“What changed people’s minds was ‘Will and Grace,’ was ‘Modern Family,’ was watching people who were gay on television being, you know, ‘normal,'” says the establishment propaganda media’s favorite Muslim, Reza Aslan, as he threatens to inflict upon us a self-righteous, fatuous, virtue-signaling Muslim family sitcom. Because, you see, “stories have the power to breakthrough the walls that separate us into different ethnicities, different cultures, different nationalities, different races, different religions.” And, apparently, forget about jihad terror. Because “bigotry is not a result of ignorance, it’s a result of fear.”
This is just another spurious claim of Muslim victimhood from someone who has made a tidy living in the Muslims-Are-Victims industry, Reza Aslan. And it is more muddled thinking from a spectacularly muddled thinker. The fallacy of his reasoning lies in the fact that when “Will & Grace” aired, there were no international gay terror groups mounting terror attacks in the U.S. and around the world, and boasting of their imminent conquest of the U.S. The suspicion that Americans have of Islam comes from jihad terror and Islamic supremacism, not from bigotry, and Americans know this distinction, despite the best efforts of people like Reza Aslan to obscure it and make people feel guilty for opposing jihad terror. Some slick TV show depicting funny, warm, attractive, cuddly Muslims would not end jihad terror, or blunt concern about it — it would only serve to further the idea that resisting jihad violence was somehow “bigoted.”
This is not the first time Aslan has revealed his abject intellectual vacuity. He regularly makes howling errors of fact, including his 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.” Aslan is less a “religious scholar” than he is a marginally literate, unevenly educated charlatan with a talent for telling the mainstream media what it wants to hear. And here is some more of it:
“Reza Aslan: A Muslim ‘Will & Grace’ Will Change American Perceptions Of Islam,” by Ian Schwartz, Real Clear Politics, January 4, 2017:
Writer Reza Aslan thinks a Muslim Will & Grace or Modern Family could truly change American perceptions of Islam.
REZA ASLAN: You are, according to the FBI, more likely to die as the result of faulty furniture, than by an Islamic terrorist. So, you should really be scared of your La-Z-Boy. For a very long time, really the only Muslims that you saw on TV were the Muslim villain, Who would scream “Allahu Akbar” and then blow himself up….
After about ten years of being cable news’s favorite Muslim I’ve come to the realization that I don’t think it’s doing any good. Bigotry is not a result of ignorance, it’s a result of fear. And fear is impervious to data, fear is impervious to information. The only way that you’re gonna dissipate that fear is by getting people to know someone that they’re afraid of.
In this country, we went from overwhelming majorities who were against same-sex marriage to overwhelming majorities supporting same-sex marriage, within the span of a couple of years.
What changed people’s minds was “Will and Grace,” was “Modern Family,” was watching people who were gay on television being, you know, ‘normal.’
They’re struggling with the same issues that you’re struggling with.They are human beings.
And so for the last few years, I’ve decided that what I’m gonna do is try to change people’s minds through pop culture, through film and television. Stories have the power to breakthrough the walls that separate us into different ethnicities, different cultures, different nationalities, different races, different religions.Because they hit us at the human level.
Don McKellar says
I noticed that this jackass has an upcoming show called “Believer” on CNN. They have their heads so far up their asses that they even gave him his own propaganda show — where all he’s going to do is try and make Islam look like any other religion.
I had to laugh when I read the quote in this story: “In this country, we went from overwhelming majorities who were against same-sex marriage to overwhelming majorities supporting same-sex marriage, within the span of a couple of years. What changed people’s minds was “Will and Grace,” was “Modern Family,”
Yeah, try showing those TV shows in a moslem country, Aslan. See what happens as far as their support for same-sex marriage. See how long it is before the TV station gets burned down in a riot and the people responsible are shot or blown up.
KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM says
And so for the last few years, I’ve decided that what I’m gonna do is try to change people’s minds through pop culture, through film and television. Stories have the power to breakthrough the walls that separate us into different ethnicities, different cultures, different nationalities, different races, different religions.Because they hit us at the human level.
Sounds alot like Barry Soetoro (aka BH Obama) logic.
Carolyne says
A Muslim “Will and Grace” will cure insomnia.
concerned canadian says
NO ! Dumbass
What will change peoples minds is when your kind
quit killing innocent people
cs says
His reputation is so low, that if you type Reza Aslan and lies you will find:
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cs says
I mean, it came onto everybody’s attention that this individual is a fraud, it is all over the place and it is common knowledge, only to the fake news inc he still has a voice.
one more video, I recommend you watch them and spread them as well, good stuff.
JOHN SPIELMAN says
no matter how Aslan tries to portray islam in a favorable light, it’s like trying to put lipstick on a pig or trying to rehabilitate the image of HITLER; IT WILL NOT WORK!
nicu says
Modern and Muslim ?????
