September 26, 2013

Islamic scholar Gülen rejects bombings in the name of Islam

Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen has unequivocally rejected terrorist attacks and bombings committed in the name of Islam, adding that a terrorist cannot be branded a real Muslim.

Fethullah Gulen Movement as a Global Educational and Inter-Religious Model (1)

Ian G. Williams*

The Gulen Movement and “Soft Power”

Many descriptions have been applied to the Gulen-inspired initiatives, civil, cultural, political, confrontational, conflictual, reactionary, regressive, exclusivist, sectarian, alienating, competitive, Islamist, mediating, reconciliatory, pluralist, democratic, altruistic and peaceful [White 2002. 112]. In using social movement theories how may one define this association? Is it a civil society movement; a reaction to a crisis, a Sufi tariqa or order, a political movement; or an altruistic collective action?