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Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Hillary’s Imam

Jul 18, 2016 12:38 pm By Robert Spencer

In Front Page today, I reveal the Democratic nominee’s close ties to “the Turkish Khomeini.”
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The Daily Caller on Wednesday revealed numerous ties between Hillary Clinton and members of the shadowy network surrounding Fethullah Gulen, the controversial Muslim cleric who has been called “the Turkish Khomeini,” and whom the Erdogan regime is accusing of instigating the coup that nearly toppled it on Friday.

According to the Caller, the Gulen camp has been one of Hillary’s numerous sources of cash, in exchange for which she gave access to the President: “a Gulen follower named Gokhan Ozkok asked Clinton deputy chief of staff Huma Abedin for help in connecting one of his allies to President Obama….Ozkok served as national finance co-chair of the pro-Clinton Ready PAC. He gave $10,000 to the committee in 2014 and $2,700 to Clinton’s campaign last year. He is also listed on the Turkish Cultural Center’s website as a member of the Clinton Global Initiative, one of the non-profit arms of the Clinton Foundation. He’s given between $25,000 and $50,000 to the Clinton charity.”

Ozkok wrote to Huma Abedin in 2009: “Please tell Madam Secretary that it would be great if President Obama can include a 15 minutes [sic] meeting with Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Secretary-General of the Organization of of [sic] the Islamic Conference (OIC), in his trip to Turkey.”

Obama did meet with Ihsanoglu, and later invited him to the White House. Ihsanoglu is a longtime foe of the freedom of speech; he once went so far as to liken the Danish cartoons of Muhammad to 9/11: “The Islamic world took the satirical drawings as a different version of the September 11 attacks against them.” He claimed that Muslims were “being targeted by a campaign of defamation, denigration, stereotyping, intolerance and discrimination,” and urged European legislators to criminalize “Islamophobia.”

In March 2011, Ihsanoglu gave a speech to the UN Council on Human Rights, calling upon it to set up “an Observatory at the Office of the High Commissioner to monitor acts of defamation of all religions . . . as a first step toward concerted action at the international level.” Then on April 12, 2011, the UN Council on Human Rights passed Resolution 16/18, with full support from the Obama Administration. This resolution calls upon member states to impose laws against “discriminatory” speech, or speech involving “defamation of religion.” In June 2011, Ihsanoglu said that such laws were “a matter of extreme priority” for the OIC.

As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton affirmed the Obama Administration’s support for this campaign on July 15, 2011, when she gave an address on the freedom of speech at an OIC conference on Combating Religious Intolerance. “Together,” she said, “we have begun to overcome the false divide that pits religious sensitivities against freedom of expression and we are pursuing a new approach.”

But how could both be protected? Ihsanoglu offered the answer: criminalizing what he considered to be hatred and incitement to violence. “We cannot and must not ignore the implications of hate speech and incitement of discrimination and violence.” But in restricting the freedom of speech, Clinton had a First Amendment to deal with, and so in place of legal restrictions on criticizing Islam, she suggested “old-fashioned techniques of peer pressure and shaming, so that people don’t feel that they have the support to do what we abhor.” She held a lengthy closed-door meeting with Ihsanoglu in December 2011 to facilitate the adoption of measures that would advance the OIC’s anti-free speech agenda, which amounted to an attempt to impose Sharia blasphemy laws upon the West. But what agreements she and Ihsanoglu made, if any, have never been disclosed. Hillary’s contact with Ihsanoglu was initiated by Gulen’s associate Ozkok.

That’s bad enough, but there is much more. According to the Daily Caller, “a Gulen-aligned group called the Alliance for Shared Values hired the Clinton-connected Podesta Group to lobby Congress on its behalf.” The executive director of the Alliance for Shared Values was also a Clinton donor. In fact, “numerous Gulen followers have donated to Clinton’s various political campaigns and to her family charity. One Gulen movement leader, Recep Ozkan, donated between $500,000 and $1 million to the Clinton Foundation.”

The Caller states that Gulen’s teachings are “relatively moderate and pro-Western,” but there are numerous reasons to approach such claims with skepticism. Turkey’s National Security Council condemned Gulen in 1998 for “trying to undermine the country’s secular institutions, concealing his methods behind a democratic and moderate image.”

Asia News reported in 2009 that Gulen had been “criticised by a large number of secularists who believe that underneath a veneer of humanist philosophy, Gulen plans to turn Turkey’s secular state into a theocracy. Secular Kemalists have compared him to Khomeini and fear that his return to Turkey might turn Ankara into another Tehran. The governments of Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan are also weary [sic] and suspicious of his ‘Turkish schools promoted by Islamic missionaries.’ At the basis of Gulen’s teachings is the notion that state and religion should be reconnected as they were in Ottoman times.”

