Monthly Archives: June 2010

Jun 25

Ergun Caner Blocks Me On Twitter!!!

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I just tried to follow Ergun Caner (@erguncaner) on twitter and found to my amazement that I was blocked from following him. I have never had any interaction with him on twitter or in real life. *sigh* Ergun, you can follow me if you wish, I’m just happy you haven’t blocked my personal twitter account. There may still be hope for this friendship :)

If you havent’ already done so, you can follow Eye On Apologetics (@eyeapologetics) on Twitter.com and receive updates to the blog and website. I’m told its a good ice-breaker at parties also. ” so i follow eye on apologetics on twitter, wanna dance?”

Jun 25

Ergun Caner Will Not Continue as President of Liberty Seminary

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Today the following was released from Liberty University regarding Ergun Caner:

After a thorough and exhaustive review of Dr. Ergun Caner’s public statements, a committee consisting of four members of Liberty University’s Board of Trustees has concluded that Dr. Caner has made factual statements that are self-contradictory.  However, the committee found no evidence to suggest that Dr. Caner was not a Muslim who converted to Christianity as a teenager, but, instead, found discrepancies related to matters such as dates, names and places of residence.  Dr. Caner has cooperated with the board committee and has apologized for the discrepancies and misstatements that led to this review.  Dr. Caner’s current contractual term as Dean of Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary expires on June, 30, 2010.  Dr. Caner will no longer serve as Dean of Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary.  The university has offered, and Dr. Caner has accepted, an employment contract for the 2010-2011 academic year. Dr. Caner will remain on the faculty of Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary as a professor.

Dr. Caner has been under heat from an increasing number of Evangelicals (as well as some Muslims) who have found discrepancies in his accounts of his life and activity as a Muslim before coming to Christ. A timeline (long, but useful) of Ergun’s activity is available that takes us through the events in questions and shows Ergun’s, shall we say, aversions to truthfulness.

James White has responded to Liberty’s above statement on aomin.org. On March 5th, White made available a list of questions for Caner to answer in Liberty’s investigation:

1) Where was Ergun Caner born? Why has he given conflicting information on this matter? Did he ever live in Istanbul, Turkey? When? At what age, and for how long? Did he attend a madrassa there?

2) When did his family move from Sweden to the United States? Why has he given conflicting information on this? What was his father’s actual role in the building or design of mosques in Ohio? Why has Ergun Caner publicly said that before moving to the United States he had always lived in a “majority Muslim” nation? Is Sweden a Muslim nation? Continue reading →

Jun 23

Update to Illegal arrest of 4 Christians in Dearborn, MI

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Ronald Haddad being sworn in as Dearborn Police Chief

Last week four Christian missionaries were falsely arrested in Dearborn, Michigan. Yesterday their case was taken up by Thomas More Law Center to fight the illegal actions of the Dearborn Police Department and the return of property illegally seized by the Dearborn Police. The Thomas More Law Center website has the following posted:

Thomas More Law Center Represents Four Christian Missionaries Arrested at Arab Festival in Dearborn

June 22, 2010

ANN ARBOR, MI – In what some have described as police enforcement of Sharia law at the annual Dearborn Arab International Festival, last Friday night Dearborn Police Officers arrested four Christian missionaries and illegally confiscated their video cameras which were recording the events surrounding their arrests.  The Thomas More Law Center, a public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, today announced it is representing all of the Christian missionaries.

Arrested on charges of Breach of the Peace are: Negeen Mayel, Dr. Nabeel Qureshi, Paul Rezkalla, and David Wood.  Mayel, an eighteen year old female, whose parents emigrated from Afghanistan and a recent convert from Islam to Christianity, was also charged with failure to obey a police officer’s orders. She was approximately 100 feet away and videotaping a discussion with some Muslims when her camera was seized. Continue reading →

Jun 22

People Page

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Snapshot of "People" on EOA, 6/22/2010

I just wanted to throw up a blog with the links to the people page on the main site. I think this will be good for those who subscribe to the RSS feed to see what is going on in the People section of EOA. It will also be fun to see in a few months when more names have been added and the page *hopefully* looks more snazzy.

Let me know who you would like to see added to this list. I want it to one day be a comprehensive list of apologists and the people they debate, a go-to site with biographical information that is well-organized and easy to access.

A

Osama Abdullah
Nadir Ahmed
Shamsi Ali
Shabir Ally
Abdullah al-Andalusi

B

Greg Bahnsen
Paul Barber
Dan Barker Continue reading →
Jun 21

False Arrest of Four Christians in Dearborn, MI

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Nabeel Qureshi and David Wood talking about being arrested and what led to it.

Four Christian apologists were falsely arrested in Dearborn, Michigan this last week. Dearborn, MI has a large Arab population and hosts an Arabic Festival each year. These Christians made many efforts to only talk to people who approached them and not to incite poor behavior from the Muslims in attendance. In spite of their cordial efforts the Dearborn police department handcuffed the four Christians in the above video and took them to prison without so much as watching the video tape they had of their activity.

The pictures below are on the Answering Muslims Blog.

David Wood being falsely arrested

Paul's "crime" was holding a camera

The behavior of the officer in the above picture is unjust and un-American. Please contact the Dearborn police department, the Dearborn City Council, and Mayor John O’Reilly to complain about their unconstitutional treatment of these four well-behaved American citizens. The Chief of Police can be emailed at this page and the city council can be reached through the links at the bottom of this page. If you prefer talking over email you can call the Police Cheif at this phone number is 313-943-2235. Please don’t let the bigots in the Dearborn police department get away with this. Contact them and tell them you think they ought to allow Christians to peacefully evangelize if they wish to do so.