Fox "News" Bimbo Asks Ignorant Question

[Lurk]

The author came into the interview with a chip in his shoulder, probably because he's reading the critics. The numerous degrees and decades of experience is his mantle. However, if he had been a Jewish author he wouldn't be on any television shows promoting his book. The fact he's Mooslimb will make his book a modest success solely based on the contretemps.

 

[bcp]

YOU'RE supporting a Muslim?

Im supporting someone with a PHD in religions that wrote a book on the life of Jesus Christ.
who happens to be Muslim, however, if I base my opinion only on that interview, I side with him. If I were to read his book, the opinion could change.

 

[DipStick]

Is FOX only covering the fatwas issued against them if they wrote unflatteringly about the Prophet?

Home Run ......... and the crowd goes wild

The same network has white men on the air every night commenting about African-American culture and women's reproductive health. Yet they think it's something egregious that someone with an Islamic background, a Master of Theology and Doctor of Philosophy, writes a book about Christianity?

Using the same logic, only African-Americans should have the right to comment on African-American culture, only women should have a right to discuss reproductive rights and only homosexuals should be allowed to comment on marriage equality. But then FOX wouldn't be able to push it's narrative that heterosexual, white, Christian men should be afraid of the gays, the blacks, the illegals and the Muslims.

 

[PsyOps]

Im supporting someone with a PHD in religions that wrote a book on the life of Jesus Christ.
who happens to be Muslim, however, if I base my opinion only on that interview, I side with him. If I were to read his book, the opinion could change.

Well, I focused on boy's claim that 1) Faulkner is a bimbo and 2) I want to know what 'ignorant question' Faulkner asked? It's the title of the thread and as usual boy had to write it in a contemptible manner to get attention.

On the video... I do not find Christianity and Islam anywhere near compatible, and would find it impossible to believe a Muslim could write about Jesus and Christianity in a non-critical non-defamatory way. I don’t believe a Christian could write a book about Islam in a positive light. From an historical sense both faiths have been at odds and war with each other almost since their beginnings. Islamic countries reject Christianity so much that it’s a crime to practice it.

He claims he is married to a Christian, which causes me to question his true faith to Islam anyway.

 

[Radiant1]

He claims he is married to a Christian, which causes me to question his true faith to Islam anyway.

From what I understand, not only is he married to a Christian, he was born Muslim, converted to Christianity and lived as a Christian for around 20 years, and then reverted back to Islam.

Islam doesn't believe Jesus was crucified. He states in his book that historically Jesus was unequivocally crucified. For that he has some Muslims pissed off at him. He has gone against both Christian and Islamic theology for the sake of scholarship and what he views as the historical truth. I think it safe to surmise that he put it out there as he understood it, nothing more and nothing less.

 

[PsyOps]

From what I understand, not only is he married to a Christian, he was born Muslim, converted to Christianity and lived as a Christian for around 20 years, and then reverted back to Islam.

Islam doesn't believe Jesus was crucified. He states in his book that historically Jesus was unequivocally crucified. For that he has some Muslims pissed off at him. He has gone against both Christian and Islamic theology for the sake of scholarship and what he views as the historical truth. I think it safe to surmise that he put it out there as he understood it, nothing more and nothing less.

I’m certainly not contending that he can’t write about Christianity in a fair way. What I am contended is that if he is a true practicing Muslim, there is no way he could write about Christianity in a way that sheds any sort of positive light on it. It seems kind of apparent to me that he isn’t a Christian or a Muslim; I think he’s doing this for attention and to sell books.

 

[Lurk]

I’m certainly not contending that he can’t write about Christianity in a fair way. What I am contended is that if he is a true practicing Muslim, there is no way he could write about Christianity in a way that sheds any sort of positive light on it. It seems kind of apparent to me that he isn’t a Christian or a Muslim; I think he’s doing this for attention and to sell books.

Maybe the best way to resolve this is to read the book for ourselves? It might take some time if we don't wish to increase his credibility by purchasing the book. Waiting for it to become available at the public library will be time consuming. Or read what a broad sampling of critics have to say.

 

[cwo_ghwebb]

From what I understand, not only is he married to a Christian, he was born Muslim, converted to Christianity and lived as a Christian for around 20 years, and then reverted back to Islam.

