The adulation that the mainstream media heaps upon Reza Aslan is a singular demonstration of how superficial and biased the mainstream really is. For Aslan is no scholar, and if he were not a Muslim and a Leftist, his frequent howling errors of fact would have consigned him to media oblivion long ago. No non-Muslim conservative would ever have become a media star making the errors Aslan has made and behaving the way he has. He has made the ridiculous claim that the idea of resurrection “simply doesn’t exist in Judaism,” despite numerous passages to the contrary in the Hebrew Scriptures. He has also referred to “the reincarnation, which Christianity talks about” — although he later claimed that one was a “typo.” In yet another howler he later insisted was a “typo,” he claimed that the Biblical story of Noah was barely four verses long — which he then corrected to forty, but that was wrong again, as it is 89 verses long. Aslan claimed that the “founding philosophy of the Jesuits” was “the preferential option for the poor,” when in reality, that phrase wasn’t even coined until 1968. He called Turkey the second most populous Muslim country, when it is actually the eighth most populous Muslim country. He thinks Pope Pius XI, who issued the anti-fascist encyclical Mit Brennender Sorge, was a fascist. He thinks Marx and Freud “gave birth to the Enlightenment,” when it ended in the late 18th century, before either of them were born. He claims that “the very first thing that Muhammad did was outlaw slavery,” when in fact Muhammad bought slaves, took female captives as sex slaves, and owned slaves until his death. He thinks Ethiopia and Eritrea are in Central Africa.
A “renowned religious scholar” such as Reza Aslan should not make such elementary mistakes. But this is, of course, the man who writes “than” for “then”; apparently thinks the Latin word “et” is an abbreviation; and writes “clown’s” for “clowns.”
“Religious scholar Reza Aslan ponders Donald Trump, the power of pop culture and faith in America,” by Gina Piccalo, Los Angeles Times, April 8, 2016:
Muslim religious scholar Reza Aslan is Internet famous for keeping his cool. The Iranian American author of the 2013 bestseller “Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth” once confronted a relentless Fox News anchor with such unflappable poise, it made him a viral sensation.
In reality, Aslan confronted the relentless Fox News anchor by lying repeatedly about his credentials. And in other corners of the Internet, he is not famous for keeping his cool, but for losing it, slinging frenzied abuse at those he hates and, when confronted and exposed about it, claiming risibly that his adolescent insults were automated.
After a successful career in academia, he’s moving beyond punditry to spread his message via pop culture. He’s co-founder of BoomGen Studios, host of the new Ovation TV talk show “Rough Draft” and of CNN’s forthcoming docuseries on religion and culture, “Believer.” “Zealot,” meanwhile, is on its way to becoming a Lionsgate feature film. At his Mt. Washington Home, the 43-year-old sat for a discussion that ranged from Donald Trump to the power of pop culture to faith in America.
From a sociological perspective, how do you explain the rise of Donald Trump?
The most important thing to know about Donald Trump is he is not a fringe character. Forty percent of Americans — not 40% of Republicans — think there should be a national registry of Muslims, 56% of Americans think that we should actually bar all Muslims from entering the United States. We keep asking: How is it that this man is getting such support in the elections. How? Because people agree with him.
How do you think Trump’s rise has affected Muslim Americans?
We now know, what has always been the case, which is that a large swath of us [is] xenophobic, racist and Islamophobic. And we pretend that we’re not. And now it’s out in the open and can’t be ignored any longer….
As far as Aslan is concerned, these poll numbers (which Aslan misrepresents in the first place) indicate that a large number of Americans are “xenophobic, racist and Islamophobic.” He has nothing to say about the possibility that they could be reacting to jihad terror attacks and the endless threats of mass murder and destruction from the Islamic State.
You were a born-again Christian and converted to Islam. How would you apply that notion of identity versus beliefs to your own experience of religion?
If you asked me this question when I was 16 and an evangelical Christian, I would say religion is the entirety of my identity, because that’s what I was taught. And then I went to university and began studying religion, and that’s when I realized what it truly is about.
So for you, religion was more about the beliefs than the identity?
Yes, it was all about beliefs. People who are religious are probably unwilling to recognize how much of what they believe is rooted in who they actually are and not the teachings of their religion. We think people derive their values from their scriptures. But it’s more often the case that people insert their values into their scriptures.
