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After expense-paid trip to Turkey, Austin district to expand Turkish language and culture program
AAS ^ | 7.14.2011 | Laura Heinauer and Melissa B. Taboada

Posted on 07/14/2011 1:15:30 PM PDT by wolfcreek

A Turkish group with possible connections to a growing charter school system that has raised eyebrows among some conservative state lawmakers is working with the Austin school district on a Turkish language program at a handful of Austin schools.

Plans to expand the program, which gives students at three schools some instruction in Turkish language and culture, come after a group of local officials, including Superintendent Meria Carstarphen, administrators and teachers from Austin and Eastside Memorial high schools visited Turkey in December on the Raindrop Foundation's dime. State Rep. Mark Strama, D-Austin, and his wife also made the trip.

In the fall, Austin High School will launch a pilot Turkish program that will be offered after school. Austin High is home to the district's Academy for Global Studies, which was created with a grant from the nonprofit Asia Society and encourages students to become proficient in a foreign language and knowledgeable about global affairs. The school teaches Spanish, French and Chinese as part of its regular course offerings.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Philosophy; US: Texas
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There are a number of these Turkish foundations operating publically finded *Gulen* charters across the US and other countries.

http://gulencharterschools.weebly.com/why-its-wrong.html

1 posted on 07/14/2011 1:15:33 PM PDT by wolfcreek
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To: wolfcreek

ditto.

the parents must be stupid.


2 posted on 07/14/2011 1:22:44 PM PDT by ken21 (liberal + rino progressive media hate palin, bachman, cain...)
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To: wolfcreek

Excellent, and long overdue. I was wondering when Austin schools would begin Turkish language and culture lessons for its students. Great work!


3 posted on 07/14/2011 1:23:33 PM PDT by choctaw man (Good ole Andrew Jackson, or You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma...)
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To: choctaw man
I think you better see the link I post below the thread. This isn't necessarily a good thing.

The Gulen movement tried to tear down Turkey's secular government and replace it with an Islamic theocracy.

4 posted on 07/14/2011 1:32:39 PM PDT by wolfcreek (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsd7DGqVSIc)
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To: choctaw man

http://gulencharterschools.weebly.com/why-its-wrong.html


5 posted on 07/14/2011 1:35:03 PM PDT by wolfcreek (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsd7DGqVSIc)
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To: wolfcreek

Turkish isn’t bad, and it was designed to be easy. The great thing is that modern Turkish was created by Ataturk in part to help him establish a secular state, since the language removes Muslim (Arabic and Persian) influences.


6 posted on 07/14/2011 1:35:03 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat

See the link in post #5

This isn’t about whether Turkish is good or bad.


7 posted on 07/14/2011 1:36:33 PM PDT by wolfcreek (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsd7DGqVSIc)
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To: wolfcreek

Turkey pays big money to turkish lobbyists to islamisize history and politicians.


8 posted on 07/14/2011 1:39:21 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: wolfcreek

Teach English.


9 posted on 07/14/2011 1:41:57 PM PDT by Krodg
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To: givemELL; Elendur; kitkat; bereanway; mnehring

Gulen Ping!

Now in the public schools.


10 posted on 07/14/2011 1:54:06 PM PDT by wolfcreek (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsd7DGqVSIc)
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To: antiRepublicrat; wolfcreek; bayouranger; ilovesarah2012; Nachum; All

Gulen is an fundamentalist Islamist billionaire,
who follows the Muslim Brotherhood “slow” plan to destroy us.
it is orders of magnitude more dangerous,
than Al-Queda ever was.

He was banished from Turkey when it was still somewhat secular. Just as the M.B. was banned in Egypt until Obama handed it to them.

“…move in the arteries of the system without anyone noticing…until you reach all the power centers…
– Fethullah Gluon 1999, founder of 85 US taxpayer-supported Islamic schools.”

Now there are 140+ !
We have an ISLAMIST setting up charter schools in Virginia and Texas!
these people are not trying to take over by force.
our guns are USELESS.
we won’t be playing “cowboy and muslim”.

but after we grow old and die, our descendants may face Mecca 5 times a day,
if we don’t wake up and do something NOW.

