Today at PJ Lifestyle I discuss the latest honor being awarded to media darling and Iran lobbying group Board member Reza Aslan.
How clueless and compromised are this country’s moneyed Leftist elites? This clueless and compromised. Intersections International, a group that styles itself as dedicated to promoting “peacemaking” and “interfaith outreach,” is honoring the Leftist media’s darling of the moment, Reza Aslan, “for his work at the intersection of religion, scholarship, and global peacemaking.”
It is hard to overstate how spectacularly bad a choice Reza Aslan is as someone to be honored for “global peacemaking,” unless Intersections International is using the word “peacemaking” as a synonym for “surrender to the enemies of the United States,” particularly Iran — which, in light of the fact that Intersections International is a Leftist group, may well be the case. For Reza Aslan in no way represents peacemaking, either professionally or personally. He is, for starters, 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.…
Aslan is publicly obnoxious, usually on Twitter, and gleefully unrepentant about it: when Buzzfeed published just a sampling of the foul-mouthed abuse he spews at those who cross him, Aslan shrugged it off, saying that his opponents were terrible people, and deserved everything he said to them. Similarly, when a Muslim woman in California, Shaima Alawadi, was murdered in what was widely and erroneously reported as a “hate crime,” Aslan tweeted: “If a 32 year old veiled mother is a terrorist than [sic] so am I you Islamophobic fucks Gellar [sic] Spencer et. al. [sic] Come find me.” When it became clear that the murder was actually an Islamic honor killing, not an “Islamophobic hate crime” at all, I asked Aslan for an apology for essentially accusing me of complicity in a murder. He tweeted: “You owe me an apology for that beard you sexy walrus.” Gandhiesque!
Despite all, this, the Intersections International award is not the first such honor Aslan has received; last May, the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding also celebrated Aslan, in terms similar to those of Intersections. Tanenbaum’s CEO, Joyce S. Dubensky, asserted that “all of Reza’s accomplishments — from his books, to his media efforts, to his activism and interfaith work — share a theme. All inform, build bridges of respect and enable greater understanding of Islam and religious extremism.” Respect? Yes. Dubensky added: “We are particularly excited about honoring Reza. He is tackling hard issues and does it in a way that allows people to listen and learn. And that’s both unusual and critical if we are to achieve mutual respect.”
It’s laughable to see this foul-mouthed terror apologist being touted for his abilities at “peacemaking” and fostering “mutual respect,” but of course neither Dubensky nor Intersections are laughing or even see the irony. They don’t have any illusions, mind you; they don’t think that Aslan fosters peace with those who disagree with him politically, or that he respects conservatives or foes of jihad terror. Nor do they expect him to. In their world, which is also Aslan’s world, people deemed “right-wing” are unworthy of respect, and unworthy even of basic courtesy. No matter how much Aslan engages in immature, ungrammatical and R-rated rants at the “Right,” he will still qualify in the Left’s mind as a “peacemaker” – indeed, as even more of one, for the “right-wingers” are the only ones really disrupting the possibilities for peace, now, aren’t they?
As far as Intersections, the Tanenbaum Center and Reza Aslan are concerned, we deserve all the abuse they can hurl at us. And as they grip their cocktails on awards night in hands smeared with mud and blood, they will congratulate each other on how wonderfully peaceful and respectful they all are.

duh_swami says
When Reza becomes your hero, you have sunk to the bottom of the barrel. Of course that’s where the left leaning are at anyway. Bottom feeders, all of them.
john spielman says
this is what happens when people neither know God( the real one not Allah/Satan) nor acknowledge Him-Romans chapter 1. They worship created things like Allah/Satan (Reza Aslan while the leftist elite worship themselves)
rather than the creator!
If the Islamic Sala”fist’s have their way Reza Aslan ‘s head would be on a pole as a vile apostate.
mortimer says
When the mullahocracy boasts it is ready to destroy targets in the USA and Aslan is silent…SILENCE MEANS APPROVAL.
Never a peep of criticism of one of the great human rights violators…IRAN.
Aslan betrays America by saying nothing. He is a paid agent provocateur.
mariam rove says
he makes me sick. M
mortimer says
Real scholars of New Testament have exposed Aslan’s rewrite of the New Testament à la Mohammed and found it a rewrite of previous, invalid and no-rejected theories. One scholar wrote: “How can you be a ‘zealot’ (revolutionary) if you haven’t even tried to raise an army?”
