We need to do whatever we can, legally and within our power, to remove Donald Trump from office as fast as possible… — Reza Aslan Country 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
If the resistance is going to bring Trump down, it will require Democrats to follow the people, not the other way around.… — Reza Aslan Democracy Copy Share Image
I think by all accounts in the same way we look back on the anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish sentiments of our history with… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
There were dozens of people who walked through the Holy Land claiming to be the Messiah, curing the sick, exorcising demons, challenging… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
It is no exaggeration to say that Syria holds the key for nearly all of America's foreign policy goals in the Middle… — Reza Aslan America Copy Share Image
I wouldn't call myself a Christian because I do not believe that Jesus is God, nor do I believe that he ever… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
The first week or day that Obama was in office, he made it clear that peace in the Middle East would be… — Reza Aslan Choices Copy Share Image
“Scattered across the Roman Empire, it was only natural for the gospel writers to distance themselves from the Jewish independence movement by… — Reza Aslan Bible 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… — Reza Aslan Death Copy Share Image
“Cognitive theorists have a term for what Eve just experienced. They call it her Hypersensitive Agency Detection Device, or HADD. This is… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
The people on the streets of Egypt and Tunisia and Libya and Syria and Iran have done more to defeat the ideology… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
“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… — Reza Aslan Christianity Copy Share Image
“Jesus was surely not the first exorcist to walk the shores of the Sea of Galilee. In first-century Palestine, professional wonder worker… — Reza Aslan Jesus Copy Share Image
Bill Maher is right to condemn religious practices that violate fundamental human rights. Religious communities must do more to counter extremist interpretations… — Reza Aslan Bigotry Copy Share Image
Many of the prophets of Jesus's time were thought to just be mad men, just sort of crazy people who were claiming… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Even the Quran, which Sufis respect as the direct speech of God, lacks the capacity to shed light upon God’s essence. As… — Reza Aslan Beloved Copy Share Image
“Whether for good or for bad, the Iran that ultimately rises out of the ashes of last summer's uprising will be unlike… — Reza Aslan Dissent 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 Community Copy Share Image
“There is a term for this phenomenon—politicomorphism, or “the divinization of earthly politics”—and it is, to this day, one of the central… — Reza Aslan Religion Copy Share Image
There is absolutely no difference between religion and politics at all in Jesus' time. In other words, every seemingly religious word that… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
You have almost zero chance of being killed by a refugee in America. You have almost no chance of being killed in… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Nobody, absolutely nobody, straps a bomb on their body because they were recruited from the Internet. It takes an enormous amount of… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
“For every well-attested, heavily researched, and eminently authoritative argument made about the historical Jesus, there is an equally well-attested, equally researched, and… — Reza Aslan Contradictions Copy Share Image
The Israelis have not been willing to take the crucial step, and that is to withdraw from the Palestinian territory, the West… — Reza Aslan Israel Copy Share Image
“Three centuries of early Christian and Jewish documentation, not to mention the nearly unanimous opinion of contemporary scholars, recognize James the brother… — Reza Aslan Christian community Copy Share Image
“This is an extremely difficult matter for modern readers of the gospels to grasp, but Luke never meant for his story about… — Reza Aslan Bible 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 Australia Copy Share Image
I've taught the Bible all my life and I believe in the rights of Jews to have a place in the Holy… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
“An individual enters the final stages of the Way when the nafs begins to release its grip on the qalb, thus allowing… — Reza Aslan Religion 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
“All religions are inextricably bound to the social, spiritual, and cultural milieux from which they arose and in which they developed. It… — Reza Aslan Prophets 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
But perhaps the most important innovation in the doctrine of jihad was its outright prohibition of all but strictly defensive wars. “Fight… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image