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Honorary President Fethullah Gulen:Two new web sites highlighting the views and writings of Fethullah Gulen and those who have been inspired by his ideas.
http://www.fethullah-gulen.org http://www.fethullah-gulen.net
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"In the last 10 years, about 170 newspapers have closed in the USA. And it’s out of 400 newspapers. So it’s a pretty significant problem and challenge for industry. The flipside of it is that there also has never been a better time to be in the news business, by that I mean there have never been more readers of news period than there are now. It just so happens that a large number of them consume news online, rather in true printer publications."
"I would agree that there is a clash of civilizations in the world, but it is not a clash between Muslims and the west and between Chinese and the west or between Hindus and Muslims. Rather the real clash is between those who are committed to a view of human society that honors individual freedom and those who are committed to view of society that focuses on communal obligation and conformity to a communal ideal."
"The basic thesis of the book is that women are emerging as leaders in the world of religion, just as they are in many other professions and walks of life across the board and it’s a trend that I think needs to be noted."
"As a Muslim living now in America I am often challenged how very rarely we hear good news about the great work of many many Muslim leaders not just in America but around the world to promote dialogue to promote tolerance and build this bridges." 
"Just as smoking triggers lung cancer, foreign occupation triggers both secular and religious attackers." 
"What’s happening today in the US and in Turkey is the fact that both are democracies which is usually a good thing, but when it comes to democracies in which there are nationalist and populist forces, there gonna be problems. I think what we are seeing today is almost mere images of each other."
"As I look across the world the challenges that we face internationally actually are not that much different than the ones we face domestically in terms of people understanding each other, working across different lines and thinking about ways to do that involve non-violence, education and openness to dialogue."
"Jihad literally means struggle, so it is an intellectual struggle, spiritual struggle, service struggle, struggle to purify yourself struggle to serve others, but the last struggle, which somehow moved to the very first step in modern times, is a struggle to defend yourself if you are under attack and only state officials can determine when it’s time to fight to defend its borders."
"... the election was very much a reaction against not only certain policies of the Obama administration but more so a reaction against the general condition of the country that many people perceive is on the wrong track right now and typically what happens in the US elections of course is that the party in power whether fair or not gets the blame." 
"I think [one thing] that stood out for me... is that you guys are crazy! ...I just thought that, right at the middle I mean not nowhere, but geographically nowhere in the sense there is no geographic preference to where you build the school. I just thought it was crazy... Crazy like Jesus Christ; crazy like Abraham; crazy like Mahatma Gandhi; crazy like Rumi; crazy like Martin Luther King; crazy like Nelson Mandela... to think outside of the box."
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