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    Jerry Gordon
    Monday, 25 August 2014
    Arizona
    Attorney General refuses to recognize the Stealth Jihad of the Gulen
    Movement

    Yesterday, the usual restrained, moderate informative format of the Lisa
    Benson show ended in an uproar. The kerfuffle was over the refusal of
    incumbent Arizona Attorney General Thomas Horne to recognize the stealth
    jihad agenda of the Gulen Movement here in the US. Horne, a former Democrat
    is in the final days of a fractious Republican primary that ends Tuesday
    amidst accusations of alleged abuse of office encompassing campaign funding
    and resignation of former aides objecting to questionable practices. This
    has resulted in investigations by the FBI and his own department's
    Solicitor General. *The New York Times* article, "Legal Woes Pose Hurdles
    for Attorney General Tom Horne of Arizona in Campaign"

    chronicled
    Horne's problems in a mid- July 2014 article indicating that he had been
    abandoned by luminaries in the State Republican Party over accusations of
    questionable practices. His opponent in the primary battle, Mark Brnovich
    is making much of these accusations. Horne's presence came as a result of a
    call from his campaign office requesting time to defend his support of the
    Gulen science and math academies. We had Nidra Poller back on the program
    to address the blood libel of the Al Dura affair
    .
    That concerned the 55 second video on France 2 TV news of the faked death
    of a 12 year Palestinian youth, Mohammed al Dura, on September 30, 2000 in
    Gaza. That fostered a slogan used by Osama bin Laden to justify the Al
    Qaeda 9/11 attack that still appears in pro-Hamas protests across Europe
    and here in the US during the current Gaza war, "Israel murders Palestinian
    children." Poller is the author of *Al-Dura: the long range ballistic myth
    *
    .

    When the matter of Turkey came up in the discussion with Attorney General
    Horne, this writer discussed the background of how Sufi Sheikh Mohammed
    Fethulleh Gulen came to be a resident alien in a fortified compound in the
    Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. This followed his flight from prosecution
    by the then secular Turkish government in 1998. We also noted his 2008 US
    Department of Homeland Security immigration hearing and support from a
    number of leading figures in the Islamic and US political firmament. Those
    endorsements came from the likes of former President Clinton and Professor
    John Esposito of Georgetown University Center for Muslim Christian
    Understanding endowed by Saudi billionaire Prince Talal. We also discussed
    the contretemps between Turkey's newly elected President, former Premier
    Recep Erdogan and Sheikh Gulen over massive charges of corruption by the
    former. These two had been allies ousting the long term secular rule of
    Turkey's military and political parties in the tradition of Kemal Ataturk,
    first President of the Turkish Republic. Sheikh Gulen is said to control a
    fortune estimated at over $25 billion, including media outlets, such as
    Turkey's leading news daily, *Today's Zaman*. Erdogan has been a supporter
    of Hamas, ISIS and al Qaeda affiliates and engaged in gold for gas schemes
    with Iran stifling US and EU attempts at sanctioning the Islamic Republic
    's nuclear development program. He is often referred to as the rising
    Sultan of the new Turkish Caliphate. Not to be upstaged, Gulen has been
    characterized as the most dangerous Islamist in the world because of the
    GM's Hizmat (service) control of nearly 80 percent of enrollment in
    Turkey's preparatory schools, as well as the global network of GM
    controlled academies.

    Both Erdogan and Gulen are united in opposition to Israel, once an ally to
    Turkish secularists and now accused of "enslaving Palestinians in Gaza."
    Both were particularly incensed over the May 2010 assault on the Turkish
    vessel the Mavi Marmara during which Israeli naval commandos killed 8 Turks
    and one Turkish American that tried to pierce the Gaza blockade. The Mavi
    Mamara is owned by a global radical Muslim charity based in Turkey, IHH
    that has supplied funds and weapons to both al Qaeda and ISIS in Syria.

