{"id":3035,"date":"2011-06-01T12:57:45","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T12:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=3035"},"modified":"2011-06-01T12:57:45","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T12:57:45","slug":"who_is_fetullah_gulen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=3035","title":{"rendered":"Who Is Fetullah G\u00fclen ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Erick Stakelbeck at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbn.com\/cbnnews\/world\/2011\/May\/The-Gulen-Movement-The-New-Islamic-World-Order\/\">CBN News<\/a>&nbsp;posted a story today about Fetullah G\u00fclen, who has been called the world&#8217;s top public intellectual and the face of moderate Islam.&nbsp; The 70-year-old Muslim leader directs a global Islamic movement from the Pennsylvania mountains.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"adjusted\"><em>&#8220;&#8221;It&#8217;s not just a religious movement; it&#8217;s the Fetullah G\u00fclen movement. They call themselves that. So it is, you can say, a cult. It is a highly personalized movement,&#8221; Ariel Cohen, a Middle East analyst with the Heritage Foundation, said. Cohen has been tracking the G\u00fclen movement closely.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"adjusted\">The article also reports that French-Turkish scholar Bayram Balci claims that the G\u00fclen movement has three goals:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"adjusted\"><em>&#8220;the Islamization of the Turkish nationalist ideology; the Turkification of Islam; and the Islamization of modernity.&#8221;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"adjusted\">The article reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"adjusted\"><em>&#8220;Currently, there are about 125 G\u00fclen schools spread out over 25 states. One school in Philadelphia receives some $3 million annually in taxpayer money.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"adjusted\">This is part of the government&#8217;s outreach to so-called moderate Muslims.&nbsp; Meanwhile the schools select the students they feel will be most likely to spread Islam and the concept of close ties between religion and state, and the United States taxpayer underwrites the effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erick Stakelbeck at CBN News&nbsp;posted a story today about Fetullah G\u00fclen, who has been called the world&#8217;s top public intellectual and the face of moderate Islam.&nbsp; The 70-year-old Muslim leader directs a global Islamic movement from the Pennsylvania mountains.&nbsp; The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=3035\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}