Reza Aslan on the nature of Islam, religious identity
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When Bill Maher and Ben Affleck locked horns recently about how similar - or not - the beliefs of ISIS militants are to Muslims in general, it elicited a huge response around the world.
Reza Aslan joins The Daily Circuit to discuss the topic. Aslan's recent op-ed in The New York Times takes Maher to task for failing to realize that to most believers of any faith, religion "is often far more a matter of identity than it is a matter of beliefs and practices."
Watch the Bill Maher clip:
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