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Book: No God But God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam
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  1. Reza Aslan _ No God But God: The Origins,

    Nestorian Christians argued that Jesus had two completely distinct natures-one human, the other divine-while Gnostic Christians, especially those called Docetists, claimed that Jesus only appeared to be human but was in fact fully God.
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  2. Reza Aslan _ No God But God: The Origins,

    must recognize that greater knowledge about Islam is not enough to alter people's perceptions of Muslims. Minds are not changed merely through acquiring data or information {if that were the case it would take no effort to convince Americans that Obama is, in fact, a Christian}. Rather, it is solely through the slow and steady building of personal relationships that one discovers the fundamental truth that all people everywhere have the same dreams and aspirations, that all people struggle with the same fears and anxieties. Of course, such a process takes time. It may take another generation or so for this era of anti-Muslim frenzy to be looked back upon with the same shame and derision with which the current generation views the anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish hysterics of the past. But that day will no doubt come. Perhaps then we will recognize the intimate connections that bind us all together beyond any cultural, ethnic, or religious affiliations. Inshallah. God willing.
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  3. Reza Aslan _ No God But God: The Origins,

    It has often been noted that the biblical stories recounted in the Quran, especially those dealing with Jesus, imply a familiarity with the traditions and narratives of the Christian faith.
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  4. Reza Aslan _ No God But God: The Origins,

    Modalist Christians conceived of the Trinity as representing God in three successive modes of being: first as the Father, then as the Son, and finally and forevermore as the Holy Spirit.
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  5. Reza Aslan _ No God But God: The Origins,

    The clash of monotheisms occurs when faith, which is mysterious and ineffable and which eschews all categorizations, becomes entangled in the gnarled branches of religion.
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  6. Reza Aslan _ No God But God: The Origins,

    Montanist Christians like Tertullian believed that Jesus possessed the same divine quality as God, but not in the same quantity as God.
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  7. Reza Aslan _ No God But God: The Origins,

    But while these are all important determinants in explaining the tide of anti-Muslim sentiment that has washed over Europe and North America in recent years, there is another, more fundamental factor that must be addressed. It involves a 2010 poll showing that nearly a quarter of Americans continue to believe that President Barack Obama is himself a Muslim, a 10 percent jump from a similar survey taken in 2008. Among registered Republicans, the number is nearly 40 percent; among self-described Tea Party members, it is upward of 60 percent. In fact, polls consistently show that the more one disagrees with President Obama's policies on, say, healthcare or financial regulation, the more likely one is to consider him a Muslim. Simply put, Islam in the United States has become otherized. It has become a receptacle into which can be tossed all the angst and apprehension people feel about the faltering economy, about the new and unfamiliar political order, about the shifting cultural, racial, and religious landscapes that have fundamentally altered the world. Across Europe and North America, whatever is fearful, whatever is foreign, whatever is alien and unsafe is being tagged with the label
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  8. Reza Aslan _ No God But God: The Origins,

    If you cannot change the kings," the Sufis argued, "then change yourself.
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  9. Reza Aslan _ No God But God: The Origins,

    For most of the Western world, September 11, 2001, signaled the commencement of a worldwide struggle between Islam and the West-the ultimate manifestation of the clash of civilizations. From the Islamic perspective, however, the attacks on New York and Washington were part of an ongoing clash between those Muslims who strive to reconcile their religious values with the realities of the modern world, and those who react to modernism and reform by reverting-sometimes fanatically-to the "fundamentals" of their faith.
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    Considering how effortlessly religious dogma has become intertwined with political ideology, how can we overcome the clash-of-monotheisms mentality that has so deeply entrenched itself in the modern world? Clearly, education and tolerance are essential."
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  11. Reza Aslan _ No God But God: The Origins,

    Yet lost in the debate about America's true intentions in the Middle East was the fact that large majorities in every Muslim-majority state surveyed told pollsters they wanted to see their countries move toward greater democracy. A wave of democratic fervor across the Middle East created a renewed sense of hope for scores of people who had spent their lives in autocratic societies but who now looked forward to the possibility of having a say, even if in the most limited of ways, in their own political destinies. The Green Movement in Iran lit the fuse, employing new social media technologies like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube to break the government's monopoly over the media and to demonstrate to the world their aspiration for freedom and liberty.
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  12. Reza Aslan _ No God But God: The Origins,

    Iran's previous attempts at democracy were thwarted by foreigners-the British and Russians in 1905–1911; the United States in 1953-whose interests were served by suppressing all democratic aspirations in the region.
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