In FrontPage, I discuss Reza Aslan’s risible claim that “Muslims are never going to feel like a part of the American family until people start to make fun of them on TV.” Great idea! How about a show about a young man whose parents fled Khomeini’s Iran and left Islam, only to see their son […]
Reza Aslan wants to see a Muslim “All in the Family”; will he play Meathead?
“I’m waiting for a Muslim ‘All in the Family.’ Muslims are never going to feel like a part of the American family until people start to make fun of them on TV. That’s how minds have always been changed in this country.” Really? Can he give us a single other example of a group that […]
UC Riverside Magazine Gushes Over Celebrity Prof Reza Aslan
UCR, the Magazine of UC Riverside, recently produced one of its periodic puff pieces on creative writing professor, self-declared Islam expert, and soon-to-be television host, Reza Aslan. The author, Vanessa Hua, is a former student and teaching assistant of Aslan’s who exhibits no objectivity whatsoever in lauding him as “a social media darling and a […]
Reza Aslan’s evening prayer
Reza Aslan is known for his creative writing. I wonder if he puts his evening prayers to paper. Here is one prayer for his consideration: “In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the Worlds. Allahu akbar. I seek forgiveness from Allah for all my sins and turn […]
Bill Maher, Richard Dawkins slam Left for giving Islam “free pass” despite jihad terrorism
What is noteworthy about this is how selective and one-sided Maher and Dawkins are. They’re all upset about the Marxist anti-Semite Maryam Namazie being banned from speaking at a university because of her views on Islam, but have never said a word while for years Pamela Geller and I and others who tell the same […]
The mullahs’ academic cheerleaders: Meet the profs who love Obama’s Iran deal
It isn’t surprising that Aslan and Cole would be cheerleading for this disastrous deal, since they are both Board members of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC). NIAC has been established in court as a lobbying group for the Islamic Republic of Iran. Said Michael Rubin: “Jamal Abdi, NIAC’s policy director, now appears to push […]
Three fake “Islamophobic hate crimes” the media ran with
We covered all these extensively at Jihad Watch when they happened; it is good, however, to see others beginning to take notice. Islamic supremacist groups such as the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) want and need hate crimes against Muslims, because they’re the currency they use to buy power and influence in our victimhood-oriented society, […]
Reza Aslan: US, Iran “more alike than they are different,” Iran “forward-thinking, modern and educated”
In this video, media darling Reza Aslan, a profoundly stupid man, recites from cue cards that are disconcertingly off-center, so that he is not looking at the viewer, but just a bit off to the side. Ineptitude, however, can be excused; subversion cannot. As you watch Reza Aslan trying to make you think that Iran […]
Reza Aslan hypes “Islamophobia”
At an April 13 lecture at the University of California, Riverside, UCR creative writing professor and self-styled expert on Islam and the Middle East Reza Aslan employed biased sources, isolated statistics, and ad hominem attacks to blame critics of radical Islam for the alleged rise in “Islamophobia” in post-9/11 America. “Islamophobia: The Real Enemy” was […]
Steve Emerson, Reza Aslan, and the mainstream media: some errors are more erroneous than others
Over the last few days, the mainstream media has been howling with glee over Steve Emerson’s gaffe on Fox News. Emerson said that in Britain, “there are actual cities like Birmingham that are totally Muslim, where non-Muslims just simply don’t go in,” and “in parts of London, there are actually Muslim religious police that actually […]