Charter schools in America: breeding ground for Islamists and jihadists

We have, in Oregon charter schools as do many other states.  They are a good alternative to regular public schools and offer a different, albeit complete cirriculum for the student.  They provide not only the three R's, they also provide Islamic indoctrination.  Charter schools must fall under the same scrutiny, and follow the sam rules as regular public schools, as they get public funding.  Over 9 billion a year of our tax dollars go to charter schools, how much of that goes to train future jihadists?


From PRonlineNews March 19 by Gadi Adelman

Girls made to wear religious clothes at charter schools

Charter Schools have become increasingly popular in the United States. What are they really teaching when girls are made to wear religious clothing at Charter Schools. Is this legal. education or indoctrination?
According to the website U.S. Charter Schools there are 4691 charter schools currently operating in the U.S. with a total of 1,419,996 students enrolled. Since charter schools started in 1991, 40 states, as well as the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico have signed into law charter school legislation.
The Center for Education Reform 2008 annual survey of charter schools explains:

• Fifty-nine percent of survey respondents said they have significant waiting lists, averaging 198 students in length.
• Despite receiving fewer resources, charter schools offer longer school days, longer school years, and innovative curricula not available in conventional public schools.
• Even though they are public schools and should receive the same amount of federal, state and local funds, charter schools receive nearly 40 percent less funding than other public schools.

They accomplish more with less. The schools are so popular they have waiting lists just to get in. Sounds like a place I would like to send my children.

(.)Section ‘D’ of the Department of Education “No Child Left Behind- Charter School Program – Non-Regulatory Guidance” states in part:

D-1. May a charter school be religious in nature?

No. As public schools, charter schools must be non-religious in their programs, admissions policies, governance, employment practices and all other operations, and the charter school’s curriculum must be completely secular. As with other public schools, charter schools may not provide religious instruction, but they may teach about religion from a secular perspective.

It further explains:

D-2. May charter schools use public funds to support religious programs or activities?

No. All activities of a charter school must be non-religious, as is the case for all public schools. Public funds may not be used for religious purposes or to encourage religious activity. In addition, even if funded by non-public sources, religious activity may not be conducted, promoted, or encouraged during charter school activities by charter school employees or by other persons working with charter schools.

Okay, so why is this important? Allow me to introduce to you the Gulen Charter Schools.

(.)Currently, Gulen has over 100 Charter public schools operating in 20 states; this is according to Charter School Watchdog website:

The network of publicly-funded Gulen charter schools in the United States, now estimated as numbering well over a hundred, serves the Gulen Movement’s economic, political and ideological goals in several ways.

So who is Gulen? The Middle East Forum published an article on this in 2009. It said in part, born in Erzurum, Turkey, in 1942, Fethullah Gülen is an imam who considers himself a prophet.

Gülen was a student and follower of Sheikh Sa’id-i Kurdi (1878-1960), also known as Sa’id-i Nursi, the founder of the Islamist Nur (light) movement.

The core of Gülen’s network is his educational institutions. Nurettin Veren, Gülen’s right-hand man for thirty-five years, estimated that some 75 percent of Turkey’s two million preparatory school students are enrolled in Gülen institutions. His school network is impressive. He controls thousands of top-tier secondary schools, colleges, and student dormitories throughout Turkey, as well as private universities, the largest being Fatih University in Istanbul. Outside Turkey, his movement runs hundreds of secondary schools and dozens of universities in 110 countries worldwide. Gülen’s aim is not altruistic: His followers target youth in the eighth through twelfth grades, mentor and indoctrinate them in the ışıkevi, educate them in the Fethullah schools, and prepare them for future careers in legal, political, and educational professions in order to create the ruling classes of the future Islamist, Turkish state. Taking their orders from Fethullah Gülen, wealthy followers continue to open schools and ışıkevi in what Sabah columnist Emre Aköz called “the education jihad.”

But more than the indoctrination and “the education jihad” is this interesting statement by Veren:

“These schools are like shop windows. Recruitment and Islamization activities are carried out through night classes … Children whom we educated in Turkey are now in the highest positions. There are governors, judges, military officers. There are ministers in the government. They consult Gülen before doing anything.”

So what is happening here in the U.S. Schools? In researching Gulen and his network of schools, I found more material than I could possibly read in a week’s time.
A Google search of “Gulen Movement” returns over 66,000 hits, searching “Gulen Institute” returns over 85,000. As usual, I like to deal in facts, so here are some facts.
The Harmony Parent Truth website re-posted an article in February exposing a federal investigation into the Gulen Movement’s involvement in charter schools. This had been published in Il Sole 24 Ore (considered to be The Wall Street Journal of Italian newspapers): Un imam alla conquista degli Usa. The article states in part,

NEW YORK – A Muslim religious movement wants to conquer America. In fact, in a sense it has already conquered and no one has yet noticed. Nothing to do with al-Qaeda, terrorism or Islamic fundamentalism. We speak of a sect that is rather mysterious – so much so that it has been called the Muslim Opus Dei – founded in Turkey in the 1970s by an imam named Fethullah Gülen. And noted rather for its moderation.

Since each of these schools receives from 1.5 to 3 million dollars each year in public funds, it is a matter of hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

An analysis of work permits for teachers reveals that between just 2007 and 2009, the “Gulen” schools requested and were granted 1,851 visas in three years, more than some major American corporations such as Motorola and Google.

The article goes on to explain that federal authorities have documents and emails that prove a link to another group known as Hizmet....

There is so much more to read.  Be aware of the charter schools around you and ask questions. This is stealth jihad in it's finest form.