While the brothers said at the time that they viewed the text as an act of love _ a way of trying to reach out to Muslims and bring them into Christianity's fold _ their critique of Islam brought condemnations from a variety of groups. They also wound up at the center of a nasty religious spat in 2002 over their book Unveiling Islam. The siblings both studied at Criswell College in Dallas, and did their postgraduate work at the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in North Carolina. He died a Muslim, though most of the rest of Caner's family, including his brother Emir, later converted to Christianity. His father, Acar, an architect who built a mosque in Columbus, never forgave him. "That little church loved me to Christianity," Caner says. Now 39, Caner emigrated with his family from Turkey to Ohio when he was a teenager, and converted to Christianity in 1982 after a persistent friend kept taking him to the Stelzer Road Baptist Church in Columbus.
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