CNN host Chris Cuomo argued that professor of religion and author Reza Aslan‘s heated arguments against anti-Muslim bigotry on CNN recently demonstrated „what people are fearful of when they think of“ Islam.

On September 29, Aslan was a guest on CNN Tonight, where hosts Alisyn Camerota and Don Lemon discussed what they called the „primitive treatment in Muslim countries of women and other minorities“ while on-air graphics asked, „Does Islam promote violence?“ Aslan responded saying he felt CNN was over-generalizing, arguing „you‘re talking about a religion about 1.5 billion people and certainly it becomes easy to just simply paint them all with a single brush“: