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Baptist university president says Quran is ‘theocratic political book’

A Southern Baptist university president said the Quran is a theocratic book of principles incompatible with democracy. A former Muslim and now Christian, Emir Caner appeared on the Mike Huckabee Show this weekend. Caner is the president of Baptist Truett McConnell University in Cleveland, Georgia. Caner is also the co-author of Unveiling Islam: An Insider’s Look at Muslim Life and Beliefs.

Caner said that when Congressman Keith Ellison took the oath of office on a copy of the Quran, someone asked if that offended him as a Christian.

He said, “No. It offended me as an American.