    Nidra and I drew attention to Turkey as a questionable member of NATO,
    whose request for entry to the EU had been rebuffed for years over charges
    of human rights abuses and denial of due process under the 11 year term of
    Erdogan and his party's super majority in the Turkish Parliament.

    But the main issue was the world wide network of 1,100 GM Schools in over
    100 countries. In the US there are more than 135 GM charter schools with an
    enrollment exceeding 50,000 in more than 26 states, 12 of which are in
    Arizona. All are funded by taxpayers in the hundreds of millions of dollars
    annually. We noted the private investigations that had been conducted in 12
    states and the FBI raids on GM schools in Louisiana and Illinois over
    abuses of students and other allegations. We discussed legislation passed
    in Tennessee and under consideration in Louisiana and Mississippi. See our
    June 2011 presentation, Unveiling Gulen Schools in Tennessee
    .
    Those legislative proposals contain restrictions on the proportion of
    foreign workers brought in under the HB 1 visa program as administrators
    and faculty at charter schools specifically targeting the abuses by the GM
    operated science and mathematics academies. We told how state legislators
    were often enticed by free trips to Turkey to sample the cuisine, culture
    and vibrant economy of the country. GM US academy sponsoring groups have
    also made contributions to the political campaigns of state legislators in
    those jurisdictions that have granted charter licenses.

    A caller drew attention to a report on a GM Sonoran academy in Tucson that
    Attorney General Horne had visited in his capacity as the former Superintendant
    of Public Instruction

    for
    Arizona, an elected post. Lisa Benson cited pamphlets that she found
    extolling the virtues of the GM movement, Turkish nationalism and the
    Sheikh's version of Islam. However, she also evidence of rejection of
    genocide. At that Attorney General Horne interjected saying that was
    concerning Armenian genocide and not the holocaust. Horne who is Jewish
    said that he came from a family of Shoah survivors and had relatives in
    Israel. Horne is a graduate of both Harvard University and its Law School.
    Doubtless, he should have known that Hitler who fomented the murder of six
    million European Jewish men, women and children, predicated the final
    solution of the Holocaust based on the West's indifferent reactions to the
    plight of millions of Armenians lost in the Ottoman jihad death marches
    during WWI.

    He justified his defense of the GM academies in Arizona by the academic
    performance of Gulen charter school students. Moreover, given the history
    of Jews during the holocaust, he indicated that it was unseemly to
    criticize another religion, in this case, Islam. Notwithstanding, the
    presentation of information we provided on the GM academies in the US and
    the stealth jihad agenda of the GM doctrine propounded by Sheikh Gulen, he
    saw nothing that would cause him to investigate their operations in
    Arizona. This is notwithstanding the evidence of both state and FBI
    investigations in other jurisdictions. Lisa Benson noted that he endorsed
    the Gulen schools even after she presented him with open source information
    that they supported him when he was Superintendent of Public Instruction in
    Arizona. Horne suggested to Benson that he wanted to focus on the charter
    schools run by La Raza rather than on Gulen. La Raza is an extremist Latino
    group were fostering rejectionist views of America replete with posters of
    Argentine Cuban icon, Che Guevara were the problem du jour for Horne.

    Horne told Benson that, "I am not soft on Islam issues, but I don't see
    anything wrong with Gulen." Yet he would not admit that Islam could be so
    overt and obvious. My co-host Lisa Benson reacted angrily to Horne's
    comments. Horne came with an agenda to yesterday's program. It was to put
    both he and his GM supporters in Arizona in the best possible light. As I
    said in an after program dialogue with both Benson and Attorney General
    Horne, he came with a closed mind not to engage in meaningful dialogue.
    Problem is that he evinced no curiosity about the evidence presented. That
    was not his purpose; it was trolling for votes in a hotly contested
    Republican primary for the top law officer position in Arizona.

    Listen

    to
    the podcast of the Lisa Benson Show of August 24, 2014 with Nidra Poller
    and Arizona Attorney General Thomas Horne.

    http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/56006

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