Reza Aslan's Fox News interview / New book Zealot

[ayyub]

Very entertaining Fox News segment: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/zaki-hasan/reza-aslan-and-the-fox-ne_b_3671667.html

According to the host you shouldn't write about religions that aren't your own as you will be biased in your opinion, even on an academic/scholarly level. I really hope they convey this message to Robert Spencer or any of the other non-muslim/anti-muslim "scholars" they have on.

I just started reading Zealot (on chapter 4) anyone else picked it up yet?

[progressive1993]

Watched that a couple days ago. It was painful - typical Fox News propaganda.
What do you think of the book? I havent read it.

[/*JM*/]

Aslan, for instance, questions the Virgin Birth, which the Qur'an affirms, and insists that Jesus was really crucified, which the Qur'an denies, holding that Jesus was taken up to heaven before the crucifixion and his place taken by a man who merely looked like him. There is nothing particularly Islamic about Zealot; if Aslan did not identify himself as a Muslim on page 2, there would be no way of knowing his faith committment.
http://peoplesworld.org/reza-aslan-s-zealot-exposes-christianity-s-revolutionary-roots/

Can someone comment on that ?
Does he back that with a specific exegesis of the Quran ?