[ April 18, 2024 ]
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When a Muslim woman in California was honor murdered by her husband, Reza Aslan blamed me. Reza Aslan has directed ugly rape fantasies at me: “time to make some hate babies Pam.” Reza Aslan (more here and here) is the exemplar of the deceptive Islamic supremacist who is widely taken as a “moderate” promoted and admired by leftwing authoritarians (here).
So what did CNN do? They gave him a show. And it’s one racist bigoted rant against every religion except … Islam, the most destructive and violent religion on the face of the earth.
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Reza Aslan, CNN and “Believer” have already offended a whole range of religious groups. Hindus angrily denounced the misrepresentation of their religion. But the left has much less interest in Hinduphobia than it does in Islamophobia. Hindu protests outside CNN offices in five cities garnered almost no coverage from the same media that covers every single Islamic protest against Islamophobia.
Where is the show educating viewers of the centuries long war Muslims have waged against Hindus in India?
Excellent analysis, once again, from Daniel Greenfield.
All the Religions You Can Insult on CNN
By Daniel Greenfield, CNN, May 5, 2017:
Reza Aslan has built a career complaining about Islamophobia. Throw a dart at a map of colleges and the odds were good that Aslan would be speaking at one of them about the rising threat of Islamophobia.
Earlier this year, Aslan, an Iranian Muslim, announced that he was going to change people’s minds about Islam and make them more tolerant, “through pop culture, through film and television.“
“Stories have the power to break through the walls that separate us into different ethnicities,” Aslan rhapsodized, “different cultures, different nationalities, different races, different religions.”
CNN gave Aslan a forum. Nearly every episode of “The Believer” that aired has made some religion that isn’t Islam look freaky, unpleasant and threatening. Instead of breaking through the walls, it has surveyed different non-Islamic religions only to sneer at them as strange and weird.
Instead of Islamophobia, it offers Non-Islam-ophobia.
“The Believer” kicked off with an episode featuring a sect of cannibals whom the show associated with Hinduism. Its last episode spread fear over the threat posed by Orthodox Jews. CNN’s “Believer” clips offer Reza Aslan explaining why he’s a Muslim sandwiched between a doomsday cult leader who calls himself “Jezus”, voodoo, scientology and a Mexican death cult.
Not even Al Jazeera would have been this blatant about its Islamic agenda.
Reza Aslan, CNN and “Believer” have already offended a whole range of religious groups. Hindus angrily denounced the misrepresentation of their religion. But the left has much less interest in Hinduphobia than it does in Islamophobia. Hindu protests outside CNN offices in five cities garnered almost no coverage from the same media that covers every single Islamic protest against Islamophobia.
The media doesn’t believe that all forms of religious bigotry are created equal.
Orthodox Jews condemned Aslan for his fearmongering aimed at Judaism. But the left is uninterested in criticizing anti-Semitism from Islamists. Especially those on its payroll.
“The Believer” has tried to smear Christians, Hindus and Jews. It has yet to profile Muslims. Despite Aslan’s interest in teaching Americans not to be Islamophobes, he seems to prefer pushing Christophobia, Judeophobia and Hinduphobia. But bigots can’t be expected to fight bigotry.
“The Believer” treats non-Islamic religions as a freakshow. The gimmick attracts viewers. See Reza Aslan eat brains, talk to a doomsday cult leader or act afraid of Jews in fedoras. Look at all those freaks!
But don’t expect to see Shiite Muslims cutting their children in the street for Ashura on “The Believer”.
Beneath the hipster approach to religion is malice. Hindus are associated with cannibalism. Orthodox Jews in Israel are swapped in for Islamists. Reza Aslan pretends that Israeli cities are no-go zones as he insists, “If we get out of the car in these neighborhoods, we will be immediately attacked.”
Of course no one attacks him. But Reza Aslan gets to pretend to be afraid of the Jews.
In a CNN article, Aslan warned that Orthodox Jews are “taking on greater political power until, one day, you wake up and find this group has more or less taken over the state.”
If someone were to say such a thing about Muslims, Aslan would be leading a lecture tour to denounce Islamophobia. Last year, Aslan was peddling “Fear Inc.: The Industrializing of Islamophobia.” Now Reza Aslan is, coincidentally, spreading fear of a religion that Muslims view as their leading enemy.
And CNN is serving as Fear Inc. and industrializing Aslan’s Non-Islam-ophobia.
