Americans Express Outrage Over Gory Documentary Of CNN Reporter Eating Dead Man’s Brain [Photos]
Americans are expressing outrage after a CNN host ate a cooked human brain with a group of cannibals in India for the Sunday premiere of the network’s show, “Believer.”
“Want to know what a dead guy’s brain tastes like? Charcoal,” CNN host and religion scholar Reza Aslan wrote in a Facebook post on Sunday. “It was burnt to a crisp! #Believer.”
But it’s apparently not the immoral and stomach-churning act of cannibalism that has everyone in an uproar.
No, what is angering people most is how Aslan, a Muslim who is also a creative writing instructor at the University of California at Riverside, portrayed Hindus.
While filming the episode, Aslan met with the Aghoris of India, a small sect that worships Shiva, a Hindu god of destruction. According to CNN, the Aghor is a secret fringe sect that is generally not accepted by mainstream Hindus. They have been known to eat human flesh, drink from human skulls, eat feces and spread the ashes of corpses on their bodies.
For the show, Aslan joined the Aghoris in performing some of these rituals, including eating part of a human brain and smearing the ashes on his face.
ON Wednesday, Aslan also retweeted an article by the American Council on Science and Health. It was headlined, “Why CNN’s Reza Aslan Shouldn’t Eat Human Brains.”
Aslan wrote, “You work all your life for a headline like this.”
Still, some critics took to Twitter to blast CNN for filming an act of cannibalism for its show:
- “@CNN fake news wasn’t bad enough? Cannibalism?”
- “@CNN is normalizing cannibalism now! The reporter just ate human ashes and has human body parts on his head!”
- “To me it seems like they’re trying to further push cannibalism as a norm.”
One Twitter user shared a photo of a CNN promotion of Aslan’s show with the caption: “We’re so desperate for viewers that we’ll eat humans on our programs.”
