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CNN’s Reza Aslan Faces Backlash After Eating Part of a Human Brain
breitbart.com ^ | 9 Mar 2017

Posted on 03/10/2017 3:05:28 AM PST by Helicondelta

CNN’s Reza Aslan has been facing some heavy criticism after he ate part of a human brain while filming a segment on a Hindu sect in India. The episode, part of a series called Believer with Reza Aslan, provoked disgust from many viewers and prompted backlash from many American Hindus after it was aired Sunday, the Daily Mail reported.

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), the only Hindu in Congress and one of the more high-profile critics of the episode, blasted CNN for using “sensationalist” ways to promote Hinduism.

Aslan, 44, met with the Aghori sect when he was invited to eat cooked brain tissue during a ritual in which they also spread ashes from cremated human bodies on his face.

He drank an alcoholic drink out of a human skull before he ate the brain.

The Aghori guru got mad at Aslan at one point when he shouted, “I will cut your head off if you keep talking so much.”

The guru started eating his own feces before throwing it at Aslan, to which Aslan responded, “I feel like this may have been a mistake.”

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1 posted on 03/10/2017 3:05:28 AM PST by Helicondelta
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To: Helicondelta

Obama and the Democrats have had America eating feces for the past 8 years.


2 posted on 03/10/2017 3:10:49 AM PST by doosee (Captain, we are approaching a new level of Hell.)
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To: Helicondelta

Asshat....proving once again Demoncraps are sick MFs.


3 posted on 03/10/2017 3:28:32 AM PST by WKUHilltopper (WKU 2016 Boca Raton Bowl Champions)
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To: Helicondelta

Perhaps he’ll develop Kuru?

Wikipedia:
Kuru is a very rare, incurable neurodegenerative disorder which was prevalent among the Fore people of Papua New Guinea in the 1950s and 60s. Kuru is caused by the transmission of abnormally folded prion proteins, which leads to symptoms such as tremors, loss of coordination, and neurodegeneration.

The term kuru derives from the Fore word kuria or guria (”to shake”),[1] due to the body tremors that are a classic symptom of the disease and kúru itself means “trembling”.[2] It is now widely accepted that kuru was transmitted among members of the Fore tribe of Papua New Guinea via funerary cannibalism. Deceased family members were traditionally cooked and eaten, which was thought to help free the spirit of the dead.[3]


4 posted on 03/10/2017 3:29:21 AM PST by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: Helicondelta

The Aghori guru got mad at Aslan at one point when he shouted, “I will cut your head off if you keep talking so much.”

Dang! I wish this Aghori guru could be hired as a co-anchor with CNN numerous news segment and shows. “Anderson! I will cut your head off if you keep talking so much.” =)


5 posted on 03/10/2017 3:30:45 AM PST by Patriot Babe
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To: MarchonDC09122009

Or variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.


6 posted on 03/10/2017 3:33:48 AM PST by mewzilla (I'll vote for the first guy who promises to mail in his SOTU addresses.)
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To: Helicondelta
It's an acquired taste...


7 posted on 03/10/2017 3:41:11 AM PST by null and void (Drain the swamp! Get rid of the mosque-itoes!)
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To: MarchonDC09122009

I worked with a guy who had a friend whose close relative was the last known person to die of kuru. This person was an anthropologist who had done some work in Papua New Guinea.

The moral of the story is, don’t eat brain.


8 posted on 03/10/2017 3:43:02 AM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Helicondelta

Keep diggin’ cnn, get deep enough and eventually the walls are bound to cave in....just keep going.


9 posted on 03/10/2017 3:44:04 AM PST by V_TWIN
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To: Helicondelta

All cultures are equal, don’t you know!


10 posted on 03/10/2017 3:51:19 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie ( Agenda driven news is fake news.)
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To: MarchonDC09122009

Perhaps?

Maybe this explains the huge disconnect at CNN. Apparently it is disguised as the protein in the Chicken Caesar at the CNN cafeteria. Maybe Van Jones doesn’t do the salads.


11 posted on 03/10/2017 3:54:22 AM PST by mazda77
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To: Helicondelta

to mock Christians, the msm will always drag out a sect of snake-handlers or Branch Davidians or something like that so at least the Hindus are getting hit this time. The same CNN pukes would never film the depravity of muslims


12 posted on 03/10/2017 4:01:37 AM PST by brucedickinson
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And, with this:

The guru started eating his own feces before throwing it at Aslan, to which Aslan responded, “I feel like this may have been a mistake.”

It’s sure to be a ratings wonder.


13 posted on 03/10/2017 4:03:43 AM PST by Eurotwit (FRexit? No. AdiEU. - Loud Mime)
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To: Helicondelta

CNN is just all kinds of wrong and disgusting.


14 posted on 03/10/2017 4:13:06 AM PST by pinkandgreenmom
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I did see one video where they claimed the journalist insulted the cannibal by the question he askedand he was then forced to eat the brains or be beheaded


15 posted on 03/10/2017 4:14:49 AM PST by CharlotteVRWC
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To: Helicondelta

CNN has a cannibal? What’s next, a guest appearance by Hannibal?


16 posted on 03/10/2017 4:17:16 AM PST by Morpheus2009
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To: Helicondelta
Previously

17 posted on 03/10/2017 4:31:51 AM PST by TangoLimaSierra (It's gonna be bloody.)
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To: mazda77

I think the CNN cafe has it listed as BBQ “Long Pig”.


18 posted on 03/10/2017 4:35:04 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: Helicondelta

F****** cannibal azzhole....what a disgusting display of idiocy. Way to go CNN


19 posted on 03/10/2017 4:35:59 AM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: Helicondelta

I would like to start a MST3K for CNN Brodcasts.


20 posted on 03/10/2017 4:46:02 AM PST by mindburglar (When Superman and Batman fight, the only winner is crime.)
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