{"id":504,"date":"2013-07-28T09:54:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-28T09:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/07\/zealot-author-to-fox-news-i-am-an-expert-who-happens-to-be-a-muslim.html"},"modified":"2014-07-28T12:41:59","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T17:41:59","slug":"zealot-author-to-fox-news-i-am-an-expert-who-happens-to-be-a-muslim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/07\/zealot-author-to-fox-news-i-am-an-expert-who-happens-to-be-a-muslim.html","title":{"rendered":"Zealot Author to Fox News: I am an expert who Happens to be a Muslim"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4lkWngd2hZ4\" width=\"460\" height=\"257\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Fox news anchor, Lauren Green, grilled Reza Aslan, author of \u00a0 \u201c<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Zealot-Life-Times-Jesus-Nazareth\/product-reviews\/140006922X\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazaretth,<\/a><\/em>\u201d because \u00a0she could not believe that a Muslim was qualified to write about Jesus. Although Aslan reminded her that he has taught and studied religion for two decades, has four degrees including one in the New Testament, and is fluent in classical Greek, she continued to press him.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Leslie Hazleton, an English journalist, wrote a biography of Muhammad called, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/04\/07\/books\/review\/the-first-muslim-by-lesley-hazleton.html?partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">First Muslim.<\/a>\u00a0 Some critics questioned her ability to write an objective biography, but none seemed as obtuse as the Fox News anchor who grilled Aslan. \u00a0Dan Murphy, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Backchannels\/2013\/0728\/Can-Muslims-write-about-Christianity#.UfWLrTgiJYo.twitter\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">writing for the Christan Science Monitor<\/a>, takes up this question in<a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Backchannels\/2013\/0728\/Can-Muslims-write-about-Christianity#.UfWLrTgiJYo.twitter\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> this excellent article<\/a>\u00a0and Susan Brooks Thistlethwait, writing for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/on-faith\/wp\/2013\/07\/29\/how-can-a-muslim-write-about-jesus-the-controversy-over-reza-aslans-zealot\/?wprss=rss_on-faith\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Washington Post<\/a>, deals with the question in an equally brilliant manner. I highly recommend both articles.<\/p>\n<p>If we follow Lauren Green\u2019s line of reasoning, only adherents of a religion are qualified to write about them. \u00a0A westerner cannot write about Hinduism or \u00a0Buddhism with objectivity, regardless of the degree of their scholarship.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox news anchor, Lauren Green, grilled Reza Aslan, author of \u00a0 \u201cZealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazaretth,\u201d because \u00a0she could not believe that a Muslim was qualified to write about Jesus. 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