‘Gülen movement has a specific mission’

Taha Akyol
Taha Akyol


Date posted: June 10, 2014

TAHA AKYOL

 

… If the [Fethullah] Gülen movement were a small, ineffective community, the AKP would never have disturbed it. Or if the Gülen movement had acted in full cooperation with the government, such a conflict wouldn’t have occurred. But the Gülen movement has a specific mission. What is that mission?
They seek to obtain the pleasure of God by leading good religious lives and engaging in educational and social services. The AKP, on the other hand, wants to improve its political power and political services to earn prestige and thus become good religious people and earn the pleasure of God.
Naturally, the diverging paths have led to conflict. Such things have occurred in the past, and a typical example is the Battle of Siffin. An AKP supporter should answer this question: Which side was the “parallel structure” on in the Battle of Siffin?

Excerpted from the interview made with Mr. Akyol, published on Today’s Zaman, 09 June 2014, Monday

Source: Todays Zaman , June 9, 2014

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