Jack Holan says
Reza Aslan, I don’t remember Will & Grace beheading someone, much less because they are considered by another Religion,Islam, to be inferior worthless infidels. Do you remember that scene Reza from Will and Grace? Oh, don’t try to blame the extremists. Reza you know very well your homeland Persia and Saudi Arabia both behead for blasphemy apostate or if someone is LBGTQ. You can fool those incoming Freshmen but the word is filtering out to the Public, slick!
FYI says
Speaking of sitcoms….how about..??
Fiends ( the adventures of a jihadist group of friends set in Manhattan)
Saturday Night… Dead
Seinfeld the Infidel
Frasier Muhammed(the life of a psychiatrist who accidently converts to islam thinking it to be a religion of peace and ends up in an asylum after sexually molesting a Christmas tree)
Allah mcBeal
Nobody loves Raymond(Raymond,a convert to islam discovers how islam allows him to go mad,murder people and compensate him for the fact that his granma never loved him enough)
St. Patrick says
This is a total surprise especially coming from the BBC..
http://dailycaller.com/2017/01/06/bbcs-real-housewives-of-isis-skit-is-an-absolute-must-watch/
Wellington says
Faulty furniture that would result in injury or death is a tragedy and regrettable. Being maimed or killed by an Islamic terrorist is a crime and evil. Those that do not differentiate between tragedies (another example being harm done by a hurricane) and pure evil have a moral compass so broken, and the built-in crap detector they were born with so rusty, that they are very likely beyond redemption. Like Reza Aslan.
Karen says
Superb distinction, and so important. Without this, there is no reasonable case for controlling the immigration of people who may want to hurt us. After all, rickety chairs are the real problem, right? Once you remember that evil is different from random tragic incidents, you realize the case for careful vetting is a moral obligation.
Beautifully said.
Wellington says
Thank you, Karen.
faraway says
Muslims don’t know about ethics or morality,only tactics and strategy.Even the use of reason was excised from islam a thousand years ago by muslim ‘scholars’ because it endangered faith.
Elaine McMurren says
Everything you just said about Muslims is also true of the evil perverts who gave us the sexual revolution.
gravenimage says
Spot on, Wellington.
concerned canadian says
Real muzzies would destroy him as a heretic
Gen Jones says
So typical of fuzzy illogical Islamic thinking to glom onto the struggles of Gay, African American and Women’s rights movements to seem like it’s just another civil rights issue. Of course Islam is against Gay, Black and Women’s equality! Even the word Islamophopia was coopted from the notion of homophobia. However homophobia is a phenomena that describes the feelings of an apparently straight man having fear of homosexuals because it uncomfortably reveals his own latent homosexuality. Violence against gays is usually perpetrated by closet cases. So there can’t be actual Islamophobia as people who don’t like Islam aren’t reacting to their inner fear of suddenly wanting to grow a beard or craving for a prayer rug. Certainly they may be actual bigots who dislike Muslims for any number of reasons but more and more people are anti Islam because they have learned it is a death cult. No amount of cuddly image making in a sitcom will cover its stench.
gravenimage says
Very true, Gen.
Keith Gilbert says
islamics aren’t human, they left all notions of humanity behind when they submitted to the lies of a pedophile wannabe prophet of such low merit that he and all he/it touched is best forgotten without keeping any memory of the demanded submission.
Angemon says
“A muslim Modern Family”, Mr. Aslan? No, sir, you are wrong. Reality shows dictate culture. What you need is a muslim reality show such as “Keeping up with the Muhammads” or “Dancing with the Houris”. And luckily for you, the BBC is working on such a thing. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you: “The Real Housewives of ISIS”:
Dan says
And just WHAT, has happened to every other high profile entertainment company that’s triedto poke fun at Muslims
Cause that’s what Will and Grace and Modern Family did; used humor to diffuse.
Oh, I remember what happened to public figures who made jokes about Muslims.
They either caved from countless death threats because everybody know there are plenty of Muslims DEAD serious about their death threats.
Or the threats were actually carried out.
But what the hey, Azlan. If you, or the people who voluntarily participate, are the only ones to pay the consequences for being wrong, then go for it.
I mean. It’s not like, if they can’t get the people directly responsible, they don’t do something crazy, like blow up a bunch of people on a bus. Or someone just chilling over lattes.
Westman says
Got a point there Dan. If the deadpan fundamentalists declared the show to be haram they might “make an offer that can’t be refused” to sponsors and actors.
Dan says
Why don’t these liberals get it, that every way to diffuse this diplomatically has been done to death already. Literally.
I’ve said to liberals, “Even if I yell and scream at you every time we disagree, you probably won’t want to have anything to do with me, but you won’t be to concerned. Yes? No?”
And they agree.
