Turkish Imam Fethullah Gulen, a pious Muslim or a radical Islamist?

October 19, 2017 By administrator

Illustration of Fethullah Gulen by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

The cleric should go home and face the music in Turkey

By Abraham Wagner,

Washington Times: Controversial Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen is back in the news following a diplomatic standoff between Turkey and the United States. On Oct. 8, the U.S. mission in Turkey announced a decision “to suspend all non-immigrant visa services at all U.S. diplomatic facilities in Turkey,” in retaliation for the arrest of a Drug Enforcement Administration liaison in Turkey with suspected ties to Mr. Gulen. Turkey has answered in kind by freezing the issuance of new visas.

The media spotlight on the deteriorating relationship between the two allies, however, misses the point: the self-exiled imam’s history of corruption and radicalism. Mr. Gulen’s actual record deserves the utmost scrutiny, and should not be overshadowed by the unfolding diplomatic intrigue.

The website of the cleric’s Gulen Movement, or Hizmet Movement, bills its leader as “a dedicated, pious Muslim,” who has “devoted his life to bringing peace to the world.” Yet U.S. State Department cables, divulged by WikiLeaks, reveal that Foggy Bottom, which has closely monitored Mr. Gulen since 2003, describes the preacher as “a ‘radical Islamist’ whose moderate message cloaks a more sinister and radical agenda.”

While in the United States, Mr. Gulen has received hundreds of millions in American taxpayer dollars to fund his vast network of charter schools, which have been under state-level and federal investigations for alleged, yet dire financial malfeasance in Texas, Louisiana, Illinois, Ohio and elsewhere.

In 2011, The New York Times reported that in Texas, two Gulen schools gave $50 million to Gulen-connected contractors, despite the fact that other contractors offered lower bids. Similar malfeasance and shell games has been reported elsewhere.

The curriculum and administration of Gulen schools are also suspect, with former teachers attesting to being fired and immediately replaced by new arrivals from Turkey — predominantly young men, with no English or teaching skills. Allegations have also surfaced that curricula, taught to American children, are surreptitiously comprised of Gulen’s particular brand of radical Islam.

Erdogan detains 1,000 “secret imams” in police purge

April 26, 2017 By administrator

Turkish authorities arrested more than 1,000 people on Wednesday, April 26 they said had secretly infiltrated police forces across the country on behalf of a U.S.-based cleric blamed by the government for a failed coup attempt last July, Reuters reports.

The nationwide sweep was one of the largest operations in months against suspected supporters of the cleric, Fethullah Gulen, a former ally of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who is now accused by the government of trying to topple him by force.

Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said the overnight crackdown targeted a Gulen network “that infiltrated our police force, called ‘secret imams’.

“One thousand and nine secret imams have been detained so far in 72 provinces, and the operation is ongoing,” he told reporters in Ankara.

In the aftermath of the failed July coup, authorities arrested 40,000 people and sacked or suspended 120,000 from a wide range of professions including soldiers, police, teachers and public servants, over alleged links with terrorist groups.

The latest detentions came 10 days after voters narrowly backed plans to expand Erdogan’s already wide powers in a referendum which opposition parties and European election observers said was marred by irregularities.

The referendum bitterly divided Turkey. Erdogan’s critics fear further drift into authoritarianism, with a leader they see as bent on eroding modern Turkey’s democracy and secular foundations.

Erdogan argues that strengthening the presidency will avert instability associated with coalition governments, at a time when Turkey faces multiple challenges including security threats from Islamist and Kurdish militants.

Turkish imam spy affair in Germany extends across Europe

February 17, 2017 By administrator

(DW) A German investigation into Turkey’s religious officials collecting information on its enemies may be the tip of the iceberg. DW has obtained several documents revealing Turkish activities in Germany and European states.

