In 1999, Turkish television aired footage of Gülen delivering sermons to a crowd of followers in which he revealed his aspirations for an Islamist Turkey ruled by Shari‘a (Islamic law) as well as the methods that should be used to attain that goal. In the sermons, he said:
“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 thi
s. 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.” – Fetullah Gulen, Founder of Gulen Schools now operating in the USA
Gülen’s Background
Born in Erzurum, Turkey, in 1942, Fethullah Gülen is an imam who considers himself a prophet.[4] An enigmatic figure, many in the West applaud him as a reformist and advocate for tolerance,[5] a catalyst of “moderate Islam” for Turkey and beyond. He is praised in the West, especially in the United States, as an intellectual, scholar, and educator[6] even though his formal education is limited to five years of elementary school. After receiving an imam-preacher certificate, he served as an imam, first in Erdirne and later in Izmir. In 1971, the Turkish security service arrested him for clandestine religious activities, such as running illegal summer camps to indoctrinate youths, and was, from that time on, occasionally harassed by the staunchly secular military.[7] In 1981, he formally retired from his post as a local preacher.
Here’s the grotesque background on these jihadists:
Outcry in Turkey as Un-Published Book “The Imam’s Army” on Fethullah Gulen is Hunted, Destroyed MEMRI
Turkish publishers, writers and legal professionals protest the “undemocratic and unconstitutional” police raids to hunt and destroy the draft of the book, as main opposition (CHP) leader says “Even Hitler or Mussolini had not done this”.
Yesterday, armed with an order of the Ergenekon court and under instructions by the special prosecutor of the case, Zekeriya Oz, to find and confiscate every existing copy of the draft book, the police raided the offices and print houses of the publisher that was to publish the book upon its completion, and of Radikal where Sik worked..
The author of the book, the award winning, prominent journalist Ahmet Sik, was recently arrested and jailed for writing and intending to publish his book, titled “The Imam’s Army”. At the time of his arrest, Sik had said to the crowds: “Whoever touches them (i.e. Gulenists) gets burned!” Indeed most of the arrested journalists had written about Gulen’s infiltration of the police force and/or his involvement with Ergenekon, an allegedly armed, terrorist organization that planned to topple the AKP government.
The court issued an order to collect all copies of the draft and asked anyone (including Sik’s family members) who held a copy to submit it to the court, threatening that those who failed to submit the drafts would be charged with “membership in an illegal organization” and for “aiding and abetting terrorists”.
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