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HOME > PUBLICATIONS > Exclusive: Obama Administration turns Blind Eye to Muslim Foreign Militia in Pennsylvania

April 9, 2010

Exclusive: Obama Administration turns Blind Eye to Muslim Foreign Militia in Pennsylvania

Paul L. Williams, PhD

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Christian militias have been raided in Michigan and Ohio, their members rounded up and tossed in prison and their caches of weapons confiscated.
But a well-armed Muslim militia – comprised not of American citizens but foreign militants –  operates under the noses of federal and state law enforcement officials.
If you don't it, pay a visit to Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania, in the heart of the Pocono Mountains.
“These guys use fully automatic weapons – AK-47s – for target practice,” one local businessman says. “We called the FBI but nothing has been done to stop them.”
The Muslims have been here for years,” another resident says. “They’ve been engaged in training for guerilla warfare.”
The Muslims in question are Turks who occupy a 45-acre compound that is owned and operated by Fethullah Gulen.
Entrance to the compound is forbidden to outsiders.
Sentries remain on duty – day and night – at a hut before the wide metal gate. Within the hut are high definition televisions that project images from security cameras.
Residents complain of a low flying helicopter that circles their community in search of any unwanted intruders to the property. At the heart of the compound is a massive chalet that serves as Gulen’s residence. Gulen has been identified as one of the world’s richest and most powerful Muslims – and also as the most dangerous.
From his base in Pennsylvania, he has been responsible for the replacement of the secular government in Turkey with an Islamic regime.
With assets in excess of $30 billion, he has wielded political allegiances in Washington that have resulted in the placement of Turkish Muslims in the CIA, NSA, FBI, and other national security organizations.
He has created well-heeled lobbies to promote the cause of Islam and to develop Islamic candidates for political office.
He has formed close friendships with Bill and Hillary Clinton, former Secretaries of State James Baker and Madeleine Albright, and George W. Bush.
He has also established over 90 Islamic schools (madrassahs) throughout the United States, where studentsare indoctrinated in the tenets of political Islam. These charter schools are funded by American taxpayers.
One school – Tarek ibn Zayed Academy (TiZA) in Minnesota – has been so radically Islamic and subversive in nature that the Minnesota Department of Education issued two citations against it and the American Civil Liberties Union is suing it.
The purpose of every Gulen school, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute, is train Muslim students to become lawyers, accountants, and political leaders so that they can take an active part in the restoration of the Ottoman Empire and the Islamization of the Western World.
Gulen also imports thousands of graduate students from Turkey – at the expense of U.S. taxpayers – to study at American universities. More foreign graduate students in the U.S. hail from Turkey than from any other country.
Several of these students live at the compound and serve as guards and paramilitary officials. They do not wear skullcaps or Islamic garb but rather business suits with white shirts and ties.
One, encountered by this reporter on a recent visit, attended Marywood University in Scranton, Pennsylvania; another studied at East Stroudsburg University, several miles from the compound.
Gulen’s stated dream is to restore the Ottoman Empire and a universal caliphate.
He fled Turkey in 1999 to escape arrest for creating a terrorist organization – the Fethullah Gulen Community.
He received protection from high-ranking officials of the Clinton and Bush administrations, who believed that Gulen could play a decisive role in the struggle over Central Asia’s oil and gas wealth. This belief was based on the premise that Muslims within the newly created Russia republics could be swayed away from the influence of Iran and Shiia Islam by Gulen’s doctrine of Sufi Ottomanism.
With CIA aid, Gulen established hundreds of madrassahs and cemaats (Islamic communities) not only in his native Turkey but such places as Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan.
Gulen’s triumph over his secularTurkish foes came with the election of November 3, 2002, when the Justice and Development Party (a party which he created from his base in Pennsylvania) gained control of the Turkish government.
Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a Gulen disciple – as is Turkey’s President Abdullah Gul.
Thanks to such Islamists, Turkey has transformed from a secular state into an Islamic country with 85,000 active mosques – one for every 350 citizens – the highest number per capita in the world, 90,000 imams, more imams than teachers and physicians – and thousands of state-run Islamic schools.
Despite the rhetoric of European Union accession, Turkey has transferred its alliance from Europe and the United States to Russia and Iran. It has moved toward friendship with Hamas, Hezbollah, and Syria and created a pervasive anti-Christian, anti-Jewish, and anti-America animus throughout the populace.
Gulen presents himself as a humanitarian, a moderate Muslim, and a proponent of interfaith dialogue.
But a visit to the compound provides an opposite impression. The property is off-limits to all visitors and intruders; it is guarded by radical Turks who seek to establish a universal caliphate whose jurisdiction will include the USA, and the Golden Generation Worship and Retreat Center, which supports interfaith relations, is a sentry hut.
But Gulen is a master of deception.
In one of his directives to his followers, Gulen proclaimed that in order to reach the ideal Muslim society “every method and path is acceptable, [including] lying to people.”
In the past five years, several attempts have been made by The Department of Homeland Security to deport him. But in 2008 a federal court ruled that Gulen was an individual with “extraordinary ability in the field of education” who merited permanent residence status in the U.S.
Strange to say, Gulen lacks any formal education and three of the letters attesting to his “extraordinary ability” came from CIA agents.
FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Paul L. Williams is the author of The Day of Islam: The Annihilation of America and the Western World, The Al Qaeda Connection, and other best-selling books. He is a frequent guest on such national news networks as ABC News, CBS News, Fox News, MSNBC, and NPR. Visit his website at http://thelastcrusade.org.

