Muslim Brotherhood most powerful organization?

PBS correspondent in Video:
There are more than a 1000 Gülen-inspired schools and universities in over 100 countries.

TIME
There are an estimated 1,000 Gulen-affiliated schools in 100 countries — from Malawi to the U.S. — offering a blend of religious faith and largely Western curriculum.
All are inspired by Gulen, an enigmatic retired preacher who oversees the schools — and a multibillion-dollar business empire — from the unlikeliest of locales: rural Pennsylvania.
Read more: Turkish Imam Gulen's School Movement: Modern Islam? - TIME

Universities:
Fatih University, Istanbul (TURKEY)
Fatih Üniversitesi

International Antalya University, Antalya (TURKEY)
ULUSLARARASI ANTALYA ÜN?VERS?TES?

Ishik University, Erbil (IRAQ)
Ishik University

Suleyman Demirel University, Almaty (KAZAKHSTAN)
Suleyman Demirel University

Nigerian Turkish Nile University, Abuje (NIGERIA)
Our Vision and Mission

Black Sea University, Tblisi (GEORGIA)
International Black Sea University

Ataturk-Alatoo University, Bishkek (KYRGIZISTAN)
Uluslararas? Atatürk-Alatoo Üniversitesi

Turkmen Turkish University, Ashgabat (TURKMENISTAN)
University soccer club is Champion of 2006, 2007, and 2009 seasons; and owner of Presidential Cup in 2007 and 2008
www.bashkenteducation.com
 
STRATFOR
The Gulenist international footprint comprises 1,000 private schools spanning 115 countries, including 35 African countries.
These Gulenist schools can be found in small towns everywhere from Ethiopia, Bosnia, Cambodia, India, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Cote d’Ivoire, Azerbaijan — and even the United States, where according to some estimates, the movement runs more than 90 charter public schools in at least 20 states.

Like their counterparts in Turkey, the facilities and quality of instruction at these schools are excellent, making them attractive places for elite families of various ethnicities to send their children to receive an education.
Gulenist businessmen provide the majority of these schools’ funding. Such donors have given a portion of their incomes to schools in an assigned region in exchange for help finding business deals.
The teachers of the schools are typically devout Gulenist followers willing to live far away from home in foreign lands for what they see as the greater mission of the Gulenist cause.

The curriculum at these schools includes math, science, and Turkish- and English-language instruction, but there is a deeper agenda involved than pedagogy.
Graduates of these schools can usually speak Turkish fluently, have been exposed to Turkish culture and history, and are prepared for careers in high places.
In regions like Africa and Central Asia in particular, where quality education is difficult to come by, the children of the political elites who attend these schools usually have developed a deep affinity for Turkish culture.
As a result, the Gulenists are able to raise a generation of diplomats, security professionals, economists and engineers who are more likely to take Turkish national interests into account when they reach positions of influence.
Free Article for Non-Members | STRATFOR
 
How the Gulen Movement operates economically:

TUSKON is tightly linked into the Gulen movement and forms an integral part of the Gulenist business, education, political and even foreign intelligence agenda. The business association organizes massive business conferences in various parts of the globe attended by high-level AKP officials that aim to bring hundreds of Turkish businessmen into contact with their foreign counterparts. While there are variations to how the Gulenist business cycle works, the following is a basic example:

A small-business owner from the eastern Anatolian city of Gaziantep makes a living manufacturing and selling shirt buttons. A Gulenist invites the buttonmaker to a TUSKON business conference in Africa, where he will be put into contact with a shirtmaker from Tanzania who will buy his buttons. The Turkish buttonmaker and the Tanzanian shirtmaker are then incorporated into a broader supply chain that provides both with business across continents, wherever the Gulenists operate. In short, the Anatolian buttonmaker can expand his business tenfold or more if he belongs to the Gulenist network. In return, the Gulen movement will ask the buttonmaker to provide financial support for the development of Gulenist programs and schools in Tanzania. The end result is a well-oiled and well-financed business and education network spanning 115 countries across the globe.
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If a problem erupts in a country in Central Asia, for example, where press freedoms are nonexistent and information is extremely difficult to come by, the Foreign Ministry can tap local Gulenist contacts for information and to facilitate government contacts. Gulenists abroad often learn local languages, allowing them to act as Turkish translators. They have also developed close relationships with foreign governments through their work as well as their students, who often are sons and daughters of the local political elite.

Free Article for Non-Members | STRATFOR

PBS video says, that a businessman gives about 10% of his earnings to the movement.
Estimates of non-businessmen members range from 1-5 million, who also do donate.
A part of the Turkish economy is directly financing the movement.
I won't post here developments regarding Turkish economic growth, I have discussed that elsewhere and is available in other threads for people interested.
The economy grows and the Gulen grows with the economy.


