Foreign Infiltration of American Education System

FOREIGN ISLAMIC INFLUENCE

Harmony Charter Schools:

Who is Fethullah Gulen and

what is the Gulen Movement?

Fethullah Gulen is the most powerful religious leader in Turkey today, even though he lives in Pennsylvania.

Since the 1970s, Gulen and his followers have slowly built up a network of educational institutions, non-governmental organizations and businesses that started in Turkey, spread to Central Asia, and now is entrenched in every continent but Antarctica. This network is called the Gulen Movement. It is extremely secretive, and many of its members (the "Gulenists") and organizations will not even openly admit their affiliation. Publicly, the Gulen Movement advertises itself as a grassroots volunteer civil society movement that is interested only in humanitarian and educational works. Its members like to stress that it is loosely organized with no central coordination. Outside observers have noted, however, that it is in fact hierarchical and authoritarian, and has political, religious and economic goals. Psychological pressure tactics appear to be used in recruiting young people as members (such tactics are described in these statements of ex-members, in Dutch, on the website of NOVA, a TV news program in the Netherlands. An English translation can be found here.)

FOREIGN CHINESE INFLUENCE

Confucius Institute: At most major USA universities

Note - In the incipient cold war with China, however, the critical discourse has shifted from academic freedom to spying – having been taken over from the academics and universities by conservative politicians and state security agencies. Responding to pressure from Texas congressmen, Texas A&M University recently shut down its Confucius Institute.

(I had personal experience with this Dept. Confucius Institute at TAMU)

There are presently upward of 100 Confucius Institutes embedded in American colleges and universities, and many more Confucius classrooms in American K-12 schools. Funded by the Chinese government, their activities commonly include courses in Chinese language and culture taught by personnel likewise supplied by the People’s Republic.

Note - From personal experience I am fairly certain that ALL local Directors of each Confucius Institute branch are Chinese Gov agents who report to the nearest Chinese Embassy or Consulate.

Likewise, every (CSSA) Chinese Students and Scholars Association branch is controlled/handled by the nearest Embassy/Consulate. CSSA student presidents report to the Embassy/Consulate regularly.

(no main website for CSSA, each univ. branch has its own)

https://turkishinvitations.weebly.com/who-is-fethullah-gulen-and-what-is-the-gulen-movement.html

https://turkishinvitations.weebly.com/list-of-us-schools.html

https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2018/07/26/confucius-institutes-function-propaganda-arms-chinese-government-opinion

http://studentinvolvement.orgsync.com/org/wsucssa/home