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To: tejek who wrote (729774)	7/30/2013 1:20:27 AM
From: TopCat	1 Recommendation Recommended By TideGlider Respond to of 1573808

That was a dumb interview....

To: tejek who wrote (729774)	7/30/2013 2:23:04 AM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Recommended By TideGlider Respond to of 1573808

Not a muslim "scholar." LOL Message 29029131

To: tejek who wrote (729774)	7/30/2013 2:30:05 AM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Recommended By TideGlider Respond to of 1573808

tejek's scholar LIED about who he is. He teaches creative writing [fiction].

To: tejek who wrote (729774)	7/30/2013 10:19:48 AM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1573808

tejek's phony "scholar" Aslan's false assertions about himself I am a scholar of religions with four degrees including one in the New Testament . . . I am an expert with a Ph.D. in the history of religions . . . I am a professor of religions, including the New Testament– that’s what I do for a living, actually . . . To be clear, I want to emphasize one more time, I am a historian, I am a Ph.D. in the history of religions. Later he complains that they are “debating the right of the scholar to write” the book rather than discussing the book. But the conversation took that turn thanks to Aslan, not Green! By the final minute he is saying of himself (and who really talks this way!?) that “I’m actually quite a prominent Muslim thinker in the United States.” Aslan does have four degrees, as Joe Carter has noted: a 1995 B.A. in religion from Santa Clara University,where he was Phi Beta Kappa and wrote his senior thesis on “The Messianic Secret in the Gospel of Mark”; a 1999 Master of Theological Studies from Harvard; a 2002 Master of Fine Arts in Fiction from the University of Iowa; and a 2009 Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. None of these degrees is in history, So Aslan’s repeated claims that he has “a Ph.D. in the history of religions” and that he is “a historian” are false. Nor is “professor of religions” what he does “for a living.” He is an associate professor in the Creative Writing program at the University of California, Riverside, where his terminal MFA in fiction from Iowa is his relevant academic credential. It appears he has taught some courses on Islam in the past, and he may do so now, moonlighting from his creative writing duties at Riverside. Aslan has been a busy popular writer, and he is certainly a tireless self-promoter, but he is nowhere known in the academic world as a scholar of the history of religion. And a scholarly historian of early Christianity? Nope. What about that Ph.D.? As already noted, it was in sociology. I have his dissertationin front of me. It is a 140-page work titled “Global Jihadism as a Transnational Social Movement: A Theoretical Framework.” If Aslan’s Ph.D. is the basis of a claim to scholarly credentials, he could plausibly claim to be an expert on social movements in twentieth-century Islam. He cannot plausibly claim, as he did to Lauren Green, that he is a “historian,” or is a “professor of religions” “for a living.” It may be that Aslan sensed a tougher interview from Lauren Green than he is accustomed to. Hence he immediately went into high-dudgeon mode,and made the ten minutes all about her alleged disrespect of him and his alleged scholarly credentials. But in order to change the subject he told a string of gratuitous falsehoods about himself. Perhaps that master’s in fiction writing came in handy.

To: tejek who wrote (729774)	7/30/2013 10:50:06 AM
From: longnshort	3 Recommendations Recommended By FJB joseffy TideGlider Respond to of 1573808

that guy is a liar he doesn't have 4 degrees inhistory

To: tejek who wrote (729774)	7/30/2013 11:37:23 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1573808

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