Fethullah Gülen: Jew Masonic Ghoulin' for a Fascist Ottoman Super-state

[Michael K.]

Editorial Comment:  Gulen appears to be another face of fascist Eurasianism who is tacitly endorsed by certain prominent Jews and Freemasons. While he lives in Pennsylvania, his movement is considered pro-Russia and pro-Iran.  His Turkish nationalistic version of Islam derives from Sheikh Sa'id-i Kurdi (1878-1960), the founder of the Islamist Nurcu or Nur (light) movement.  This is on its face a Luciferic and Masonic reference.  Furthermore, he presents as a suit and necktie mason, as do his staff of bodyguards.  The fact that he has permanent status in the US is evidence of Jew Masonic connections by itself.  He is also involved in interfaith prayer with certain Turkish rabbis.  His website will tell you exactly nothing about his activities, but is filled with New Age platitudes and insipid sensitive crap.  


http://hizmetmovement.blogspot.com/2011/06/which-turks-hate-israel-most.html

There was an interesting story in the Daily News last week, about the cancelling of a Yuval Ron concert in Istanbul. Mr. Ron, an award-wining Israeli musician, was supposed to play his tunes in a Sultanahmet hall, but the event was cancelled at the last minute due to protests, and, allegedly, some "threats." The organization holding the protest – but denied any threat – was the famous Humanitarian Relief Foundation, or İHH, that organized last year's controversial Freedom Flotilla to Gaza, which was lethally raided by Israeli commandos.

The İHH, of course, is an Islamic-minded organization. Therefore, I received a few emails from Western friends complaining how Islam and its ascendant role in public life are making Turks fanatically anti-Semitic. If Turkey had been dominated by more-secular minded Turks, these friends added, it would have been a tolerant and loving, and particularly Israel-loving, society.

The missing piece

But there was an interesting detail in the Yuval Ron story that my Islamo-sceptic friends, and probably most others, were missing: The organization that helped organize the concert of the Israeli musician was quite Islamic-minded as well. It was the Intercultural Dialogue Platform, founded by none other than the followers of Fethullah Gülen, Turkey's most influential Muslim religious leader.

In fact, the Gülen Movement, as it is called, has probably been the most active force against anti-Semitism in Turkey in the past two decades. Until his departure from Turkey in 1998, one of Gülen's best friends was Turkey's chief rabbi and the two men routinely appeared in front cameras for joint "Abrahamic" prayers.   To date, Gülen's followers have held dozens of interfaith meetings in Turkey and elsewhere, and their media outlets have persistently promoted understanding between Muslims and Jews.

Even on the flotilla incident, Gülen took a different line than that of the Justice and Development Party, or AKP, government he supports, and said it would have been better if the flotilla sought a deal with Israeli authorities to bring humanitarian aid into Gaza.

http://www.voicesempower.com/gulen-led-coup-turkey-falls-to-islamists/

GULEN-LED COUP — TURKEY FALLS TO ISLAMISTS

By Donna Garner and Alice Linahan

While most of us have been focused on the U. S. debt ceiling and the serious implications for the world's financial markets, meanwhile another country has just fallen to the Islamists: Turkey.

Turkey has been friendly toward the United States for many years, and one of our largest bases is in Incirlik, Turkey.  This base is essential to our operations in the Middle East.

This last Thursday (7.29.11) Reuters News Service and the British Broadcasting Company broke the news that the Islamic Prime Minister of Turkey, Tayyip Erdogan, had seized control of the government and the military when Turkey's top four military commanders (secularists who have stood against Turkey becoming an Islamist state) resigned under pressure.

These four commanders were in charge of the Turkish air, navy, and land forces.  Erdogan's own choice for commander has now been put in charge of the Turkish military.

DISCREDITING MILITARY COMMANDERS  

During the two years leading up to last Thursday, Erdogan and his AKP party have put over 400 people on trial in hearings dominated by Erdogan-appointed judges, including 250 military personnel (almost 10% of their military senior commanders).

More than 58 journalists have been detained without due process for speaking out about the Erdogan government.

