{"id":7832,"date":"2015-01-12T00:26:47","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T00:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7832"},"modified":"2015-01-12T00:26:47","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T00:26:47","slug":"listen-to-this-fellow-aslan-about-muslim-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7832","title":{"rendered":"Listen to this fellow Aslan about Muslim reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Reza Aslan burst onto the national scene about a year ago when a Fox News Channel talking head tried to goad him into acknowledging that, as a Muslim, he was not qualified to write a book about Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n

He told the talking head that she didn’t know what she was talking about and that as a religious scholar who studied all the world’s great religions he was perfectly qualified to write such a book.<\/p>\n

Now he tells critics of Islam and the Muslim community that they aren’t paying attention to the outrage being expressed by Islamic fanatics’ acts of terror.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/video\/2015\/01\/11\/reza-aslan-anyone-who-asks-why-muslims-arent-de\/202086<\/p>\n

Aslan points out in an interview that Muslims have been criticizing these actions not only after the Charlie Hebdo massacre but have been doing so ever since the 9\/11 attacks.<\/p>\n

Yet we keep hearing from critics, mainly in the right-wing media, that Islamic believers — the actual<\/em> believers — have been silent in the face of these terror onslaughts.<\/p>\n

Aslan said this: “The answer to Islamic violence is Islamic peace. The answer to Islamic bigotry is Islamic pluralism, and so that’s why I put the onus on the Muslim community, but I also recognize that that work is being done, that the voice of condemnation is deafening and if you don’t hear it you’re not listening.”<\/p>\n

Let’s start listening to all the voices out there, not just those that are outshouting everyone else.<\/p>\n

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