German police on Wednesday raided the homes of four imams alleged to have spied on the opposition for the Turkish government. The police action is part of an investigation into what documents obtained by DW show to be a broader Turkish effort to collect information across Europe on supporters of the religious movement Ankara blames for last July’s failed coup attempt.

The raids targeted the homes of four Turkish imams affiliated with the Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB), Germany’s largest Islamic umbrella group with over 900 mosques tied to the Turkish government’s Directorate of Religion, or Diyanet.

The Federal Prosecutors Office (GBA) said in a statement no arrests were made in the raids in the states of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and Rhineland-Pfalz, which aimed to collect evidence into imams conducting alleged espionage against supporters of the US-based preacher Fethullah Gulen, who Ankara blames for last July’s failed coup attempt.

The prosecutor’s office said the reason for the raids was related to a September order from Diyanet, a religious body tied to the Turkish prime ministry, for imams to pass information to diplomatic missions on Gulen supporters.

According to the documents obtained by DW, 13 imams and a “deputy coordinator” in the two states provided information to the Turkish religious attaché at the consulate in Cologne on at least 14 Gulen affiliated institutions and 45 people with alleged ties to the Gulen movement. NRW’s ministry of education has identified five people on the list as state-employed teachers.

A NRW interior ministry spokesman confirmed the documents from the Turkish consulate obtained by DW were the same as those in their possession. “It cannot be ruled out that further reports were drawn up from Germany and the neighboring countries,” he said.

In addition to naming people, the consular memos speak generally of those who “provide support or are sympathizers” of the Gulen movement, report on activity or name former institutions in their region.

German authorities have contacted those named on the lists and advised them against travel to Turkey, where President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has engaged in a massive post-coup purge.

Several of the imams have returned to Turkey, DW learned after making calls to some of the mosques, a factor likely to complicate the federal investigation.

Most of the Gulen-affiliated institutions are engaged in after-school tutoring for the socio-economically disadvantaged, inter-religious dialogue, cultural activities and projects to better integrate Turks in Germany. In NRW alone, the movement runs 63 associations and five private schools that get partial state support.

In the wake of the coup attempt, Turkey has called on all countries to clamp down on the Gulen movement, which it considers a terrorist organization. The issue has raised tensions between Turkey and some of its NATO allies, including Germany.

Both reports from Austria say Turkish state religious officials have taken active measures against the Gulenist activities and its attempts at “infiltration.” The Salzburg memo says ATIB and other religious officials “destroyed all books, audio materials, video CDs, poetry, brochures, newspapers and propaganda material” related to the Gulenists.

In Austria, religious official have “just like in the homeland assessed possible connections of the nefarious terror organization” and informed the Turkish government, the document reads.

Earlier this week, Austrian Greens Parliamentarian Peter Pilz announced he was in possession of religious attaché reports from Salzburg and Vienna. Pilz said he was working on publishing documents from 30 countries that revealed a “global spying network” at Turkish diplomatic missions.

Source: http://www.dw.com/en/turkish-imam-spy-affair-in-germany-extends-across-europe/a-37590672

Turkey: Secular group files complaint against Turkey’s top imam for targeting New Year’s celebrations

January 2, 2017 By administrator

Head of the Religious Affairs Directorate Mehmet Gormez (L) and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attend the opening ceremony of 9th Eurasian Islamic Council in Istanbul on October 11, 2016. / AFP PHOTO

A group of civil society representatives organized under the name the Union for the Call to Secularism on Monday filed a criminal complaint against Mehmet Görmez, president of the Directorate of Religious Affairs (DİB), for issuing a sermon to be given in mosques across Turkey against New Year’s celebrations.

The group, which submitted the complaint to the Ankara Public Prosecutor’s Office, argued that the religious institution violated the constitution and caused the emergence of a threat to public security, in reference to the deadly nightclub attack in İstanbul during New Year’s celebrations.

The group said that by means of a Friday sermon that criticized New Year’s festivities as belonging to other cultures, Turkey’s imam and the institution he leads targeted people celebrating the coming of the new year.

