June 6, 2010
Source: News Observer
Wire Service: AP
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/06/06/517896/muslim-turned-preacher-faces-university.html
The future of a prominent Southern Baptist preacher who converted from Islam may depend on which version of his past is closer to the truth.
Ergun Caner's supporters know him as a devout Muslim who discovered Jesus Christ at an Ohio church and became a popular leader at Liberty University, the Virginia evangelical school founded by the Rev. Jerry Falwell.
His critics have a different version: an opportunist who exaggerated vague boyhood memories in his Muslim family to paint himself as a one-time extremist while enriching himself and sowing tension between the world's two largest faiths.