Is Reza Aslan Off the Hook?

It looks like I really stirred things up yesterday with my post “Reza Aslan Misrepresents His Scholarly Credentials,” especially after Drudge linked to it in the afternoon. Some folks in the comments and on Twitter thought I had destroyed Aslan’s credibility in toto–which wasn’t my intent. Some folks thought that I was attacking him because he is a Muslim–which only recapitulates an overly sensitive reading of the Fox interview that started all this. Others wanted to make this all about me and my own credentials to make my observations–and they’re welcome to go down that rabbit trail, but I won’t follow.

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