Dec 18, 2014: Raw Story: Reza Aslan explains why conservatives think Obama is a Muslim
Conservatives who claim that Barack Obama is really a Muslim don’t actually think the president is a follower of Islam, according to religious scholar Reza Aslan. They are just using the label to “otherize” him.
Nov 8, 2014: Paul Austin Murphy: American Thinker: Christian Terrorists and the Innocence of Islam
Predictably, Reza Aslan responded to the Murder of Corporal Nathan Cirillo (by the Muslim fanatic Michael Zehaf-Bibeau) -- as well as to the other recent killings of military men by Muslims in the West -- with yet more apologetics. He does so in the CNN piece entitled: 'How strong is the link between faith and terrorism?'
Oct 8, 2014: Poynter: Fact-checking the fallout from Bill Maher’s Muslim monologue
Another critic of Maher, Reza Aslan, an author and University of California-Riverside professor of religious studies, accused Maher of another misrepresentation.
Oct 3, 2014: Huffington Post: CNN's Chris Cuomo Says Reza Aslan's 'Tone' Shows Why People Are 'Fearful' Of Islam
Recently, author Reza Aslan got a little heated on CNN over some rather sweepingly hostile generalizations Bill Maher made about Islam, as well as some questions about Islam's supposed propensity towards violence.
Aug 13, 2014: American Vision: Religious “Expert” Reza Aslan Believes Rich and Poor Should “Switch Places”
Reza Aslan is a self-described biblical expert and the author of Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth. Liberal theologians love his exegesis in the same way that liberal economists love Thomas Piketty’s 700-page Capital in the Twenty-First Century--written in honor of Karl Marx’s Das Capital. These books are rarely read. They are mostly used as rhetorical props or ideological clubs substituting for sound argumentation. All a critic has to do is say, “Well, Thomas Piketty destroyed the very idea of capitalism in his book Capital in the Twenty-First Century.”
June 13, 2014: Kotkafa Video System: Conversations with Great Minds - Dr. Reza Aslan - Who was Jesus really..
Joining Thom for tonight's Conversation With Great Minds is Dr. Reza Aslan. Dr. Aslan is a critically acclaimed writer and religious schola
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Jan 5, 2014: .Reza Aslan has been making the talk show circuit lately. For those who don't know who he is, he is a Muslim who has written a book titled "Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth." Some might remember that Fox News' Lauren Green grilled him in an interview:  “I want to be clear, you are a Muslim,” Green began. “So why did you write a book about the founder of Christianity?” and as Aslan kept dodging the question and instead kept giving his credentials to imply he was an "expert", Green kept asking him again. The left had a fit over this because Green had the guts to do what reporters should be doing: Looking for the truth. She never got it, but she tried. As David Wood over on "Answering Muslims" wrote:  "Reza Aslan is an associate professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside. He claims (endlessly) to be a scholar of religions. However, his writings show that he is doing what nearly all Muslim apologists in the West do: he is trying to make Muhammad sound more like Jesus, and Jesus sound more like Muhammad, in an effort to make Islam more palatable to Americans and Europeans. In his book Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, Aslan argues that Jesus was a violent jihadist, who wanted to mercilessly kill the Roman occupiers of Israel. Faced with clear commands of Jesus to love our neighbors (Mark 12:28-31), to love our enemies (Matthew 5:43-48), to be peacemakers (Matthew 5:9), and not to defend Christianity through violence (Matthew 26:52), Aslan is forced to radically reinterpret or dismiss Jesus' words." ..................“Purity is a good mask for corruption because it discourages inquiry." --Steve Levitt (Freakonomics). Hence, we have issues like the plagiarism charges against pastor, author, church leader, Mark Driscoll. Sharideth Smith writes: "This (Levitt's quote) can be applied to just about every major embarrassment the Church has suffered. We need to stop being so terrified of our heroes’ images being tarnished and start cleaning house. Questioning the actions of our leaders is not divisive or evil. It is essential."
Jan 4, 2014: Spencer Watch: Reza Aslan, a Typo, and the Petty Vindictiveness of Robert Spencer
His latest onslaught was sparked by an interview with Sarah Harvard in DL Magazine. Spencer accused Aslan of being an “Islamic supremacist” who thinks Christianity teaches reincarnation
Jan 1, 2014: Answering Muslims: Reza Aslan: Twisting Christian Scriptures for the Sake of Allah
Reza Aslan is an associate professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside. He claims (endlessly) to be a scholar of religions. However, his writings show that he is doing what nearly all Muslim apologists in the West do: he is trying to make Muhammad sound more like Jesus, and Jesus sound more like Muhammad, in an effort to make Islam more palatable to Americans and Europeans.
Dec 12, 2013: Washington Post: Reza Aslan on Jesus’s skin color: ‘Megyn Kelly is right. Her Christ is white’
Fox News host Megyn Kelly caused some controversy when she declared, on her Wednesday evening show: "Jesus was a white man, too. It's like we have, he's a historical figure. That's a verifiable fact, as is Santa. I just want kids to know that."
Aug 16, 2013: The Wire: Reza Aslan: What I Read
This is drawn from a phone conversation with Reza Aslan, the Iranian-American religion scholar, writer, and author of Zealot, who spoke to us last month about the aftermath of his viral interview with Fox News.
Aug 12, 2013: Patheos: Encountering Reza Aslan's Jesus
I, as likely thousands of others, came to learn of Reza Aslan's latest book, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, after watching the sadly hilarious Fox News interview with Lauren Green.
Reza Aslan  born May 3, 1972) is an Iranian-American writer and scholar of religions. He is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside, a Research Associate at the University of Southern California Center on Public Diplomacy, and a contributing editor for The Daily Beast. His books include the international bestseller No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam, which has been translated into 13 languages, and Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, which offers an interpretation of the life and mission of the historical Jesus.

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