Kimse Yok Mu
With the arrival of the winter season, conditions of life have become more difficult and the people of Bangladesh. Unable to purchase anything, they are wrapping themselves in plastic bags and burning paper in order to protect themselves from them cold. Children mortalities are often in Bangladesh and KYM has launched a blanket campaign for Bangladesh.
January 6, 2012
The Freedom of Religion, the Concept of War, and Fethullah Gulen
Ahmet Kurucan
Scholars have put forward varying ideas on the legitimacy of war in Islam. While there is consensus on the prevention of atrocity and self-defense, there are disputes on issues like preclusion from the freedom of teaching religion, violation of a peace agreement, assassination of envoys, etc. In this article, we would like to shed light on an issue that is particularly associated with the freedom of teaching religion.
This particular kind of freedom is presented as one of the causes of war in the book Muhammad: The Messenger of God by Fethullah Gülen. If one approaches the problem from a partial analysis, rather than a holistic one, then one can easily come to the conclusion that "war can be waged to ensure spiritual guidance and communication." In the aforementioned book, Gülen basically says that force is allowed if there is a resistance against the preaching of Islam and others are prevented from listening to its message.
Scholars have put forward varying ideas on the legitimacy of war in Islam. While there is consensus on the prevention of atrocity and self-defense, there are disputes on issues like preclusion from the freedom of teaching religion, violation of a peace agreement, assassination of envoys, etc. In this article, we would like to shed light on an issue that is particularly associated with the freedom of teaching religion.
This particular kind of freedom is presented as one of the causes of war in the book Muhammad: The Messenger of God by Fethullah Gülen. If one approaches the problem from a partial analysis, rather than a holistic one, then one can easily come to the conclusion that "war can be waged to ensure spiritual guidance and communication." In the aforementioned book, Gülen basically says that force is allowed if there is a resistance against the preaching of Islam and others are prevented from listening to its message.
January 5, 2012
Why do people join and contribute to the service networks in the Gulen Movement? How do they become integrated?
fgulen.org
How do participants become integrated into the service projects and networks in the Gülen Movement?
As there is not a single dimension to human behavior, all problems are first brought for solution to networks of people, into the communicative process.
At the same time individuals become informed within the collectivity. Then they voluntarily integrate into relational networks of educational, social, and altruistic services. The Gülen Movement does not give identity to people, but provides resources for them to construct their own identity. It makes them responsible for both that identity and their action.
How do participants become integrated into the service projects and networks in the Gülen Movement?
As there is not a single dimension to human behavior, all problems are first brought for solution to networks of people, into the communicative process.
At the same time individuals become informed within the collectivity. Then they voluntarily integrate into relational networks of educational, social, and altruistic services. The Gülen Movement does not give identity to people, but provides resources for them to construct their own identity. It makes them responsible for both that identity and their action.
January 4, 2012
Turkish school opens in northern Iraq, more schools in demand
Today's Zaman
A private Turkish school has been opened in the northern Iraqi province of Sulaimaniya where in 2008 northern Iraq's first university, Işık University, was also established by Turkish entrepreneurs.
A private Turkish school has been opened in the northern Iraqi province of Sulaimaniya where in 2008 northern Iraq's first university, Işık University, was also established by Turkish entrepreneurs.
Turkish aid organization opens school in Somalia
Today's Zaman
Turkish aid organization Kimse Yok Mu opened a school on Saturday in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia.
Turkish aid organization Kimse Yok Mu opened a school on Saturday in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia.
January 3, 2012
Ahmet Şık's book and Ergenekon's media campaign (cont'd)
Emre Uslu
In a previous article I examined the media campaign against the Ergenekon trials and discussed Ahmet Şık.
As I mentioned, the impact of Şık's arrest was exaggerated because he was allegedly writing a book criticizing the Gülen movement's influence in the police force, and his arrest was to prevent this book from being published. Many intellectuals truly believed this campaign when the prosecutors, in their search for the draft copies of the book, found one at Odatv, and another in the possession of people whom Şık claimed had not received a copy. Şık claims to have had no relations with these individuals.
In a previous article I examined the media campaign against the Ergenekon trials and discussed Ahmet Şık.
As I mentioned, the impact of Şık's arrest was exaggerated because he was allegedly writing a book criticizing the Gülen movement's influence in the police force, and his arrest was to prevent this book from being published. Many intellectuals truly believed this campaign when the prosecutors, in their search for the draft copies of the book, found one at Odatv, and another in the possession of people whom Şık claimed had not received a copy. Şık claims to have had no relations with these individuals.
January 2, 2012
Fethullah Gülen extends condolences to families of deadly airstrike victims
Today's Zaman
Well-respected Turkish intellectual and scholar Fethullah Gülen has conveyed his condolences to the families of 35 people who were mistakenly killed by the military last week in an airstrike that targeted the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
“I wish God's mercy upon our 35 citizens, brothers and sons who tragically died in the incident and extend my condolences to their grieving families, and I hope that God grants patience to them,” Gülen said in message he issued on Saturday.
Well-respected Turkish intellectual and scholar Fethullah Gülen has conveyed his condolences to the families of 35 people who were mistakenly killed by the military last week in an airstrike that targeted the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
“I wish God's mercy upon our 35 citizens, brothers and sons who tragically died in the incident and extend my condolences to their grieving families, and I hope that God grants patience to them,” Gülen said in message he issued on Saturday.
January 1, 2012
The Turkish imam and his global educational mission
Pelin Turgut
October, 1992. the Soviet Union has disbanded and chaos reigns in its former territories. Three times a week, a rattly Russian charter plane filled with young Muslim devotees flies east from Istanbul across barren, low-lying steppes to the capitals of Central Asia. The men are clean-cut, sharply dressed in dark suits and ties, trim of mustache and purposeful. It is the first foray out of their hometown for most, let alone on a plane, but such is their faith in Fethullah Gülen, the Turkish Muslim imam they revere. "Fly like swallows," Gülen exhorted, "to these countries that are newly free, as an expression of our brotherhood."
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