As many as 400 peaceful Turkish origin American protestors poured into the neighborhood of Imam Gulen’s compound in Poconos.
They came from all parts of US. A convoy of around hundred cars jammed the street, Mt Eaton Rd, where the entry to the mansion was. The police conducted their duties in a very professional manner that earned thanks from some protestors. However, lacking curbside, police did not allow walking on the street, nor standing right in front of the entrance, except for about 10 people, who were very active chanting loud slogans against the Imam.
The protestors argued that he is the most dangerous Islamist on the face of the earth.
The group emphasized his influence on the turmoil that Turkey has been facing for the past decade and most recently the brutal attacks by Turkish militia police on ordinary people who have been protesting to prevent Taksim Gezi Park from being converted into a shopping mall. Since then the police – so-called Imam’s Army – who was joined by civilians who were supporters of Gulen movement and Erdogan’s fascistic regime, has killed at least 5 teenagers or ones in early twenties, who were peacefully demonstrating. Thousands injured including at least 11 people losing eye from tear gas canisters which the police directly aimed at the protestors instead of to the air. The group carried signs commemorating those killed.
“Gulen fled Turkey in 1998 to avoid prosecution on charges that he was attempting to undermine Turkey’s secular government with the objective of establishing an Islamic government.”
Few concerned American parents also joined the protestors charging Gulen to fraud Americans through his more than 100 charter schools throughout the US. They said his illegal activities included forcing teachers/employees to pay back certain percentage of their salary to the Movement, called ‘Hizmet’ in accordance with ‘Tuzuk’ (http://www.charterschoolwatchdog.com/tuzuk—a-contract-to-steal.html), bringing unqualified teachers from Turkey leaving out American teachers in places where unemployment reaches double digits, to teach at charter schools that are funded by American taxpayers. They also claimed one of his schools in Minnesota expelled scores of special-need students.
In a sermon that was aired on Turkish television, Gulen 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 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.
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The group then drove to Saylorsburg city hall to continue the protest. They concluded the daylong event with the decision to file a 520-page criminal complaint.
For more see the following links on Gulen:
http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-458563
http://articles.philly.com/2011-03-20/news/29148147_1_gulen-schools-gulen-followers-charter-schools
http://gulencharterschools.weebly.com/
http://www.charterschoolwatchdog.com/
http://www.loyola.edu/~/media/department/accomplishments/documents/people-loyola/Fall2011/Fall%202011-MERIP-Hendrick.ashx
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/25/world/middleeast/turkey-feels-sway-of-fethullah-gulen-a-reclusive-cleric.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.5921/pub_detail.asp#ixzz2Z23B3CWd
Altruistic Society or Sect? The Shadowy World of the Islamic Gülen Movement
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/guelen-movement-accused-of-being-a-sect-a-848763.html
Dangerous Friends: Power Struggle Splits Turkish Ruling Party
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/power-struggle-splits-erdogan-ruling-akp-party-in-turkey-a-917823.html