Parents dream of their children being admitted to Turkish schools in Senegal

Senegal is a predominantly Muslim country (99 percent of its 15 million people are Muslim). This developing African nation, which has a long coastline along the Atlantic Ocean, was a French colony for many years; the official language in the country is still French. Senegal has a strong influence over all other African nations.

The Gulen Movement: An Islamic Response to Terror as a Global Challenge (1)

Ibrahim A. el-Hussari*

The Gulen Movement: An Islamic Response to Global Challenges

Inspired by the Turkish Nursi Movement, M. Fethullah Gulen was among the few Muslim leaders, across the world, whose response to the challenges posed by global instability had been presented prior to the 9/11 attacks against New York and Washington. In fact, Gulen had already placed his movement in the context of accepting to meet the local and global challenges in a world defined, if not actually controlled, by the worldviews of secularists and their strong hold of the state and its functions in almost all the fields of human activity including: free trade, human rights, democratic institutions, international law (etc). In short, if a state is to be accepted as a sovereign equal, it must ape the Western model of the state or else it potentially faces being labeled ‘rogue.’