In his CNN hit piece, Reza Aslan cunningly transposes concerns about Islamic birth rates, theocracy, no-go zones and religious police to Jews. It’s inconceivable that CNN would run a documentary worrying about Islamic birth rates leading to theocracy in Europe or America. But all those worries about Islamophobia don’t apply to Islamists fearmongering about other religions.
Israel, Reza Aslan warns, is on the verge of turning into a “Jewish version of Iran”.
That’s certainly a convenient message to peddle if you’re an Islamist opponent of Israel. In the past, Reza Aslan has been utterly unsubtle in his hatred of the Jewish State. Highlights included comparing Israelis to Nazis and insisting that Iran wants nukes because it feels threatened by Israel.
But, as critics know, Reza Aslan has two faces. One is a ranting bigot. The other feigns spirituality. The real Aslan is a bigot. The fake Aslan mouths inanities about the universality of religion even as he attacks every religion that isn’t Islam. You can find the real Aslan on social media and the fake Aslan on CNN.
“The Believer” is the perfect platform for Reza Aslan. Its smirking subtitle “Spiritually curious” and Aslan’s inanities convey the image of a hipster looking for religious meaning everywhere. It’s no doubt how the show was sold to CNN. And CNN execs saw Aslan’s approach of showcasing religious freakiness while disguising it with nostrums about the universality of the search for meaning as a safe bet.
But Aslan isn’t spiritually curious. He’s spiritually hostile. He’s learned to disguise that hostility by sounding like a liberal. On CNN, his attacks on various religions are interspersed with disclaimers. But the disclaimers, like the inanities, are meant to get lost in the overall impression that Hindus eat brains and Jews are Islamic terrorists who want to take over everything. That is what viewers will remember.
Reza Aslan postures as a scholar, but he’s callously ignorant of other religions and he isn’t actually interested in learning about them except to undermine them. His curiosity is only a media pose.
“The Believer” continues the trend that defined Aslan’s career. He writes a book defending Islam and then another that attacks Christianity. Then he responds to the criticism by crying Islamophobia.
The only one who should be allowed to stir up fear and loathing of other religions is Reza Aslan.
Christians, Hindus and Jews have taken apart Reza Aslan’s claims about their religions. But despite Aslan’s posturing, he isn’t a scholar. A scholar wouldn’t be boasting about eating brains or pretending to be afraid of Jews in Israel. “The Believer” isn’t a scholar’s work. It’s a malignant attack on non-Islamic religions disguised in one part universalism and four parts sensationalism.
Reza Aslan’s openness is a sham. As is his enthusiasm. He isn’t a scholar of religion but a promoter of Islam. He appears to embrace other religions, boasting, “I feel Jewish” during one episode and writing a book about Jesus, only to undermine them. He thrives by pitting members of enemy religions against each other whether it’s liberal and conservative Christians or secular and religious Jews.
Nothing better could or should be expected from Reza Aslan. “The Believer” is xenophobia masquerading as tolerance and sectarianism dressed up as universalism. Aslan’s episode on Jews in Israel is exactly what you ought to expect from a slick Hamas apologist. Hindus are likewise in the way of Islamic expansionism. As are Christians. Depicting non-Muslims as bizarre normalizes Islamic violence.
Something more ought to be expected from CNN.
The media has long thrived on mocking conservative Christians. It’s fairly casual about taking swipes at Orthodox Jews. But “The Believer” expanded its hit list to Hindus. How many others will there be?
Islam is involved in conflicts with every major religion on earth. How many religions is CNN ready to allow Aslan to smear? How long before “The Believer” heads to Myanmar to settle scores with the Buddhist monks who are defending themselves against Muslim violence? Or to Sudan to go after the Animists facing Muslim persecution? Islamists have no shortage of enemies. Neither will CNN.
CNN won’t report the truth about Islamic terror. Yet it is ready to offend every non-Muslim religion on earth.
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18 Comments
6 years ago
Only Hell could have formulated this religion and their demons inspired it in man!
6 years ago
I thought most Iranians overseas were actually atheists or something…he is a former apostate to Islam, a convert to Christianity, and then back to Islam. What a disgrace.