On 7.25.11, The Committee to Protect Journalists sent a letter to the Turkish Minister of Justice protesting the detainments. The letter specifically objected to the seizure by the Turkish police of a draft of Ahmet Şık's unpublished book, The Imam's Army, that details the influence of Islamic scholar Fethullah Gulen on the Turkish state.

Turkish citizens believe the charges are trumped up in order to discredit those who believe in keeping Turkey a secularist (pro-American/pro-Israeli/pro-European) state.

TURKISH PRIME MINISTER ERDOGAN A FOLLOWER OF FETHULLAH GULEN  

Erdogan is a follower of Fethullah Gulen.  Since Erdogan took over as Prime Minister in 2002, Gulen/Erdogan/AKP have allegedly orchestrated two trumped up plots called "Ergenekon" and "Sledgehammer."

FIRST REASON WHY AMERICA SHOULD BE WORRIED  

The first reason that we Americans should be concerned about the Islamist coup in Turkey is that Turkey is a member of NATO; and on March 28, 2011, our own President, pro-Muslim Obama, placed our coalition military operations in Libya under NATO control.

This means that our U. S. military personnel fighting under the NATO flag are partially controlled by Turkey which has now turned against America and Israel and is well on its way to becoming an Islamic state.  Turkey has the second-largest army in NATO.

SECOND REASON WHY AMERICA SHOULD BE WORRIED

Our second reason for concern is that Fethullah Gulen lives in Pennsylvania, runs his $25 billion international network from there, and is tied to hundreds of Gulen charter schools right here in the  United States.  (Texas alone has 36 of these Gulen charter schools.)

Gulen plans to take America over in almost exactly the same way that he has taken Turkey over — through the indoctrination of our school children; and ironically, we taxpayers are paying for his Gulen charter schools.

FETHULLAH GULEN BEHIND ENROGAN

Who is behind Turkish Prime Minister Enrogan and the AKP?  Fethullah Gulen is an Islamist imam who is considered by many to be the "most dangerous man in the world."

As Ahmet Sik, a Turkish journalist now under arrest, was being dragged away to jail by the Turkish security forces, he yelled, "Whoever touches the Gulen movement gets burned!"

GULENIST BELIEFS

Turkey's ruling party is the AKP led by Prime Minister Erdogan.  He is a Muslim, believes in Sharia law, and is a follower of Fethullah Gulen.

Erdogan was elected in 2003 and was recently re-elected in June 2011 because working in clandestine operations with the Gulenists, he has been able to control and coerce the Turkish masses through fear.

Two of the basic tenets that Fethullah Gulen uses to indoctrinate his followers at an early age are (1) "taquiya" which is an Islam belief that permits them to lie to "infidels" (i.e., anyone who is not a Muslim)   , and (2) total secrecy — a belief that if a person never shares a secret, then he never has to worry about his secrets becoming known.  In fact, secrecy is an obsession for Gulenists.  In Pearls of Wisdom, Gulen explains, "The secret is your slave but you become its slave if you disclose it."  

Dr. Aland Mizell, a leading Gulenist researcher, stated:

    What Gulenists want is total power and one-man rule; they want a status so that none could dare to object to them or to their leader, because they sincerely believe that Allah has chosen them to disseminate their brand of Turkish Islam to the world, and therefore that everything they do is right and without mistakes.

 THE GULENIST PLOT TO OVERTHROW TURKEY

Prior to Gulen/AKP/Erdogan, Turkey was pro-America, pro-Israel, and pro-European. Turkey is one of 28 members of NATO but has the second-largest army.

Now Gulen/AKP/Erdogan have formed close alliances with Russia, Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, and Syria.

Gulen has set the political agenda in Turkey using his followers in AKP.

Gulen controls a worldwide, $25 billion network of media, financial institutions, associations, and foundations.

Gulen is an Islamist imam who considers himself to be a prophet.

His sermons indicate that he intends for Turkey and the entire world to become Islamist and to follow Sharia law. He wants to establish a caliph and the re-establishment of the Ottoman Empire. Several years ago, Turkish television aired footage of Gulen saying:

    You must move in the arteries of the system without anyone noticing your existence until you reach all the power centers...You must wait for the time when you are complete and conditions are ripe, until we can shoulder the entire world and carry it...The philosophy of our service is that  we open a house somewhere and, with the patience of a spider, we lay our web to wait for people to get caught in the web...

