If the eye of the heart does not open even before these events?

Of the members of the US House of Representatives, which has 435 seats, 88 have apparently sent a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry asking him to put pressure on Turkey over the pressures applied to Zaman and Samanyolu.

The content of the letter is, of course, a perfect example of disinformation. With complete shamelessness, it recounts the lie that Hidayet Karaca and 29 journalists were detained because of their dissenting opinions. As if these people had been detained because of their different opinions, and as if all of them were in detention right now. It does not say, of course, that they are accused not because of their opinions but because, through the conspiracies they set up, they caused other journalists who opposed them to be arrested and made to languish unjustly in prisons for years.

That is, with great skill they have covered up that those detained were detained not against the state or the government, but over crimes they committed against other journalists, such as restricting freedom, fabricating evidence and forgery.

Evidently a member of the House of Representatives was arranged and persuaded, a text was written for him, and it was opened to the others for signature.

At the same time, a Representative, and a full 88 members... From whatever angle you look at it, this is not a simple thing. Those who know how these things work in the US know. It is something that can come about only as the result of extremely laborious, excessively costly and intense lobbying activity. No member of the House acts and is motivated by pure goodwill, merely out of love for democracy and fondness for freedom of the press and expression.

If they did, then in January alone, dozens of journalists in Syria were killed outright, let alone arbitrarily arrested or pressured. Likewise, not even five of the 88 members of the House stirred over what is happening in Egypt, where three thousand people were criminally slaughtered in a single day, fifty thousand people are arbitrarily imprisoned, and hundreds of people have been sentenced to death. Because to do that, there was no lobbying activity that would stand up for Egypt's oppressed Muslim children. Though even if there were, is there a price that would make a US member of the House stir a hair for Egypt's oppressed Muslim children in spite of Israel? That is a separate question too.

When we ask Europeans why they withhold from Egypt, and even from Gaza under Israel's oppression, the sensitivity they generally display toward the most trivial event in Turkey, they take refuge in the excuse that "they bear responsibility toward Turkey as a country that has applied to the EU, whereas they have no such obligation toward either Egypt or Israel." The US, however, has no such excuse in this case.

Frankly, to be able to mobilize the signatures of so many members of the House for Zaman and Samanyolu, with the expense, and the heavy and delicate workmanship, over a fabricated scenario of pressure and oppression is, from whatever angle you look at it, a great success. It is a situation that reveals both the power potential of the parallel structure and its lobbying and organizational ability. And this shows precisely how dangerous a structure it is.

That is, through these activities they are in fact also confirming the real perception about themselves. The real perception, that is, the perception that has now formed among the people of Turkey, who for years supported their existence and activities with himmet money. The people of Turkey are now, of course, in a feeling of having been deceived.

A businessman recently told me that he was following the agenda about the closure of the schools abroad and, as someone who, like everyone, had for years supposed these schools to be well-intentioned and had supported them with himmet, he warned that there was a problem in this agenda. Instead of the idea of closing these schools, he said, these schools should be handed over to their real owners, that is, to the people. Because, according to him, if they had told people like him, whose help they solicited, their real plans and agendas, they would never have received this help. In this case, since the aid collected has been used outside its purpose, rather than closing them, the state should transfer them to the people who brought them into being with their aid.

The parallel structure's recent performance does not stop there. The headscarf ban was applied all over Turkey as complete oppression and savagery, and it did not object to it even for a day. While the İHLs were closed by applying the coefficient oppression, while the gravest insults were being hurled at our Prophet, and while all this created a tremendous common state of being wronged and hurt in all devout people, the structure again did not stir a hair, and never gave credit to a street demonstration, protest or objection. Today, however, because some journalists were detained, because Bank Asya was closed, it suddenly floods the squares, displaying quite not bad examples of civil resistance.

In front of Bank Asya, a veritable holy jihad, a line of national defense is being set up. Jawshans are recited for Bank Asya, khatms are lowered onto deposit accounts.

This is, from whatever angle you look at it, a success, but seeing in whose name and on what occasions this success is being displayed, it is impossible not to be heartbroken on behalf of the disciples who have for years given their hearts to this movement and on whose "sincerity" we have constantly put emphasis.

If eyes and conscience will not be opened here either, where will they be opened?

Wake up, my brother, wake up now from heedlessness.