By Theodore and Walid Shoeba
Janelle Vaesa, an expert on health behavior, published an article in September this year in which she referenced our report on the one Syrian rebel who ate a man's lung and on the other who barbequed a man’s head. She forewarned that an extremely rare and 100 percent fatal disease, called kuru, will arise due to this barbaric practice:
If Syrian rebels are reportedly barbequing their enemies' heads and eating hearts on video, are they putting themselves in danger? ... Kuru, also known as the "laughing disease," can be transmitted from person to person [when they] engage in cannibalism due to prions in the brain.
Her warning is now coming to fruition. As first reported by Arabian news source Zaman al-Wasal and by Orient News Television, there are between eight and 20 cases of kuru in Syria, which, as doctors have confirmed, can only result from eating human flesh.
Two of the infected were sent from Syria to a hospital in Ghazi Antab in Turkey for further examination and were subsequently transferred to another hospital in Germany. One of the two is now dead, since kuru is 100 percent fatal.
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Kuru is contracted primarily from eating human brains, as reported by the New York Times:
Kuru is a very rare disease. It is caused by an infectious protein (prion) found in contaminated human brain tissue.
Kuru is found among people from New Guinea who practiced a form of cannibalism in which they ate the brains of dead people as part of a funeral ritual.
Moreover, the Free Syrian Army said it will be doing an investigation into the cannibalism case. Sources could not confirm why the FSA is interested in investigating this case. However, since kuru involves the consumption of human brains, a potential puzzle piece to this case is the photo that we wrote about in a previous article of an FSA rebel barbequing a man’s head.
Another cannibalism case was also reported this year, in which one FSA soldier was clearly seen eating human flesh:
(Warning: The following video contains graphic footage of cannibalism that may offend some readers.)
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In recent studies, it was established that in the area of Fore in Papua New Guinea, kuru was transmitted due to "ritualistic mortuary cannibalism."
It is quite possible that this is what caused the infection, as the jihadists began to eat the flesh of their enemies.
Cannibalism is not limited to Islam, but is found in various incidences in history amongst heretical Christian groups such as the Eutychian heretical movement of the 5th century, founded by Eutyches. He rejected teachings that Christ received His flesh from the Virgin Mary. He believed that the Son of God could not have a human body from the womb of a woman, but that His flesh was purely of a divine substance and not like our own.
A Eutychian named Timotheus, who had been a presbyter of the church of Alexandria, in his hatred of the orthodox Christians, attacked the bishop Proterius, a major opponent of their heresy, with a mob. He fled to the holy baptistery, and when the violent multitude found him, Timotheus thrust his sword into Proterius' bowels. They then hanged his body on a chord and, like Muslims, cheered and wildly cried in pride of their murder of Proterius. After they had dragged the perished bishop through the whole city, they burned it and then ate his intestines.
While cannibalism is not taught in the Quran and is rarely carried out by Muslims, exceptions are made after killing apostates and enemy combatants. Extensive research on Islam, cannibalism and human sacrifice shows disagreement among interpreters here and here.
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