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What an ill-researched article ! Full of bias and bigotry. I dare "Paul Williams" to prove his points.

posted by: J. Mason
Friday, April 9, 2010 at 04:51 AM

What is this? Is this a joke? Gulen and weapons, the two things never came together. This article is fully biased. How the editors of this website put such an article without a little searcing.

posted by: Joseph k.
Friday, April 9, 2010 at 09:02 AM

So, J. Mason and Joseph K., how much time have YOU spent researching this man and his compound? I wouldn't discount this report so quickly. I've seen video of jihadist training camps in the US. Why they haven't been raided like Ruby Ridge and Waco, I do not know!

posted by: unamary
Friday, April 9, 2010 at 09:34 AM

To Jm JK........
So the guards with automatic weapons, the low flying helicopters, the sound of men training w/full auto weapons etc. etc. is what a figment of the locals imagination? And the schools he sponsors that teach islamic supremacism, Jew bashing, and intolerance of gays, Christians, Hindus Buddhists, Zoroastrians or any other "unbelievers" are what misunderstood?

I'm surprised people that are so ignorant are even reading this website. Try peddling you apologist BS some place else. This isn't msnbc's crowd.....we actually think for ourselves instead of letting olbermann and maddow tell us how we think!!

posted by: SOS
Friday, April 9, 2010 at 10:27 AM

CAROL - THIS STORY MUST BE CIRCULATED TO THE MAINSTREAM PRESS. IT'S AMAZING AND EXPLAINS A GREAT DEAL ABOUT A DANGEROUS SITUATION THAT WILL SURELY EXPLODE IN OUR FACE. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.

posted by: Pat H.
Friday, April 9, 2010 at 10:58 AM

Paul Williams also thinks he is being followed by a UFO all the time and he is the lost child of Elvis :-)

Only thing he got right in this article is the spelling of the name "Gulen" rest is just paranoid junk.

posted by: Kel
Friday, April 9, 2010 at 11:46 AM

You are saying "The property is off-limits to all visitors and intruders;"

I guess you let anyone just walk into your home!

I am sorry I try not to let "intruders" into my home...

posted by: Stan
Friday, April 9, 2010 at 11:53 AM

I;m beginning to think that the fleecing of america is well underway, do you think that anybody can do anything about this if he's in the pocket's of these politicians. Remember our leader is silently promoting islam..

posted by: anom
Friday, April 9, 2010 at 11:59 AM

This is terrifying and it should be published everywhere and any where. I use to live near the Poconos and it was a nice honeymoon oriented ski resort area. Wow ..what has happened to our country...These Muslims surely are out to destroy us from within and Obama turns his back on this type of activity. Americans need to unite to get rid of these radicals and purge our country of these unwanted and violent miserable types who will threaten our way of life and our liberty. Do you think these people would get away with this in most other countries ?

posted by: junglejim123
Friday, April 9, 2010 at 12:51 AM

You have to read this...

http://www.fgulen.org

posted by: John
Friday, April 9, 2010 at 01:14 PM

You sheeple need to wake up and smell the coffee!!! YOU are going to be the ones that while being forced to live under a socialist regime and having your freedoms revoked, that will be saying, "Huh? What happened? Why didn't anyone say anything about this on CNN?"

