CNN Host Blasted for Eating Human Brain While Filming Show on Global Religions

A Harvard-educated religion scholar and author is under fire for eating human brain while filming a new CNN show about spiritual sects around the globe.Reza Aslan, who came to the U.S. in 1979 while fleeing Iran's 1979 revolution, was working on a TV segment about a fringe element of Hinduism when he participated in some of the Aghori peoples' rituals, including tasting cooked brain tissue, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported.Last Sunday, Aslan hyped that night's inaugural episode of Believer with a Facebook post that read: "Want to know what a dead guy's brain tastes like? Charcoal. It was burnt to a crisp! #Believer"That did not sit well with U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, the first Hindu member of Congress, or the larger Hindu community. Some charged Aslan with showcasing a radical form of the religion for sensationalism's sake, unfairly tainting Hinduism in general."With multiple reports of hate-fueled attacks against people of Indian origin from across the U.S., the show characterizes Hinduism as cannibalistic, which is a bizarre way of looking at the third largest religion in the world," read a statement from the US India Political Action Committee, which called on Indian Americans to lobby the network to pull the episode."The majority of Indian Americans are Hindus," it continued. "This show will create confusion about Indian Americans' faith and make them further targets of hate crimes."  Continue reading...