After an attack on the Reina nightclub during New Year’s celebrations early on Sunday that killed at least 39 and wounded 69, a campaign against New Year’s festivities among pro-government circles has been under heavy criticism in Turkey as the possible trigger for the terrorist attack.

Prior to the end of the year, a municipality in İstanbul hung a banner targeting Santa Claus and New Year’s celebrations; pro-government media ran stories against festivities often mixing them up with Christmas; and Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs (DİB) issued a Friday sermon to be preached in all mosques in Turkey on Dec. 30 declaring such celebrations “illegitimate” since such festivities belong to “other cultures.”

Staunchly pro-government papers published cartoons and headlines that criticized Santa Claus and New Year’s celebrations.

After the attack perpetrated by a gunman reportedly dressed as Santa Claus, renowned author Elif Şafak condemned the massacre and the “fanatics who have been spreading hate speech against New Year celebrations” on her Twitter account.

Several Twitter users also directed attention to messages in pro-government media disseminating hatred against those who celebrate the coming of the new year.

Political scientist Umut Özkırımlı shared a Twitter message from pro-government Yeni Şafak reporter Yılmaz Bilgen, who targeted Christmas celebrations. In Turkey, many often confuse Christmas with New Year’s celebrations and perceive the latter as a ritual belonging to Christianity.

A few days before New Year’s Eve, a banner believed to have been hung on a street in İstanbul’s İkitelli district that shows a man with a Muslim cap and beard punching Santa and suggesting Muslims not take part in Christmas and New Year’s celebrations had drawn ire among Twitter users.

A Twitter account under the pseudonym of TurkeyUntold said: “[Turkish President] Erdoğan’s policy of intolerance in one banner that has been seen in İstanbul: We are Muslims. No to Christmas & New Year’s Eve celebrations.”

Following the nightclub attack that killed at least 39 including 24 foreign nationals, DİB President Görmez condemned the attack, saying that there is no difference between targeting an entertainment venue or a temple and that no terrorist attack is acceptable.

Source: turkishminute

Church without People Turkish imam takes care of abandoned Armenian church after Genocide

October 18, 2016 By administrator

imam-and-church A local mosque imam is taking care of the Armenian church in Sarıkaya town of Turkey’s Yozgat Province.

Once the Armenians in the area had deported and massacred, this historical Armenian church was abandoned. But now, Metin Halıcı, the imam of the local mosque, has started taking care of this church, according to Dünya Bülteni (World Bulletin) news portal of Turkey.

The imam noted that when he was appointed for spiritual service in Sarıkaya, he was very surprised to see this abandoned Armenian church. He said he began to care for and clean this house of Christian worship, with pleasure.

“We keep the church so clean that Armenians can come and say their prayers [here] at any time,” said the imam. “My wife and children help me take care of the church.”

In Halıcı’s words, the Armenians visiting this church are satisfied with its state, and they thank him.

Texas: Turkish Imam Gülen-led charter schools in Texas accused of defrauding $18 million “VIDEO”

July 12, 2016 By administrator

Turkification Washington WASHINGTON – Anadolu Agency,

A chain of Turkish Imam Gülen Texas charter schools linked to the movement of U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen has been accused of fraud and financial malfeasance worth over $18 million.

Amsterdam & Partners, a law firm investigating the movement’s activities, has filed a fraud complaint with the Texas Education Agency, the firm said in a statement late on July 11.

The complaint accused the public-funded school chain and another company, disguised as independent but in fact linked to Harmony Public Schools, of a complicated shell game in which Harmony seemed to contract the other company, but for the purposes of misappropriating funds rather than performing any actual services.
Ankara has pressed the U.S. to extradite Gülen to stand trial for alleged crimes committed in Turkey.