Islam doesn't believe Jesus was crucified. He states in his book that historically Jesus was unequivocally crucified. For that he has some Muslims pissed off at him. He has gone against both Christian and Islamic theology for the sake of scholarship and what he views as the historical truth. I think it safe to surmise that he put it out there as he understood it, nothing more and nothing less.

I wasn't commenting on his background as I could care less. I was commenting on how someone can write freely in a Christian society without someone calling for their head. Try writing about the Prophet in a way not socially accepted to Muslims and see what happens.

Whoops! We've seen what happens.

 

[GURPS]

as a matter of fact, Its very possible that his book could even further the proof of Christ as the savior since it was written by a non believer and the truth still came out.

C.S.Lewis. Mere Christianity


set about writing a book to disprove Christianity, and ended up a convert, after looking at all of the facts

Born in Ireland in 1898, C. S. Lewis was educated at Malvern College for a year and then privately. He gained a triple first at Oxford and was a Fellow and Tutor at Magdalen College 1925-54. In 1954 he became Professor of Mediaeval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge. He was an outstanding and popular lecturer and had a lasting influence on his pupils.

C. S. Lewis was for many years an atheist, and described his conversion in Surprised by Joy: 'In the Trinity term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God ... perhaps the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.' It was this experience that helped him to understand not only apathy but active unwillingness to accept religion, and, as a Christian writer, gifted with an exceptionally brilliant and logical mind and a lucid, lively style, he was without peer. The Problem of Pain, The Screwtape Letters, Mere Christianity, The Four Loves and the Posthumous Prayer: Letters to Malcolm, are only a few of his best-selling works. He also wrote some delightful books for children and some science fiction, besides many works of literary criticism. His works are known to millions of people all over the world in translation. He died on 22nd November, 1963, at his home in Oxford.

 

[GURPS]

Try writing about the Prophet in a way not socially accepted to Muslims and see what happens.

Whoops! We've seen what happens.

simple cartoons have Mooselimbs in a murderous rage ...

 

[GURPS]

Media Lesson from Dr. Aslan Interview: A PhD Cures Bias


Putting aside the fact that questioning someone’s objectivity has to be the lightest form of persecution in the history of religion, the truth is Green’s question was actually a softball and simply addressed the premise of the interview which she laid out quite clearly before the segment began:

“Reza Aslan was a Christian but converted back to the faith of his forefathers: Islam. He has now written a book about Jesus which has become controversial as it calls into question some of the core tenets of Christianity.”​

Aslan was brought in specifically to address concerns that had arisen over his objectivity. “Objectivity,” or more specifically “objective,” is defined as “existing independently of perception or an individual’s conceptions.”

Aslan claims his standing as a Muslim played no role in his academic study of the life of Jesus. Fair enough. But he, and various publications today, wrongly portray the mere questioning of this as out of bounds and provide his various academic achievements as some sort of irrefutable evidence that Aslan is above reproach.

Any scholar worth his salt would acknowledge the inherent difficulty of being objective. Without that introspection, you’re not smart or learned, you’re arrogant. My dad is an expert in roughly the same field that Dr. Aslan is claiming (inaccurately as it turns out) to be an expert in, holding a PhD in Philosophy of Religion, and wrote an entire book dedicated only to the difficulty of achieving objectivity when interpreting religious texts.

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And let’s be clear: Aslan wasn’t discussing some mundane historical question such as which Roman Governor oversaw Jesus’ crucifixion. As is mentioned in the interview, he specifically questions the historical accuracy of the Virgin Birth of Jesus. This is part of the foundation of Christianity and though he has every right to question it or write about it, it’s dumbfounding to me that anyone believes you can cast doubt on a Christian miracle as a practicing Muslim, and be embarrassed for others that pointing to a wall of framed achievements wasn’t enough proof that there was no bias.

 

[Radiant1]

I wasn't commenting on his background as I could care less. I was commenting on how someone can write freely in a Christian society without someone calling for their head. Try writing about the Prophet in a way not socially accepted to Muslims and see what happens.

Whoops! We've seen what happens.

Umm ok, but the author is in the West so what a Muslim society would do is irrelevant and beside the point.

 

[Lurk]

Turns out the author isn't so cerebral and academic online.

‘S**t for Brains’: Muslim Author Behind Jesus Book Has Some Very Profane Tweets | TheBlaze.com

 

[cwo_ghwebb]

Umm ok, but the author is in the West so what a Muslim society would do is irrelevant and beside the point.

You haven't read about fatwas against authors living in Western countries who criticized Islam?

