[Skybird]

The Gulen movement tries to give itself an open-mionded, tolerant image and claims to modernise Islamic thoughts. But if you read the writings of its founder Fettulah Gulen, you soon realise that this guy was ultra-orthodox and most repressive on women, basing all his do's and dont'S on the Shariah directly. Turkey sees it as a hidden sword for something that could be called Islamic education jihad, meaning a global offensive to influence public opinion as well as individuals' attitudes in favour of orthodox Islamic values coming along under new, deceptive labels. The Turkish state is massively involved in supressing and preventing publication of critical books and reasearches on the Gulen movement, therefore.

Don't believe their smiling, "modern" surface". They are extremely orthodox in their real value basis, and are anything but "reforming" or "modern" or "tolerant". But they are acting very clever.

In Wetsern countries and Germany, the issue gets realised only slowly.

I had red some of Gulen'S work in a commented edition longer time ago. I perceived it as very underhanded a threat. It tries to anchor most archaic and fundamentalist Islamic values by relabeling them while leaving their content untouched. Again, Gulen bases all his permissions and prohibitions directly on the tradition of the Shariah. This alone should tell you all you need to know.