I hope, you’ll be kind enough to keep my comment here. I am writing this because I see it as an offence to objectivity and academical writing. As someone who admires and has been reading Gulen’s writings for years, here’s my views to what you say:
1-“..this and other similar passages reveal Gülen to have been an inveterate anti-Semite at the time.” This is far from the truth and a biased reading of Gulen. He never stated anything to kill the Jews; he cursed the Hezbollah’s and other radical Islamists who used suicide bombers (and indeed gained Turkish radicals’ enmity); he advised good relations with Jewish community in Turkey (check out the relationship between Gulen and Itzak Haleva, Jak Kamhi, Ishak Alaton and Uzeyir Garih) etc. In the excerpt above her says “This intelligent tribe has put forth many things throughout history in the name of science and thought. But these have always been offered in the form of poisoned honey and have been presented to the world as such.” There is no blaming or humiliating here, it is an assesment. Moreover, he says “Just as God unleashes the hawk to evolve the sparrow’s capability for flight, with the Jews He keeps humans alert and under tension.” Is this an offensive remark that can lead anti-semitism? How come?
2-“..His views on women, Christians, and Americans were not much better. To justify wife-beating, albeit as a last resort, Gülen asked rhetorically: if it would do some good for one woman out of a hundred, why would Islam prohibit it?” On women and Chrisitians, his views are only compatible with Islam and Prophet Mohammed’s remarks, nothing more. In other words, criticizing these views means criticizing Islam, and indeed you are free to do so. But, saying that these are his thoughts and his interpretations is totally wrong and biased. As for his views on America, as a patriot American you are free to say anything and anyone should respect to you in your defending your country. But then, you should answer this, what is your business and preoccupation with Turkish politics and a trial in Turkey as a patriot American citizen? Do you follow them and write this blog along with your academic identity or with a personal affiliation related to your father-in-law? Of course this is not a crime, but it surely vanishes your and this sites academic and objective credibility.
3-“Jews will maintain their existence until the apocalypse. And shortly before the apocalypse, their mission of acting as the coil spring for humanity’s progress will come to an end, and they will prepare their end with their own hands.” This is not a prophecy, it is the restatement of Prophet Mohammed’s words. You can find even worse remarks on Jews in Koran, which were never interpreted by Gulen, in order not to arouse negative feelings against the Jews in Turkey, because we live together.
4-“Their incurable enmity to Islam and Muslims aside, these people, which look with scorn upon even their own prophets and killed many among them, will finally end up in the position of Nazis and will look for a place to hide in the four corners of the earth.” Unfortunately the first part of the sentence is true. What the state of Israel is doing to Palestinians is exactly what Nazis did to Jews ( eg. genocide, forcing to live reservations, illegally detentions, people diasappearing, use of disproportionate force etc). This is a reading of history, you may agree or disagree, but you cannot say this is wrong or that is right. Noone gives you this right to infer antisemitism from this.
5-“Interestingly, Gülen’s writings from the 1990s also contain detailed discussions of how to deal with the Christian world when Muslims are weak and not yet able to vanquish their opponents.” This is not true, I read many works of Gulen and am aware of his sermons. To say that, you need proof, excerpts or parts from sermons.
6-“We have little doubt that the vast majority of Gülen’s followers have nothing to do with these tactics and would not condone them. But they are being ill-served by the movement’s leaders, whose own deception and hypocrisy are the movement’s worse enemy.” Movements’s leaders? Who are they? How do they ill-serve? Please be more spesific. Give names and examples. Even if it is so, Gulen must be the most sophisticated villain conspirator that the history has ever witnessed because he mesmerized millions of students, businessmen, politicians, academics all from different nationalities in order to support and act in thousands of educational institutions in Turkey and abroad, financial, social, cultural non-profit organizations plus a leading newspaper in Turkey. This is far, far, far from probability. I suggest you to pay visits to some of these institutions, without notice if you may. Use hidden cameras or tapes. I know what I suggest doesn’t sound right, but what I mean is, you can’t know someone if you don’t wear her/his shoes. Try to understand them by knowing them. I wish you could do that.. This is the bottom line I get from years of my Gulen experience.