Reza Aslan has gone to India and eaten human brains in the company of a fringe Hindu sect.
The outcry was immediate. Aslan, a Muslim who teaches creative writing at the University of California at Riverside, was accused of “Hinduphobia” and of mischaracterizing Hindus.
Attacked by BuzzFeed as a “kind of a jerk on Twitter,” Aslan is the poster boy of the disingenuous, attention-seeking madness of the far-left in the midst of an enormously serious climate of danger stemming from Sharia supremacists and jihadists. With his cannibalism stunt, Aslan exposes his own agenda. As Robert Spencer stated: “It is oddly fitting that Reza Aslan would feature himself on his CNN show eating human brain tissue; he is, after all, a profoundly stupid man, whose adulation only shows how far one can go if one tells the establishment propaganda media what it wants to hear.”
But now, Aslan has managed to insult and aggravate a significant group in his “how far one can go” quest for acclaim:
Some viewers turned to Twitter to express their anger at the program. One of the loudest voices on the social media platform belonged to wealthy Indian-American industrialist Shalabh Kumar, who made significant contributions to President Donald Trump’s campaign…Kumar seemed to perceive the episode as an attack on Hindu Americans who voted for the president.
“Disgusting attack on Hindus for supporting @POTUS,” Kumar tweeted….Kumar wrote in a follow-up tweet that the network had no respect for members of the religion. He called for Hindus to boycott CNN.
Hindus were not the first religious group Aslan has insulted; he also annoyed Christians with his book Zealot:
The Daily Beast’s Lizzie Crocker admitted that, upon reading “Zealot,” it’s understandable why “some Christians have found it so explosive”…there are a number of key claims that are overtly shocking — not the least of which is Aslan’s claim that Christ was “a man of profound contradictions.”
Perhaps Aslan should be calling out the truth about Islam: Islamic tradition includes a certain feature that he perhaps identifies with personally: cannibalism. The Islamic State, along with the prestigious Al Azhar in Egypt, has advocated and taught the “good” of cannibalism, and explained the conditions that made the eating of non-Muslims acceptable. At very least, he should show the same willingness to explore the dark and violent aspects of Islam that he shows when it comes to Christianity and Hinduism.
“Reza Aslan, host of CNN’s ‘Believer,’ under fire for eating human brain with cannibals in India,” National Post, March 10, 2017:
Religion scholar Reza Aslan ate cooked human brain tissue with a group of cannibals in India during Sunday’s premiere of the new CNN show “Believer,” a documentary series about spirituality around the globe.
The outcry was immediate. Aslan, a Muslim who teaches creative writing at the University of California at Riverside, was accused of “Hinduphobia” and of mischaracterizing Hindus.
“With multiple reports of hate-fuelled 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,” lobbyist group U.S. India Political Action Committees said in a statement, according to the Times of India.
Aslan released a statement on his Facebook page Wednesday in response to the backlash.
In the episode, Aslan meets up with a sect of Indian religious nomads outside the of Varanasi in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. The Aghori, as they are known, reject the Hindu caste system and the notion of untouchables, and espouse that the distinction between purity and pollution is essentially meaningless. In the Aghori view, nothing can taint the human body, Aslan said.
“Kind of a profound thought. Also: A little bit gross,” said Aslan, whose bestselling books on religion include “Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth.”……
“Want to know what a dead guy’s brain tastes like? Charcoal,” Aslan wrote on Facebook. “It was burnt to a crisp!”
At one point, the interview soured and one cannibal threatened Aslan: “I will cut off your head if you keep talking so much.” Aslan, in turn, said to his director that, “I feel like this may have been a mistake.”
And when the guru began to eat his own waste and hurl it at Aslan and his camera crew, the CNN host scurried away.
“Pretty sure that was not the Aghori I was looking for,” he said.
Aslan also interviewed several non-cannibal Aghori practitioners, including those who ran an orphanage and a group of volunteers who cared for people with leprosy. Still, some critics felt the focus on the flesh-eating Aghori inappropriate and done for the shock value.
“It is unbelievably callous and reckless of CNN to be pushing sensational and grotesque images of bearded brown men and their morbid and deathly religion at a time when the United States is living through a period of unprecedented concern and fear,” wrote Vamsee Juluri, a media studies professor at the University of San Francisco, in article at the Huffington Post.
(Cannibalism, while not formally outlawed in the United States, may lead to charges for desecration of corpses. Eating human brains has also been linked to prion disease.)
Some viewers turned to Twitter to express their anger at the program. One of the loudest voices on the social media platform belonged to wealthy Indian-American industrialist Shalabh Kumar, who made significant contributions to President Donald Trump’s campaign and has angled to become a U.S. ambassador to India. Kumar seemed to perceive the episode as an attack on Hindu Americans who voted for the president.