Here Aslan is essentially saying that words have no meaning, that the various scriptures of various religions have no essential content or character, that the religions themselves are meaningless and interchangeable, and that people are never inspired to change their behavior by the teachings of a religion, which anyway don’t exist since religions are wholly and solely what people decide they will be. Can a religion’s teachings transform a believer into a violent, war-mongering person, or a peaceful, pluralistic person? For Aslan, the answer is no: religions are just putty, to be formed by those who believe in them into any shape they like. So tomorrow Muslims could begin to declare that there are five gods, despite the Qur’an’s fierce monotheism, and Christians could begin murdering people while screaming, “Jesus is Lord!”
This is, of course, completely absurd. If it were true, there would be Christian, Jewish, Hindu, and Muslim terrorists in equal proportion, instead of a preponderance of Muslim terrorists. Religions don’t just depend on what the believer brings to them; believers are also shaped by what they teach. But as far as Aslan is concerned, they don’t teach anything: “people insert their values into their scriptures.”
How does this idea apply to religious extremists then? Aren’t they all reading the scripture the same way?
The thing they have most in common is that they already possess an either anti-establishment [view] or are prone to violent tendencies. A report that just came out said something like 80% of Europeans who join [Islamic State] in Syria have a criminal record. But when someone says they are acting violently in the name of Islam, that … negates any other contributing factor that could be involved. We don’t really care about his drug addiction or his history of violent tendencies or his arrest record.
Yes, and we don’t because drug addicts or people with a history of violent tendencies from Christian or other non-Muslim backgrounds don’t become terrorists in anything like the numbers that Muslim drug addicts and Muslims with a history of violent tendencies do.
But 9/11 changed the conversation forever about Islam and terrorism.
Actually, no. Sixty-one percent of Americans have negative feelings toward Muslims today. That’s 20% higher than the immediate aftermath of Sept. 11. It’s not that 15 years ago, we were attacked by 18 Muslims and ever since then we have been Islamophobic. Instead, it’s the result of a very well-organized, extremely well-funded, concerted effort by a handful of organizations funded to the tune of now more than $50 million to convince Americans that the 1% of the population of this country that is Muslim is on the verge of a complete takeover. We are at a far greater threat from white supremacist terrorism. Since 9/11, right-wing terrorists have killed far more Americans than Islamic terrorists have.
Aslan would really have us believe that my colleagues and I are so clever, so well-funded and so powerful that we have hoodwinked millions of Americans into thinking that the jihad is a threat. In reality, Osama bin Laden, Nidal Malik Hasan, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Syed Rizwan Farook and all their comrades and allies have done that, not Pamela Geller, Steve Emerson, Frank Gaffney and me. Aslan here ignores the Fort Hood, Boston, Chattanooga, and San Bernardino jihad massacres, plus innumerable thwarted jihad plots in the U.S., as well as jihad massacres around the world and numerous boasts of imminent conquest and destruction from the Islamic State, al-Qaeda, and other jihad groups. And Aslan’s claim that white supremacists are a greater threat than jihadis is based on a study from last summer, which based its findings on the number of those killed by white supremacists and by jihadis since 9/11. Not only did this study skew the results by leaving out 9/11, but it also ignores the many, many foiled jihad plots, and lumped in many psychopaths with no ideology with genuine white supremacists. It also ignored the international jihad movement: if it had counted the casualties of the global jihad vs. white supremacist terrorism not just in the U.S. but worldwide, there would have been no comparison.
Let’s shift gears to your creative endeavors.
I truly believe the best way to shift perceptions in this country is through pop culture. It’s always the most efficient way of doing so. We’re trying to develop television shows, feature-length films, projects that work to create a different perception of the people, the cultures, the stories, of the Greater Middle East. Part of that involves simply having Muslims and Middle Easterners being normal on TV. [With] “Rough Draft,” I wanted people to see a Middle Easterner being a host and talking about writing and not talking about politics or religion. “Believer” is my attempt to take the work I’ve done for the last two decades and present it in a very accessible, fun, participatory way that still allows you to see someone else’s religious faith in the hopes that you realize that it’s all just different metaphors for the same emotion….
Will all this stop jihad terror? Of course not. Will it render more Americans complacent about the jihad threat and unwilling to support any serious resistance to it? Probably.

Ashley says
LOL! I will NEVER tire of that photo of Reza. NEVER!
jihad3tracker says
Hi Ashley — Please let me parachute down into your rose bushes (OUCH — THORNY !) to mention that the article above HAS A COMMENT SECTION, which as of about 2:15 PM Eastern time had only 4 contributions.
