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  • 2018-05-29 (xsd:date)
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  • Was a New Zealand Farmer Arrested for Selling Sheep as Sex Slaves to the Islamic State? (en)
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  • In late May 2018, for reasons we are unable to fathom, social media users recirculated a year-old article from the self-styled satirical web site World News Daily Report saying a New Zealand farmer was arrested for selling sheep as sex slaves to the Islamic State, also called ISIS: According to the original article (which was translated and reposted on innumerable blogs and web sites, often without attribution, in the ensuing months) the farmer was arrested on the instigation of alarmed British and American intelligence officers: But no such arrest was reported in mainstream news sources (in New Zealand or elsewhere), nor was any such statement issued by New Zealand's Ministry of Defense. Further, we found no record of the existence of the so-called political analyst and Middle Eastern expert quoted in the article named Dave Wellsborough. Zakir Naik, a controversial Quranic scholar also mentioned in the piece, does exist, but despite the proliferation of a quote to that effect attributed to him on the Internet, we've been unable to confirm that he ever claimed that bestiality is permitted (or halal) in Islam. That their religion teaches acceptance of sexual relations with animals is among the defamatory allegations hurled at Muslims by Islamophobes, but the consensus among Islamic sources appears to be that the exact opposite is the case. True to the disclaimers that appear on every page of the web site, in other words, the World News Daily Report article is a work of fiction, not fact: (en)
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