“Disgusting attack on Hindus for supporting @POTUS,” Kumar tweeted. Invoking the “Clinton News Network” – a label that Trump helped popularize – Kumar wrote in a follow-up tweet that the network had no respect for members of the religion. He called for Hindus to boycott CNN.
utis says
Good for the Hindu push-back! Until this “scholar” inspects the dirty laundry in his own house, he shouldn’t be snooping in other peoples’ garbage.
No religion is exempt from its packs of weirdos (Charles Manson was viewed as an incarnation of Jesus by some morons back in the day). Aslan should admit his own religion’s faults before displaying the sins of other religions. He should be fair or shut up. He could start by prancing around the no-go zones of Europe.
Oliver says
Perhaps, just shut up and leave (the US). He could go to the Muslim ME, or Europe or Pakistan, just leave the US- and stay out.
And, take 1.2 million fellow ( and sister-must not be sexist) Muslims with him.
gravenimage says
Moreover, utis, as off-putting as Aghori practices are, they are not actually harming others. Would that we could say that of Islam.
tony46 says
according to shoebat.com this reza guy could contract Kuru,….a very rare disease related to eating human brains
Custos Custodum says
Kuru = mad cannibal disease, a cousin of the more familiar mad cow disease.
Both diseases are transmitted through misshapen molecules rather than through bacteria or viruses.
Imnokuffar says
Thanks for that but perhaps this guy does not need the assistance of cow prions but yours.
Perhaps all Muslims are subject to a disease called Mad Muhammad Disorder
I often notice that after some catastrophic event they seem to impute that their mad god will save them.
It does not matter that it is their beliefs that led them into certain situations in the first place.
We cannot reform Islam; the people who who worship this filth will believe in it till they die as to admit otherwise is not within their compass.
Therefore there is only one solution……………
We defeat them with all means available or they defeat us.
Take your pick.
Guy Macher says
“….kind of a jerk on Twitter…”???? Aslan is a jerk…anywhere, any time!!!
Angel Gabriel says
I agree. Cannibal Reza Aslan has acted in appalling ways in his apologia for Islam. Particularly towards truth-tellers like our proprietor — Robert Spencer.
Robert or Christine, if you read this I encourage you to henceforth to refer to Mr. Aslan as “Cannibal Reza Aslan” in your headlines. As you know a cannibal is defined as one who has voluntarily consumed human body-parts. So the moniker fits perfectly. He earned it.
Dockemeyer says
Ha Ha. How very true. Someone may end up eating him because he’s done!
Imnokuffar says
They may catch this disease that he has perfected.
We live in hope.
Neptune says
People will do better to investigate the meaning of John 4:32.Flesh eating was never taken literally.There are two esoteric meanings of this concept.(1) A practice in Yoga where the tongue is rolled back into the nasopharynx to shut down breathing thereby producing an altered state of consciousness.(2) Giving up worldly attachments.
These concepts are known as Sandhya Bhasha ( Twilight Language) which is not taught in any university.It’s learnt from an enlightened master.All religions have the coded languge.In Sufi Islam,Omar Khaiyyam’s Rubaiyat is replete with the same.
Instead of an outrage,the producers and the Channel should be sued just like a person is sued now for Islamophobia in Euope.Facts should be mentioned and apology with damages sought, instead of expressing anger
This Aghori sect ,originally,was formed only to get away from the useless ritualistic practices and focus only on spiritual practices.Since,the Twilight Language was not understood by later day disciples,they started practicing as per the verbatim translation.
Stephanie says
Taqiyyah ‘deceit’ quran.com/3/28 Reza Aslan & very Fake News CNN,
Stephanie says
Respect !!
For that he will go direct into the HIGHEST 7th level of ‘Pardise’, beside Bordello-chief allah
quran.com/9/111
Hugh Fitzgerald says
“teaches creative writing”
An abysmAL writer, but indisputably “creative”
gravenimage says
Spot on, Hugh.
Angemon says
Gotta admit: it’s refreshing to see him judged by the same standards he’s been judging others, standards which he was seemingly immune to.
Dockemeyer says
Standards which he helped install. He’s been bitten in the ass…
Anonymous says
This Aghori appears to be a nasty piece of work. I knew these sorts hung around crematoriums, but didn’t realize they ate human meat.
The excerpt I saw was rather amusing with Mr. Aslan nervously suggesting to his crew to have someone distract the Aghori so that Aslan could quietly make his exit. Unfortunately for him, the director wants to continue, “Let’s just see where this goes”.
And this bit was hilarious: “And when the guru began to eat his own waste and hurl it at Aslan and his camera crew, the CNN host scurried away”.
I hope Mr. Aslan is happy with his remuneration at CNN, it surely isn’t easy money.
Dockemeyer says
I thought the Aghori physically resembled Charles Manson. Acted like him, too.
I wonder how Mr. Aslam liked threats of decapitation? He crawled on his belly to prove what he really is…
Baucent says
Nice to see Aslan in a bit of hot water. What is clear is this apologist for Islam was making this TV program to expose “extremism” in other religions, and so deflect the criticism of his own religion. So he sought out the weirdist stuff on Hinduism to paint a picture of all Hindus. It was a cunning plan that appears to have backfired on himself.
