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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
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