{"id":3667,"date":"2008-09-06T21:24:31","date_gmt":"2008-09-06T18:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=3667"},"modified":"2023-04-03T12:29:07","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T09:29:07","slug":"fethullah-gulen-and-tourism-in-secular-turkey-from-alcohol-free-to-kaffir-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2008\/09\/06\/fethullah-gulen-and-tourism-in-secular-turkey-from-alcohol-free-to-kaffir-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Fethullah Gulen and Tourism in \u201cSecular\u201d Turkey: From Alcohol Free to Kaffir Free?"},"content":{"rendered":"

– Andrew Bostom – –<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Fethullah Gulen: Facilitating His Own \u201cEcumenical Brand\u201d of Alcohol and Kaffir-Free Tourism, the Useful Idiots for Cultural Jihadism at <\/span>[2] <\/span>Foreign Policy<\/span><\/span><\/span> Notwithstanding?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0As <\/span>[3] MEMRI\u2019s Turkish blog<\/span><\/span> reports (from August 26, 2008), the \u201cfast disappearance\u201d of restaurants in the important mountain resort of Uludag, is now being followed by another demand of Arab Muslim tourists to the region: the reduction of the number of passengers per cable car from 40, to a maximum of 25. Safety concerns, perhaps? Hardly! Arab Muslim tourists are insisting (via their travel agents) that they not<\/em> be placed in too close proximity to \u201cforeigners,\u201d i.e., non-Muslim kaffirs \/infidels, lest they have \u201c\u2026any<\/em> bodily contact with their women and girls.\u201d To accommodate their Arab clients\u2019 anti-infidel bigotry, the Turkish AKP governed Bursa municipality has begun to impose these changes, extending a cable car line to the area of the hotels, and also declaring that this new line will include both \u201cVIP\u201d and sex-segregated (read Islamic sexual apartheid) cars as well.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Not surprisingly, a company affiliated with the \u201cecumenist\u201d and, according to the feckless journal Foreign Policy, \u201c<\/span>[2] World\u2019s Top Public Intellectual<\/span><\/span>,\u201d Fethullah Gulen\u2014in reality <\/span>[4] Mr. Gulen is a cultural jihadist par excellence<\/span><\/span>\u2014has been offered a non-competitive bid to complete the Islamic supremacist \/apartheid cable car line. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Last July, a summary report also by MEMRI noted that,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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In 1999, footage was aired on Turkish television of sermons delivered by Fethullah Gulen to a crowd of followers, in which he revealed his aspirations for an Islamist Turkey ruled by shari\u2019a as well as the methods that should be used to attain that goal. In the sermons, he said: <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cYou must move in the arteries of the system, without anyone noticing your existence, until you reach all the power centers\u2026 until the conditions are ripe, they [the followers] must continue like this. If they do something prematurely, the world will crush our heads, and Muslims will suffer everywhere, like in the tragedies in Algeria, like in 1982 [in] Syria\u2026 like in the yearly disasters and tragedies in Egypt. The time is not yet right. You must wait for the time when you are complete, and conditions are ripe, until we can shoulder the entire world and carry it\u2026 You must wait until such time as you have gotten all the state power, until you have brought to your side all the power of the constitutional institutions in Turkey\u2026 Until that time, any step taken would be too early – like breaking an egg without waiting the full 40 days for it to hatch. It would be like killing the chick inside. The work to be done is [in] confronting the world. Now, I have expressed my feelings and thoughts to you all – in confidence\u2026 trusting your loyalty and sensitivity to secrecy. I know that when you leave here – [just] as you discard your empty juice boxes, you must discard the thoughts and feelings expressed here.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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The sermon continues: \u201cWhen everything was closed and all doors were locked, our houses of isik [light] assumed a mission greater than that of older times. In the past, some of the duties of these houses were carried out by madrassas, some by schools, some by tekkes [Islamist lodges]\u2026 These homes had to be schools, had to be madrassas, [had to be] tekkes all at the same time. The permission did not come from the state, or the state\u2019s laws, or the people who govern us. The permission was given by Allah\u2026 who wanted His name learned and talked about, studied, and discussed in those houses, as it used to be in the mosques.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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In another sermon, he said: \u201cNow it is a painful spring that we live in. A nation is being born again. A nation of millions [is] being born – one that will live for long centuries, Allah willing\u2026 It is being born with its own culture, its own civilization. If giving birth to one person is so painful, the birth of millions cannot be pain-free. Naturally we will suffer pain. It won\u2019t be easy for a nation that has accepted atheism, has accepted materialism, a nation accustomed to running away from itself, to come back riding on its horse. It will not be easy, but it is worth all our suffering and the sacrifices.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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In yet another sermon, he said, \u201cThe philosophy of our service is that we open a house somewhere and, with the patience of a spider, we lay our web, to wait for people to get caught in the web; and we teach those who do. We don\u2019t lay the web to eat or consume them, but to show them the way to their resurrection, to blow life into their dead bodies and souls, to give them a life.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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By the time this was aired, Gulen had already left the country for the U.S., supposedly for health reasons. A year later, in 2000, he was indicted in absentia for attempting to change Turkey\u2019s system of government and for \u201cforming an illegal organization with the purpose of establishing an Islamist state.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Gulen is clearly succeeding in absentia, the useful idiots for cultural jihadsm at Foreign Policy, notwithstanding.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

All Articles Copyright \u00a9 2007-2008 Dr. Andrew Bostom | All Rights Reserved<\/em><\/div>\n

Article printed from Andrew Bostom: <\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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