In 1971, Gulen was arrested in Turkey for holding secret religious activities in which he ran illegal summer camps to indoctrinate youth.

Gulen has groomed his image to make him look as if he is a "tolerant" Muslim, but he is actually a follower of Sa'id-I Nursi, the founder of the Islamist Nur (light) movement.

Gulen/Nur intend for Islamists to take over the world and establish an Islamic caliphate that follows Sharia law.

In 1998, Gulen escaped to America to avoid being questioned about his involvement to overthrow Turkey's pro-American/pro-Israel government.

Bill Clinton was President at the time.  Bill and Hillary Clinton and the CIA welcomed Gulen and promoted him as being an outstanding scholar who represented a peaceful, "secular" form of Islam.

When President George W. Bush took office in January 2001 and America experienced the radical Muslim terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, the Bush administration (along with Karen Hughes who now promotes the Gulen charter schools) evidently wanted to appear to be "politically correct" and, therefore, fell for Gulen's lies.

Now the United States has a Muslim-friendly President in the White House who has appointed Dalia Mogahed as his Muslim advisor.  Mogahed is a Gulenist.

GULEN'S LIFE IN AMERICA

Gulen lives in eastern Pennsylvania with 100 followers who guard him and tend to his needs.  His male followers try to blend into American society by wearing suits and ties, and they do not marry until age 50.  Their spouses are expected to dress in the Islamic manner as dictated by Gulen.

Gulen runs his international network from Pennsylvania, and he and his next-in-command (Nurettin Veren) say they control 75% of the schools and universities in Turkey plus hundreds of schools in 110 countries worldwide.

Gulenists have targeted children to indoctrinate them to become the ruling class of the Islamist, Turkish state.  Under Erdogan, textbooks have been changed, Islam has been emphasized, and thousands of imams have been placed into positions as teachers and administrators in the schools.

GULENIST-EDUCATED CHILDREN NOW IN HIGH PLACES

In an interview in 2008, Veren said, "Children whom we educated in Turkey are now in the highest positions. There are governors, judges, military officers. There are ministers in the government. They consult Gulen before doing anything."

Gulenists have also taken over the 200,000 Turkish police force.  Veren said, "There are imam security directors; imams wearing police uniforms. Many police commissioners get their orders from imams."

Those in the police academies who were not Gulenists were dismissed, and the AKP promotes only those officers who are totally dedicated to Gulen.

In 2008 Endogan ordered the arrests of the people who were speaking out against this Gulen takeover.

Wiretapping by Gulenists has penetrated Turkey to the highest levels, and they have managed to restrist technology so that secretly recorded meetings of those opposed to Gulen/AKP/Erdogan have been made public.

Turkish journalists have also had their wires tapped because the head of the police wiretapping unit is a Gulenist.

Anti-AKP demonstrators have experienced violent police brutality, and private citizens who have spoken out about Erdogan/AKP have been abducted and brutalized.

TURKISH INSTITUTIONS FALL TO GULENISTS

Traditionally, the Turkish military has been the guarantor of the Constitution; but now according to Veren (Gulen's top man), the Gulenists have entrenched themselves within the military also.  Veren stated:

    The Fethullahist military officers were once our students, who we financially supported, educated, and assisted.  When these grateful children graduated and reached influential positions, they put themselves and their positions at the service of Fethullah Gulen...when Gulen students graduate from the police or military academies — as do the new doctors and lawyers — they present their first salaries to Fethullah Gulen as a gesture of their gratitude.  

Gulenists have also taken over the Turkish court system because Erdogan replaced thousands of judges and prosecutors with his own AKP/Gulen followers. Anybody applying for judgeships has to pass an AKP review.

In years past, the Turkish media used to be relentless about exposing government corruption; but when Erdogan came to power in his first term, he filed "frivolous" lawsuits against 63 journalists in 16 publications.  This successfully dissuaded journalists' from ferreting out corruption.

