Christian Right is full of "Ex-Muslim expert" conmen

Liberty University is expected to release a report this month on whether Ergun Caner, president of the school's Baptist Theological Seminary, fabricated or exaggerated his life story as a former Muslim extremist rescued by Jesus.

Caner is no ordinary ex-Muslim. His story has made him a favorite in conservative Christian circles, and many credit the charismatic preacher with helping boost enrollment at the school founded by the late Jerry Falwell.

At the same time, Caner has become the poster boy for critics who say he's just the latest charlatan in a line of supposedly ex-Muslim terrorists who have found an audience among Christian fundamentalists seeking to attack Islam.

Most worrisome, the critics say, is that the self-styled former terrorists have been welcomed as "experts" on Islam and terrorism by religious institutions, universities, media outlets, members of Congress and even the military.

"These guys are to real terrorists what a squirt gun is to an AK-47," said Mikey Weinstein, president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, who has battled claims of religious discrimination at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo.

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It doesn't matter how it started, if JC was real, or what it's original intent. It was taken over by cynical hucksters long since, and it will remain a political shell game until they manufacture the End Times(tm).

Seriously, they are very, shall we say: "money savy" for so-called humble country folk.

Particularly, Mike Warnke? He wrote "The Satan Seller". When he got up on stage, and talked about his wild past, you couldn't really tell between when he stopped being a strung - out hippie, and just when he acquired his bloodthirst through Satanism. And how he became leader of a coven of a thousand blood sacrificing Satanists.

About eighteen years ago, a religious magazine did an expose on him, and found out that he was pretty square in the Sixties, and that his story was a fraud.

Looks like the same, they want to make the claim that all really serious Muslims will take up a blood thirsty Jihadist path. I think it's funny that they couldn't find something more recent than before the Iranian Hostage Crisis, when they were teenagers . . . if more recent, I would thing Homeland Security would be interested in them.

It probably helped with the rise of the Christian Right and it marked the end of investigative journalists, who were the catalysts for Watergate and the Pentagon Papers. Nowadays "investigative journalists" and the media go straight for sensationalist, but not true, stories and confirm suspicions that gullible people already have. Like how in the McMartin preschool trial, where the media just said "Yep, yep, yep." to whatever that schizophrenic mother who said that Ray Buckey, his family, and an AWOL marine were abusing her child.