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I found an excellent article by Peter Montgomery that summarizes the entire Caner controversy very nicely:

Originally Posted by blogger Wade Burleson

"The myth Dr. Caner has created about himself seems now to be unraveling. He never came to America “via Beirut and Cairo.” He has never been trained as a fundamentalist Muslim. He has never had been a jihadist. He has never debated top Muslim scholars, in Nebraska or anywhere else. It is impossible for any of us to understand why someone would fabricate or embellish his past, but there’s a great deal of money to be made selling books and DVDs about Islam in post 9/11. Who’s a better expert on the subject than a radical jihadist who has converted to faith in Jesus Christ, right?"

Originally Posted by Tom Chantry, Senior Pastor, Christ Reformed Baptist Church, Milwaukee

"Preachers are witnesses to the gospel of Christ, and like all witnesses, when they are compromised they weaken the case. Furthermore, no witness can do more damage to his own case than an expert witness…What are we to think of any preacher who regularly and repeatedly tells stories which are not true and publishes facts which are not facts?"

Originally Posted by Baptist critic Tom Rich

"Unbelievable. Standing in front of shell-shocked Christians after 9/11, and Caner betrays their confidence by lying about where he was raised, where he learned English, and when he came to America. That is deception. A man that is misusing the pulpit to purposely mislead people about who he is and where he is from has no business being in the pulpit."