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Reza Aslan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: May 3
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I have not ever met Donald Trump, and I plan to go my entire life without ever actually having to breathe the same air that he breathes.
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Well I wouldn't want to tell Obama specifically what to do, but obviously he's already promised publicly and privately, both before and after he was elected president, that he was going to open up communications with Iran.
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The Islamic Reformation is already here. We are all living in it.
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The key to recognizing who Jesus was is to recognize this fundamental truth: He was a Jew.
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I think if you place Jesus firmly in the historical context... you can make very educated hypotheses and guesses about how he lived.
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When you forcefully suppress religious nationalism, you radicalize it.
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Even the Quran, which Sufis respect as the direct speech of God, lacks the capacity to shed light upon God’s essence. As one Sufi master has argued, why spend time reading a love letter (by which he means the Quran) in the presence of the Beloved who wrote it?
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You can be a follower of Jesus and not necessarily be a Christian.
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Should I act violently in defense of my religion, absolutely.
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Obama has been the single worst president in modern American history in dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Bill Maher is right to condemn religious practices that violate fundamental human rights. Religious communities must do more to counter extremist interpretations of their faith. But failing to recognize that religion is embedded in culture — and making a blanket judgment about the world’s second largest religion — is simply bigotry.
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Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology.
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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 crazies talking about God on the corner. They might actually have found a pretty comfortable place in Jesus's time.
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In the history of the prophetic biblical canon that starts with Genesis, the Koran is by far the most tolerant of the views of other religions.
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The bad news is that Iran wants to talk about everything except their nuclear program. They want to talk about regional cooperation, they want to talk about the sanctions issues, and it seems like the western powers want to talk about nothing more than the nuclear issue.
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We need to do whatever we can, legally and within our power, to remove Donald Trump from office as fast as possible before something serious happens in this country.
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The idea that education will lead to a lessening of bigotry is just factually incorrect.
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It is the job of the historian to say what is likely, and of faith to say what is possible.
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In times of economic distress, it's only natural for people - and Americans have done this for many years - to look for a scapegoat. Depending on where you live in this country, the scapegoats are either, frankly, Mexicans or Muslims. So, you know, God save you if you happened to be a Mexican Muslim in America right now.
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Anyone who says that Iran will commit suicide with its nuclear power is a moron and has no business in discussion.
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