How clueless and compromised are this country’s moneyed Leftist elites? This clueless and compromised. As you can see in the screenshot above from Intersections International’s website, Reza Aslan is being “honored for his work at the intersection of religion, scholarship, and global peacemaking.” (Thanks to Pamela Hall.)
Reza Aslan is a Board member of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), which has been established in court as a lobbying group for the Islamic Republic of Iran. Said Michael Rubin: “Jamal Abdi, NIAC’s policy director, now appears to push aside any pretense that NIAC is something other than Iran’s lobby. Speaking at the forthcoming ‘Expose AIPAC’ conference, Abdi is featured on the ‘Training: Constituent Lobbying for Iran’ panel. Oops.” According to Charles C. Johnson in the Daily Caller: “Iranian state-run media have referred to the National Iranian-American Council (NIAC) since at least 2006 as ‘Iran’s lobby’ in the U.S.” Iranian freedom activist Hassan Daioleslam “documented over a two-year period that NIAC is a front group lobbying on behalf of the Iranian regime.” NIAC had to pay him nearly $200,000 in legal fees after they sued him for defamation over his accusation that they were a front group for the mullahs, and lost. Yet Aslan remains on their Board.
Also, Aslan has tried to pass off Iran’s genocidally-minded former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a liberal reformer and has called on the U.S. Government to negotiate with Ahmadinejad himself, as well as with the jihad terror group Hamas. Aslan has even praised the jihad terror group Hizballah as “the most dynamic political and social organization in Lebanon,” as well as the anti-Semitic, misogynist, Islamic supremacist Muslim Brotherhood, which is dedicated in its own words, according to a captured internal document, to “eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within.” Aslan wrote: “The Muslim Brotherhood will have a significant role to play in post-Mubarak Egypt. And that is good thing.” Tens of millions of Egyptians obviously disagree.
He has also applauded and called for fascist vandalism to deny the freedom of speech to those he hates. Yet this foul-mouthed terror apologist is laden with honors and awards as he smears Israel and defenders of freedom. Intersections International is no stranger to lauding fascists, however, having previously honored anti-free speech thug Mona Eltahawy. Intersections International says this of itself: “Since its establishment in 2008, Intersections International has worked toward a world where every person—regardless of race, culture, gender, ideology or sexual orientation—is treated with mutual respect and understanding.”
Here is how Reza Aslan accords mutual respect and understanding to people he hates: he accuses them of murder (the murder in question was actually an Islamic honor killing, not an “Islamophobic hate crime” at all):
More Aslan mutual respect and understanding here and here. So what makes Intersections International think this reckless, immature, foul-mouthed creep with ties to the bloody leadership of the Islamic Republic of Iran and friendly relationships with groups linked to the Muslim Brotherhood is a good honoree for “global peacemaking”? Because he has the right political opinions, of course, of standard far-Left issue.
Contact Intersections International and let them know, politely and calmly, what you think of them honoring a Board member of a lobbying group for the Islamic Republic of Iran as a “global peacemaker.”
Intersections International
145 W 28th St., 11th Floor
New York, NY 10001 USA
T: 212.951.7006
F: 212.951.7212
communications@intersections.org


Brian C. Hoff says
the United States of America will recogize the Iran government as the legal government of that nation. This real geopolital as the current government of Iran isnot going away anytime soon. Iran was allow to have than loddy group than there is nothing wrong with that except for anti-Islam bigot in the world.
Brian's father says
His mother and I are embarrassed beyond words.
Champ says
LOL!!!! 😀
Champ says
Sorry, but your son is so we, Todd, Ed …
Foolster says
Do you really think people take you seriously? No one believes your blatent lies like how the last Muslim terrorist attack in the US was 9-11 or that non-Muslim terrorism/violence is not a problem. Might as well give up, we’re not stupid.
marky says
Yes muslims are very evil arent they, but then of course their god is the best of deceivers, satan.#
Brian C. Hoff says
the United States of America will recogize the Iran government as the legal government of that nation. This real geopolital as the current government of Iran isnot going away anytime soon. Iran was allow to have than loddy group than there is nothing wrong with that except for anti-Islam bigot in the world.
gravenimage says
“Brian C. Hoff” wrote:
the United States of America will recogize the Iran government as the legal government of that nation. This real geopolital as the current government of Iran isnot going away anytime soon. Iran was allow to have than loddy group than there is nothing wrong with that except for anti-Islam bigot in the world.
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Brian C. Hoff—really, “DefenderofIslam”—what is your opinion of torturing dissidents? Of imprisoning and sentencing to death peaceful religious minorities? Of hanging gay people? Of stoning women to death? Of threatening to “wipe Israel off the map”?
