“Faith is a choice; anyone who says otherwise is trying to convert you.” — Reza Aslan Choice Copy Share Image
The Islamic Reformation is already here. We are all living in it. — Reza Aslan Islam Copy Share Image
Every single interview I have ever done on TV or in print says I'm a Muslim. — Reza Aslan Done Copy Share Image
You can be a follower of Jesus and not necessarily be a Christian. — Reza Aslan Christian Copy Share Image
Anyone who says that Iran will commit suicide with its nuclear power is a moron and has no business in discussion. — Reza Aslan Business Copy Share Image
The key to recognizing who Jesus was is to recognize this fundamental truth: He was a Jew. — Reza Aslan Fundamentals Copy Share Image
Obama has been the single worst president in modern American history in dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. — Reza Aslan American history Copy Share Image
“It is a miracle that we know anything at all about the man called Jesus of Nazareth.” — Reza Aslan Jesus Copy Share Image
In the history of the prophetic biblical canon that starts with Genesis, the Koran is by far the most tolerant of the… — Reza Aslan Bible 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 America Copy Share Image
My biography of Jesus is probably the first popular biography that does not use the New Testament as its primary source material. — Reza Aslan Bible Copy Share Image
It is the job of the historian to say what is likely, and of faith to say what is possible. — Reza Aslan Faith 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
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 Because 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
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 Accounts 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
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
There were dozens of people who walked through the Holy Land claiming to be the Messiah, curing the sick, exorcising demons, challenging… — Reza Aslan About 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 Almost zero 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
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 Believe 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
But perhaps the most important innovation in the doctrine of jihad was its outright prohibition of all but strictly defensive wars. “Fight… — Reza Aslan Aggressors 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 Arms 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 Concern 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
“In first-century Palestine, nearly every claimant to the mantle of the messiah neatly fit one of these messianic paradigms. Hezekiah the bandit… — Reza Aslan End time 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 Equal rights Copy Share Image
“The choice between James’s vision of a Jewish religion anchored in the Law of Moses and derived from a Jewish nationalist who… — Reza Aslan Faith 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 Islam Copy Share Image
“Grateful for their generosity, Muhammad orders the land to be leveled, the graves dug up, and the palm trees cut down for… — Reza Aslan Life 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 Greek philosophy Copy Share Image
“The overwhelming consensus is that the traditions contained within the epistle can confidently be traced to James the Just. That would make… — Reza Aslan Bible Copy Share Image
“Consider, for example, how the following verse (4:34) regarding the obligations of men toward women has been rendered into English by two… — Reza Aslan Arabic language Copy Share Image