Zimriel says
“Nice to see Aslan in a bit of hot water”
From what I’m hearing, he’d rather see *us* in a bit of hot water, along with some bay leaves and fava beans
Shmooviyet says
Lol.
Yes, it would be pretty difficult to boil something down to the point where it “tastes like charcoal”.
This very obvious, failed attempt to show ‘faults’ in other religions has shown up this a-hole as a sleazeball liar and true phobe, though he was trying to appear edgy and hip.
He deserved every hunk of excrement flung at him.
Imnokuffar says
He probably saved it for lunch.
Lucretius says
The Aghori managed to develop a distaste for one thing at least–Reza Aslan. All is not lost!
gravenimage says
Time for Reza Aslan to tell the truth about Islam after brain-eating stunt
………………….
Not going to happen. Aslan is all about whitewashing Islam–especially the vile Islamic Republic of Iran, in whose pay he is.
Aruna says
Most disgusting, insulting documentary CNN has shown. Both CNN and Mr Reza owe an apology to denigrate Hinduism .
Infovoyeur says
Reza Aslan spoke to 1,000 students at my state university where I taught. At the time, I was not “up on” and savvy about stealth propagandic jihad. Now I would know better how to process Aslan’s statements such as these [paraphrased]:
–Oh, Sharia is simply things from the 7th century we don’t do any more, plus courts for family disputes just like other faiths have.
–In a decade, Muslims will be accepted and assimilated into American culture just like initially-unintegrated groups like the Irish, Germans, Chinese, etc.
–He condemned the statement “Not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims.” [This was of course his scrambling of the more-useful version of the statement: “Not all Muslims are terrorists, but all Islamic terrorists are devout Muslims.”
Now, comment in the counter-jihad community usually sees Aslan as (1) a vulgar person in tweets etc., and (2) a very stupid professional researcher. Well, probably–but “we here” peg him as a civilization jihadist who writes propaganda which is clever, but not so subtle that it can’t be used to educate people about jihadist propaganda. Thus he’s “useful” to that extent…
Shmooviyet says
You weren’t up on stealth jihad; neither were ninety-five percent of the audience and the general public, I’d guess.
Aslan KNEW and knows that and takes full advantage. Unfortunately for him that number is fast decreasing; not fast as should be but the facts are definitely gaining on him and his fellow muslim liars…
gravenimage says
RCH, thanks for the information–this confirms what I know about the Aghori.
Re the KKK, they certainly *used to* attack and intimidate innocent people–but they have not done this for some time now. I still hate their views, but they are not much of a threat now, nor are they likely to become one.
The made a big attempt to clean up their image in the 1990s with David Duke–but it didn’t work very well. Most Americans know the KKK is a repulsive organization–would that more of us know as much about Islam.
underbed cat says
Hindu? Nope….hi Cal new job?
gravenimage says
I was not familiar with the film PK, RCH–but it appears to be a nasty piece of work. It features what is obviously intended to be read as a Hindu terrorist attack done to “protect their Gods”–talk about projection! Muslims commit such attacks, not Hindus.
Having an “alien” confirm that Muslims are right about everything is another nasty touch. Sounds like an ugly bit of Muslim propaganda.
gravenimage says
**Bleah**. And I am sorry to see it–a lot of Bollywood is very joyous, life-affirming stuff, full of dancing and love stories. I hate to see Muslims worm their way into this industry.
Don Foss says
Hmmm…I wonder if when he does any faction of Islam he will address the across-the-board obsessive Jew hatred, FGM, child marriages (which stems from their prophet’s own pedophilia), the epidemic of sex-slavery in the Islamic world, laws that encourage the killing of apostates and homosexuals, the demands to wage war (jihad) against the enemies of Allah (whom Allah defines as anyone who refuses to accept Islam as their religion), and dozens of other honest and real issues in the Islamic faith. My geuss? We’ll hear nothing of them.
Carmel says
Next week , we will see him eat a clitoris after a ritual muslim female mutilation
in London . Don’t miss it .
Imnokuffar says
Not if I can help it !!!!!!!
Imnokuffar says
Perhaps after this episode his intelligence will improve.
Linnte says
Maybe he will come down with Prion disease and be kept in isolation for a while in case he decides to bite someone. Sorry, I feel absolutely no compassion for this sub- anti- Christ. With all the atrositys happening to his fellow Muslims in the Middle East whether perpetrated by a USA drone, or Islamic State, or Russian bombs, he chooses to eat brains to make money instead of helping his own. What a LOW life.
Jeanette says
I resent this primitive using the name of the mysterious entity disguised as a magnificent lion in C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia.
Couldn’t he find some Arabic name, preferably one containing that horrible gutteral, throat-clearing/gagging sound that they are so fond of?