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Reza Aslan, Board member of lobbying group for Iranian mullahs, compares Israeli company to Hitler, implies Scarlett Johansson a Nazi supporter

Jan 27, 2014 1:43 pm By Robert Spencer

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Here again we see how those whom the mainstream media anoints as heroes and authorities are those who reflect its vicious pro-jihad, anti-Israel, anti-Semitic bias. Reza Aslan actually deleted the tweet above, which reveals that even he must have thought it was really bad, since he has kept up and defended writing numerous tweets that show him, for all his media glory, to be an immature, foul-mouthed jerk.

Anyway, while we’re making Nazi comparisons, let’s recall that 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 thuggery 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.

“Reza Aslan Compares Israeli Company SodaStream to Adolf Hitler, Implies Scarlett Johansson is Nazi Supporter,” from Algemeiner, January 26:

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.

“Scarlett Johansson: Adolf is committed to building a bridge to peace between Germany and Poland,” Aslan wrote, linking to a Huffington Post article in which the actress responds to critics of her representation of the soda machine maker.

“SodaStream is a company that is not only committed to the environment but to building a bridge to peace between Israel and Palestine,” Johansson said in a statement, which Aslan then modified to make his point. The company is “supporting neighbors working alongside each other, receiving equal pay, equal benefits and equal rights,” she said further. “That is what is happening in their Ma’ale Adumim factory every working day.”

SodaStream says it employs 550 Palestinian Arabs who are afforded the same benefits as Israeli workers at its Ma’ale Adumim plant in the West Bank.

Although Aslan’s comment was quickly deleted from his account, a screenshot, pictured above, was captured by Algemeiner blogger Petra Marquardt-Bigman. “Oh well, @rezaaslan was apparently embarrassed enough to delete the tweet – but I have a screenshot,” Marquardt-Bigman tweeted….

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  1. Salah says

    Jan 27, 2014 at 2:04 pm

    ‘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.’

    The Biggest Demonstration in History (33 million)

    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-end-of-muslim-brotherhood.html

  2. Champ says

    Jan 27, 2014 at 2:30 pm

    “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.” — headline

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Reza Aslan is a lying trouble-maker and the Truth escapes him …he ought to do us all a favor and just SHUT UP. I can hope, can’t I?

  3. RodSerling says

    Jan 27, 2014 at 3:18 pm

    After tweeting that message, Aslan probably realized that he couldn’t attack a Hollywood celebrity with his usual vitriolic lies and smears without there being some negative consequences for him. The great cost of suing Aslan would be mere pocket change to Johansson. And Aslan runs a media organization? An underling at any other media organization would be fired for tweeting such defamation, but Aslan’s not going to fire himself. It would be an understatement to say that Aslan has been promoted far beyond what would be justified by his abilities and ethics.

  4. David Wood says

    Jan 27, 2014 at 5:37 pm

    Comparing SodaStream to Hitler? What else should we expect from the man who portrays Jesus as a racist jihadist in his book “Zealot”?

  5. Mo-Blows says

    Jan 27, 2014 at 6:09 pm

    Reza Aslan is an immature poser . I wonder if he actually thinks that , in a perfect Muslim world , such as the kind he would like to see , that HE would be MUSLIM enough for his Islamist pals?
    I bet he can’t even grow a decent beard, and would he be willing to trade his stylish WESTERN haircut and clothes for a taqiyah and tunic ?

    Really, what kind of Islamist is he ?

    Ignorant , and useful…… for now.

    We all know how much Islamists love to turn on each other when non Muslims are in short supply.

  6. occupant 9 says

    Jan 27, 2014 at 6:38 pm

    The irony of Reza the Muslim accusing someone of being just like Hitler is deeply rich. Yes, that would be the same Hitler that had Muslims as allies in the Final Solution, and who’s book (Mein Kampf) is still a bestselling in the illiterate Muslim world.

  7. PGuud says

    Jan 27, 2014 at 7:05 pm

    Reza Aslan is a hackademic, pure and simple. Will his gullible wife ever realize that? Will she ever realize that she has been duped by this Muslim mouthpiece? How could a woman from an evangelical family marry and birth 2 children for a Muslim? Has she no shame? Has she no sense?

