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. Aslan, a Muslim who teaches creative writing at the University of California at Riverside, was accused of “Hinduphobia” and of mischaracterizing Hindus. In the episode, Aslan meets up with a sect of Indian religious nomads outside the of Varanasi in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. Charcoal,” Aslan wrote on Facebook. 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.

Source: Washington Post March 06, 2017 13:48 UTC