posted by: MB
Friday, April 9, 2010 at 01:15 PM

So what would be the cost of hiring a "patriot" ace flyer to go in and shoot down the helicopter and bomb the compound, preferably with some Dems inside having one of their friendly visits?
Oops! Sorry!
I thought it was a training mission and the compound was a missile test range!

posted by: al Kidya
Friday, April 9, 2010 at 04:55 PM

This article is pure fabrication. Hateful bias pure and simple. There are NO choppers, NO AK practice, NO armed guards. This was completely debunked by our local television station. I am as conservative as they come, but nonsense like this does more harm than good.
For you nutjobs who believe this crap, keep looking over your shoulders.

posted by: W. McGrath
Friday, April 9, 2010 at 05:19 PM

This is the most BIASED and FALSE article I have ever seen.

This author should pay this place a visit before he makes such fabricated material...

posted by: truly yours
Friday, April 9, 2010 at 08:47 PM

Here's a site for you all to check out - - -

What's Really Behind Turkey's Coup Arrests?

All signs point to Fethullah Gülen, whose shadowy Islamist movement is rapidly extending its tentacles into all aspects of Turkish political life.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/02/25/whats_really_behind_turkeys_coup_arrests

NOW DO YOU TRUST HIM????

I SURE DON'T!!!

Do your home work LIKE I DID - there are over 35 muslim terrist compounds in the USA!!!

posted by: saramc45
Saturday, April 10, 2010 at 07:55 PM

what is this author eating for food? is he eating hay? what a nonsense article!

posted by: Rob Fay
Saturday, April 10, 2010 at 09:19 PM

someone re-tighten this guys stray jacket, he might get loose and harm others! keep sharp tools in high storage and make sure all appliances are turned off. This man is a looney.

Yo should read the facts, I know these people - www.fethullah-gulen.org

freedom of speech as nice as it is doesn't protect us from the freedom to be a lunatic. This article is for all the looney's out there !

stopping those pills and come back to reality!

posted by: John the Carpentar
Monday, April 12, 2010 at 00:01 AM

no brainer! when i checked comments i easily spotted couple of people from this militia. the most irritating point about him is that: he pretends like he is a friend of all different classes of the society, but in fact he only favors a particular group of people, the people who has given their freedom of thinking in an exchange with a high ranking profile in universities, governments, allied organisations. it is all about greedy, the same rule that runs the world, since adam smith has put it down. they want more and more and more.

posted by: ahmet tepe
Thursday, April 15, 2010 at 07:23 AM

if you really want to know who he is go read his books, he has 100's of books and guess what there all about peace,respect and how we should be good people. dont judge a person without doing your own research and dont just look on the internet for information. if you really want to know who he is read his books.

posted by: i.sarikaya
Sunday, April 18, 2010 at 03:07 AM

Poconos largest local newspaper.
Check this link

http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100418/NEWS/4180350

posted by: Joseph K
Sunday, April 18, 2010 at 03:52 PM

Wow, pseudo journalism at best! What a complete stretch of the facts! You guys should get Bill O'Riley to put this in the no spin zone! He would tear it up if he wasn't a propagandist just like Glen Beck!

How do you people call others ignorant for watching CNN and MSNBC when you get your stories from ONLY Fox News: Glenn Beck and Bill O'Riley.

Wake up and realize that all three of those media outlets are worthless!

posted by: John
Sunday, May 2, 2010 at 01:01 PM

Please visit the following link to get accurate information abot Fethullah Gulen
Fethullah Gulen

posted by: Gulen
Tuesday, August 3, 2010 at 08:49 PM

I am from Turkey, believe me this guy is extremely dangerous. He never uses guns but has plans to conquer the whole world! He poses as an islamic leader but actually uses religion just as a tool. His cult has taken control of almost half the population in Turkey. Government is under his control. Part of National court and almost all of police force is also under his control. I met with many of his followers. He has special psychological techniques to control people. He has followers all around the world servihg his plan of global invasion. Russia realised this and closed down all his schools (US sleeping??). Think about the role Al Pacino played in "The Devil's Advocate". Well this guy is worse. Believe me I am not exaggerating at all, this can be my last comment on the internet, please warn whoever you can reach

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Thursday, August 26, 2010 at 06:40 PM

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posted by: Dr McClay
Saturday, December 3, 2011 at 12:27 AM