    Maybe, someday, she’ll see him for the dissembler that he is.

    Islam: where freedom ends and slavery begins.

  8. Lisa says

    Jan 27, 2014 at 7:27 pm

    Aslan really is a fucking slimy piece of filth, isn’t he. He’s a sneering immigrant. He also HATES that a good looking woman is promoting Israel to the world.

    After watching his videos, I note how he, like all Islamist filth in the West, refers to anti-Islamists etc as a vile fringe minority.

    They don’t seem to be aware that anti-Muslim/anti-Islam/anti-immigration views are held by the native majority.

    For instance, here in (now totally immigrant/extreme-Left dominated, whom now make up 90% of the media, government and ruling elite) England, the vast majority of remaining native English DESPISE, deeply, what Islam, immigration and multiculturalism has done to our lives and country.

  9. Lisa says

    Jan 27, 2014 at 7:40 pm

    Also, well done for catching the screen shot before he deleted it.

    I’m sure Scarlet might be interested in seeing this. Hopefully, she’ll sue Aslan for libel. Better yet, she’ll have him arrested, them sued.

    We have an equivalent to Aslan here in England, of course: Mehdi Hasan, the sneering, hate-filled Islamist immigrant who is given regular platform regarding national, native issues. We have to watch as this greasy, nasty, ugly foreign bastard refers to himself as British, and European. And we have to watch as the filth coverly poisons the minds of our young via his political editor position at the rancid Huffington Post.

  10. gravenimage says

    Jan 27, 2014 at 10:27 pm

    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.

    “Scarlett Johansson: Adolf is committed to building a bridge to peace between Germany and Poland,” Aslan wrote, linking to a Huffington Post article in which the actress responds to critics of her representation of the soda machine maker.
    ………………………

    No wonder he deleted it—what a tool. The fact is that both Soda Stream and Scarlet Johansson are starry-eyed idealists—if you can say anything negative about them it is that they are pretty naïve about Islam.

    I suppose even Aslan realized that trying to portray them as “Nazis” wouldn’t fly.

    But this is standard Muslim operating procedure by this time—to present civilized Israel as “Fascist”, while it is “Palestinian” Muslims who are chanting “Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the gas!”.

    And meanwhile, Aslan himself—as noted—acts as a mouthpiece for the horrific Islamic Republic of Iran—a place that imprisons and executes dissidents, hangs gay people, stones women to death, and threatens to “wipe Israel off the map”. That anyone would listen to him on ethical matters is simply grotesque.

  11. Tzipporah says

    Jan 28, 2014 at 6:32 am

    I read that he teaches Creative writing at UC Riverside. I guess Truth is not so important when you are Creative. He sounds like he has a loose screw in his head. He is very good at creating garbage, hate and distorted images. So sorry to see our Universities perverted by such uselessness. It is very sad. Soda Stream is a factory that employs Palestinians.

    According to Wikipedia:
    SodaStream has 13 production facilities worldwide. Three are located in Israel and employ 1,100 people as of 2012. Sodastream’s principal manufacturing facility is located in Mishor Adumim – the industrial area of the West Bank settlement of Ma’ale Adumim. This factory employs some 900 Palestinians in the West Bank. An additional plant, which began operating in 2011, is located in the Alon Tavor industrial zone near the Israeli city of Afula. A third plant, which also began operating in 2011, is located in Ashqelon and is where Sodastream produces syrups and flavors. The cornerstone for a fourth plant was laid at the Idan HaNegev Industrial Park north of Beersheba in 2011.[8][38][39] In 2012, Sodastream said that it will invest NIS 130 million in the construction of the plant, which it said would provide employment opportunities for around 1,000 workers, many of them Negev Bedouins.[40]

    • fair_dinkum says

      Jan 29, 2014 at 5:36 am

      wow, great point. i wonder if Palestinian factory workers would support him (azlam) for this outburst. this guy will quickly back track.

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