Reuven Firestone
By Reuven Firestone
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Opinion My Meeting With Fethullah Gülen, the Man Accused of Plotting Turkey’s Coup
Last month, I met with Fethullah Gülen, “the man behind the coup,” according to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey, who accuses this reclusive cleric of being the brains behind the failed coup last summer in Turkey. Since 1999 Gülen has lived in exile from his homeland in a small compound converted out of an…
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Opinion No, Pamela Geller, the Qur’an Is Not Anti-Semitic
Pamela Geller, left; Qur’an, right / Getty Images Soon you will see ads, courtesy of Pamela Geller, in the New York City subway system that state, “Islamic Jew-Hatred: It’s in the Qur’an.” Is she right? It’s easy to understand why many Jews might think so. Anti-Semitism has become a frightening force in much of the…
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