and were never the same, although they were both Catholic military Orders weaponized by the Pope to eradicate Islam.

Regardless, this is accurate for both groups. They are crusaders:

We’re going to focus on the Knights of Malta in particular because that’s where the most dangerous elements are.

There are 13,500+ members today.

Here are a notable few:
William Casey - Reagan’s CIA Director, Manhattan Institute
Phyllis Schafly - #CNP
(cont.)

Knights of Malta (cont.):
Rupert Murdoch - Fox
Leonard Leo - Federalist Society / SCOTUS
Erik Prince / Joseph Schmitz - Blackwater

Anders Breivik (killed 77 in Norway in 2011)
Brenton Tarrant (killed 51 in Christchurch)

Yes, two of the worst mass murderers in a generation, *insist* that they were “cells” “activated” and “trained” in a holy war against Islam.

They both claim to be part of the “reborn Knights Templar” but specific details point directly at the Knights of Malta.

In July 2011, Anders Breivik set off an IED in Oslo killing 8 and then moved to an island nearby where youth activists had gathered and murdered 69, calmly and coldly.

bbc.com/news/uk-scotla…

He wrote a 1500 page white supremacist manifesto full of very specific details of meetings, travels and ideology explicitly tied to the “Knights Templar.”

Here’s the cover and the end of the introduction.

I won’t go too far into how the investigation was a cover up. But it was. Wittingly or not.

“Police have found no evidence that a crusader group exists” is a lie.

He met and conspired with a man named Paul Ray who leads the “Association of the Knights Templar.”

Paul Ray aka Paul Sonato lives in Malta:

Here’s an interview with him a month after Breivik’s massacre:

In recent years the Order has permanently come back home to Malta:

Turning to Brenton Tarrant, who broadcast his murder of 51 Muslims on 8chan like a video game. bbc.com/news/world-asi…

Brenton Tarrant, in his manifesto, claims to have made a lot of money on the crypto scam Bitconnect, which we will put a pin in for later. 📌

Tarrant’s motivations were clear.

Here he says he’s not part of a group but was given permission for the attack by the “reborn Knights Templar.”

He planned the attack for two years, and allowed time to “train.” He was also extremely interested in affecting the politics of the US for some reason:

Brenton Tarrant traveled to New Zealand, not because Christchurch was the target but to plan and train.

Why New Zealand? And WHO trained him? 📌📌📌

Tarrant believed he was a “lawful, uniformed combatant.”

Here’s the barrel of Tarrant’s weapon, with two references to the Knights of Malta.

And here are references to these same events on the official history page of the Order of Malta:

Tarrant claims to have met Breivik and insists, like Breivik, he was in a terrorist “cell.”washingtonpost.com/world/2019/03/…