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Many of the prophets of Jesus's time were thought to just be mad men, just sort of crazy people who were claiming to channel the divine. Perhaps that means we should be a little less judgmental of some of our own

Many of the prophets of Jesus's time were thought to just be mad men, just sort of crazy people who were claiming to channel the divine. Perhaps that means we should be a little less judgmental of some of our own crazies talking about God on the corner. They might actually have found a pretty comfortable place in Jesus's time.

Reza Aslan
Jesus, Crazy, Mean

When I was in the US, I felt that the discourse there surrounding Muslims as the other, problematising Muslims and Islam as the other was very similar to what we find in Australia, which is that the image of Islam is a constructed image in the West. We are starting from a point of view that Islam and Muslims - well Islam is a violent, misogynistic, hateful religion and that is where the debate always starts from - that presumption underlies the discourse.

Reza Aslan
Views, Australia, Islam
Source: www.sbs.com.au

It is no exaggeration to say that Syria holds the key for nearly all of Americas foreign policy goals in the Middle East. As Syria goes, so goes the region.

Reza Aslan
Keys, Goal, East

The people on the streets of Egypt and Tunisia and Libya and Syria and Iran have done more to defeat the ideology of Al Qaeda than anything that the United States has done. They have shown that there is a third way, that with peaceful protest you can have an end to dictatorship and a role for human dignity, a role for your religious faith in society.

Reza Aslan
Religious, Egypt, Iran
Source: www.pbs.org

My biography of Jesus is probably the first popular biography that does not use the New Testament as its primary source material.

Reza Aslan
Jesus, Doe, Use

Anyone who says that Iran will commit suicide with its nuclear power is a moron and has no business in discussion.

Reza Aslan
Suicide, Iran, Nuclear

A cosmic war is like a ritual drama in which participants act out on Earth a battle they believe is actually taking place in the heavens.

Reza Aslan
War, Drama, Believe
Reza Aslan (2010). “Beyond Fundamentalism: Confronting Religious Extremism in the Age of Globalization”, p.5, Random House

The Islamic Reformation is already here. We are all living in it.

Reza Aslan
Islamic, Reformation
Reza Aslan (2008). “No God But God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam”, p.266, Random House

A politician is a politician whether he's wearing a suit or a funny hat.

Reza Aslan
Suits, Hats, Politician

But there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason you were brought into Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you might know me better there.

Reza Aslan
Names, Knowing, Littles

Why? Why not? Why not you? Why not now?

Reza Aslan
Why Not

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