Gulen and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan are former associates who are now bitter enemies, after Gulen backed a 2013 corruption probe targeting Erdogan’s regime. And so even though Erdogan has frequently been accused of wanting to destroy Turkish secularism and restore Islamic rule, his regime has leveled the same charge against Gulen, who now lives in a secluded compound in Pennsylvania. Referring to that corruption probe, Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ last January echoed the “Turkish Khomeini” charge and said that it ended up exposing Gulen’s sinister agenda:

“If there had been no Dec. 17 [corruption probe], or if it had been delayed and the Turkish people had failed to realize the power of this structure within Turkey, then Fethullah Gülen would have returned from Pennsylvania to Turkey just like Khomeini returned to Iran. Looking from this perspective, Dec. 17 was the day when Turkey said ‘no’ to such a transformation. The state and all its institutions have taken positions accordingly as they realized the danger.”

Gulen’s response to the Khomeini comparison was oddly pedantic and revealed more in what it did not say than in what it did. He noted that he was not a Shi’ite and that Turkey was not Iran, but never addressed the question of whether he, like Khomeini, would like to return to his home country and establish the rule of Islamic law (Sharia) there.

Erdogan is now accusing Gulen of fomenting the coup attempt against him. This is, however, unlikely, as the coup was apparently an attempt to stop Erdogan’s efforts to restore Islamic rule in Turkey, and much as Gulen and Erdogan hate each other, they both apparently share the view that “state and religion should be reconnected as they were in Ottoman times.”

Should Hillary Clinton ever have accepted money from organizations connected with Gulen – much less exchanged influence for it? If she becomes our next President, she is unlikely to end such unsavory associations. Those who are contemplating voting for her should consider carefully the likelihood that a vote for Hillary is a vote for…Fethullah Gulen, the Turkish Khomeini.

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  1. Michael Laudahn says

    Jul 18, 2016 at 12:48 pm

    So Erdogan considers Gülen a potential competitor for the post of grand-vizier?

    • Veka Fitzfrancis says

      Jul 20, 2016 at 2:31 pm

      For the position of sultan.

  2. somehistory says

    Jul 18, 2016 at 1:14 pm

    He has some serious eye bags there. Perhaps he’s carrying the extra cash hillary will require for making him vp.

  3. Angemon says

    Jul 18, 2016 at 1:47 pm

    Hillary and Gulen – what a lovely couple of unsavoury individuals…

  4. Don McKellar says

    Jul 18, 2016 at 2:41 pm

    There is one deep, dark pit of Islamic corruption in the Obama regime and with Hillary. There’s even a maze at the bottom.

    • Veka Fitzfrancis says

      Jul 20, 2016 at 2:32 pm

      But who is Theseus and who is the minotaur?

  5. duh swani says

    Jul 18, 2016 at 2:52 pm

    Lusting for power and money has corrupted her beyond redemption…
    But liberals will vote for her anyway…

  6. Berq says

    Jul 18, 2016 at 4:58 pm

    Americans make mistake when they elected Obama twice. they will make the same mistake again If they elected the Hillary (The Second Obama,)The president of America.

    • Sam says

      Jul 18, 2016 at 5:45 pm

      Yes. Electing Obama twice may have been the biggest mistake Americans have made in our history. If Hillary is elected, we will be Socialist States of America and we will not be able to go back to freedom again. (Definitely not in our lifetimes)

  7. Kepha says

    Jul 18, 2016 at 5:39 pm

    Erdogan accussed the participants in the failed coup of being Gulen followers. Hence, I suspect, the Kemalist influence in Turkish politics probably went out with those military officers Erdogan purged earlier in his tenure.

    As for Shrillary Shroooooooooo, my guess is that it’s probably de rigeur now for liberal pols to have a “moderate” Islamic cleric, preferably form a “moderate” country somewhere in the entourage as proof of how “broad-minded” and liberal they are. A little like supporting Sharia without having a clue about what’s in it.gives the Sharia–compliant a cover of appearing knowledgeable and broad-minded when it really gives cover to systematized supremacism and bigotry.

    • Mazo says

      Jul 20, 2016 at 6:02 pm

      Gülen is in the USA with the permission of the USA, for the ineterests of the USA to manipulate Muslims in foreign countries and promote pro American style Islam.

      Don’t pretend he won the visa lottery. If he wasn’t an asset he would have been booted out at the airport.

      • Angemon says

        Jul 20, 2016 at 7:26 pm

        Citations needed.

