Greg Barton, writing in his essay How Hizmet Works: Islam, Dialogue and Service, Hizmet Movement in Australia (Barton, 2014) suggests that despite being just five percent of the total of 60,000 Turkish Australians, the Gulen affiliates have shown remarkable results, in a short span of time. He argues that “It (the Gulen movement) displays strong parallels with earlier forms of religious philanthropy in the West over the past four centuries and represents an important counterpoint to Samuel Huntington’s ‘clash of civilizations’ thesis.” (p.9). If philanthropy is understood as ‘voluntary action for common good,’ then the actions and motivations of the Gulen movement fit into even the Western definition of philanthropy (Payton and Moody, 2008). The ‘clash’ of ideas is an exaggeration, if one considers that for centuries Islam and Christianity have co-existed, in many contexts, without a major conflict taking place.