So I say, “Well what if, even if I’m not screaming, I honestly tell you I’m going to kill you? You’d call the cops. Right?”
Of course they have to agree.
“So then,” I say, “What if you KNOW I’ve killed, or that I associate with people who do? Now what are you going to do? You’re scared, and definitely calling the cops.”
There’s when they usually go off on a tangent, scoffing something irrelevant like, “Oh, they’re not all like that.”
So I say, “Well most people aren’t burglars either. Do you lock your home and car? And have theft insurance? Or burglar alarms?”
Things tend to go down hill from there.
Stephanie says
human butcher’s evil http://quran.com/5/33 ‘crucifixion’
Westman says
Bring it on! Let’s test that claim.
Aslan is wasting his promotion talents. Look what Trump has done with his. Find the writers, find the sponsors, Aslan – it’s the opportunity of a lifetime! Think of the Red Carpet, the adulation, the fans, the perks, the guest appearances, the notoriety. And someday, politics.
Choose a scenario, Aslan, you can’t lose. No sponsors – Islamophobia. No audience – Islamophobia. Bad reviews – Islamophobia. Show fails due to boredom – Islamophobia.
End result: national recognition of “Mr. Islamophobia”, Reza Aslan. And should it succeed, we could get Aslan on “Dancing With The Stars”, as the CEO of “The Apprentice”, and the operator of “Aslan University”. Such exciting thoughts….
Stephanie says
Reza Aslan, 0:25
‘… and punish the hypocrites’ https://quran.com/33/23-24
or taqiyyah ‘deceit’ visages (as Reza Aslan) quran.com/3/28 5/51 16/106
davej says
To pretend that the murderous ideology of Islam is an Archie Bunker type problem is beyond far-fetched. But it is an extension of the “Islamophobia” conceit that says that any well justified fear and distrust of Muslims is “all in our heads” and we should be ashamed of being such foolish bigots.
This is not simple deception, it is a well organized psych-ops propaganda campaign.
bobm says
bingo….yes …
Karen says
So, his cable news work isn’t doing any good to diffuse the fear? Well, perhaps that means that people are slightly more complex than he thought, and more educated about Islamic terrorism than he knew. The power of story is real; but can it out weigh the counter narrative of ever-present terrorism? Somehow I doubt that, because lives are at stake in this situation.
bobm says
you know nothing of Gods will… nor the Grace of God … you deceitful beast…
The Istanbulite says
Will and Grace went up against religion to show the faithful that homosexuals aren’t sinners and should be afforded equal rights. Perhaps Reza meant that the Muslim world needs show’s like Will and Grace and Modern Family, Seinfeld, Sex and the City, Family Matters, The Cosby Show, Golden Girls, Cheers, and Father Ted to show them we’re acceptable too!
The Istanbulite says
*shows and not ‘show’s’. Caught that ‘typo’ quickly.
Angemon says
XD
JawsV says
Aslan can go to Heck and join his fake prophet.
Champ says
Oh sure lets whitewash the ugly TRUTH about islam & company, and lull the masses to sleep, with another false narrative thru some tv show; which everyone knows (or should know) isn’t real life anyway …yeah that’s the ticket!
reyol says
2 Peter 2:22 NIV:
Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed returns to her wallowing in the mud.”
This I think of whenever I see or hear of Reza Aslan. He was raised a Christian by Iranian parents that escaped Islam and converted to Christianity. Then, from what I’ve heard, he was convinced by his Jesuit educators to convert to Islam (the same order that gave us Pope Francis). Wallow in the filth of Islam, you hog! Eat that garbage you call a religion, Reza!
common sense says
This is the latest update of liberal behavioural modifications” for the sheeple that are ignorant or stupid enough to watch it.
More Ham Ed says
“according to the FBI, more likely to die as the result of faulty furniture, than by an Islamic terrorist. “
Is that, GLOBALLY? I thought leftists were all-about globalism, oh, except when they need to distort statistics out of context.
Islamorealism: 30060 deadly islamic documented terror attacks since 9/11.
Islam breaks the 30k terror barrier.
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com
RodSerling says
Re the litany of Aslan’s “howling errors of fact,” add this. Just after telling a CNN commentator that she doesn’t know what she’s talking about, Aslan says that the Qur’an has “tens of thousands” of verses.
ASLAN: “I mean no offense to Kayleigh, but you really don’t know what you’re talking about when it comes to either the Koran or the Bible. About 120 verses of the Koran have to do with legal matters out of tens of thousands. And if you’ve actually read the first five chapters of the Bible, you would know that it is mostly law.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bayh_c-wuI
Here’s the transcript:
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1611/18/acd.02.html
RodSerling says
p.s. the Qur’an has 6236 verses, nowhere near Aslan’s “tens of thousands” claim. “Tens of thousands” implies at least 20,000 verses.
