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7th August 2013, 17:23
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"You're a Muslim, so why did you write a book about the founder of Christianity?" Fox News' Lauren Green demanded of religious scholar Reza Aslan, author of "Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth," on Friday.
Aslan responded, "Well, to be clear, I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament, and fluency in biblical Greek, who has been studying the origins of Christianity for two decades, who also just happens to be a Muslim."
The answer did not seem to satisfy Green, so Aslan added, "Because it's my job as an academic. I am a professor of religion, including the New Testament. That's what I do for a living, actually.
I stumbled upon this just now. This shit is textbook islamophobia, and the interviewer is a fucking pathetic excuse for a journalist. She completely ignores the points he makes about his book and the study he put into it, and instead slings shit at Islam and claims, through the good ol' unsubstantiated 'some say' injection of political opinion, with an analogy about a Democrat writing a book on Republicans - even after the guy repeats himself over four times that the book has absolutely no connection to his religious beliefs.
Typical scripted Fox 'News'. It's literally nothing but fucking slander and propaganda! I'm so damn glad I grew up in a country where this news-turned-public-showtrial was not on in the afternoons 24/7.
I didn't know where to put this, by the way.
"You're a Muslim, so why did you write a book about the founder of Christianity?" Fox News' Lauren Green demanded of religious scholar Reza Aslan, author of "Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth," on Friday.
Aslan responded, "Well, to be clear, I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament, and fluency in biblical Greek, who has been studying the origins of Christianity for two decades, who also just happens to be a Muslim."
The answer did not seem to satisfy Green, so Aslan added, "Because it's my job as an academic. I am a professor of religion, including the New Testament. That's what I do for a living, actually.
I stumbled upon this just now. This shit is textbook islamophobia, and the interviewer is a fucking pathetic excuse for a journalist. She completely ignores the points he makes about his book and the study he put into it, and instead slings shit at Islam and claims, through the good ol' unsubstantiated 'some say' injection of political opinion, with an analogy about a Democrat writing a book on Republicans - even after the guy repeats himself over four times that the book has absolutely no connection to his religious beliefs.
Typical scripted Fox 'News'. It's literally nothing but fucking slander and propaganda! I'm so damn glad I grew up in a country where this news-turned-public-showtrial was not on in the afternoons 24/7.
I didn't know where to put this, by the way.