Posted on 04/22/2016 7:20:13 AM PDT by george76
Turkish police made a hundred arrests across Istanbul and nine other Turkish provinces connected with a wide-ranging investigation of U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen.
Gulen, 72, currently lives in Pennsylvania, but is considered a powerful “arch-foe” of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, as the Rudaw news service puts it.
Gulen “runs an international Islamic network of schools, businesses, media outlets, and charity organizations from his exile home in Pennsylvania” and is “believed to be deeply influential in the Turkish judicial system and police,” according to Rudaw.
In fact, he is so influential that Erdogan has accused him of trying to create a “parallel state” to overthrow the government of Turkey. Erdogan and his allies claim that police and prosecutors loyal to Gulen orchestrated a corruption probe that ensnared several senior officials, including Erdogan’s son Bilal. Bilal Erdogan is presently under investigation in Italy for money-laundering charges stemming from the massive 2013 Turkish corruption scandal.
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Gülen teaches a Hanafi version of Islam, deriving from Sunni Muslim scholar Said Nursî’s teachings. Gülen has stated that he believes in science, interfaith dialogue among the People of the Book, and multi-party democracy.”[12] He has initiated such dialogue with the Vatican[13] and some Jewish organizations.[14]
Gülen is actively involved in the societal debate concerning the future of the Turkish state, and Islam in the modern world. He has been described in the English-language media as an imam “who promotes a tolerant Islam which emphasises altruism, hard work and education”[15] and as “one of the world’s most important Muslim figures.”[12]
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From the Wikipedia article on Gulan. Guess that tells you where the pig Erdogan sits on subjects.
Erdogan is working on being the next Caliph.
Taking over Christian Churches, expanding Sharia schools to brain wash the next generation, rounding up journalists and politicians who dare to speak up, cutting deals with Merkel to destroy Europe..
Thanks george76.
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