Seminary President Ergun Caner and his brother, Emir, president of Truett-McConnell College in Georgia, are often featured in Southern Baptist circles as experts about Islam.

The president of Liberty Theological Seminary, who apologized in February for calling the head of the Southern Baptist Convention International Mission Board a liar, is now being questioned about his own testimony of conversion from radical Islam to Christianity.

Liberty University’s board of directors decided not to reprimand Ergun Caner, dean of the theology school since 2005, after conducting an inquiry into questions raised about his credibility in numerous blogs.

The ruling, reported by Christianity Today, follows weeks of questions on various blogs about written descriptions of Caner’s academic credentials and apparent embellishments in recorded versions of his testimony preached in prominent Baptist pulpits over the years.

On April 26 Focus on the Family radio rebroadcast a sermon preached shortly after Sept. 11, 2001, at Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas, in which Caner said he was born in Sweden, grew up in Turkey and did not learn English until moving to America in 1978. He claimed he was part of “Islamic Jihad” and said it was “my people” who carried out the horrors of the day.

The problem, according to various Internet sites, is that none of that is true.
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The Caner brother’s 2002 book, Unveiling Islam: An Insider’s Look at Muslim Life and Beliefs, was the source former SBC President Jerry Vines cited to defend his remark that year labeling the Prophet Muhammad a “demon-possessed pedophile,” which made headlines both in the United States and the Muslim world.

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