Reza Aslan, the host of the modestly named “Believer With Reza Aslan” on CNN, has rendered his verdict: “Ultra-Orthodox” Jews in Israel are to the Jewish State what the mullahs were to Iran in 1979.
Sensationalism isn't entirely unexpected from a presenter who, on the segment of his show dedicated to Hinduism, focused on a sect of Indian nomads who eat human brains. But at least that sect actually exists. The “Ultra-Orthodox” menace Aslan imagines doesn't.
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