Islamic scholar receives major US peace award

Friday, April 17th, 2015

Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen has been presented with a prestigious peace award at the alma mater of Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel at Morehouse College in Atlanta honoured Gülen with its 2015 Gandhi King Ikeda Peace Award.

The award was made in recognition of Gülen’s “life-long dedication to promoting peace and human rights”.

Past recipients of this award include Nobel laureates Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu and Mikhail Gorbachev, as well as Rosa Parks.

Representatives of the chapel, which has presented the award since 2001, say the award is designed to promote the importance of positive social transformation by honouring “those who demonstrate extraordinary global leadership toward reconciling differences”.

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