SO LET US DIVE INTO THE POOL with a few splashes for the clueless readers there. I think Robert’s shredding of clown Reza is a superb place to start — giving readers there the link to this post about Reza.
Also, here is the wonderful counter-jihad expert David Wood with a video about “religious scholar” Reza Poofy-poof’s book titled Zealot, and the stupidity contained therein:
http://www.answeringmuslims.com/2016/04/in-his-book-zealot-life-and-times-of.html
REFER THE READERS TO THAT, ALSO, IN YOUR COMMENTS at the Los Angeles Times. Be sure to keep them brief, on point, and utterly civilized.
Roasting pussy-wimp Aslan is the highlight of my weekend, a real treat.
jihad3tracker says
Pardon me for one more comment — YOU MUST WATCH REZA’S DEER-IN-THE-HEADLIGHTS DEFENSE of his academic “credentials” in David’s video (which I mentioned in the item above about “Zealot”).
ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS ! ! ! Even if you don’t plan to send something on to the L.A. Times article, take a few minutes for the video. What a sack of effeminate douchery is that pathetic impostor.
Ashley says
Jay Boo…
I work at a bookstore. We carried four copies of Reza’s “Zealot” and guess what I had to return to the publisher after gathering dust for several months? FOUR COPIES!
Keep on rocking in the free world, friend!
Jay Boo says
Ashley, that was jihad3tracker
Ashley says
Ugh! Sorry about that, Jay Boo, My bad,
Mark Swan says
Megalomaniac’s delusion of importance…with a ten year old’s shirt.
Tom W Harris says
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Ashley says
“Part of that involves simply having Muslims and Middle Easterners being normal on TV.”
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And when they are not on TV, Reza?????
jihad3tracker says
HELLO REZA ! DON’T BOTHER DENYING THAT YOU READ EVERYTHING HERE ON JIHADWATCH.
Robert Spencer obsesses you with intensity which, as one of our commenters noticed, seriously suggests itself as a flag of suppressed gender identity.
Even that ultra-cute vintage disco dance in the video clip (a still capture from it is the source of the picture above) is perfectly skeleton-in-the-closet.
You must regret not being born early enough to do the San Francisco bathhouse circuit — it would have let your exceptional, true talents shine through.
By the way, I would not bethis mean and disparaging in remarks if it were not for the fact of your personal cowardice in denial of Islam’s reality..
JAR says
The amusing photo of Aslan aside, I get good mileage from Robert’s collected data against this “scholar” who has some unfortunate influence north of the border. Keep the Reza updates coming.
Miao Zedong says
Might be somewhat off-topic but I have to get if off my chest. The common thread being how those who challenge “the system” get demonized.
Daniel Pipes article “There’s a Name for Trump’s Brand of Politics: Neo-fascism”, published April 8, 2016.
The article basically is plain and pure character assassination of the most crude sort.
Therein Pipes wrote the following sentence:
” He called on followers to swear allegiance to him, evoking Hitlergruß-like salutes.”
A Dr. Timothy Hadly commented to that:
“The people at this Trump rally in Orlando do not appear to be pledging their allegiance to Trump. They were simply indicating their intention to vote for him in the upcoming primary. IMO, critics who accuse Trump of Hitler-like behavior are being unethical to use this picture as evidence”
Upon which Pipes clarified quoting Trump:
“Let’s do a pledge. Who likes me in this room? I’ve never done this before. Can I have a pledge? A swearing? Raise your right hand. … I do solemnly swear that I, no matter how I feel, no matter what the conditions, if there are hurricanes or whatever, will vote on or before the 12th for Donald J. Trump for president.”
Shock !
Swearing, raising your hand, which is customary in court rooms has been morphed into “Hitlergruss-like” salute.
Does it get any lower than that kind of manipulation by an academic ? I used to read his articles trusting his competence. No longer.
http://www.danielpipes.org/comments/228758
Hope says
Here is a “religious scholar” who knows nothing about history or geography, misquotes the Bible, gets facts about Judaism completely wrong, can’t even properly utilize the spell-checker on his computer, and spews endless lies about Islam.
