"Gülen tops intellectuals list
With all due respect, Mr. Gülen cannot be the top in that list. It looks like Muslims mobilized themselves to occupy the top 10. As if there is a grand intellectual revolution going on in the Islamic world. I was never impressed with his religious thought, he is much more duller than Said Nursi whom Mr. Gülen follows. I never felt any closeness to the promoted idea of tolerance, his followers declare. But of course who can deny the network he creatively built and i am not also scared with it as some secularists are. Whatever the intention was, his educational initiatives worked for good for many poor kids. I believe the most innovative part of Mr. Gülen's movement is the creative use of educational institutions all over the world. His religious thought is a lightly nationalistic and highly Sunni. There is nothing new there. No religious innovation.
But of course, I have to admit, I find it very exciting to see that in the last 2-3 years Mr. Gülen's movement is involved directly in intelligence battles in Turkey. This is at least what the claim is and i find it quite substantive. The Gülen group had always chosen to be behind the scenes and never acted publicly. But things changed and there are rumors that most of the leaked documents (i.e. the coup preparation diaries or generals' phone talks) come thru their channel. One may never prove this, but this is already commen-sense around here. Gülen group now dares to counter-act. I find this as a balancing act in power relations and I look forward to seeing more of leaked documents:)
Turkish cleric Gülen tops intellectuals list
Western readers are likely to learn a few new names by checking out the final results of the Foreign Policy/Prospect poll of the World's Top Public Intellectuals. In an unprecedented development, all of the top 10 are Muslims, some of whom are barely known in the United States. No result was more surprising than our winner-by-a-landslide, Fethullah Gülen.
The Western media has never known quite what to make of this Turkish religious leader, who lives in exile near Philadelphia. He is described alternately as a leading voice for moderation and education in the Muslim world or the second coming of Ayatollah Khomeini. But, as we've learned here at FP, the passion and dedication of of his supporters is impressive, to say the least. After an article on the poll appeared in Turkey's Zaman newspaper, the avalanche of votes for Gülen began...
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