During Erdogan's ten year rule, his government has seized control of Sabah-ATV, which was Turkey's second largest media group. Then Erdogan made his son-in-law the CEO of the group.

Now nine of the leading TV, radio stations, and newspapers are all owned by AKP/Gulen.

It is no wonder that Erdogan won re-election in June 2011 since he and the AKP controlled most of the media, the military, the security forces, and the courts.

GULEN — THREAT TO AMERICA

Homeland Security and the U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Service tried to deny Gulen permanent residence in the Unites States.  In 2008 Gulen brought a lawsuit against Michael Chertoff of Homeland Security.  The Department contended that Gulen did not meet the definition of a person with "extraordinary ability in the field of education" but that he was actually a "leader of a large and influential religious and political movement with immense commercial holdings."  The State tried to prove that the acclaim that Gulen touted was actually sponsored or financed by his own movement.

Gulen evidently managed to "pay off" enough institutions and high-profile people to mount pressure to get his status reversed, and the 29 letters of reference that he filed with his motion came from theologians or Turkish political figures closely associated with his Gulenist movement.  The judge ruled in Gulen's favor, and now he can stay in the United States permanently.

SPREAD OF GULEN SCHOOLS IN TEXAS

One of the most disheartening reports has been the connections of former executive director of the Republican Party and trusted advisor to President George W. Bush, Karen Hughes and her close ties to the Gulen/Cosmos Foundation's Harmony Schools here in Texas. As you can hear in this video Ms. Hughes is very interested in promoting Harmony Science Charter Schools and accessing Texas  tax dollars to create competition for public schools by funding the Gulen/Harmony charter schools.

In a bold move, the Gulen/Cosmos Foundation/Harmony Charter Schools have now branched out from their usual "math and science" venues into a brand new school to open soon in Austin, Texas.

This new Gulen school will be called the Harmony School of Political Science.  This means that at taxpayers' expense, Turkish teachers (many of whom are here on H-1 visas and are Muslims) will be teaching our students "American" history.  Can you imagine how these teachers who can hardly speak English and are fresh from Turkey will present such historically significant elements as the Holocaust, the Founding Fathers, the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution?

Yes, all teachers in Texas (including those in the Gulen schools) are to follow the state-approved curriculum requirements; but nothing constrains teachers from teaching those requirements with a particular political spin.  Since almost all of the terrorists who have declared jihad against Americans are Muslims, then it should make us very skeptical about having Muslim teachers teach our Texas students to love, respect, and appreciate America.

ACTION STEP  

A protest rally will be held on the public sidewalk in front of Harmony School of Political Science – Austin, Texas — on Aug. 30, 2011, from 9:00 to 10:00 A. M.

 People in the Austin area should definitely commit to be at the rally since this Harmony School of Political Science is being opened right there in your own city.  

Please bring signs (without any wooden or metal stakes), wear T-shirts, display "sandwich-type" posters (affixed to front and back of body), or create other visual displays that are in line with the City of Austin laws (posted at bottom of this e-mail).

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RESOURCES USED IN THIS ARTICLE

7.30.11 — 7:57 AM (EDT) — Reuters News Service — "Analysis: Turkish Government Strengthens Control on Military" by Daren Butler — Istanbul -
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7.30.11, 3:54 P. M. EDT — Reuters News Service — "Turkey's Leaders Deny Crisis as Top Generals Quit" by Simon Cameron-Moore — Istanbul –
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7.29.11, 17:29 ET — British Broadcasting Company –  "Turkey: Military Chiefs Resign En Masse" –

 

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Winter 2009, pp. 55 – 66 – The Middle East Quarterly – "Fethullah Gülen's Grand Ambition: Turkey's Islamist Danger" by Rachel Sharon Krespin, director of the Turkish Media Project at the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), Washington D.C.

