Like most Miss America pagents, this year's contest followed with controversy too. Whats different this time is that it also revolves around the fact that the winner is a Muslim. Soon after winning the Miss America title, and becoming the first Muslim woman to ever win the contest, scandals surrounded her. Her pictures were found in which she was strip dancing for a Detroit area radio station during a small radio show competition. Now the question is whether she should get to keep her tittle or not.
But whats funny about this is that Rima is actually wearing more clothes in the striping competition than in her pictures for the beauty contest. Also, this contest had taken place three years ago, and no stripping had actually taken place. A reason for the exaggeration of this issue is that many people think Morgan Woolard, Miss Oklahoma USA 2010, should have been crowned the champion. There might also be a racist reason since people might not want a Muslim girl to win an American competition. Others, like commentator and one time Bush appointee Daniel Pipes, are suspicious about women like Rima. Pipes lists five Muslim women who have all won beauty contests in the last five years, starting with Rima Fakih and ending with 2006’s Miss England, and 2005’s Miss Nottingham. He thinks that its suspicious how Muslim women have been winning some of the biggest beauty pagents in America and Europe. What people like Pipes need to understand though, is that women like Rima win only because of their beauty and their smartness; nothing else.
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