These problems are also much in evidence in three Gulen charter schools in Fulton County, Ga.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: How Muslim proselytizing creeps into public schools
The Loudoun County School Board is not the first to be subjected to the Gulen bait-and-switch.
For one, the Gulen schools are said to be under investigation by the FBI.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: A Turkish 'Trojan Horse' for Loudoun?
In addition, they know it will be hard to pin a charge on Mr Gulen.
Back in St Petersburg, clean young Mr Datsuk says he has never heard of Mr Gulen.
Even in Pakistan, pupils at Gulen schools learn Turkish songs, as well as benefiting from gleaming science labs.
Even Fethullah Gulen, Turkey's most influential Muslim cleric, has lambasted the flotilla organisers.
Some pretty level-headed Turks think that Mr Gulen's Fetullahcilar are doing remarkably well.
But those associated with it, in this country at least, are assiduously secretive about their connections to Imam Gulen or his enterprise.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: A Turkish 'Trojan Horse' for Loudoun?
His ambitions are bolstered by members of Turkey's largest Islamic fraternity, led by a moderate Muslim cleric, Fetullah Gulen, who lives in America.
And one reason why Mr Ecevit has a soft spot for Mr Gulen is that the religious leader can help to deliver votes.
Mr Gulen was then touted as a moderate fellow who combined his religion with a healthy dose of Turkish nationalism and capitalist spirit.
Some argue that Turkey's most influential Islamic brotherhood, led by Fethullah Gulen, a Pennsylvania-based imam, can be seen behind the recent wave of arrests.
The briefing also presented the attached letter to the Loudoun School Board by Mary Addi, a former teacher in a Gulen school in Cleveland, Ohio.
These issues have affected other Gulen charter schools around the country.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: How Muslim proselytizing creeps into public schools
He was to address a gathering organised by followers of Turkey's most powerful Sunni cleric, Fetullah Gulen, who has long preached friendship between Turks and Iraqi Kurds.
Mr Bahceli has drawn further ire by hinting that Turkey's largest and most influential Islamic fraternity, led by Fethullah Gulen, a Pennsylvania-based cleric, was responsible for the videos.
Still, if the Gulen message is well received in the West, that is partly because the message from other Muslim networks (leaving aside the ones that openly espouse terror) is often so dark.
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More to the point, Gulen is the reclusive and highly autocratic leader of a global media, business, "interfaith dialogue" and education empire said to be worth many billions and that is run from a compound in the Poconos.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: A Turkish 'Trojan Horse' for Loudoun?
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