i wrote about his appearance at Marquette in the Tribune about a month ago, but I think it's time we listen to thinkers such as Aslan. Politicians are trying to get the work done in Iraq by getting out, but now that is being blocked by Bush's veto. We're all tired of "you're either with us or against us" (kind of like the U2 song "With or Without You" sung in the key of Bush). I can't live with or without Bush or the War on Terror--one, because he was re-elected. Two because this kind of war will never ever end if it doesn't have to. And it will only have to when we listen to scholars like Aslan--and he's a cool scholar, not tweedy whatsoever, made an appearance on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart--great speaker and amazing visionary of the current state of Islam and commentator that brings media and academia together.
His book is "No god but God" and I plan to read it after I graduate this month. Wow that sounds so weird. Anyone reading care to comment on Aslan (the Islam scholar not the magical lion from Narnia)?
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