6 years ago
The hyper-sensitivity of the regressive left is very selective so only the feelings of their preferred group identities are considered. Anyone other than Muslims and social justice churches are not considered. Just like Multiculturalism which required defaming the supreme western culture in order to make the others seem equal, Islam can only be made to seem acceptable by selectively demeaning and distorting other religions. We can’t forget Obama comparing the modern atrocities of Isis with exaggerated, out of context comparisons to the Crusades, which were actually a response to Muslim aggression.
6 years ago
Reading the title of this would make you think that washington post has come around. But when you read it, you will know that these people never change, and this article is, in fact, in defense of muslims. In fact, now they are trying to condition folks to believe that muslims are not misogynist. (Facepalm)
The news media offer slanted coverage of Muslim countries’ treatment of women
6 years ago
Islam is a disease, terrorism is not to symptom. The west is to blame for allowing Muslims to enter and breed like rabbits while giving them free stuff. All the while allowing hostile Muslim countries to build mosques in the west. These countries that do not allow Christians or Jews but we allow thrm to build mega mosques.
A war is coming and maybe it is for the best.
6 years ago
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Glen Benjamin
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6 years ago
Reply to
Glen Benjamin
War is inevitable! It is Islams intention to convert the world to Islam by force according to the rantings of their dead prophet. Christianity claims exclusive access to God through Jesus the risen Christ. There is no room for compromise or accomodation between the two!
D
6 years ago
Off the top of my head, I seem to recall that Muslims first invaded India in the 600s. Killing 80 million or so Hindus over the centuries. Large parts of Asia that used to be Hindu are now Muslim (via forced conversion, etc.)
6 years ago
CNN – We don’t just Fake The News, We also Fake Religions.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahesh
CNN no longer even pretends – if they if ever did, that they aren’t simply an organ of the Democrat party, while the FCC investigates Stephen Colbert’s employer, CBS, once known as “Tiffany network,” for violations of broadcasting regulations pertaining to obscenity.
This, after Colbert acted as if he had license to exhibit a disgusting display of disrespect for president Trump, and in so doing, for the office of the presidency itself.
The whole MSM problem is spiraling out of control.
Indeed, as Lenin famously asked – What is to be done?
6 years ago
You can NEVER EVER believe a Moslem. They are told to practice taquiya on you. Or the right to lie to the infidel (tha’ts you and me).
If you ever saw the BIGGEST tip off about them this would be it. I don’t know what else to tell you?
But it fits in what Yahuah said would become of the descendants of Ishmael.
Gen 16:12 And he will be a wild man; his hand [will be] against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
You would be unable to get along with him. Who can get along with a LIAR? Why don’t you read your Bible instead of the Origin of the Specious?
D
6 years ago
Those that know about islam, are NOT Islamophobic, as a “phobia” is an irrational fear. Those that fear islam, know EXACTLY what it’s about.
6 years ago
Get rid of religion. All religion.
6 years ago
Cnn and leftist media are for the most part garbage. What one has to do is to quit letting them push buttons and counter them like this article does at every opportunity. No longer can the benefit of doubt even in the smallest way be given to leftist media as they have proven time and again to be what they are – fake news.
6 years ago
If CNN is facilitating what this article suggests, HOW do they get away with it? If the USA accepts this clear islamic hate message, then I hope Fox or another main stream media outlet is allowed to `cunningly` portray Islam for what it is.
Islam is a religion hiding behind religious protectionism with a daily agenda that pushes their caliphate. Every true Muslim (and they all believe they are) pushes Jihad. In no particular order these all represent Jihad: –
The insistence of Halal (where they kill live animals by cutting their throats); increasing islamic teachings in all aspects of education; dedicated prayer rooms and times to pray; the increased building of mosques across the globe; the continued use of the left wing media to promote intolerance towards any form of criticism towards Islam; The wearing of ritual clothing which by their own admission tells the World who they are what they stand for; the creation of no go areas all across the civilized world where anything considered non sharia compliant is taboo; the increasing influence in all democratic countries political system; the huge birth rates demanded of all muslim women and with up to 4 wives that ain`t hard; the list is almost endless.
I genuinely fail to understand when the peoples of the World are waking up to this horrific `danger from within` our politicians still suck up to the Sharia that all muslims want to live by.
The reality is terrorism is the least of our worries!!!!!
6 years ago
Mr. A$$lan has come a long way since his Bacha Bazi dancing boy days in Tehran!
6 years ago
I thought these kind of things happen only in India! Great article