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7.25.11 — "Journalists Held Without Due Process in Turkey"  — Letter from Committee to Protect Journalists -

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12.16.10 — British Broadcasting Company — "Turkey Tries Army Officers Over Sledgehammer 'Plot'" — by Jonathan Head — Istanbul

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 8.1.11 — "Protest Rally — Gulen Political Science School in Austin, Texas, on Aug. 30, 2011" by Donna Garner

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7.22.11 — "Wrong Person Takes the Fall — Another Gulen Situation"  by Donna Garner

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"List of Gulen Charter Schools in the United States"

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7.17.11 — "Another Turkish Charter School in Trouble" by Donna Garner

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7.14.11 — "How Blind Can People Be?" by Donna Garner

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7.10.11 — "Is a Changed Muslim Kosher in a Taxpayer-Funded Texas School" by Peyton Wolcott

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 6.29.11 – The Texas House General Investigating & Ethics Committee has begun its investigation of the Gulen Turkish charter schools (Cosmos Foundation, Harmony Schools, Rainbow Turkish House, etc.).

 

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7.10.11 — "Are Taxpayers Paying for Free Trips to Turkey?" by Donna Garner

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6.19.11 – Austin American-Statesman article by Laylan Copelin and Mike Ward, "Some Texas Lawmakers Have Second Thoughts about Turkey Trips" —  

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6.29.11 — Texas Legislature Investigating Gulen/Cosmos Foundation/Harmony Schools: by Donna Garner

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6.30.11 — "Personal Accounts: Gulen Harmony Schools" by Donna Garner

 

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7.14.11 — "Harmony Science Academies Tied to Gulen Charter Schools" by Donna Garner

 

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"The Gulen Movement – How It Operates in Turkey and in the U. S." –  Parts 1, 2, 3 — YouTube

Part 1:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izjnSb0o ... re=related

Part 2:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eD19xG- ... re=related

Part 3:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72Vwt_LI ... re=related

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/06/the_muslim_brotherhood_and_weiner.html

...Which should now raise even greater concerns since Huma Abedin-Weiner is the deputy chief of staff to Hillary Clinton, the United States Secretary of State.  Did any vetting occur by Clinton's people concerning Huma Abedin, her brother Hassan, or her mother Saleha Mahmoud Abedin, and any connections with known Islamists, particularly the Muslim Brotherhood?

But then again, would it have troubled Mrs. Clinton?  After all, during her husband's time as President, she warmly embraced Suha Arafat the wife of Yasser Arafat, arch-terrorist, right after a speech during which Suha Arafat falsely accused Israel of poisoning the Palestinian water supply.

Huma's brother has "worked with Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal on a program of "spreading Islam to the west."  More intriguing is the fact that the Abedin family left Michigan for Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, around 1977, which is the same year that the Muslim Sisterhood was formed.

Couple this with the Clinton family playing a key role in promoting Fethullah Gulen who has worked assiduously to overthrow Turkey's secular government.  Gulen, who currently resides in Pennsylvania, has told his followers that in order for "worldwide Islamic domination to succeed, every method and path is acceptable, including lying to people."  

In March of this year, the FBI was investigating the more than 120 charter schools in the United States that are linked to Gulen's movement.  These schools, funded with millions of taxpayer dollars, promote Gulen's worldview that is both anti-Israel and anti-America.  In fact, in 2010 it was reported that Bill Gates had given almost 11 million dollars to the Cosmos Foundation, which is a Gulen enterprise.

Moreover, one needs to question why Huma Abedin, a member of a family of devout Muslims, would ever marry a Jewish Congressman -- in a ceremony officiated by Bill Clinton.  Sharia law clearly forbids Muslims from marrying non-believers, so what does this portend?

Furthermore, when Huma Abedin accompanied Hillary Clinton to the Dar El-Hekma women's college in Saudi Arabia, where Huma's mother is co-founder and vice dean, it was reported that "Hillary explained that Huma holds an important and sensitive position in her office."  Where was the scrutiny?

Why are so many at the highest levels of American government ignoring the methodology of Islamists like Gulen, who has declared that the best way to seize power is to lie in wait "with the patience of a spider" in order to "wait for people to get caught in the web"?  Is Clinton so naïve?

Thus, Huma Abedin's position with Clinton in the State Department, as well as her marriage to Representative Weiner, has given her enormous exposure "to state secrets and access to the inner workings of Congress."

