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BBC: What is the Gulen Movement?

The head of the Gulen Movement, Fethullah Gulen may have left Turkey for America after he was charged for trying to undermine Turkey's secular government. Some of his followers also call this movement "Hizmet", which means service. Critics point to an alleged 1999 video where he told his followers, according to a BBC article today:

"You must move within the arteries of the system, without anyone noticing your existence, until you reach all the power centres. You must wait until such time as you have got all the state power, until you have brought to your side all the power of the constitutional institution in Turkey."

Gulen was later cleared in abstensia of the charges.  A media group in Turkey run by the movement includes newspapers, TV and radio stations.  According to the BBC article, some Turkish journalists claim you can't criticize this movement and last year a police chief who wrote a book about the movement was arrested as were two investigative journalists.  All three remain in jail.

I believe Today Zaman is one of their English media websites where its critics are blasted like here and here.

Fethullah Gulen lives in Pennsylvania.  Concerns about a number of charter schools allegedly linked to his movement in the U.S., including possibly four in Oklahoma, has received media attention recently. 

Bin Laden urged followers to target smaller cities yet counterterrorism funds to many smaller cities will be cut!

Documents found in the Bin Laden raid showed Osama Bin Laden eyed smaller cities as targets to expand their attack sites. 

He schooled his followers to work around U.S. counterterrorism methods which he was apparently well-versed.  He wrote of ways to ferment political dissent and play politicians against one another.  Bin Laden also wanted to exploit minorities that would help drive a wedge between them and others as a method to help tear down the country.  Is it just me or have you notice CAIR seems to do all these things?   What a remarkable coincidence.

We learned this week counterterrorism funding to half of the smaller cities will end.  Congress probably decided to cut these funds before these documents were discovered so I hope they are paying attention here.  Some of the thirty-three "smaller cities" include Syracuse, Tuscon, Columbus, Toledo, New Orleans, Oklahoma City and Tulsa, to name just a few.

Also this week, Congress leaders agreed to extend for four years a vast array of surveillance and search powers put in place since 9/11.  Both houses will vote on this agreement next week.

Islamic Council to push for "moderate" sharia family law in Australia

The Australian Federation of Islamic Councils is using the government's renewed zest for muticulturalism as an opportunity to support the acceptance of some sharia law in Australia:

The Australian Federation of Islamic Councils, in a submission to a parliamentary inquiry into the government's new multiculturalism policy, argues that Muslims should enjoy "legal pluralism".

In an interview with The Australian, the organisation's president, Ikebal Adam Patel, who wrote the submission, nominated family law and specifically divorce as an area where moderate interpretations of sharia could co-exist within the Australian legal system.

In the submission, the AFIC acknowledges some Muslims believe Islamic law is immutable, regardless of history, time, culture and location.

The AFIC argues this is not the case and sharia can be applied in a way that fits in to Australia and is not extreme.

"This means most of the regulations in Islamic law may be amended, changed, altered, and adapted to social change.

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Also see:

Imam wants sharia law here, but AG says no way

"ONE of the nation's top Muslim leaders, Sheik Mohamadu Nawas Saleem, has supported a plan to introduce sharia law in Australia, saying it could operate in the family law system through a new model of Islamic arbitration..."

Sharia law already being applied secretly in Sydney

Sharia already in Sydney, say Muslim leaders

Anti-Israel activist Gilad Atzmon at OU; CAIR promotes, of course

CAIR Oklahoma and other Islamic activists use OU fairly often to help shape young minds into their anti-whatever way-of-thinking which supports, in my opinion, Islamism or political Islam.  Last night, anti-Israel propaganda was spewed when Sooner's For Peace in Palestine sponsored anti-zionist Giland Atamon who used the moment to rail against Israel mixed in with some jazz music at the OU Meacham Auditorium. 

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Source:  Newseum

Are Gulen Movement inspired charter schools operating in Oklahoma?

Fethullah Gulen is a Turkish Islamic scholar who lives in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania. Followers are generally referred to as the Gulen Movement.  There's growing concern about his movement and possible connections to Gulen-inspired charter schools in America.  There may be four in Oklahoma.