Ergun Caner “Exonerated”?

Remember the 22 questions written by James White and posted  by Justin Taylor regarding Ergun Caner’s fraudulent claims?

Ok, read them quick, keep them in your head, and then tell me how many of those issues of integrity, honesty, and truth have been dealt with in Liberty University’s public statements about Caner.

10%? 15% tops?

Perhaps 0%, since the real issue wasn’t even addressed.

Ergun Caner has publicly lied about his past, his knowledge of Islam, his ethnicity, etc. That’s a lot different than mere  “misstatements” and “discrepancies related to matters such as dates, names and places of residence,” and, yet, still being asked to continue to teach at Liberty Seminary with virtually no public explanation for these documented false claims. This really is unbelievable; evangelicalism has reached a new low.

Seriously. Did the four Trustees even look at the evidence at all? When is the last time a professor “misstated” his ethnicity? His place of birth? Multiple times in multiple locations? Published books referencing sources in Islamic tradition that are impossible to find by even the most trained Islamic Arabic scholar? Does someone who grew up in Sweden (or Turkey – I wonder what Liberty actually believes? We will apparently never know!) who claims to be an apologist to the Muslims merely mis-state Arabic basics over…and over…and over again?

Obviously, the Committee saw nothing wrong with Caner’s giving of one factual testimony/biography to the Associate Press, and a completely different testimony/biography while preaching from the pulpit, and, more clearly, nothing wrong with keeping it all underwraps to prevent losing students (and what else). They have a name to keep, after all.

And a name they will keep. But it is anything but a good one.

Liberty will go down in history for retaining (and inviting to teach) a fake apologist who has never been in a single public moderated debate, published books on Islam with references that don’t even exist, and made up jibberish phrases from the pulpit to fake the audience into believing he knows Arabic. God have mercy.