  8. Ali Bey says

    Jul 18, 2016 at 5:41 pm

    Best treatment for eye bags is surgery. I recommend Dr. Erdogan

  9. Champ says

    Jul 18, 2016 at 5:43 pm

    • Champ says

      Jul 18, 2016 at 5:49 pm

      Dinesh D’Souza’s new film “Hillary’s America” was just released July 15th!

      This from the Hollywood Reporter;

      http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-dinesh-dsouzas-hillarys-911803

      • linnte says

        Jul 18, 2016 at 7:29 pm

        I just know this film will blow me out of the water! So far, leaving my Leftist ideals behind has been pleasant, but this looks scary! Hahahahaha! Thanks for posting the trailer Champ.

        • Champ says

          Jul 18, 2016 at 7:53 pm

          You’re welcome, Linnte!

          And check out this review from PolitiChicks …

          “Movie Review: Dinesh D’Souza’s Hillary’s America (5 Stars out of 5!)”

          http://politichicks.com/2016/07/movie-review-dinesh-dsouzas-hillarys-america-5-stars-out-of-5/

          Excerpt:

          “I was completely blown away.

          In a speech before his film began, Dinesh described it as a horror film. He is so not kidding.

          I’ve seen all of D’Souza’s other films and while they were terrific, none can match the brilliance of this one. In every way. The production, including graphics, were outstanding, and the soundtrack – seriously, I would see it again for the music alone! It was phenomenal. D’Souza’s wife’s singing of “God Bless America” was beyond spectacular. And the Gatlin Brothers wrote and performed a song just for this movie.

          But the movie itself, from start to finish, and the story it told, is something everyone – EVERYONE – should see. Everyone. Those on the right of course, but also I challenge anyone on the left to tell me what he got wrong. Because, to me, what Dinesh did, as he always does, was TELL THE TRUTH, a truth that the left has so cunningly subverted and distorted.

          And let me tell you this: Dinesh is one of the gutsiest people out there. The making of this film, considering the (literal) punishment he received for “Obama’s America”, took such extraordinary courage it’s hard to fathom. And that it took such courage is a sign of how far we have fallen, that D’Souza spent a moment in jail when the criminal Hillary seems unindictable … it boggles the mind.”

        • linnte says

          Jul 19, 2016 at 12:04 am

          I posted the trailer on Facebook because I still have a few Leftist friends there! I hope they watch it! (They prolly won’t tell me if they do, but so many of them are really up to what Islam is and are now responding with the right words! Yippee!) God bless you Champ!

        • Champ says

          Jul 19, 2016 at 12:22 am

          “I posted the trailer on Facebook because I still have a few Leftist friends there! I hope they watch it!”

          Awesome, Linnte! God bless you, too, dear friend!

  10. Jack Diamond says

    Jul 18, 2016 at 6:02 pm

    In the 70s Gulen’s camps and schools open taught Islam, everything became more circumspect since then. He’s a smooth operator, being a billionaire helps, but he doesn’t belong in America building his “empire” and spreading his tentacles–Gulen gives to LOTS of U.S. politicians. Gulen and Erdogan, a pox on both their houses. Both are about ending secularism in Turkey.

    This highly-praised “educator” btw has all of a fifth grade formal education, but he is an Imam!
    For an insight into what Gulen is about, these are sermons he gave in 1999, out of his own mouth:

    –In 1999, Turkish television aired footage of Gülen delivering sermons to a crowd of followers in which he revealed his aspirations for an Islamist Turkey ruled by Shari‘a (Islamic law) as well as the methods that should be used to attain that goal. In the sermons, he said:

    “You must move in the arteries of the system without anyone noticing your existence until you reach all the power centers … until the conditions are ripe, they [the followers] must continue like this. If they do something prematurely, the world will crush our heads, and Muslims will suffer everywhere, like in the tragedies in Algeria, like in 1982 [in] Syria … like in the yearly disasters and tragedies in Egypt. The time is not yet right. You must wait for the time when you are complete and conditions are ripe, until we can shoulder the entire world and carry it … You must wait until such time as you have gotten all the state power, until you have brought to your side all the power of the constitutional institutions in Turkey … Until that time, any step taken would be too early—like breaking an egg without waiting the full forty days for it to hatch. It would be like killing the chick inside. The work to be done is [in] confronting the world. Now, I have expressed my feelings and thoughts to you all—in confidence … trusting your loyalty and secrecy. I know that when you leave here—[just] as you discard your empty juice boxes, you must discard the thoughts and the feelings that I expressed here.

    “The philosophy of our service is that we open a house somewhere and, with the patience of a spider, we lay our web to wait for people to get caught in the web; and we teach those who do. We don’t lay the web to eat or consume them but to show them the way to their resurrection, to blow life into their dead bodies and souls, to give them a life.”

    http://www.meforum.org/2045/fethullah-gulens-grand-ambition

    The spider & web needs to be out of the USA.

