Reza Aslan Jokes About Fox News Disaster Interview [Video]


Reza Aslan’s hilarious (to everyone else) Fox News interview perked up an otherwise boring weekend of news, and the religious scholar seems to be making light of the aftermath of a strange and insulting interview with Lauren Green on a web segment for the network.

In case you missed it, Reza Aslan appeared on Fox with Green to discuss his new book, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth.

But Dr. Aslan was in for a bit of a surprise, as Green simply seemed to want to take him to task for daring to, as a Muslim, write about Christianity.

Right out of the gate, she pressed Aslan about his decision to, as a religious scholar, address the topic of Jesus, saying:

“This is an interesting book. Now I want to clarify, you’re a Muslim, so why did you write a book about the founder of Christianity?”

Aslan responds:

“Well to be clear, I am a scholar of religions with four degrees — including one in the New Testament, and fluency in biblical Greek, who has been studying the origins of Christianity for two decades — who also just happens to be a Muslim. So it’s not that I’m just some Muslim writing about Jesus, I am an expert with a Ph.D in the history of religions … ”

Green incorrectly opines that Reza Aslan still “begs the question why” he’d be interested in Christianity, to which he answers with undeserved politeness:

“Because it’s my job as an academic. I am a professor of religion, including the New Testament. That’s what I do for a living, actually.”

Over on Twitter, Reza Aslan has retweeted a few jokes fellow tweeters have made about the silly interview, including:

Watch above as Reza Aslan fields a series of baffling questions from Green on Fox.

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