I have argued that Ergun claimed to have been educated in Beirut before he came to America in 1978. This comes from my demonic reading of the
following quote:
I hated you. That may be harsh, but as Dr. Hayes told you, my madrasa – my training center – was in Beirut before I came to America. We came as missionaries to you. My father was a muezzin, the one who does the prayer in the mosque. Five times a day he would climb to the top of a minaret and begin, [different language] and he would do the call to prayer. He was also an architect so we built mosques. And so we came to America – it was ’78. Ayatollah Khomeini had said, we will not stop until America is an Islamic nation and we came and we continue to come.
This has always seemed one of the more obviously false set of claims. The different places where he was supposedly trained just have never made any sense to me.
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