But Mr. Aslan is right about one thing: We DO agree with Donald Trump. We are sick of terror attacks. We are sick of picking up the tab for the cost of illegal immigration. We are sick of hearing about Syrian “refugees.” We are sick of seeing the f***ing Muslim Brotherhood being wined and dined at our White House. We are Americans and it is not any-kind-of-phobic to demand AMERICA FIRST. Mr. Trump has taught us this, and in doing so, has liberated us.
John Spielman says
Ian NOT an islamophobe but an islamoLOATH
John Spielman says
Oops ” I am….”
Champ says
Islamophobia is a fake concept, since there is no anti-muslim backlash; and it is a nonsense term because “phobia” is an “irrational fear.”
It’s not “phobic” to be worried about islam. It is completely rational–given that since 9/11 there have been countless terrorist attacks in the name of islam.
Americans have merely been propagandized with the islamophobia narrative. It is nothing more than propaganda.
And Reza Aslan is attempting to demonize the truth teller: Donald Trump.
I think that Donald Trump is an ‘islamorealist’ where islam and company are concerned.
The Vilest of Creatures says
“Since 9/11, right-wing terrorists have killed far more Americans than Islamic terrorists have.”
Gotta love how apologists think they are making some kind of a point with comments like that.
Move your start date back 24 hours earlier and it’s not even in the same universe.
That’s kinda like saying,
“Since October, 2015, the Kansas City Royals have won more World Series’ than the New York Yankees have”
Westman says
Trump is popular, only partly due to IslamoNausea. We’ve had it with the liar governments, and Aslan.
Reza wouldn’t be safe, or popular, if he simply stated that he thinks the chaos created by Muslims is Islamic and that his “brothers” in the ME are dim bulbs compared to him and his more enlightened US-dwelling, peaceful, ilk.
The dim bulbs will figure him out, eventually. I doubt he would last 5 minutes with Baghdadi, but being in the US he can enjoy freedom while punching the US in the eye. It’s a very multicultural activity.
Cecilia Ellis says
In the posted ar idle, Reza Aslan is quoted as stating, “It’s not that 15 years ago, we were attacked by 18 Muslims and ever since then we have been Islamophobic.”
Add one more error to Aslan’s growing list . . . there were 19 Muslim highjackers on 9/11.
Cecilia Ellis says
Make that “in the posted article,”
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
Yes! It was not “18 Muslims” as Reza says, but 19, as commemorated in the poster
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LPvJbhN2VQ4/VCRQGrRGSfI/AAAAAAAAGw8/rMHvRhN33yE/w596/Magnificent19.JPG .
Reza, you should know this, because 19 is very significant in Islamic numerology. Even the Clinton Foundation knows this: their logo is a crescent of 19 stars (look it up).
Cecilia Ells says
Mark, I took your advice and looked up the Clinton Foundation logo . . . I learned something today, thanks to you. I had never seen that logo. Interesting . . .
mortimer says
Then Aslan had this gobbledegook: “Believer” is my attempt to take the work I’ve done for the last two decades and present it in a very accessible, fun, participatory way that still allows you to see someone else’s religious faith in the hopes that you realize that it’s all just different metaphors for the same emotion…”
Let’s check this out: “it’s all just different metaphors for the same emotion”
Aslan’s last phrase is called ‘radical religious relativism’, the theory that all religions have the same teachings even if members of those faiths are too stupid to know it.
If that is his pitch, Aslan has been smoking some extremely toxic tobacco. I suggest the reverse is true: religions have different teachings and different ’emotions’.
How about the following? All religions are genuinely different from each other and that’s why they are ‘different religions’ and not the ‘same religion’.
Is that too straight-forward for you, Aslan?
Joanne says
Reza Aslan has some form of mental illness, no question.
mortimer says
Photo caption: Aslan does the Macarena…as a ‘scholar’
JawsV says
Just that he converted to Islam from Christianity shows he’s mentally ill.
Georg says
Yes, because the Koran isn’t one long bigoted diatribe of racist, xenophobic, nonMuslimphobia. Wonder why that doesn’t bother him…
linnte says
I can’t stand Reza. I couldn’t stand him BEFORE I knew Islam was horrible either! And it really ticks me off that CNN is doing documentaries with this blowhard (pun intended). I could care less if someone is gay, but this man is in serious denial publically and his people would crucify him if they knew! Literally.
Angemon says
A fact that Conservatives are slowly waking up to…
Kepha says
Unhappily, I admit that under today’s standards, Reza Aslan is a “scholar of religion”. He is such because academic religious studies has become a sinkhole of folly and a factory of misinformation.
