Outdoor Pool - Casa Dorada Los Cabos Resort & Spa
Photo Credit: MyMotels

This is our fifth day at the Casa Dorado Resort on Medano Beach in Cabo San Lucas. I'm not a big beach or pool enthusiast and as I wrote earlier, I'm perfectly copacetic in a mini-pool.

One of the reasons I enjoy hot-tubs is that they're normally small, so I'm not disturbed by hundreds of swimmers splashing and gamboling about. I like to relax and sit still. My wife told me there was a large jacuzzi less than a minute from our room. It was large indeed, big enough for at least 30 people although the sign said only 15 could be in the jacuzzi at one time.

Fortunately for me, the resort is less than half filled and the jacuzzi is empty of souls most of the time. But today was different: two young 12 year-old Bosnian girls slipped into the hot water and jabbered to each other in Bosnian (which was called Serbo-Croatian when I went through Bosnia in 1968). I recognized the language because I speak Polish and Bosnian is a Slavic language which means there are many words similar in Bosnian and Polish. For example, kuhati, gluho, suho, lahko, čitalac, meaning cooking, deaf, dry, easy, reader are almost the same as the Polish words with the same meaning. A Polish person would have an easy time learning to speak Bosnian.

I assumed the girls were not Bosnian Muslims since both of them wore bikinis. But I digress.

When the water-jets stopped, one of the Bosnian girls turned to me and in perfect English asked me if I knew how to turn them back on. I showed her how. I was not surprised that she assumed I spoke English, everyone in the world should speak English, I was surprised that she spoke English so well.

I asked her where she learned English. She replied, "The best school in Sarajevo: the Turkish School."

For my readers who are not familiar with what that means, "Turkish School" in a foreign country usually means an educational facility run by the Gülen movement.

I have been asked by some of my readers to comment on Fethullah Gülen, the leader of the Gülen movement, who seems to be pushing a modernist and moderate form of Islam. However, there is no such thing as a moderate form of Islam. For example, he supports the view that women should wear headscarfs. How modernist and moderate is that?

They say that Gülen advocates peaceful coexistence, but I believe that peaceful coexistence is only a ruse until the Caliphate can be restored.

But back to the Bosnian girl. I asked her what other languages she spoke and she answered, "French and Turkish." As is the practice in Gülen schools, the lessons are taught in four languages. For example, in Tajikistan, the lessons are in English, Turkish, Russian, and Tajik.

They teach in English because they rightly believe that knowledge of English will guarantee bright futures for the children and enable them to continue their education in Western universities.

They teach in Turkish to spread pan-Turkic propaganda. Consider the following:

Wikipedia, Gülen movement

The exact number of supporters of the Gülen movement is not known, as there is no membership system, but estimates vary from 1 million to 8 million. The movement consists primarily of students, teachers, businessmen, journalists and other educated professionals, arranged in a flexible organizational network. It has founded schools, universities, an employers' association, as well as charities, real estate trusts, lobby groups, student bodies, radio and television stations, and newspapers. The schools and businesses organize locally, and link into networks on an informal rather than legal basis.