According to the website of the law firm’s founding partner Robert Amsterdam, Gülen “controls some 150 U.S. charter schools through opaque fronts… Gülen-affiliated Harmony Public Schools has been found to be allegedly engaging [in] widespread abuse of the H1B visa program, misappropriation of public funds and discrimination against certain students and families.”

According to the complaint, Harmony – which is financed by over $250 million in U.S. federal and state tax money annually – contracted a firm called Charter School Solutions (CSS) for $44 million to manage its buildings and properties.

But the complaint alleges that CSS, far from being an independent company, was actually managed by a Harmony employee.

“For the purpose of new buildings to be rented by Harmony schools, an additional $18.4 million was paid to CSS,” said the law firm’s statement, which called the financial malfeasance “shocking.”

Amsterdam & Partners filed a formal complaint in late May against Harmony urging the Texas Education Agency to conduct a full investigation based on documented abuses suggesting a widespread pattern of fraud, discrimination and abuse in the Harmony network.

According to the law firm, Harmony operated seven charter school districts serving 46 charter campuses in Texas and had links to the “Hizmet movement,” led by Gülen, who was also believed to be responsible for forming a “parallel state” in Turkey.

Source: http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/gulen-led-schools-in-texas-accused-of-defrauding-18-million-.aspx?pageID=238&nID=101524&NewsCatID=358

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With Clinton’s helps Turkish Imam Gulen Charter Schools dominate in the USA

February 12, 2016 By administrator

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**RED ALERT**- Gets approval for school on Nellis AFB **RED ALERT**

If any of you have any clout in the Air Force, related to anyone that is retired Air Force or active duty. It was confirmed by calling Nellis AFB in Las Vegas, Nevada that the Gulen Movement operated Coral Academy of Science- has received the approval to convert the Lomie Heard Elementary school on the base into a charter school. If you know anyone in the Las Vegas, NV area that can host a town hall meeting with the military families – we must act QUICKLY as they want to open this school by August 2016.

12/4/2015 – NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. — Beginning in the 2016-2017 school year, elementary-age children of Department of Defense employees will have the option of attending an on-base public charter school.

Lomie G. Heard Elementary School, the current on-base school which was constructed on Nellis Air Force Base in 1951, will no longer be part of the Clark County School District (CCSD) at the end of the 2015-2016 school year.

CCSD leases the land on Nellis AFB where Lomie G. Heard is located. The lease will expire at the end of the current school year and the U.S. Air Force is currently in negotiations with Coral Academy of Science Las Vegas to bring a public charter school on base.

“Nellis Air Force Base and the CCSD have had a long and mutually-beneficial relationship,” said Col. Richard Boutwell, 99th Air Base Wing commander. “Lomie G. Heard Elementary School and their wonderful staff have inspired multiple generations of military children and laid the foundation for their futures.

“We had a unique opportunity to partner with an established Nevada public charter school — Coral Academy of Science Las Vegas — that not only brings a great academic program, but plans to build a new kindergarten through eighth grade school at no cost to the Air Force,” Boutwell said. “The facility will be within the Landings Housing complex and is expected to be ready for use starting in the 2018 academic year. A new school is simply something neither the U.S. Air Force nor CCSD could realistically expect to be able to do in the foreseeable future. This really is a great opportunity for our children.”

CASLV, which will be free for students to attend, plans to temporarily operate out of the Lomie G. Heard facility while construction of the new permanent campus is built.

Prospective students will need to register for the new school before they can attend classes there. The Clark County School District Attendance Zone Advisory Committee has proposed rezoning current Lomie G. Heard students to attend Zel and Mary Lowman or J.E. Manch Elementary Schools just outside the Landings Gate on Craig Road. The school board will meet in February to finalize the proposal. Parents can have their children bused to one of these schools by CCSD or elect to have them attend a private school, homeschool, public charter, or magnet school of their choosing.

“This gives our military families more choices, and ultimately, more control,” said Carol Padilla, 99th Force Support Squadron school liaison officer. “This has been a lot of work for a lot of people, but I am excited about a new school.”