Kepha says
Mortimer, as an educated layman and amateur in New Testament scholarship, I only wish that the garbage Aslan fobs off were rejected. Unhappily, too much academic Scripture study is unbelieving, and quick to latch onto the follies of the past and come up with a few new ones.
I myself noted, after reading reviews of Aslan’s book, that he dusts off S.G.F. Brandon’s late 1960’s thesis about Jesus-as -zealot. This will probably be a perennially popular interpretation whenever the Left is on the warpath because (a) Jesus is always a good person to try to co-opt for one’s side and (b) the secualrized Leftist tends to be poorly versed in the New Testament while at the same time, eager to seem familiar with it (he is, after all, an “innaleckchool”, and needs to pretend to have a general smattering of the culture he is rejecting.
However, I pray that reading the New Testament will have an impact on Reza Aslan’s soul. The Prophet Isaiah promises that God’s Word will not return to Him void, but will accomplish its purpose. My hope is that Aslan will go back to the NT and find its real message of Christ crucified and risen for us rather than the Word becoming one great witness against him in the final Judgment.
Kepha says
Well, as someone who has Jewish, Evolutionary Materialist, Buddhist, and Daoist kin, I’m all for some kind of understanding and mutual respect across religious lines, and I’e been working on ways to present Christ’s truth claims across such lines my whole life (although I readily admit that if Paul ran into people scandalized by the cross, I can’t expect an easier time than he had over that issue).
However, Christians must always remember that we have Jesus’ Great Commission to make disciples of all nations, not to be at ease in a Babel of religious confusion.
Maybe we ought to pray that Aslan’s attempt at New Testament study will prompt him and other Muslims, Muslim sympathizers, EmCeePeeCee types, and whatnot to go back to the NT itself, and that God’s Word would not return to Him void in those cases. It was a young adult reading of the New Testament out of cultural interest that brought Uncle Cepahs to Christ; and I think that can happen to others, too.
Cicero says
Any organization that claims to promote peacemaking” and “interfaith outreach” is by definition a cynical COMMUNIST front organization (yes, let’s not shy away from using that word).
Communism expressly denies not only “bourgeois” notions of objective truth and morality. Murder, lies, intimidation and deception are not only acceptable but welcome as means to seize total power.
mortimer says
Yes. This is ‘CULTURAL MARXISM’, the thesis of which is that WHITE MALES are the devil and the source of all evil. Therefore, let’s ignore everything a white male has said in the past and worship everything that brown men say, regardless of the intellectual merit of their ideas.
CULTURAL MARXISM is a RACIST theory. Cultural Marxism is a SEXIST theory, because BROWN MEN have the right to oppress women, which white men do not.
Aslan is a brown man who hates white males and Western society while benefitting from it enormously! He may be riding high now, but his lack of concern for human rights will eventually be exposed. He is silent about the obscene persecutor, the Iranian government. Aslan holds the coats of the persecutors.
gravenimage says
Robert Spencer in PJ Lifestyle: The Hypocrisy of the Left’s Commitment to ‘Peacemaking’
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“Peace in our time” with Taqiyya artists and Jihadists will work out about as well as it did seventy-five years ago while appeasing Hitler. Useful idiots, indeed.
EYESOPEN says
Intersections International, a group that styles itself as dedicated to promoting “peacemaking” and “interfaith outreach,” is honoring the Leftist media’s darling of the moment, Reza Aslan, “for his work at the intersection of religion, scholarship, and global peacemaking.”
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Shame on you, Robert – I almost choked on my Pepsi.
RodSerling says
Reza Aslan: “I am a scholar, with ffffffour degreeeeeez….I have a peee aitch deeeee in the hissssssssstory of religionzzzzzzzuh…”
RodSerling says
Aslan, from the Fox interview with Lauren Green, toward the end (9:25 on the clip I saw), says to her:
“You may not be familiar with me, but I’m actually quite a prominent Muslim thinker in the United States. I’ve written a number of books about Islam…”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7UU6FQoU_g
Yes, he really did say that about himself.
eib says
He won’t take you seriously?
Then let him take this seriously.
Islam is profane.
The allah of the Koran is a demon.
Muslim culture is corrupt.
Muslim history looks back to conquest.
Muslim aspirations can go no further than conquest.
Oh, and one more thing, Jesus, or Joshua, is the Son of God, the Lord God of ISRAEL! Get over it.
shrugger says
There is no Reza but Reza. And Reza is Reza’s messenger.
Terry says
I notice that the TD(Toronto Dominion) Bank of Canada(America) is a GOLD sponser for this event. Perhaps their customers might have a concern for where their hard earned savings are going?