Muhammad Fethullah Gulen heads a global empire of schools and Islamic cultural centers and is one of Turkey most influential spiritual leaders...... He directs his cult-like Islamic movement from a guarded compound in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania........and has 140 charters schools in 26 states.....
This school system is the second largest chain of 'charter schools' in the US.. it does NOT answer to any widely elected school board... There is no citizen accountability or oversight.
Guliens strategy mirrors that of the 'Muslim Brotherhood'.... the GUlen movement helped drag Turkey back to its Islamic roots and so his influence should not be under-estimated in the U.S. and he certainly should not be given taxpayer funding.
Gulen schools rake in tens of millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars every year....the schools also'covertly' engage in Islamic missionary outreach, usually after-hours or during school extra-curricular activities........Anti-Shariah activist Pam Geller says Gulen has been dubbed 'the Turkish Khomeini' for a reason......
Gulens background as a Turkish Islamist and believer in civilizational jihad, which is a form of nonviolent jihad focused on ..."""infiltrating and overcoming Western nations over time through immigration and exploitation of the civil liberties available in those nations.""""""
Most of the teaching positions go to foreigners who come to the U.S. on H-1B guest-worker visas from Turkey......"There is alleged abuse of the teachers who are required to kick back a percentage of their salaries, and they do teach a cultural emphasis on Turkey and Islam."....
..... This is the visa program that SEN. MARCO RUBIO wants to expand through his I-Squared bill, tripling the cap on such visas from about 66,000 per year to 195,000 per year.
Source....http://www.wnd.com/2016/01/islamist-running-140-tax-funded-charter-schools-in-u-s/