Posted on 02/02/2016 9:39:56 AM PST by nickcarraway
The influential Muslim cleric lives quietly on a gated 26-acre compound in the Pocono Mountains, where he prays, works, meets admirers and watches from afar as terrorism accusations that have landed him on Turkey’s most-wanted list unfold in court.
Rarely seen in public, Fethullah Gulen has long been one of Turkey’s most important scholars, with multitudes of followers in his native country and around the world. More recently, Turkey’s increasingly autocratic president, Recip Erdogan, has accused Gulen of plotting to overthrow the officially secular government from his Pennsylvania idyll some 5,000 miles away.
Gulen’s supporters call the charge baseless and, so far, the U.S. has shown little inclination to send him back to Turkey to face a trial that began without him Jan. 6 and is expected to last several months.
(Excerpt) Read more at english.alarabiya.net ...
This is where those 200 FBI agents should have been. Not Oregon.
Yep.
Lake Wallenpaupack has some spots over 600 feet deep. The woods are so dense in growth you can't turn and walk five feet without getting swallowed up in bramble and tripping on those damned boulders.
I once ran into a guy driving a tractor with a red, blood soaked rag around his hand. I asked him if he was ok? He said "sure! Just finishing these ten acres of hay to be put up". Two fingers were cut off his hand from the haybine in an accident. He wanted to finish the job before he went to the hospital because he didn't want the night dew to ruin his cut of hay, letting it go unbaled.
It's a narco-corridor for New York, Philly, Newark, etc....
FYI, this is in Monroe County.
But I agree about the people...it seems even the New Yorkers who moved out to the Poconos permanently really want to live an outdoors/country life. They tend to be conservatives fleeing the insanity of NYC and wanting to hunt/shoot/etc. There seem to be multiple gun ranges/dealers on practically every major road.
The vacationers are a different story. :)
Don’t know much about Gulen aside from what I’ve read in the national and local press, but it’s clear he is an avowed enemy of the Erdogan government. The Erdogan government is becoming increasingly Islamist, so I’m giving Gulen a pass for the moment.
Not being up on Turkish politics, I’m assuming a cautiously optimistic “enemy of my enemy” stance for the time being. :)
If so, he'd be Turkey's ayatollah-in-waiting, so to speak.
But like you, I know doodly about Turkish politics. I just know we've got a jihadi-coddler in the White House, and if the next President (next after Dubya, that is) is true to his oath, this Gulen guy should be wearing a federal overcoat after this time next year..... and be riding an airliner back to Turkey not long afterward.
Somehow, I seriously doubt he is alone on his little retreat.
This is where those 200 FBI agents should have been. Not Oregon.
This is where those 200 FBI agents should have been. Not Oregon.
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