Churchill tried to warn people for years about Hitler.
wolfcreek is warning people now.

please encourage people to read wolfcreek’s excellent link.

and perhaps these also:
THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2740725/posts?page=4#4

‘The United States of Islam’: Muslim Brotherhood Spokesman Calls on Arab Youth to Launch
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2739987/posts

FBI Launches investigation of Gulen and his movement
Canada Free Press ^ | 3/24/11 | Dr. Paul L. Williams
Posted on Thursday, March 24, 2011 1:22:56 PM by Nachum

Fethullah Gulen, dubbed “the most dangerous Islamist on planet earth,” is now under investigation by the F.B.I. for his network of charter schools throughout the country. The 140-plus charter schools, according to a newly released federal document, may serve as madrassahs where students are “brain-washed” to serve as proponents of the New Islamic World Order that Gulen purportedly seeks to create. The Gulen schools, which have been established in nearly every state in the union, ...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2694001/posts


11 posted on 07/14/2011 2:21:35 PM PDT by Elendur (the hope and change i need: Sarah / Colonel West in 2012)
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To: Elendur

Thanks for the info. I didn’t know about this guy.

The Turks had success as a modern country for a while after Islam was separated from the state. Now they’re going to go right back down again with the growing power of Islam there.


12 posted on 07/14/2011 2:24:06 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat

I looked into this after I read an article about his schools. In all fairness to Turkey, Turkey tried to put him in jail.


13 posted on 07/14/2011 2:28:39 PM PDT by Stat-boy
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To: Stat-boy

Turkey did but, the rest of the countries where they’ve set up these schools have caught on yet.

That’s why I’m trying to bring it to people’s attention.


14 posted on 07/14/2011 2:40:28 PM PDT by wolfcreek (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsd7DGqVSIc)
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To: wolfcreek

The new "school lunch"...

15 posted on 07/14/2011 2:45:05 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Obama: The Dr. Kevorkian of the American economy.)
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To: Elendur; cripplecreek

The Stack Attack did a special on this group & I encourage everyone to watch it when you have the time.

Exclusive: Turkish Imam Runs Multi-Billion Dollar Empire from Pennsylvania

http://blogs.cbn.com/stakelbeckonterror/archive/2011/06/01/exclusive-turkish-imam-runs-multi-billion-dollar-empire-from-pennsylvania.aspx


16 posted on 07/14/2011 4:33:13 PM PDT by bayouranger (The 1st victim of islam is the person who practices the lie.)
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To: wolfcreek

Strama said that after touring a Harmony school, meeting with its PTA, speaking at graduations and making the trek to Turkey, he feels “these are the kinds of tolerant and moderate Muslims that we need to deepen our relationships with as a bulwark against extremism.”

Strama must have missed the Christian Armenian genocide that occurred in that “moderate” country with the use of Turkey’s military & “secular” government.


17 posted on 07/14/2011 4:38:52 PM PDT by bayouranger (The 1st victim of islam is the person who practices the lie.)
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To: bayouranger

Strama is a f’in Austin Liberal. Along with that AISD Yankee lesbo, they are sending Austin children down the drain.

Doesn’t really surprise me that they would fall for this crap.


18 posted on 07/14/2011 5:45:31 PM PDT by wolfcreek (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsd7DGqVSIc)
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To: wolfcreek

Strama is just trying to keep Austin weird..... or I mean extremist islam.

What a putz. It’s too close for comfort for me.

Ammo up y’all!!!


19 posted on 07/14/2011 6:16:26 PM PDT by davetex (All my weapons got melted by a meteor!! No Sh*t)
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To: bayouranger; wolfcreek

great CBN link! thanks to both you and wolfcreek.

it is beyond belief, that his man is allowed to build schools in the U.S.

Islam has declared war on us, yet we invite more in every day, and let them build masjids and schools...
Even England in the late 1930’s wasn’t THAT sleepy...


20 posted on 07/19/2011 9:56:44 AM PDT by Elendur (the hope and change i need: Sarah / Colonel West in 2012)
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