Fox News Host Never Asked Baptist College Professor Why He Wrote Book About Islam

[The Straight Story]

Fox News Host Never Asked Baptist College Professor Why He Wrote Book About Islam


Last Friday, Fox News’s online show Spirited Debate conducted an interview with religious scholar Reza Aslan, a professor of religion, about his new book Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth. Aslan subsequently spent the entire interview defending his right as a religious scholar — a religious scholar who happens to be a Muslim — to write a historical book about Jesus.

While host Lauren Green, the main religion correspondent for Fox News, spent the interview asking Aslan about his Muslim faith, Green never asked a professor from a university affiliated with Southern Baptists why he wrote a book about Islam in an interview two years earlier.

Green was interviewing Barry Vann, a professor at the Southern Baptist-affiliated University of Cumberlands about his book Puritan Islam: The Geoexpansion of the Muslim World. The interview largely focused on Vann’s book.
Vann’s interview in 2011:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/fox-news-host-never-asked-baptist-college-professor-why-he-w

[Ilsa]

1. Her interview with Dr. Aslan was horrible.

He wasn't able to say very much about his new book at all. Instead, he mostly had to defend his authority to even write about Christ even though he has a PhD in religious studies.

[Raine]

2. So I guess no man should ever write a book about a woman or vice versa or

how can you write about about Manson if you weren't one of The Family or a book about Washington or Lincoln if you didn't personally know them .... what an ASS!