December 21, 2012

Documents contain plans to prevent works of Hizmet movement

Documents retrieved from the General Staff hard disks also feature plans to prevent the works of the Hizmet movement, inspired by the renowned Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen.

In the Aftermath of Sandy Hook

Margaret A. Johnson, Ph.D.

Sandy Hook Elementary
I imagine that most of you, like me, are still stumbling with unrelenting grief for the Sandy Hook Elementary school massacre of this past Friday. We lived through too many of these events these past years, but it feels different this time. I think a lot of that has to do with the sad fact, that twenty young children—children the same age as my own—were mowed down, mowed down at a school, much like the one in which my children are sitting in as I write this. But it is more than that. It seems like not just me personally, but as a nation, and even as a world, we have reached a tipping point. We can no longer console ourselves with mere words, with soul searching that turns back to carrying on the same as before.