Muslim Author Embarrasses Fox News Interviewer w/ Smart Civil Answers (VIDEO)
Author and Scholar Reza Aslan appeared on Fox News Spirited Debate to discuss his new book Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth. The host of the show Lauren Green started the interview with a rather uncivil and strange question.
Green asked, Youre a Muslim, so why did you write a book about the founder of Christianity? Mr. Aslan seemed prepared for the general attacking nature that Fox News uses when conducting interviews with those with different positions than theirs. He was very poised and non-combative in his answer. He answered, 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. So its not that I am just some Muslim writing about Jesus. I am an expert with a PhD in the history of religions.
Mr. Aslans answer was simply disregarded by Ms. Green as she interrupted his response and asked, But it still begs to question why you would be interested in the founder of Christianity. Did Mr. Aslan in his first response not state he was a scholar of religions? If he is a scholar of religions would he not study them all (or many of them)?
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