195 Quotes by Reza Aslan

Nobody, absolutely nobody, straps a bomb on their body because they were recruited from the Internet. It takes an enormous amount of personal face-to-face contact and time in order to recruit a young person into the cause of jihad.

The New Testament is not a historical document.

I have watched Muslims chant 'Death to America!' on the streets of Tehran, then privately beg me to help them get a visa to the United States.

Literature offers not just a window into the culture of diverse regions, but also the society, the politics; it's the only place where we can keep track of ideas.

Whether or not you believe that after three days of being dead and entombed, Jesus got up and walked out of his own accord, what you cannot argue about is the fervent belief of the followers that this happened.

Anyone who says that Iran will commit suicide with its nuclear power is a moron and has no business in discussion.

You can be a follower of Jesus and not necessarily be a Christian.

When you forcefully suppress religious nationalism, you radicalize it.

My biography of Jesus is probably the first popular biography that does not use the New Testament as its primary source material.