Guest says
If he had said “maybe a TV show portraying a muslim family as moderate, modern and rejecting a literal interpretation of the koran would re-educate *muslims* to relax”, then it would make more sense. Might not work but at least would show young muslims that there are other options. If only that had entered his wee brain…
Champ says
Reza Aslan is describes as …”an Iranian-American author, public intellectual, religious studies scholar, producer, and television host.”
What, he’s an “intellectual” and a “religious studies SCHOLAR”? 😀 …oh please he probably wrote his own resume!
Richard says
Already had this in Canada back in 2007 in the form of “Little Mosque on the Prairie”. It sure did a great job of stopping all the jihad terror attacks, IS beheadings et cetera.
gravenimage says
Grimly hilarious, Richard.
Mockingjay says
– Kinda odd how the homosexuals get dragged into it every time don’cha think – only the “liberal” mind can come up with this, – as to him or her each and every minority group is somehow alike and interchangeable.
– And so it “seemingly” doesn’t “occur” to dear Reza that a group who does NOT want to kill people that do not belong to their group might find it a whole lot easier to earn acceptance in society…
Jon says
“Stories have the power to breakthrough the walls that separate us into different ethnicities, different cultures, different nationalities, different races, different religions.” I feel a bit sheepish pointing this out, since RA is an academic and a scholar, but ‘breakthrough’ is in fact a noun. If he wants the sentence to make any sense in English, he should have written the verb form ‘break through’. But what do I know? I’m no academic.
gravenimage says
Reza Aslan: A Muslim “Will & Grace” will cure “Islamophobia”
………………………..
As Robert Spencer notes, there was no international Gay terrorism bent on conquering those who are not Gay.
Can Reza Aslan make the same claim for Muslims–with a straight face?
Here, grotesquely, he claims there are “two or three” examples of Muslim terrorism–when there have been over *30,000* cases just since 9/11–and many more plots that have been foiled.
“We’re using two or three examples to justify a generalization. That’s actually the definition of bigotry”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/18/the-next-time-someone-blames-islam-for-isis-show-them-this/
efoc says
Thanks for the link.
The guy is demented beyond repair. He lives in fantasy-land.
Carmel says
It would be realy cute if the principal character was a gay muslim . Reza , you want the part ?
Yorkshire Kufir says
Cargo cult TV programming
linnte says
Oh c’mon! It would be a great sitcom! It could start out with the marriage of a six year old girl to her cousin. Then she can get pregnant at age ten, have a disabled child from the inbreeding and then this child with mental disability could do Jihad at age seven killing a whole coop of chickens that he claimed were islamophobic because they were picking/pecking on him while he played in the pen. SMH!
ScottM says
This idiot is dreaming. A moslem sitcom will be watched in moslem households alone – normal people aren’t the least bit interested in a sugar-coated, fantasy show about moslems. Our concerns are real not based upon irrational ‘fear’ or’ignorance’. Islam is a cancer and no sitcom is going to fix that.
Crusades Were Right! says
An Islamic sitcom, eh? Hm…
Tonight on Muslim Dad…
“Wife Number Four, I’m ho-me!”
“Greetings, Master!”
“Did you make that call to the police to complain about the Christmas tree and other offensive infidel decorations clearly visible from the homes of our kuffar neighbours?”
“Yes, Master; they will force the kuffar dogs remove them in the name of tolerance and diversity!”
“Excellent! Now summon my other wives and all fifteen of my children and let us all go into the street and face Mecca to pray. And let us make sure we completely block the sidewalk so that any kuffar pigs who want to pass will be forced onto the road!”
“Yes, Master!”
“And don’t let me catch you showing your bare hands in public again, like an infidel whore, or it’s another beating for you!”
Etc…
; ¬)
Crusades Were Right! says
If you’re wondering what the cure for Islamophilia is…
…We’re reading it!
; ¬)
Madhvi says
What also helped the world embrace gays – as opposed to Muslims- is that gays do not commit mass murder globally on a regular basis . Nor as a group , do they go in for beheadings, bombings, rape epidemics, treating women like cattle, fir example. These activities are simply not endearing to the world at large.
So I think it will take more than a tv show …
Dustin says
They can rape children as punishment for their hate crimes of not submitting to Allah.
Lorn Ferguson says
He states that your more likely to be killed by faulty furniture than by a muzzie terrorist? Faulty furniture gets recalled!!!! And even the peices that aren’t faulty get recalled for inspection and replaced if it comes from a line that is “bad”. They don’t just selectively pick the broken ones, they ALL are recalled!!!! So recall all the muzzies until they figure out their problems and fix them!!!!! it is a cult not a religion read their “book” for yourself and see!!!!! Its a book of filth the only good parts were plaguarized from the Bible!