Fox News’s now infamous interview with Reza Aslan last week has rallied much of the media to the Iranian-born and now Hollywood-based academic’s defense, and catapulted his recently published Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth to number one on Amazon. Fox’s Lauren Green grilled the author of about his credentials to write a book about the historical Jesus, and questioned whether a Muslim should be writing a book about Christianity in the first place.

The press was reliably eager to take potshots at its conservative nemesis Fox. At the Get Religion blog, Joe Carter catalogued the reactions.

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