The new school is planning to accommodate 600 students from kindergarten through fifth grade in the existing Lomie G. Heard facility, but will expand to 800 students from kindergarten through eighth grade once the new facility is completed. CASLV also operates four other campuses in the Las Vegas Area.

Per recent changes in Nevada legislation, dependent children of DOD personnel will have priority in enrolling in the new school — active duty, then government employees. If there are not enough students from Nellis AFB personnel to fill the seats, the school will offer the remaining positions to non-DOD-affiliated students. If the non-DOD-affiliated students are accepted to the school, their parent(s) or guardian(s) will have to pass the standard background check to be granted base access.

“The leadership team here has taken into account many factors and concerns expressed by parents over the past few years and is working with CCSD and a contractor to put your children in the best position possible to continue receiving a high-quality education,” Boutwell said. “I’m thankful for everything the CCSD has provided our families and will continue to provide them as we transition in the upcoming months.

“While everything is moving along well, we are in the final negotiations for the long-term lease that will enable the new facility to be built,” Boutwell said.

The 99th ABW will be holding a school town hall meeting for parents and guardians at the Nellis Base Theater, Dec. 15 at 6:30 p.m. CASLV is planning to give a short presentation on what their program will offer.

Student registration for CASLV is now open and can be found at http://www.caslv.org/admission.

For more information about the charter school, please contact CASLV at 702-776-6529702-776-6529, extension 106 or visit their website at http://www.caslv.org. For more information about other schooling options, please contact the 99th FSS School Liaison Officer at 702-652-2156702-652-2156.

MORE INFORMATION ON CORAL SCIENCE ACADEMY, WE PREVIOUSLY DID A SHORT ARTICLE ON THEIR ATTEMPTED EXPANSION FEBRUARY 2015 WHICH WAS STOPPED BY THE SENIOR VILLAGE NEAR WHERE THEY WANTED TO MOVE.

Source: http://gulencharterschoolsusa.blogspot.com/2015/02/coral-science-academy-in-henderson.html

When moderation masks a radical agenda, Turkish Imam Gulen Movement remains a threat to the US

January 24, 2016 By administrator

1_212016_b3-wagn-gulen-plan-8201_c1-0-2499-1457_s885x516 The Gulen Movement remains a threat to the United States and Turkey

By Abraham R. Wagner – – Thursday, January 21, 2016

No one ever wants a Cosby moment, a moment when all of one’s suspected bad deeds are exposed to the world. Fettulah Gulen, the undisputable leader of the Gulen Movement was recently provided such a Cosby Moment, compliments of the FBI.

Mr. Gulen, a Muslim cleric from Turkey, with an elementary education only, is a mysterious fellow. In cables divulged by WikiLeaks, the U.S. Department of State described Mr. Gulen as “a ‘radical Islamist’ whose moderate message cloaks a more sinister and radical agenda.” He is reputed to be worth roughly $25 billion, although no one seems to know from where he earned this tidy sum. Most notably and despite the Department of State’s perspective, he espouses principles of tolerance and multiculturalism. Yet upon deeper investigation, he is a true, dyed-in-the-wool Islamist who wishes to transform the United States and Turkey into Shariah states.

Mr. Gulen lives in the United States in self-imposed exile, a seat from which he runs a vast and questionable network of charter schools and overlapping nonprofit organizations and businesses, and, as evidence presented in U.S. and Turkish courts shows, actively agitates and plots the overthrow of the democratically-elected government in Turkey, one of the few stable allies the United States possesses in the Middle East, a NATO-member and the lynchpin to defeating ISIS and to bringing peace to Iraq and Syria.

