Thursday, February 20, 2014
Fethullah Gulen Attempts an Islamic Reformation
By Victor Gaetan
In a video posted on his Web site last December, the Turkish Islamic
scholar Fethullah Gulen called on God to curse Turkish Prime Minister
Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Gulen, who has lived in exile in the United States
since 1999, declared in a sermon broadcast on Turkish television,
“Those who don’t see the thief but go after those trying to catch the
thief: may God bring fire to their houses, ruin their homes, break their
unities.” This went far beyond the normally secular bounds of political
debate in Turkey....