As a professing Christian believer who has lost count of the number of times he has read the Bible through, has done some of that reading in Hebrew and Greek, knows something of Rabbinics and Patristics, holds a Master of Divinity degree, and has seen how a lot of these things have worked out in history, I can only say that the “go to” scholars on whom the MSM depend are not much better than Reza Aslan. And, I suppose, other readers here have seen that in the past, I have dismissed Aslan’s treatment of Jesus as a mere dusting off of S.G.F. Brandon’s work and repackaging it in a trendy pro-Palestinian package.
Elaine Pagels, of Hunter College, Princeton, and other prestige addresses, thinks that Athanasius persecuted Gnostic monks; oblivious to the historical fact that Gnosticism had petered out long before Athanasius’ time, and his tiff was with Arians and Homoiousians (and Athanasius was generally the persecutee in these matters).
Bart Ehrman’s introductions to the writings grouped as the Apostolic Fathers express worry about how the writings may grate on feminist ears, as if a bunch of people writing broadly in the time frame of 60-160 A.D. could possibly have the same sensibilities as a later 20th century Sophomore. He scoffs at the idea that Jesus’ Galilean disciples could have known and written Greek, when as members of a politically peripheral group living hard by important Greek-using regions (and belonging to a linguistically divided people anyway) they were prime candidates for bi- or multi-lingualism. Indeed, in his treatment of the social backgrounds of Jesus’ disciples, Ehrman shows himself incapable of understanding the fundamental difference between education and going to school.
Dominic Crossan’s Jesus seems to be a Crossan wannabe. Indeed, the whole Jesus Seminar stinks of Schweitzer’s conclusion in his _The Quest for the Historical Jesus_ (orig. Vom Reimarus zu Wrede) that the scholars who sought to reconstruct a supposedly “historical Jesus” merely looked down the wellshaft of 19 centuries to see their own reflections in the bottom. Come to think of it, Schweitzer’s own “historical Jesus” was simply the caricature of a reduction.
Receiving some crash courses in the cultures of Southeast Asia while at State, I sat under people with impressive degrees and positions from places like Harvard and Georgetown. These folks believed that since they dialogues with Quakers, Sufis “had to be” peaceful and harmless souls. Understanding that Aslan is an Iranian-American who left his mother’s ex-Muslim Evangelicalism to re-appropriate his ancestral faith, I guess he can be excused for thinking that “the preferntial option for the poor” is the basic raison d’etre for the Society of Jesus; for he is a little like my teachers at the Foreign Service Institute trying to grope their way around very unfamiliar territory while trying to sound knowledgeable.
So, despite really caring that people get their information about various religions right, I will unhappily concede that Reza Aslan fits the current job description of “scholar of religion”. He is an unserious participant in a pursuit that long ago lost its seriousness; but which since 1979 had suddenly received a renewed relevance while completely unprepared to provide it. .
Remember The Constitution says
Trump is only popular because he’s an entertainer and that he is rich. He only says things like “let’s build a wall” and “let’s keep the Muslims out” (we should btw, but that’s not the point here). He doesn’t have a real plan how to do those. Has he actually answered a question ‘how to’ really? Really? No. He only says things then throws a temper tantrum when someone asks him to clarify. One of the reasons I voted for Cruz. We need a Republican president for what’s to come, because Hilary would be completely useless in dealing with terrorists and Trump not only can’t beat her, he doesn’t know how!
Jay Boo says
“(Trump is popular because of “Islamophobia”)”
Ok then.
Islamophobia is popular because Muslims are — A – Holes
Georg says
LOL!!!
Xero_G says
When a severe weather alert is issued, I wonder if Reza calls the weather service to admonish them for being “Tornadophobic”. Will he write his next book on how America, during WWII was full of greasy Nazi-phobes?
mortimer says
You keep using the word “scholar”. I do not think it means what Aslan thinks it means.
Mubarak says
Reza Aslan constantly speaks about himself: he is a zealot, who inserts his own values into the scriptures he read. He is a creative writer and reader, because he is a creative liar, and he wants to create his audience in this deceptive image. He is superficial as a cork, and pop culture is therefore his preferred medium.
