Islamic evangelists

摘要

Viktor datsuk, a Russian teenager, says he is much luckier than his old pals. These days he is off the booze and the cigarettes. He is fluent in English and Turkish. He can handle computers. And all of this is thanks to the Turkish-Russian high school in St Petersburg, from which he recently graduated. This boys-only school is run by an Islamic brotherhood called the Fetullah-cilar ("disciples of Fetul-lah"), named after its leader, Fetullah Gulen, better known to his millions of Turkish followers as Hoca Efendimiz. Now the brotherhood is spreading its wings beyond Turkey and the former Soviet republics, where it already has nearly 300 schools. It also has Africa, South Asia and even Australia on the list.