Christian
militias have been raided in Michigan and Ohio, their members rounded
up and tossed in prison and their caches of weapons confiscated.
But
a well-armed Muslim militia – comprised not of American citizens but
foreign militants – operates under the noses of federal and state law
enforcement officials.
If you don't it, pay a visit to Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania, in the heart of the Pocono Mountains.
“These
guys use fully automatic weapons – AK-47s – for target practice,” one
local businessman says. “We called the FBI but nothing has been done to
stop them.”
The Muslims have been here for years,” another resident says. “They’ve been engaged in training for guerilla warfare.”
The Muslims in question are Turks who occupy a 45-acre compound that is owned and operated by Fethullah Gulen.
Entrance to the compound is forbidden to outsiders.
Sentries
remain on duty – day and night – at a hut before the wide metal gate.
Within the hut are high definition televisions that project images from
security cameras.
Residents
complain of a low flying helicopter that circles their community in
search of any unwanted intruders to the property. At the heart of the
compound is a massive chalet that serves as Gulen’s residence. Gulen has
been identified as one of the world’s richest and most powerful Muslims
– and also as the most dangerous.
From
his base in Pennsylvania, he has been responsible for the replacement
of the secular government in Turkey with an Islamic regime.
With
assets in excess of $30 billion, he has wielded political allegiances
in Washington that have resulted in the placement of Turkish Muslims in
the CIA, NSA, FBI, and other national security organizations.
He has created well-heeled lobbies to promote the cause of Islam and to develop Islamic candidates for political office.
He
has formed close friendships with Bill and Hillary Clinton, former
Secretaries of State James Baker and Madeleine Albright, and George W.
Bush.
He
has also established over 90 Islamic schools (madrassahs) throughout
the United States, where studentsare indoctrinated in the tenets of
political Islam. These charter schools are funded by American taxpayers.
One
school – Tarek ibn Zayed Academy (TiZA) in Minnesota – has been so
radically Islamic and subversive in nature that the Minnesota Department
of Education issued two citations against it and the American Civil
Liberties Union is suing it.
The
purpose of every Gulen school, according to the Middle East Media
Research Institute, is train Muslim students to become lawyers,
accountants, and political leaders so that they can take an active part
in the restoration of the Ottoman Empire and the Islamization of the
Western World.
Gulen
also imports thousands of graduate students from Turkey – at the
expense of U.S. taxpayers – to study at American universities. More
foreign graduate students in the U.S. hail from Turkey than from any
other country.
Several
of these students live at the compound and serve as guards and
paramilitary officials. They do not wear skullcaps or Islamic garb but
rather business suits with white shirts and ties.
One,
encountered by this reporter on a recent visit, attended Marywood
University in Scranton, Pennsylvania; another studied at East
Stroudsburg University, several miles from the compound.
Gulen’s stated dream is to restore the Ottoman Empire and a universal caliphate.
He fled Turkey in 1999 to escape arrest for creating a terrorist organization – the Fethullah Gulen Community.
He
received protection from high-ranking officials of the Clinton and Bush
administrations, who believed that Gulen could play a decisive role in
the struggle over Central Asia’s oil and gas wealth. This belief was
based on the premise that Muslims within the newly created Russia
republics could be swayed away from the influence of Iran and Shiia
Islam by Gulen’s doctrine of Sufi Ottomanism.
With
CIA aid, Gulen established hundreds of madrassahs and cemaats (Islamic
communities) not only in his native Turkey but such places as Uzbekistan
and Turkmenistan.
Gulen’s
triumph over his secularTurkish foes came with the election of November
3, 2002, when the Justice and Development Party (a party which he
created from his base in Pennsylvania) gained control of the Turkish
government.
Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a Gulen disciple – as is Turkey’s President Abdullah Gul.
Thanks
to such Islamists, Turkey has transformed from a secular state into an
Islamic country with 85,000 active mosques – one for every 350 citizens –
the highest number per capita in the world, 90,000 imams, more imams
than teachers and physicians – and thousands of state-run Islamic
schools.
Despite
the rhetoric of European Union accession, Turkey has transferred its
alliance from Europe and the United States to Russia and Iran. It has
moved toward friendship with Hamas, Hezbollah, and Syria and created a
pervasive anti-Christian, anti-Jewish, and anti-America animus
throughout the populace.
Gulen presents himself as a humanitarian, a moderate Muslim, and a proponent of interfaith dialogue.
But
a visit to the compound provides an opposite impression. The property
is off-limits to all visitors and intruders; it is guarded by radical
Turks who seek to establish a universal caliphate whose jurisdiction
will include the USA, and the Golden Generation Worship and Retreat
Center, which supports interfaith relations, is a sentry hut.
But Gulen is a master of deception.
In
one of his directives to his followers, Gulen proclaimed that in order
to reach the ideal Muslim society “every method and path is acceptable,
[including] lying to people.”
In
the past five years, several attempts have been made by The Department
of Homeland Security to deport him. But in 2008 a federal court ruled
that Gulen was an individual with “extraordinary ability in the field of
education” who merited permanent residence status in the U.S.
Strange
to say, Gulen lacks any formal education and three of the letters
attesting to his “extraordinary ability” came from CIA agents.
FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Paul L. Williams is the author of The Day of Islam: The Annihilation of America and the Western World, The Al Qaeda Connection,
and other best-selling books. He is a frequent guest on such national
news networks as ABC News, CBS News, Fox News, MSNBC, and NPR. Visit his website at http://thelastcrusade.or
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