The Muslim community is completely fractured - it doesn't really exist anymore; the only place it does exist is online. — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Every single interview I have ever done on TV or in print says I'm a Muslim. — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Well, to be clear, I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
When you're a brown Muslim from Iran talking about Jesus on TV, you need to keep your cool at all times, OK?… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
“As a text, the Quran is more than the foundation of the Islamic religion; it is the source of Arabic grammar. It… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
“They fully bloomed in the pages of the Bible and the Quran, where the Sumerian word ilu became transliterated as Elohim in… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
What the printing press is to Christianity in the 16th century, that's what the Internet is doing to Islam now. It has… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Islam is more than a religion, it's much more than a religion, it's a way of life, it is a one party… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
I have watched Muslims chant 'Death to America!' on the streets of Tehran, then privately beg me to help them get a… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Im a person of faith, and the language that I use to define my faith, the symbols and metaphors that I rely… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Maybe when the President tells you that you should be afraid of Mexicans or Muslims or Jews or black people or gay… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
“It took many years to cleanse Arabia of its “false idols.” It will take many more to cleanse Islam of its new… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
There's no question that homophobia is rampant among the world's 1.5 billion Muslims - but that doesn't negate the fact that there… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
What's happened in the United States is something that has already happened in Europe and that is that Islam is become 'otherised',… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
If you ask a Saudi Imam why women in Saudi Arabia can't drive, he'll say, 'Because Islam demands it.' But that's absurd,… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
In times of economic distress, it's only natural for people - and Americans have done this for many years - to look… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
American Muslims - young American Muslims in particular - are starting to understand that unless they are willing to stand up for… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Islamophobia has become so mainstream in this country that Americans have been trained to expect violence against Muslims - not excuse it,… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
“There are two distinct methods of interpreting the Quran. The first, tafsir, is primarily concerned with elucidating the literal meaning of the… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
“The hadith, insofar as they addressed issues not dealt with in the Quran, would become an indispensable tool in the formation of… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
“Today, Medina is simultaneously the archetype of Islamic democracy and the impetus for Islamic militancy. Islamic Modernists like the Egyptian writer and… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in Biblical Greek, who has… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Islam doesn't promote violence or peace. Islam is just a religion, and like every religion in the world, it depends on what… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Over the last few years, the Islamic world has produced more female presidents and prime ministers than both Europe and North America… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
[Islam] is the dynamic conviction that a person's spiritual and worldly responsibilities are one and the same, that an individuals duty to… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
One-fifth of Americans, 20% believe that Barak Obama is, himself, a Muslim and in fact - amongst Republicans that number is almost… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
The religiously observant is lumped in with the nominal Muslim, the nominal Muslim is lumped in with the non-Muslim and the radical.… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
The west is very concerned and actually afraid because the media is not informing them. There are too many moderate Muslims who… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
When I was in the US, I felt that the discourse there surrounding Muslims as the other, problematising Muslims and Islam as… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
“Despite two millennia of Christian apologetics, the fact is that belief in a dying and rising messiah simply did not exist in Judaism. In… — Reza Aslan Copy Share
Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology. — Reza Aslan Copy Share
“Scattered across the Roman Empire, it was only natural for the gospel writers to distance themselves from the Jewish independence movement by erasing, as… — Reza Aslan Copy Share
“There is a term for this phenomenon—politicomorphism, or “the divinization of earthly politics”—and it is, to this day, one of the central features of… — Reza Aslan Copy Share
Obama has been the single worst president in modern American history in dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. — Reza Aslan Copy Share
There's no question that homophobia is rampant among the world's 1.5 billion Muslims - but that doesn't negate the fact that there are huge… — Reza Aslan Copy Share
Well, to be clear, I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in Biblical Greek… — Reza Aslan Copy Share
“There would be no more record of who was rich and who was poor. Everyone in this new and divinely inspired world order would… — Reza Aslan Copy Share
My biography of Jesus is probably the first popular biography that does not use the New Testament as its primary source material. — Reza Aslan Copy Share
“Pilate, as the histories reveal, was not one for trials. In his ten years as governor of Jerusalem, he had sent thousands upon thousands… — Reza Aslan Copy Share
Is it possible that Jesus, unlike 98 percent of his fellow Jews, was literate and educated? Yes, it's possible. — Reza Aslan Copy Share
“The choice between James’s vision of a Jewish religion anchored in the Law of Moses and derived from a Jewish nationalist who fought against… — Reza Aslan Copy Share
“Paul's portrayal of Jesus as Christ may sound familiar to contemporary Christians—it has since become the standard doctrine of the church—but it would have… — Reza Aslan Copy Share
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