If you haven’t heard the name Reza Aslan before, you won’t be forgetting it after watching this video.
Aslan is an Iranian-American writer and religious scholar, and in 2014 he appeared on CNN to discuss the stereotyping of Islam and islamophobia.
And man does this guy know how to epically take down some bigoted CNN journalists.
Aslan rejecting the most ignorant anti-Islam arguments with nothing but class and intelligence is something we all need to watch and digest, particularly given the events of the last week.
Watch Aslan’s pure brilliance below (post continues after video).
Bravo, Reza Aslan.
If only your wonderful words could be listened to by more.
What did you think of Reza Aslan’s appearance on CNN?
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This an OLD, OLD, OLD video after this video Reza Aslan has been challenged by many Muslims and Scholars that put him in his place. Read how he lied about himself "Well-known Islamic apologist Reza Aslan, who can be seen on MSNBC, CNN and other mainstream media networks blaming atheists for violence against Muslims and claiming that religion has nothing to do with Islamic terrorism, happens to be a giant fraud.
Aslan regularly bills himself as a professor of religion and claims to have a Ph.D. in history and Western religions. This could not be further from the truth. - See more at: http://www.patheos.com/blog...
His own facts are actually lies! 1. That female genital mutilation is not a Muslim issue, that is it an African issue? Well several Muslims were just arrested in Australia for doing that, as well as other Western countries, so how is it just Africa? He says only women in Saudi Arabia have rights issues? Well in the supposed moderate areas of the UAE, women are IMPRISONED when sexual assaulted because they had sex outside of marriage. Ethiopia is a Christian country? 34% are Muslim which is where the genital mutilation takes place. This man lies to make a point and the media and his fans take it as fact.
" That female genital mutilation is not a Muslim issue, that is it an African issue?"
AFAIK, it is practised in some parts of Africa among both Muslims & non-Muslims. Those cases which happened here were with people who were originally from Africa. It's not done by Iranians, for example.
Ethiopia is 62.8% Christian. A majority over Muslims. We classify countries as being certain religions depending on the majority.
While I appreciate your an expert on this field (because while i you used percentages, and capitalized the word 'imprisioned') and you therefore have a right/obligation to call out his 'lies' i feel i should still add that others have fact checked as well and suggest your analysis would benefit from further work.
http://www.politifact.com/p...