Googled Muslim Statements against violence and found nothing. Guest can i use the word bs on tv . Could i use the word bs on cable . [laughter] really you muzzle shugrue gold then a council for islamic American Relations or the Muslim British Council and seven arabia and the grand ayatollah you the American Society for muslims advancement . None of those came up big your Google Search . There is something wrong with your google. Host our guest for the past three errors on booktv reza aslan. No god but god, the origins, evolution, and future of islam had 2005. Beyond fundamentalism a rigidly called how to win a cosmic war. International best seller zealot came out last year. You have been watching booktv on cspan2. Think you. I really enjoyed it. One of the problems is that when you do that, when you try to control everything either create composition and potential dissidents everywhere. If you tell all artists they have to paint the same way and one says, no, i dont want to paint that
His nonfiction work includes no god but god, beyond fundamentalism in his most recent release. Where does the phrase no god but god comgod butgod come from . Guest its the first halfn, of the muslim profession of god faith called the shahadad and mohammed is gods messenger. It is essentially the phrasefai. That initiates a convert into the muslim faith. A c host you also write in the book though god but god howith islam can be available to all muslims and every muslim canllms speak. Musl guest its a strange phenomenon because it is what i referred to earlier as is gone though it is not a priestly religion, it has it is more like the pinnacle in a sense that there are a whole host of different schools of law and interpretations a have certain individuals who because of a lifetime of learning have achieved a level of knowledge that allow them to speak authoritatively about islamic theology and islamic jurisprudence but as with judaism those individuals dont have authority over one anothe
Host reza aslan, where does the phrase no god but god come from . Guest it is the first half of the muslim profession of faith. There is no god but god and mohammed is gods messenger. It is essentially the phrase that initiates a convert into the muslim faith. Host you also write it not look that now, islam is available to all muslims and every muslim can speak for islam. And so it becomes a great shouting match. Again, i keep paralleling judaism and is on. The problem of course is theres about 15 million after jews. When you look at the conflicts in the middle east commodious muslim democrat and was some autocrats fighting against each other, muslim peacemakers and the Software Makers are doing against each other, what ewers is precisely the result of this reformation process, this individualization of islam, in the process the authority to decide if faith is being removed, seized ashes back from the hand that these institutions that have gripped it from us at the last 14 centuries an
Host reza aslan, where does the phrase no god but god me it initiates the convert cono the muslim faith. Host you also write it not look that now, islam is available to all muslims and every muslim can speak for islam. It is a religion not to have the intermediary but unlike todays them it has resulted in the creation of a class of scholars the learned once says they are known. For most of the last four centuries. Host how does that involve from mohammad to free them to interpret . That all great religions half profits that was a creator of a religion that is important for people to understand we have a perception of profit is someone who invents a new religion but a profit is someone who reforms the religion in the culture in which he lived they did not create christianitys jesus was said you preaching about it today is some. If he was the hidden duty was reforming hindu with some. The across repeatedly reminds people it is not a new religion this aid was given to all the profits but