As the proprietor of the largest network of charter schools in the United States, Mr. Gulen receives hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars. Active investigations into the financial malfeasance of the Gulen schools are ongoing in Texas, Louisiana, Illinois, Ohio and other states, this, in addition to an active investigation by the FBI. According to state and local law enforcement reports, the Gulen Movement, in collusion with various nonprofit organizations and companies directly linked to the Gulen Movement, are playing a sort of shell game with taxpayer funds. Gulen schools pay high rental fees on properties owned by Mr. Gulen, construction and renovations of Gulen facilities are performed by Gulen businesses and vast sums are spent on facilitating the entry of young Turkish men to the United States.

These men, disciples all, are brought to the United States to replace qualified and credentialed American teachers and, allegedly, to proselytize American children into a Turkey-centric, Islamist movement — a sort of fifth-column seeking to infiltrate American society through children in an attempt to transform America, as in the case of Turkey, into a Shariah state. These men account for over 5,000 highly questionable H-1B visas, more than Google, who are suspected of indentured servitude to the Gulen Movement and thus investigated under anti-Human Trafficking statutes.

Mr. Gulen is embroiled in a law suit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania claiming that Mr. Gulen and his movement committed human rights violations against members of a rival political party in Turkey. The suit is seeking the extradition of Mr. Gulen to stand trial on these and other charges.

As in the United States, in Turkey the Gulen Movement is continually under investigation for engaging in a wide range of covert efforts to infiltrate all aspects of Turkey’s government, media and business, including law enforcement and the judiciary with the goal of thwarting constitutional order and the democratically elected government. Turkish prosecutors and police, manipulated by the Gulen Movement, have targeted senior military officers with false criminal charges, illegally tapped phones, and jailed secular journalists who have failed to follow a strict Islamic line.

Again, as in the United States, the Gulen Movement embeds itself into the educational infrastructure of Turkey, with its network of schools that radicalize children and turn them away from the ideals of modern Turkey — in much the same way that madrassas do in other nations.

Although the FBI and state and local law enforcement are ardently investigating the Gulen Movement’s vast charter school network for its fraud against the American taxpayers, the FBI, in specific, should expand and deepen its investigation to uncover the motives associated with young Turkish men teaching American children — namely the proselytization of American children to Islamist doctrine — when a glut of qualified and credentialed teachers exists.

From a geo-political standpoint, an expanded investigation will uncover what the U.S. Department of State already knows of Fettulah Gulen — that he is “a ‘radical Islamist’ whose moderate message cloaks a more sinister and radical agenda.” It will also likely go far to exposing Fettulah Gulen’s fomenting the overthrow of the Turkish government, which, if successful would move Turkey in a direction inimical to U.S. interests. Clearly, the United States doesn’t need a Gulenist regime ruling over this key NATO ally in a crucial part of the world.

• Abraham R. Wagner teaches national security law and intelligence at the Columbia Law School and Columbia Universitys School of International and Public Affairs, where he is a senior research fellow at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies.

Source: washingtontimes.com

Turkey: a new conglomerate near the Imam Gülen made a ward of court

November 20, 2015 By administrator

The Turkish judicial authorities under guardianship a new business conglomerate close to the imam Fethullah Gülen, sworn enemy of the Islamic-conservative President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday the local media.

Escorted by riot police, new directors arrived Wednesday at the headquarters of Kaynak Holding in the district of Üsküdar on the Asian side of Istanbul, said the Dogan news agency.

Turkish justice group suspected of financing the organization of Imam Gülen, Turkish authorities considered by a terrorist organization.

Founded in 1983 by the entourage of Mr. Gülen, Kaynak Holding brings together fifteen companies in the distribution sector, IT, construction and food processing. Its main branch, the Kaynak Publishing Group, brings together 28 publishing houses that publish books of the preacher.

Former ally of Mr. Erdogan, Mr. Gulen, who lives in the United States since 1999, became a “public enemy number 1” from the corruption scandal that shook the government and the entourage of the strong man of the country end of 2013.

The head of state accused the preacher of wanting to topple what it denies.

For nearly two years, the Turkish authorities have stepped purges and prosecutions against the relatives of the Gülen nebula and its financial interests.

