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Bill Gates Funds Gulen Islamist Movement
by PAUL L. WILLIAMS, PHD May 25, 2010
The
Fethullah Gulen movement, which seeks to restore the Ottoman Empire,
has found a friend and benefactor in Bill Gates of Microsoft fame. Mr.
Gates is ranked the third wealthiest person on planet earth.
In
2007, through the Texas High School Project, the Gates Foundation
shelled out $10,550,000 to the Cosmos Foundation, a Gulen enterprise
that operates 25 publicly funded charter schools in Texas.
The Internal Revenue Service Form 990 for Cosmos shows that the Cosmos Foundation received $41,570,721 from taxpayers.
At present, there are 85 Gulan madrassahs (Islamic schools) in the United States, and all operate with public funding.
At
the Gulen schools, students are indoctrinated in Turkish culture,
language, and religion so that they may be of service in making
Fethullah Gulan’s dream of a universal caliphate a reality. The
madrassahs sponsor Turkish clubs, Turkish language societies, Turkish
dance groups, and annual trips to Istanbul.
According
to Stephen Schwartz of the Center for Islamic Pluralism, the 85 Gulen
schools advance and promote Islamic beliefs; present the Ottoman Empire,
which lasted from 1299 to 1923, as a golden age; and serve to rewrite
history by denying the Armenian holocaust under the Turks during World
War I.
Many
of the teachers at these schools are Turkish émigrés with questionable
credentials. Some possess H-1B non immigrant visas which should only be
granted to individuals who possess “highly specialized knowledge in a
field of human endeavor.” The female faculty members appear in their
classrooms wearing hijabs and traditional Islamic attire.
Critics
can’t understand why the schools are staffed with imported elementary
and secondary school teachers when thousands of trained and certified
American educators are begging for teaching positions. But are the
schools really subversive?
Rachel
Sharon-Krespin writes: “His (Gulen’s) followers target youth in the
eighth through twelfth grades, mentor and indoctrinate them in the
ışıkevi, educate them in the Fethullah schools, and prepare them for
future careers in legal, political, and educational professions in order
to create the ruling classes of the future Islamist, Turkish state.”
Even
more telling is a comment from Nurettin Veren, Gulen’s right hand man
for 35 years, who said: “These schools are like shop windows.
Recruitment and Islamization are carried out through nigh classes.
The
use of the Islamic practice of taqiyya or deception to mask the true
nature of the schools has been upheld by Gulen himself. In a 1999
sermon, the Turkish pasha offered the following advice to his followers:
You
must move in the arteries of the system without anyone noticing your
existence until you reach all the power centers … until the conditions
are ripe, they [the followers] must continue like this. If they do
something prematurely, the world will crush our heads, and Muslims will
suffer everywhere, like in the tragedies in Algeria, like in 1982 [in]
Syria … like in the yearly disasters and tragedies in Egypt. The time is
not yet right. You must wait for the time when you are complete and
conditions are ripe, until we can shoulder the entire world and carry it
… You must wait until such time as you have gotten all the state power,
until you have brought to your side all the power of the constitutional
institutions in Turkey … Until that time, any step taken would be too
early—like breaking an egg without waiting the full forty days for it to
hatch. It would be like killing the chick inside. The work to be done
is [in] confronting the world. Now, I have expressed my feelings and
thoughts to you all -in confidence … trusting your loyalty and secrecy. I
know that when you leave here - [just] as you discard your empty juice
boxes, you must discard the thoughts and the feelings that I expressed
here.
Fethullah
Gulen has been called the “most dangerous Islamist” in the world. He
has amassed a fortune – thanks, in part, to the CIA – of $25 billion.
This money has been used to transform the secular government of Turkey
into an Islamic Republic under the Justice and Democratic Party (Adalet
ve Kalkinma, AKP) – a party under the Gulen’s control.
Abdullah
Gul, Turkey’s first Islamist President, is a Gulen disciple along with
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Yusuf Ziya Ozcan, the head of
Turkey’s Council of Higher Education. Under the AKP, Turkey has
transformed from a secular state into an Islamic country with 85,000
active mosques – one for every 350 citizens – the highest number per
capita in the world, 90,000 imams, more imams than teachers and
physicians – - and thousands of state-run Islamic schools.
Despite
the rhetoric of European Union accession, Turkey has transferred its
alliance from Europe and the United States to Russia and Iran. It has
moved toward friendship with Hamas, Hezbollah, and Syria and created a
pervasive anti-Christian, anti-Jewish, and anti-America animus
throughout the populace.
Gulen
has also established thousands of schools throughout central Asia and
Europe. Because of their subversive nature, these schools have been
outlawed in Russia and Uzbekistan. Even the Netherlands, a nation that
embraces pluralism and tolerance, has opted to cut funding to the Gulen
schools because of their imminent threat to the social order.
FamilySecurityMatters.org
Contributing Editor Paul L. Williams, Ph.D., is the author of The Day
of Islam: The Annihilation of America and the Western World, The Al
Qaeda Connection, and other best-selling books. He is a frequent guest
on such national news networks as ABC News, CBS News, Fox News, MSNBC,
and NPR. Visit his website at http://thelastcrusade.org/.
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