By choice he became an offended Christian – grace offends – and turned to the puppet religion of his ancestors where works are credited the practitioners as righteousness.
mortimer says
Agree with Mubarak. Aslan inserts his bias into his book ‘Zealot’. No NT scholar believes that Jesus was a militant revolutionist. First century accounts say Jesus was an ethics teacher and faith healer. Even the Koran says Jesus was a miracle worker…never a revolutionist. Aslan’s approach is unscholarly theorizing. It has more in common with fiction writing.
Kepha says
Mortimer, you and I may think it ridiculous to portray Jesus as a militant revolutionist, and we are right to do so. Long ago, Martin Hengel of Tubingen (a respectable NT scholar) wrote a little monograph debunking the idea. Others, have, too.
Unfortunately, in today’s climate, another of Hengel’s positions, which was stated in his last interview, holds true: you can make money (or gain positions) writing rubbish about Jesus.
The number of credentialed and tenured bipedal donkeys who would make Jesus into “the first Palestinian freedom fighter” is legion. One wonders why they don’t say the same about certain of the Judges; my guess is that they’ve simply never bothered to truly read the Old Testament. sigh.
Yes, I agree that our blog host Robert Spencer is a far better religious scholar, even if I completely disagree with his expressed doubts about the historical existence of Muhammad ibn Abdallah ibn Abu Abdul-mutalib. Sure, there’s probably a good dissertation or book or two lurking in several who post here. But the fact is that we’ve got people in academic religious studies as celebrated as their work is appallingly sloppy. If they can be called “religious scholars”, then Reza Aslan qualifies, too.
We live in a truly dark age.
Marcel Bérubé says
Someone who view Reza Aslan lecture in Vancouver on YT, will hear him say
that Jesus was « a jew ». He say it with a firm accent and then he look aroun in the audience if
there is to be a reaction. Since there is not he goes on . Sorry , Reza , it is astonishing a « scho-
lar » like you don’t know that Jesus was not a jew.
In fact , in the time of Jesus , nobody talk of themselves as jews. In Jerusalem,
they would called themselves Phariseans. In Nazareth , they would called themselves: Naza-
reans .
The word jew came into the english language by 1800. Even in Shakespeare,
in Merchant of Venice, urtext, there is not the word jew .
People living in Judea called themselves Judeans. On the cross , the latin
words I.N.R.I means Rex of Judeans . Not Rex of Jews.
In New Testament , Jesus mention the name Phariseans 78 times and they
for the rest of the time for those who were worshipping in Jerusalem .
I’m not the best man to talk of all this . Anyone interested should ask Google :
Was Jesus a Jew? and see the answer.
Benjamin Freedman work for decades on the subject .
In Europe , there is a man called Tariq Ramdan. He is a very good looking man
in his early fifties , I guess, and he is always in tv studios , on radios etc… to speak how
islam is a religion of peace, love and tolerance. He is supposedly working , with imams,
on a new and modern islam coming soon. He just forget to say that islam issupposed to be
eternal just the way it is now and was 1400 years ago and that no one is supposed to change
a letter to it since it was perfect from all eternity . It was not even created. Like god himself.
In fact , he practise deceiving so it gives time to islam in Europe to grow .
Reza Aslan , to me , look like an american version of Tariq
Ramadan . I forgot to say Tariq Ramadan is a « teacher » at Harvard . He is paid for
that with Saoud Arabic funds. From 2001 to 2010 , he was forbidden of american soil.
Tariq Ramadan , grand son of the Muslim Brotherhood founder, is
supposed to have study in a parisian university . He is supposed to have a doctor degree
in philosophy and have produced a thesis on Nietsche. The problem is nobody find the
thesis anywhere.
To produce a thesis on NIetsche , you are supposed to work with the
originals texts which are , as you supposed , in german. We know Tariq Ramadan speak
french , arabic and english but no one ever heard him in german ,
His alleged thesis director once came in medias and revealed he never
was Ramadan’s thesis director. He just remembered Ramadan submit a thesis project . This
project was refused by the university . In this project , Ramadan wanted to develop the idea
that Nietsche ‘s ideas were going in the same direction as the Coran . Yes , you have read
right . The thesis director nnever could accept such a project . He didn’t accept it . But , Ra-
madan would call university ‘s authorities threatening them to give him his degree just the
same . They never were impressed by the man and never went on with his project. That
was the last time Ramadan was seen or heard on the spot for his studies on Nietsche.
Is it possible that Reza Aslan is the same kind of imposter in America?