After the tenth banking network in the country, Bank Asya, Turkey’s justice last month took control of Koza-Ipek the holding, including the owner of two newspapers and two television channels, in a spectacular police raid denounced as a violation of freedom of the press in Turkey and abroad.

In power for thirteen years, the Erdogan’s party won handily legislative November 1 in Turkey and regained the absolute majority of seats in Parliament lost there are only five months.

It reaffirmed its commitment to end Mr. Gülen, to be tried in absentia in Turkey in January for “attempted coup”.

Bosnia Imam Halilovic Calls For Jihad Against The Serbs

September 8, 2015 By administrator

“BiH: Imam Halilovic calls for Jihad against the Serbs,” InSerbia.info, September 8, 2015:

SARAJEVO – Nezim Halilovic, the imam of the mosque of King Fahd in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), in his last sermon, a religious lecture, called Allah to destroy the Republika Srpska, or as he called it, “an entity built on crime and genocide”, writes Serbian daily “Novosti”.

In the above-mentioned mosque, access is restricted to the media and police, and information from sermons leak to the public when they who attend it begin bragging about what imam Halilovic said. Although so far he had tens of mesages which spread religious and national hatred, call for war and the destruction of the Republika Srpska, he has never been sanctioned.

Since the mosque is located in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, it is in jurisdiction of the Interior Ministry of BiH (MIA), but this institution says that they haven’t received complaints against Halilovic and have not conducted an investigation against him. In addition to MIA of BiH, security agency SIPA is also silent to the radical statements made by imam Halilovic.

Gojko Vasic, director of the police of the Republika Srpska, said for “Novosti” that ignoring Halilovic’s radical statements clearly shows how the security institutions of the Federation of BiH and SIPA are ready to fight terrorism.

“MIA of the Federation of BiH allows hate speeches, calls for war and terrorist actions on its territory, and we are talking about the fight against terrorism in BiH. Halilovic is the best example. He is a problem to the security in the Federation of BiH, and it is up to them to solve it,” said Vasic.

He added that the RS police will do everything it can to protect the citizens of the Republika Srpska, but that the problem of Halilovic and his public statements must be solved by MIA of BiH, Novosti reports.

Nazim Halilovic’s actions are not accidental, said for “Novosti” Dzevad Galijasevic, an expert in the fight against terrorism.

According to him, Halilovic publicly calls for opening Wahhabi fronts in the Republika Srpska and military action, and for now security agencies are silent.

“Do we need to have a terrorist attack happening in the Republika Srpska, to have someone react to his radical calls? Halilovic is the extended arm of Saudi Arabia in BiH, but also in the region. Wahhabi centers in the world want to have major incidents in the Republika Srpska and BiH and a “Bosnian spring”, or better said the Islamic or Wahhabi. Halilovic’s actions and his calls for war, revenge and extermination of Serbs are a part of a planned chaos in the region by radical Islamic ideology led by the Islamic state,” said Galijasevic.

According to him, Halilovic’s messages are part of Saudi Wahhabism which is the most dangerous in the world, but regardless of the fact that he has been acting in BiH almost a decade, he has still not been sanctioned for his radical views. “How is it possible that none of the security agencies on the state level in BiH are brave enough to enter the mosque of King Fahd in Sarajevo? Everyone in the country know that the Wahhabis meet there and spread radical views, but there is no reaction. Sad to say so, but how many terrorist attacks will be required to happen in BiH to actually do something and prohibit the operation of such radical people and close objects where terrorism is supported?,” said Galijasevic.

Halilovic called the “consecrated individuals led with Allah’s hand to execute his wishes and commands”.

Before the commemoration on July 11 in Potocari, when the Prime Minister of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic was attacked, he held a sermon in which he called Allah’s curse on “the criminals and their accomplices, the lobbysts against the resolution on Srebrenica”.

Source: inserbia.info