By James Doleman

A parody YouTube video sparked a media storm this week as a number of national newspapers failed to get the joke.

In the video, which was uploaded in June by an account named “British Muslim comedy”, Zayn Sheikh claims he is launching a campaign against popular children’s character Peppa Pig because pigs are “haram” in Muslim culture.

In the spoof video the actor says “my son used to want to be a doctor now he wants to be a pig” adding that he was planning to promote a more suitable new cartoon character: “Abdullah the Cat.”

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Source: The Drum