Why Are People Having Sex With Animals?

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In what was a triumph for headline writing but a disaster for the human spirit, low-rent British tabloid the Daily Star in one case ran with the front-folio story: "Asylum seekers eat our donkeys." Not to be outdone, the Sun once went with the story "Swan Bake" that accused "callous asylum seekers" of "barbecuing the queen's swans."

The Daily Star was — and I'm pretty sure you lot've already realized this — talking out of its, er, ass when it described ass meat as being a delicacy in Somalia. (The Due east African state is predominantly Muslim and the eating of ass meat is forbidden under Islamic law.)

Not deterred in the slightest, two members of the Polish authorities this week held a quite extraordinary printing conference in which they attempted to warn people of the dangers posed past those wanting to cross the edge and enter the state. Many of these people were, according to Interior Minister Mariusz Kamiński and Defense Government minister Mariusz Błaszczak, involved in terrorism, organized crime and people smuggling — and they had enough of footage to bear witness it, with a number of images of weaponry, faux IDs, drug-taking and more than displayed on a giant screen.

But worse was to come equally on the screen appeared an image — and in that location's no easy, or clean, way to say this — of a man shagging a farm animal. "He raped a cow, wanted to get to Poland?" ran the tagline on country-run TVP television.

The image, which the ministers said was found on a migrant'south telephone, was clear bear witness of zoophilia, against which the people of Poland must exist protected (also, wasn't "Zoophilia" too the name of an early 90s U2 anthology?).

Opposition politicians were quick to betoken out this was conspicuously Islamophobia of the basest kind. And a petty flake of digging from local media found that — and over again, I'yard pretty sure you've already realized this — the prototype was not in fact from a recently procured migrant'due south phone just actually old footage that's available on the internet. (If that's the kind of the affair yous await for on the net — and every bit a result of my browser history from writing this cavalcade, next week'due south Declassified will come up to you from a prison jail cell.)

Oh, and it turns out that the person in the footage wasn't having it away with cow, it was a horse, which doesn't really change much other than preventing me from request if he caught the Mu variant of the coronavirus.

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