These are all things done by the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Is it your opinion that anyone who balks at these atrocities is an “anti-Islam bigot”?
Brian's boyfriend says
Puh-lease Brian. You’re going to get spanked when you get home.
Frank Scarn says
What? Awards for interfaith dialogue and Bishop McManus didn’t make the cut?
Oh well, even in abstentia the good bishop, working ever so hard at dialoguing with people who are about the business of killing Catholic and Christian clerics and lay people, can be counted on to lift his alcohol-filled glass in salute.
jihad3tracker says
Look at the 3 photographs….
Do you notice that one of them is of a person who is too poverty stricken, or too devoid of brains, or lacking enough self-respect, to have an actual portrait taken in a studio ?
Uh — how much money and time does that take — $50 and 15 minutes ?
This sort of incidental detail can be as indicative of a person’s inner life as hundreds of pages of “scholarship”….
nacazo says
This is what i sent.
This is to express my disgust regarding your award for one Reza Aslan.
Reza Aslan is a Board member of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), which has been established in court as a lobbying group for the Islamic Republic of Iran.
In the Islamic Republic of Iran, women are second class citizens. Gays have no rights and can be sentenced to death when found. Religious minorities are severely repressed and some members such as Saeed Abedini are in prison. Presidents of Iran have declare their intention to destroy neighboring countries.
Reza Aslan defends such regime regardless of the human right violations and defends that regime’s actions in public forums.
Champ says
And obama received the nobel peace prize …so there is no accounting for taste, is there? And no truth or fairness in each man’s case either.
So if truth and fairness were the goal, then both reza and obama should each be *recognized* for being such colossal liars bar none.
Of course reza will gladly accept this honor–something that isn’t the least bit true about him–which makes him all the more loathsome to behold.
awake says
I just had to laugh at “Brian C. Hoff”‘s nearly illiterate response. Priceless.
pumbar says
It is pretty impressive that a doctor cannot work out the difference between then and than in his tweets.
Champ says
You’ve heard of Draw Muhammad Day, well it’s Draw Reza Aslan Day, so here goes …
“*<"
(that's a clown)
mortimer says
How does running interference for some of the evilest dictators on earth qualify him for an ‘interfaith brotherhood’ award? It doesn’t. Something is wrong!
Aslan is about as much of an ‘interfaith’ champion as he is a ‘doctor of the history of religion’. There is no ‘interfaith understanding’ component in his resume apart from being married to a Christian woman. (Is wife Jackley a ‘former Christian’ at that? Or is she a ‘secularist’? Whatever.) So what is this award for exactly? It is hard to see how Aslan has helped ‘interfaith dialogue’.
Are they thinking of Aslan’s book ‘Zealot’? In it, Aslan presented Jesus as a precursor to Mohammed, a revolutionary. How is that ‘dialoguing’ with Christians?
Aslan’s Jesus contradicts the New Testament, logic, and all New Testament scholarship for the last 50 years? Aslan produced a pseudo-Jesus compatible with the Muslim scriptures.
When asked point blank on Fox News, Aslan was too dishonest to admit his game.
Moreover, Aslan’s shameless self-promotion and deliberate attempt to mislead people about his true intent and off-topic academic qualifications, Reza Aslan’s PhD in sociology does not make him a ‘historian’ or ‘religious scholar’ as he deceptively claimed. However, his current job as a college teacher of creative writing certainly qualifies him to write fiction.
I propose that the reasons for offering him this award are equally fictitious.
John Spielman says
I had no idea that Reza Aslan had such a vile foul mouth (or should I say fingers)
mortimer says
More ‘interfaith dialogue’ from Reza:
“Iranian-American writer and academic, Reza Aslan, compared Israeli company SodaStream to Adolf Hitler and implied that its newly minted spokesperson, actress Scarlett Johansson, was a Nazi supporter in a tweet on Friday afternoon that he quickly deleted.”
http://pamelageller.com/2014/01/goes-full-hazi-hate-compares-israeli-company-sodastream-adolf-hitler-says-scarlett-johansson-nazi-supporte.html/
Reza Aslan is as much an INTERFAITH CHAMPION as Joachim von Ribbentrop was an advocate of democracy in Europe.
Defcon 4 says
Had Reza had anything to say about the Iranian apostate and Christian Pastor Saeed’s incarceration and torture at the hands of the humanitarian islam0nazis that run the Iranian “republic”?
richard Sherman says
REZA ASLAN reveres the sociopath MUHAMMAD who PERSONALLY decapitated 900 UNARMED Jews in 627. What do you expect?..He supports the slaughter of Jews just like the mass murderer Muhammad..
That is his interfaith dialogue…