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Feds investigating charter schools for ties to Muslim group
Bill Bumpas - OneNewsNow - 3/29/2011 4:25:00 AM
Federal agencies are reportedly investigating a large American charter school operation for possible financing of a Muslim movement in Turkey.

Followers of Fethulla Gulen, a major Islamic political figure in Turkey now living in Pennsylvania, have opened some 140 charter schools across the U.S. Several sources report the FBI and the U.S. Departments of Labor and Education are investigating whether some school employees are kicking back part of their salaries to a Muslim movement founded by Gulen.

Randy McDaniel of the Jacksonville, Florida chapter of ACT! for America, who has been following this charter school operation for some time, says school children across the U.S. are receiving Islamic indoctrination.

"And what you have to understand [is] that in Islam there is no separation from sharia or Islam from culture -- it's all one and wrapped into one," he explains. "Under Islamic law, or sharia law, they dictate every aspect of your life, and it's not just religion. Religion is a small piece of the pie but it's your social life, your personal life, your military, your economics -- all of it ties in and falls under Islamic law."

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McDaniel argues that Gulen and his schools need to be stopped. "Obviously this is a dangerous man who has a dangerous ideology," he warns, "and according to them they're obviously using it to influence and indoctrinate our children. So I would hope that these schools would eventually be eradicated and closed down in America, personally."

These charter schools receive millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars.

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