This would be unsettling enough if it were not also for Obama's latest appointee.  The 44th president has just appointed Azizah al-Hibri to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.  Al-Hibri believes that sharia law is superior to American law.  Yet, al-Hibri is only one of the pro-sharia adherents that Obama has placed in influential positions since he became president.  Dalia Mogahed was one of the earliest appointees and as Nonie Darwish has written, "[t]he empowerment of Radical Islam under the Obama administration" is extremely disturbing.

http://seeking-truths.blogspot.com/2008/08/erdogans-akp-fethullah-glens-opium-and.html

...When Gülen's name is mentioned, the first thing that comes to the mind of his students is Said Nursi, known by the Kurds known as Saidi Keri. But Said Nursi is a vehicle used to recruit Muslim people to his community, his cemaat. His leaders use Said Nursi as a mask. First his students read and study the Risale-i-Nur, Said Nursi's books, but then little by little they introduce the students to Fethullah Gülen, an idol replacing Said Nursi in reverence and in commitment to his writings. It is true that Mr. Gülen does have a depth of knowledge about Islam but also that he uses it to his advantage. When the question of the Kurds comes on the table, Fethullah Gülen sends a mixed message. He uses religion as opium for the masses to oppress the Kurdish people. His rhetoric claims Islam does not sanction an inferior or a superior status. An individual is deemed superior only if he is close to God. It is true that the Qur'an says that God created all nations and tribes, and therefore no individuals or nations are to be favored because of their wealth, power, or race, but only because of their faith and piety (Qur'an 49:13).

By this criterion, only infidels are inferior. Muhammad said, "An Arab is not better than a non-Arab and a non-Arab is not better than an Arab, and a red (i.e. white tinged with red) person is not better than a black person and a black person is not better than a red person, except in piety." Writing in an article entitled "A Comparative Approach Islam and Democracy, Gülen pronounces, "The Prophet says that all people are as equal as the teeth of a comb. Islam does not discriminate based on race, color, age, nationality, or physical traits. The Prophet declared: 'You are all from Adam, and Adam is from earth. O servants of God, be brothers [and sisters].' Those who are born earlier, have more wealth and power than others, or belong to certain families or ethnic groups have no inherent right to rule others" (Gülen 2001). However, Fethullah goes further to claim that Islam can be best represented only by the Turks, thus claiming the superiority of the Turks. When a Kurd says, "I am a Kurd and a Muslim," then it seems he is insulting his hearer. The Kurd will be chastised for establishing his identity in terms of his ethnicity and be challenged to think of himself as a Muslim only, united with his Islamic brotherhood as the Qur'an requires. If he claims a shared allegiance to his ethnic heritage, he will be asked, "Why are you prejudiced?" and be told, "We are all brothers," a tranquilizer numbing his followers into submission. Yet, this same examiner will never stand for the rights of this "brother." Instead, as always, Kurds will be oppressed while the religious demagogies keep silent with the same tactics. When it comes to the Kurdish question, when it comes to many questions about the Kurds, the examiner will note that they are caught in the fire and continue to burn — illiteracy is high, the mortality rate is high, and unemployment is high. Many Kurds are living with their cattle in the winter because they cannot afford to buy enough coal or wood to provide heat for their children during the freezing winter. When the military served as the major police force in that impoverished region, they raped many Kurdish women and killed children and older people as well. These advocates of homogeneity and opponents of racism tried to turn attention to their Muslim brotherhood, pointing to the injustice in Chechnya, Bosnia, Palestine, Afghanistan, and Algeria.

