CNN Reporter Gets Humiliated, Threatened with Beheading If He Didn't Eat Part of a Human Brain

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.



2/ I am very disturbed that CNN is using its power and influence to increase people’s misunderstanding and fear of Hinduism.



— Tulsi Gabbard (@TulsiGabbard) March 7, 2017



“I am very disturbed that CNN is using its power and influence to increase people’s misunderstanding and fear of Hinduism,” Gabbard wrote on Twitter. “Aslan apparently sought to find sensationalist and absurd ways to portray Hinduism.”



“Aslan and CNN didn’t just throw a harsh light on a sect of wandering ascetics to create shocking visuals – as if touring a zoo – but repeated false stereotypes about caste, karma and reincarnation that Hindus have been combating tirelessly,” she added.



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.”