    • Sarah says

      Jul 19, 2016 at 2:55 am

      Thank you for this info Jack.

  11. Nigel GFF says

    Jul 18, 2016 at 6:10 pm

    OT

    ‘Mad’ axeman on German train, no motive, yet!

  12. commonsense says

    Jul 18, 2016 at 7:20 pm

    A vote for Clinton is also a vote for Huma Abedin, long-term Muslim Brotherhood operative.

  13. Guy Jones says

    Jul 18, 2016 at 9:21 pm

    We should send this puke back to Erdogan, to do with as he will. These two Islamists deserve each other. Birds of a feather, struggling for power. Let the two of them battle it out for the title of Allah’s most favored prophet. Either way, we’ll be rid of at least one fascist Muslim demagogue.

  14. Champ says

    Jul 18, 2016 at 10:42 pm

    During the Republican National Convention someone was holding a sign that read …

    “Hillary For Prison”

    LOL!! ..funny but TRUE!

    • linnte says

      Jul 19, 2016 at 12:07 am

      Champ, Alex Jones sells “Hillary for Prison” t shirts! hahahahaha!

      • Champ says

        Jul 19, 2016 at 1:14 am

        Good idea!!! Thank you, Linnte!

    • Angemon says

      Jul 19, 2016 at 11:51 am

      🙂

      • Champ says

        Jul 19, 2016 at 4:31 pm

        Ahaha!!! ..and standing there is a guy wearing THAT MESSAGE! Indeed, prison is the only thing Hillary rightfully deserves. Being president? ..no way!

      • Champ says

        Jul 19, 2016 at 4:38 pm

        Thanks, Angemon! 🙂

  15. Jack Diamond says

    Jul 18, 2016 at 11:49 pm

    Some nice black and white thinking. Changing sides?
    Americans, craven, cowardly, obese, slovenly devils that deserve no mercy…
    Got some ‘splaining to do, boo.

    • Sarah says

      Jul 19, 2016 at 2:35 am

      Jay Boo you have just made your case that you hate the United Sates and exposing your Islamic beliefs. You are quite clever with your words, justifying your hate as a righteous condemnation. You need to go find yourself a better country, since you think “Ameicans are devils” and deserve no mercy. Newt Gingrich is right, we don’t have to tolerate the evil of Islam in the USA.

    • Jack Diamond says

      Jul 19, 2016 at 10:32 am

      Jay Boo was hacked. This is an imposter. Muhammad’s talking donkey.

  16. Champ says

    Jul 19, 2016 at 2:49 am

    Hillary and Bill are a package deal, so think about it …Bill could be our First Man! OMG!

    Vote 4 TRUMP!

  17. vcragain says

    Jul 19, 2016 at 5:55 am

    “underneath a veneer of humanist philosophy, Gulen plans to turn Turkey’s secular state into a theocracy.” -THIS- the secrecy of intent – HIGHLIGHTS WHAT OUR BIGGEST PROBLEM IS – we cannot believe what they say because they do not consider lying to be unacceptable ! Altho politicians in general are not exactly truth tellers, this proposal of -opposite- intentions to fool the people is very scary.
    I think we are all drowning in information these days & so much pure untruth that I/we are totally confused about who actually can be trusted in any political party.
    Makes me just want to get off the planet ! I do think that the time is fast coming that the general public will turn against Islam, and the result will be very, very difficult. That will mean war against Muslims – they mostly are born into this cult & know nothing different. We desperately need a meeting of minds to figure out how to deal with this potential problem. Apart from obvious female clothing labeling someone as ‘Muslim’, we have no way to know who has a specific concept in their head, and may be getting into extremist views. Should we make a list of ‘bad’ mosques? then after a time make a list of all who go to those mosques? people would just stop going to them – but they can still ‘talk’ to each other online ! I guess this is probably about where the FBI is right now. I think something we could do is create a very powerful ‘this is what Islam says’ campaign, & tell them how to get out of Islam. A lot of them are probably too scared to leave – a campaign rather like the ‘beaten wives’ way- with ‘safe houses’ ? Tee shirts with ‘how to leave Islam’ instructions ? – placards on the subway ? See folks I am at least trying to think of ways to wake people up – Help with this !!

  18. Norger says

    Jul 19, 2016 at 9:24 am

    Americans traffic humans? No doubt there is some extremely small percentage of Americans that do, but to suggest that human trafficking is somehow “American” is way off base. “Atheists propagate their faith?!” I have no idea what that means but we are free to believe as we choose, which is a plus. “Divorce rates are high”–so what; that makes us evil?

    I love this country, including Vegas. And even with all our vices we are morally superior to any Islamic theocracy ever. Word.

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