Is Some Religion Running in Your Arteries?

 Is Some Religion Running in Your Arteries?

Stephanie,

I welcome your well-researched contribution to a growing library of articles about the Gulen Movement. A similar study in Ohio, and in Utah were published. Your article is a fine complement to the earlier researches published in Jane's Islamic Affairs Analyst, in Act for America by Guy Rodgers, in MERIA Journal by Bill Parks, and in National Review by Michael Rubin. Your article must be read together with others to put the problem lurking in the darkness of naïveté, in a greater perspective. The issue is not only a school issue. Only those knowledgeable on the subject can appreciate your investigative work. Needless to say, you will be receiving many comments praising the Harmony schools either from the uninformed people or from the followers of the Gulen movement in an attempt to whitewash the truth.

The lesson to be learned from your research is that this Movement is “moving” very fast within our midst for its ominous objective. The hidden objective is to engineer societies in numerous countries in the vision of this cult. In that sense, this cult and its guru are no different from others this country hosted. This one, however, is distinct in one very important way. This cult operates in disguise; it does not have an established, identifiable, traceable existence for any illegal operation. It operates not only within the law, but also for seemingly a laudable purpose, “interfaith dialogue”. Its guru denies any association to the Movement’s activities, which is true because of the way the system operates. The Movement operates without a central authority, by the guru’s own admission, but with a web of so-called volunteers.

Volunteers are recruited in the growing number of schools founded by businessmen, followers of the Movement, to educate the children of poorer or minority families. The graduates are then given jobs or financial assistance to start up their own business. Their one obligation for the favors is to donate 5 to 15% (relative to the size of the business) of their profits to a cause of the Movement. This is the snowballing effect of the Movement’s financial strength. Those businessmen, or foundations funded by them, establish schools and mosques, and own media companies, a bank and an insurance company.

The model used in the political field is based on the benevolent involvement of those businessmen in their community. The charity activities catapult them into politics. First they establish their roots in the media, then in the security apparatus and judiciary, in order to silence any opposition.

Their tool is dissimulation, deception of public’s view. In the guru’s own words, “you must move in the arteries of the system without anyone noticing your existence until you reach all the power centers. … The work to be done is in confronting the world”. They are required to work with great patience, because it takes at least a generation to invade all “the arteries”. Once their numbers grow their social pressure will naturally chase away the others. They co-operate with authorities, promote “interfaith dialogue”, are not confrontational, do not show religious prejudice, fit into the social fabric, denounce violence and militant Islam, while, however, staying true to the Islamic traditions, particularly regarding women. This is a symbiotic existence with democracy.

Another rule is for the leader of any operation is to deny any association with the guru or the Movement. Anyone interested in a success story of this system needs to look no further than Turkey’s transformation in the last forty years. The President and the PM of the country still deny their association with the guru and the Movement.

The question now is whether this Movement will succeed also at the global level, including in the U.S. The answer is an unequivocal Yes. Why do you think the guru set-up shop in the U.S.? A worldwide operation can be led best from the only super power country. The Movement exploits the U.S. democracy and policies to the fullest for spreading nationwide and globally while pulling the wool over the eyes of the U.S. politicians and academics. The Movement has a lobbying office in D.C., and boasts association with many congressmen/women and academia. It emulates the Christian missionary tactics. It even gets the U.S. government’s support for such a “laudable” objective as “interfaith dialogue”, which conforms to the U.S. foreign policy pursued after 9/11. Public funds and CIA assistance to the Movement’s activities (for example posting their agents as teachers in the Movement’s schools abroad) have been reported, and not denied by the government. Why do you think Russia and Uzbekistan closed down the operations of the Movement? The ultimate objective is to mirror the power of the Pope in the Islamic world, ecumenism, and caliphate.

June 9, 2011