When in early 1990 the Soviet tanks stormed Azerbaijanis in Baku, Fethullah cried and was hospitalized because of his heartache. But when Turkish gendarmes burned more than 5000 thousands villages and imprisoned many Kurds who happened to be at the wrong place under the terrorist campaign, he shed no tears. How many people are still missing? How many mothers have not heard from their sons? Nobody knows their fate. Why did Gülen never become hospitalized for his Kurdish Muslim brothers? The sad thing is that many young Kurds, students, and businessmen accept this opium and become addicted to it. His followers claim that they do God's will and that God requires them to give to their Muslim brother, and indeed the Qur'an advocates these principles. Does God, however, forbid speaking the Kurdish language and enjoying the culture? Is God on Turkey's side? God's requirement can be a sin if it is based on this wrong assumption. Fethullah cried when Bosnia's Muslims were slaughtered by Serbian butchers, yet when a twelve-year old Kurdish boy was slaughtered by a Turkish death squad, was Fethullah hospitalized? Did he get heartaches for those cruel bullets that killed Ugur? No, he did not because this twelve-year old Ugur Kaymaz was deemed a terrorist, according to their Turkish nationalistic definition. How can the Greek Orthodox devotees open Gülen's schools in Cyprus, but Kurds cannot have their own education? Why did Gülen open thousands of schools abroad to teach the native language and Turkish, while the Kurds could not learn their language in his and their own country? More than thirty million Kurds demand their minority rights because even though they may live in Turkey, they are not of Turkish origin.

Gülen tries to assimilate Kurds by emphasizing the Ottoman ideology in his school, causing many Kurds to see themselves as Osmanli rather than as Selahattin Kurdi. Many Muslims know Saladin as an Islamic hero for having recaptured Jerusalem from the Crusaders. Saladin was Kurdish by heritage, and during most of his career he used primarily Kurdish officials as his closest partners, but he is renowned for being Islamic.

Today Christians have begun to translate the Bible into the Kurdish language to ensure that those who want to explore its message can understand the principles. To teach them, these followers of Jesus continue to respect the Kurd's culture and identity without humiliating them or denying their language. By contrast, Mr. Gülen privileges Turkish identity over Islamic religion. Gülen Turkifies Islam in a nationalistic homogeneity.

His support of the Grey Wolves, a fascist-leaning utlra-nationalist organization in Turkey dating back to the 1960s, demonstrates the degree of his nationalism. As an unofficial branch of The Milliyetci Hareket Partisi (MHP) that argued for a military solution to the Kurdish problem, The Grey Wolves, mostly drawn from Turkey's National Intelligence Organization's (MIT) secret service, killed hundreds of Kurds. Despite their militant approach to the Kurdistan Workers' Party's (PKK) insurgency and to their opposition to Turkey's granting any concessions to the Kurds, Fethullah attended the funeral of the leader Alparslan Turkes demonstrating support for the Kurdish opposition. Very telling, however, is Gülen's slogan—and his goal—derived from the MHP banner: "One Turkish world, from the Adriatic Sea until the Chinese Wall," a motto constantly used by the government's parties and other parties in conformity with the system to establish a greater Turkish Muslim world and to oppress the Kurdish people. With a Turkish nationalism called Turanism, the Grey Wolves' ideology does not allow any national or personal rights to the Kurds, Armenians, Laz, Arabs, or Syrians in Turkey.

While neither Erdogan nor Gülen claims membership, they share the goal of expansionism of Turkish ideology at the expense of all others, and in the case of the later two, it is that of fundamentalist Islam. This approach of ignoring the rights of ethnic minorities is wrong. Now, thanks to the United States and to President Bush's administration, Saddam Hussein, arguably one of the world's most evil people, is imprisoned, and the Kurds are freed from his wrath. Mr. Gülen is sad that Saddam has been removed, but the Kurds are free and will no longer be assimilated because they are studying and trying to rediscover their identity.

Since the collapse of the Baathist regime, Mr. Gülen and his media conglomerate are advocating the rights of 300 or 400 thousand Turkmen in Northern Iraq. In what forum was he voicing protest against the treatment of the Turkmen before Saddam was removed? Did the Turkmen not live there for a long time under the Saddam's regime? Now he publishes articles on his web page accusing the United States of doing wrong in removing Saddam from his dictatorship? He fears that the Kurds will have access to oil and water resources and consequently will have power in the region, the great fear of the AKP and of Fethullah; as a result, the Kurds will refuse the systematic ideology, the opium.

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Thanks Micheal. K., very interesting subject and great job on the boldening and adds in the post.