TUSKON
Represents 14.844 Entrepeuners
TUSKON | Tuskon Hakkýnda
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USA

Quietly established over the past decade by a loosely affiliated group of Turkish-American educators, these 100 or so publicly funded charter schools in 25 states are often among the top-performing public schools in their towns.

The schools educate as many as 35,000 students — taken together they'd make up the largest charter school network in the USA — and have imported thousands of Turkish educators over the past decade.
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The Turkish-affiliated schools focus on math and science and often appear as top scorers on standardized tests.

Objectives of charter schools with Turkish ties questioned - USATODAY.com
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/w...d2ee30fabe27b448&ex=1210132800&pagewanted=all
Turkish Schools Offer Pakistan a Gentler Vision of Islam
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“Whatever the West has of science, let our kids have it,” said Erkam Aytav, a Turk who works in the new schools. “But let our kids have their religion as well.”

That approach appeals to parents in Pakistan, who want their children to be capable of competing with the West without losing their identities to it.
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Murat Belge, a prominent Turkish intellectual who has experience with the movement, said that Mr. Gulen “sincerely believes that he has been chosen by God,” and described Mr. Gulen’s followers as “Muslim Jesuits” who are preparing elites to run the country.

Hakan Yavuz, a Turkish professor at the University of Utah who has had extensive experience with the Gulen movement, offered a darker assessment.
“The purpose here is very much power,” Mr. Yavuz said.
“The model of power is the Ottoman Empire and the idea that Turks should shape the Muslim world.”
 
The New Republic | Fethullah Gülen And International Islam
The Global Imam
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Even as the movement has sprouted numerous organizations and companies, the schools have remained at the center of the Gülen orbit. Starting with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Gülen dispatched his students to the former Soviet republics of Central Asia, where he rightly suspected that they might find some post-communist youths in need of religion. But it is not just Central Asia that hosts Gülen schools. They also exist in far-flung Muslim countries like Indonesia, Sudan, and Pakistan, as well as mostly non-Muslim countries like Mexico and Japan. In total, according to Ebaugh, Gülenists operate over 1,000 explicitly secular schools and universities in more than 100 countries. They emphasize science and technology, teach the Turkish language, and, by many accounts, are very good schools. Gülenist businessmen build these institutions and sponsor scholarships to them. Whenever you ask who’s funding anything, Gülenists reply “a group of Turkish businessmen,” “a Turkish businessman,” “a Turkish-American businessman,” or “our Turkish friends.”
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Turkey doesn’t yet have the broader political, economic, and cultural footprint to follow through on this, but one can wonder whether there is a longer game being played--that the movement is putting Turkey on the map culturally and in advance of a greater Turkish economic and political presence in the longer term.
 
Germany

PEW Forum
In Germany, the European country with the strongest Gülen presence, there are at least a dozen of these schools and more than 150 smaller educational and cultural centers.
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To some extent, the polarized views concerning Fethullah Gülen and his followers stem from the fact that the movement does not easily fit into existing categories of religious organizations in the Muslim world. The movement’s rapid expansion is also a factor in the increased scrutiny: The larger the movement grows, the more scrutiny it attracts, particularly in the West

Muslim Networks and Movements in Western Europe - Gülen Movement - Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life

Mo' money, mo' problems.
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/12/us/12iht-gulen.html?pagewanted=2
“This is not a type of Islam which wants to create protective spaces for the vulnerable and the marginalized, but rather to control, to be in power, like Opus Dei,” said Hakan Yavuz, a political science professor at the University of Utah who has written about the movement.
Opus Dei is an ultra-conservative Catholic organization.


The schools participate in the Olympiads of Turkish Language
They sing Turkish folklore songs and dance Turkish folklore dances
Moderate Islamic Movement in Turkey Makes Mark with Language Olympiads | EurasiaNet.org
"This organization will transform Turkey from a regional power to a world state," enthused Ali Agaoglu, the CEO of one of Turkey's biggest construction companies.
Known to be no great fan of the movement, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan even offered unstinting praise recently.
"These days, when I go abroad, I see our flag flying not just in our embassies," he told the audience at the Istanbul gala night, where he had been invited to make a speech. "I see it in the schools too, and that makes me proud."


Benjamin from Texas (America) reading Turkish poem
 
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foreignaffairs.com | Foreign Affairs
And the Sufi-inspired Gülen Movement, led by Fethullah Gülen, a popular Turkish cleric, has opened over 1,000 schools from Asia to Africa, with the goal of creating a generation of students well versed in the secular sciences and a distinctively Turkish form of Islam.

(...) this new, independent-minded Turkey is here to stay.
(...) The new Muslim entrepreneurial middle class, which emerged thanks to Özal's free-market revolution of the 1980s, already outnumbers and economically outperforms the staunchly secular old elite (...) and its vision is likely to guide Turkey in the years to come.
 
the brotherhood is a peaceful organization, part of the religion of peace. unless one is a jew, christian, infidel, kafir, unbeliever, or apostate... then all bets are off

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