60 Minutes" to Air Report on Turkish Charter School Cleric Tied to Bob
Filner
Just in time for the final stretch of San Diego's race for mayor, the CBS
news magazine 60 Minutes is airing a report this coming Sunday about a
controversial Turkish spiritual leader, followers of whom, records show, have
contributed money to the mayoral campaign of Democratic congressman Bob Filner.
The Muslim scholar, Fethullah Gulen, leads a worldwide movement that has
been heavily involved in creating high-tech charter schools around the world
and has both backers and detractors.
As we reported in March of last year, Filner
visited Turkey in late December 2010, courtesy of a nonprofit corporation called
the Pacifica Institute:
"Highlights, according to the itinerary, included a stop at Topkapi
Palace, lunch at Sultan Ahmet Square, a visit to the Karakoy Jewish Foundation
Museum, capturing '700 years of amiable relations between Jews and Turks,' and
a December 25 shopping tour of the Grand Bazaar, 'one of the largest and oldest
covered markets in the world, with more than 58 covered streets and over 1200
shops.… Many of the stalls in the bazaar are grouped by type of goods, with
special areas for leather coats, gold jewelry and the like.'"
Filner took another tour paid for by Pacifica, this one with stops in
Istanbul and northern Iraq, in April 2011, according to a travel disclosure he
filed with the House a year ago this month.
The congressman subsequently wielded a pair of scissors at the 2011
ribbon-cutting for the new Washington headquarters of the Turkic American
Alliance, an event videoed and posted on the group's YouTube page.
A
LESSON LEARNED FOR ALL AMERICAN POLITICANS THAT ACCEPT BRIBE MONEY FROM THE
TURKISH GULEN MOVEMENT AND LOBBYING. BOB
FILNER HAS HAD TO STEP DOWN AS MAYOR OF SAN DIEGO
BECAUSE
OF SCANDALS AMONG THEM IS SEXUAL HARASSMENT.
EX San Diego
Mayor Bob Filner charged with Felony and false imprisonment
Former San Diego Mayor Bob Filner pleaded guilty on Tuesday to
felony false imprisonment and two misdemeanor counts of battery involving three
women, just weeks after he left office amid a storm of sexual harassment
allegations.
The plea came in California state Superior Court. Prosecutors
did not elaborate on the details of the allegations to which Filner pleaded
guilty. The victims were identified only as Jane Does. Filner's attorney, Jerry
Coughlan, said none of the victims were employees.
Filner, 71, did not address reporters but Coughlan said the
former mayor "profusely apologizes" for his behavior.
"I think he wants to redeem his original legacy, which was
a wonderful one, and put this behind him," Coughlan said.
YET
THIS LOSS OF THE GULEN MOVEMENT’S TOOL IN SAN DIEGO DIDN’T STOP THEM FROM
APPLYING FOR A NEW CHARTER SCHOOL IN San Diego county called “Magnolia Science
Academy-Next Generation”
See petition to the SDUSD here