We live in free societies here so this author can say or write what he wants. Try that is Islamic countries.

I'm not buying the book so I won't comment on this gentleman's scholarship on the subject.

 

[Radiant1]

You haven't read about fatwas against authors living in Western countries who criticized Islam?

Of course I have.

We live in free societies here so this author can say or write what he wants. Try that is Islamic countries.

Exactly. He's not in an Islamic country so what they would do is irrelevant.

I think we're missing each others point, but that's ok. Carry on.

 

[GURPS]

Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei praises stabbing of Salman Rushdie and says fatwa against Satanic Verses author was 'fired like a bullet that won't rest until it hits its target' as Islamic hardliners celebrate​

Supporters of Iran have been celebrating the callous attack on Salman Rushdie, which saw the author stabbed up to 15 times – including once in the neck.

Rushdie, 75, was attacked by Hadi Matar, 24, as he was being introduced to the stage for the CHQ 2022 event in Chautauqua, near Buffalo in upstate New York, on Friday morning. He was airlifted to hospital and undergoing surgery in Erie, Pennsylvania.

He was issued a fatwa – a death sentence - in 1989 by Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini after his book, the Satanic Verses, sparked and outcry with Muslims in Britain.

The book supposedly insulted the Prophet Mohammed and The Koran, with Khomeini calling for Rushdie's death, and also called for Muslims to point him out to those who could kill him if they could not themselves.

So far Iran has not officially commented on the attack against the author by Matar, who rushed the stage after approaching him from behind. It's believed that Matar is sympathetic to the Iranian regime and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard.

 

[BOP]

Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei praises stabbing of Salman Rushdie and says fatwa against Satanic Verses author was 'fired like a bullet that won't rest until it hits its target' as Islamic hardliners celebrate​

Supporters of Iran have been celebrating the callous attack on Salman Rushdie, which saw the author stabbed up to 15 times – including once in the neck.

Rushdie, 75, was attacked by Hadi Matar, 24, as he was being introduced to the stage for the CHQ 2022 event in Chautauqua, near Buffalo in upstate New York, on Friday morning. He was airlifted to hospital and undergoing surgery in Erie, Pennsylvania.

He was issued a fatwa – a death sentence - in 1989 by Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini after his book, the Satanic Verses, sparked and outcry with Muslims in Britain.

The book supposedly insulted the Prophet Mohammed and The Koran, with Khomeini calling for Rushdie's death, and also called for Muslims to point him out to those who could kill him if they could not themselves.

So far Iran has not officially commented on the attack against the author by Matar, who rushed the stage after approaching him from behind. It's believed that Matar is sympathetic to the Iranian regime and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard.

Question: what does the American left and Islam have in common? Besides the fact that lefties them some criminal, murdering Islamic terrorists, I mean.

Also, well done on digging deep into the archives. Any deeper, and you'd have hit nonothing strata.

 

[Monello]

Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei praises stabbing of Salman Rushdie and says fatwa against Satanic Verses author was 'fired like a bullet that won't rest until it hits its target' as Islamic hardliners celebrate​

Supporters of Iran have been celebrating the callous attack on Salman Rushdie, which saw the author stabbed up to 15 times – including once in the neck.

Rushdie, 75, was attacked by Hadi Matar, 24, as he was being introduced to the stage for the CHQ 2022 event in Chautauqua, near Buffalo in upstate New York, on Friday morning. He was airlifted to hospital and undergoing surgery in Erie, Pennsylvania.

He was issued a fatwa – a death sentence - in 1989 by Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini after his book, the Satanic Verses, sparked and outcry with Muslims in Britain.

The book supposedly insulted the Prophet Mohammed and The Koran, with Khomeini calling for Rushdie's death, and also called for Muslims to point him out to those who could kill him if they could not themselves.

So far Iran has not officially commented on the attack against the author by Matar, who rushed the stage after approaching him from behind. It's believed that Matar is sympathetic to the Iranian regime and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard.

The muslim religion is in complete conflict with the western lifestyle. Similar to oil & water. Never going to mix unless under great pressure and incredible agitation. ANd who wants to live under those conditions.

 

[Gilligan]

I wonder where hemirhoid is on this...would expect he'd be jumping up and down with joy.

 

[Bird Dog]

I wonder where hemirhoid is on this...would expect he'd be jumping up and down with joy.

It’s not about Trump. His brain doesn’t think beyond Trump.