Fethullah Gulen Tolerance, Dialogue and Peace
In a recent response to Der Spiegel’s attack on Fethullah Gulen, Ihsan Yilmaz clears the numerous misconceptions and obvious untruths. It is unfortunate that main stream media outlets are able to use information from ‘unknown’ sources or information that does not rely upon serious critical research or analysis. It would appear they are merely reflecting the authors own pre-conceived prejudices.
The piece argues that Gülen tolerates no dissent. A quick search in the internet will show that thousands of people with their true identities keep writing libelous columns, blogs, books and pieces about Gülen and the Hizmet movement. Let alone dissenting him they openly denigrate him and insult him. What happened to these people? Nothing. The books are available on the bookshelves and their authors freely live in Turkey. The authors that the piece mentions are accused of being members of a terrorist organization and their trials are continuing. Their books about Gülen do not contain anything new about Gülen. If the Turkish judiciary is dealing with these people because of their books on Gülen, it would deal with other authors who wrote such books at earlier times and ones who keep publishing new ones…
