{"id":503,"date":"2010-05-10T16:52:48","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T21:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=1063"},"modified":"2010-05-10T17:27:13","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T22:27:13","slug":"lu-takes-ergun-caner-situation-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=503","title":{"rendered":"LU takes Ergun Caner situation seriously"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty University released an email  statement about Dr. Ergun Caner, president of the university seminary:<br \/>\n&#8220;Liberty University does not evaluate personnel based upon blogs. However, in light of the fact that mainstream media have recently raised questions, the Provost of Liberty University is appointing a committee to look into these matters. A Decision as to the efficacy, or or lack of same, is expected by June 30.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For the past couple of months, bloggers have alleged that Caner has knowingly deceived the Christian community about his Muslim background.<br \/>\nSome of these allegations include:<br \/>\n* Growing up in Turkey, when he actually grew up in Ohio.<br \/>\n* Being raised in a devout Muslim home, rather than a nominal one.<br \/>\n* Having been involved in Islamic jihad.<br \/>\n* Having debated dozens of Muslims about the Islamic faith, although there is no video or audio evidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty University released an email statement about Dr. Ergun Caner, president of the university seminary: &#8220;Liberty University does not evaluate personnel based upon blogs. However,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=503\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LU takes Ergun Caner situation seriously<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-87","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":504,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions\/504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}