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
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
Mike Huckabee and indeed many of the Christian conservatives in the U.S. have far more in common with the Muslim Brotherhood than… — 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
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
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
I have to say that it's a weird feeling to have to respond to a Christian leader of an anti-Muslims organisation -… — 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
“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
