Reza Aslan, The Daily Show, May 13, 2015

[telemann.livejournal.com]

Reza Aslan is a religious scholar and writer whose works include "Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth" (2013), "How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terror" (2009) and "No God but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam" (2005). Aslan teaches creative writing at the University of California, Riverside. His writing has been published in The New York Times, Slate, The Daily Beast, The Christian Science Monitor and The Washington Post, and he makes frequent appearances on TV and radio shows as a religious and political analyst.He is the founder of Aslan Media and the co-founder of BoomGen Studios.









Full interview @
http://thedailyshow.cc.com/full-episodes/okco56/may-13--2015---reza-aslan

Comments

[garote]

I'm not familiar with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Salman Rushdie, or Christopher Hitchens's "pro-war stance".

Sam Harris has made it pretty clear that he's in favor of military intervention against ISIS, the so-called "Islamic State".

But Bill Maher has said multiple times on his show - including as recently as last week I believe - that the US should get the hell out of the middle east and leave Islam to sort out its own problems, because all the military interventions there of the past 40+ years have only been in the service of oil profits, and many religious groups have made the US an enemy as a result of that meddling. How is that "pro-war"?

[telemann.livejournal.com]

I'm not familiar with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Salman Rushdie, or Christopher Hitchens's "pro-war stance".

They are.9/11 liberals in varying degrees. They don't all have the same views on every subject. (Hitchens and Maher on Iraq is a case in point) And if you aren't aware of Hitchens' pro-war stance (you being unaware of this really surprises me honestly), then I don't know what to tell you except to Google some of this shit on your own..

Bill Maher has described himself as a 9/11 liberal and I told you earlier the term is a bit of a contrived phrase, "pro-war stance concerning the issue of Islamist terrorism" Bill Maher has been quite pro-Israeli in regards to terrorist attacks on Gaza, etc.