Living with funds coming from South Arabia, doing superficial studies and going by charming
with his permanent persian tan , widely furnish garde-robe shooting powder in the eyes of
lefties american media anchormen ?
linnte says
Marcel, excellent post! I believe every outspoken Muslim is backed by big Oil money.
Kepha says
Marcel, our English word “Jew” derives from the Greek “Iudaios”, meaning, as you’ve noticed “Judaean”. But even by New Testament times, it had as well connotations meaning one who either followed the religion of Judaea, descended from that region, or both. Even in the Old Testament, when the Assyrians besieged Jerusalem, the defenders were referred to as “Jews” (it’s in Isaiah and II Kings).
Further, Jesus is himself called a Jew in John 4:9, and speaks of salvation (himself), as being “of the Jess” (Jn. 4:22). Paul also identifies himself as a “Jew” in both his epistles and in the Book of Acts.
JawsV says
Azz-hole-lan should go back to Iran where he belongs and worship his Arabian lunar deity.
Mazo says
Trump is popular because a large amount of Americans view Mexicans as subhumans.
linnte says
Well not me! I think the large amount of Americans you are talking about really only want immigrants to immigrate legally. These Americans want the money that is spent on illegal immigrants to be spent on American citizens. They want Mexican citizens to become American citizens. What do we have citizenship for, if there is no benefit in being one? Eleven million illegal Mexican citizens get some form of assistance, or job, that an American citizen should have. Why have borders if we can’t maintain those borders? You see what is happening in Europe with the open border policy? I thank God every day that our Mexican neighbors are not Muslims. Si habla poquito Espanol! Mexican bring their culture with them, and I love that. I do wish legal Mexicans would learn the language better though. Not speaking English keeps them in jobs that pay only minimum wage, and that is a bummer!
Jay Boo says
Donald ‘D’–rump
I don’t blame Trump for wanting to keep Arabic speaking Muslims out because they can’t even pronounce his name correctly.
At least Mexicans can pronounce Trump’s name correctly.
Champ says
Trump is popular because a large amount of Americans view Mexicans as subhumans.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Mazo truly believes this idiocy, doesn’t he? Astonishing!
Jay Boo says
Trump claimed that hundreds of Muslims in Muslim infested New Jersey cheered when the Twin Towers came down.
Was he telling the truth?
I do not know for a fact that this was true.
However, I do know that shortly after Muslims shamelessly placed a pro-Islam billboard near the NJ Turnpike.
————–
“WHY ISLAM” asked the billboard sign near I-95 and Secaucus Junction /NJ transit station.
In the distance behind the sign was lower Manhattan’s skyline where the Twin Towers once stood.
(Yes, directly behind the sign.) In that moment I was reminded of who we are dealing with (truly).
“WHY ISLAM” the sign implored readers to go to a website proselytizing Islam. Like a stinking vulture that returns to pick at bones I am reminded that those intoxicated with Islam’s vanity have not shame.
Cecilia Ellis says
Jay Boo, your comment reminded me of this:
https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&channel=ipad_bm&hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=980&bih=674&q=imagine+a+world+without+islam&oq=world+without+islam&gs_l=img.1.1.0j0i5i30j0i24l5.6205.15877.0.18607.19.14.0.5.5.0.145.1635.1j13.14.0….0…1ac.1.64.img..0.19.1721.FSAF_ly3kXU#imgrc=3jxzEkrA7KkKRM%3A
Cecilia Ellis says
Well . . . I see that link did not work so well. The image “Imagine a world without Islam” was the intent of my post. However, several can be seen there. Sorry about that.
Kepha says
Tell me, how would China or any other country look on 11 millions of people squatting on its territory illegally? Mexico itself, after all, can be pretty rough on the Guatemalans and Salvadoreans who sneak across the border into Chiapas. I think in most ways, Trump is a blowhard,but every country on the planet has rules about who gets in and who doesn’t. It’s all about trying to avoid importing other countries’ problems.
Mazo says
There are millions of descendants of illegal immigrants in China. Kazakhs and Koreans didn’t go through border control when entering China.
Mo says
“You were a born-again Christian and converted to Islam.”
That is biblically theologically impossible. Just like you cannot be “unborn” physically once you’re out of the womb, a person who has been born again by the Spirit of Christ cannot be spiritually unborn. Someone who was actually born again would never turn their back on Christ, especially not to knowingly follow a warlord, terrorist, murderer and child rapist like Mohammad!