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It sounds like the sort of thing you’d be called “racist” for making up: dozens of contestants thrown out of a camel beauty contest in Saudi Arabia for using Botox. But it is, in fact, totally true.
Why bother trying to be satirical when the reality is even more absurd than a Babylon Bee headline?
Dozens of camel owners in Saudi Arabia were ejected from the King Abdulaziz Camel Festival this year for using Botox to beautify their beasts.
As it is a strict Muslim country, they are forbidden from using alcohol to achieve the same result, as we do in the West.
Officials tossed 43 camels from the competition after finding that their owners had tampered with their appearance. Competing for prize money of $66 million, the owners injected Botox into the camels’ lips, nose, jaws, and head, used collagen fillers to enlarge their lips and noses, and utilized hormones to encourage muscle growth.
The owners even relied tactics like rubber bands, which they strategically placed on the animals to restrict blood flow, thus making certain body parts seem bigger than normal.
I shudder to think which parts.
The King Abdulaziz Camel Festival has run since 1999, when local Bedouins decided to hold a contest to find the most beautiful camel.
We can only imagine the argument that that contest was used to settle.
Today, the festival lasts 40 days and draws thousands of people — and their camels — from across the world. Some 33,000 camel owners from far-flung locations like the US, Russia, and France traveled to Saudi Arabia this year to compete, alongside 100,000 tourists who came to watch.
In addition to the camel beauty contest, the festival includes camel races, sales, and even a petting zoo with the tallest and shortest camels. Camel breeding today is a multimillion-dollar industry and events like the King Abdulaziz Camel Festival take place across the country — though it’s the largest in the world.
“The camel is a symbol of Saudi Arabia,” said Fawzan al-Madi.
All That’s Interesting
And Saudi Arabia’s camel fetish is a source of endless entertainment to we infidels.
It’s purely a vicious rumour that ISIS is planning a rival goat beauty contest.
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