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East/Subsaharan Africa
Pageant Denies Blame for Riots
2002-11-25
The organizers of the Miss World beauty pageant said Monday they were not to blame for the Muslim-Christian bloodletting in Nigeria touched off by a debate over the morality of the contest.
Unless the babes were running through the streets torching people, most of us with our wits still about us would say the fault lay with the Muslim lunatics who started it...
Miss World President Julia Morley said the contest had been used as a "political football" and blamed the violence on a Nigerian newspaper article suggesting Islam's founding prophet would have approved of the pageant.
I'd blame it on the turban and automatic weapons crowd, myself.
The article deeply offended Muslims who make a point of toting a chip on their collective shoulder had objected to the contest as promoting promiscuity.
"Ohmigawd! It's a beauty pageant! I gotta go get laid!"
Some nitwits commentators said the pageant could not detach itself from the violence and called for the event to be canceled. "It is completely despicable that we have agreed to host this travesty," the writer Muriel Gray was quoted as saying by Al-Guardian newspaper Monday.
"Yasss... We are all responsible, aren't we?"
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#3  http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/09/30/world/main523725.shtml

I failed to provide a link to a story about false Miss Pakista. Sorry.
Posted by: Arthur Fleischman   2002-11-26 12:26:40  

#2  Two months ago there was a "false" Miss Pakistan who was disqualified from a Japanese beauty contest for denigrating Islam and bringing "shame to Pakistan".
Posted by: Arthur Fleischman   2002-11-26 12:24:33  

#1  Just wondering, does anyone know if there was a Miss Afghanistan, or Pakistan, or anyStan, or Soddy, or Libya, etc.? Are they exempt from wearing bikinis and heels?
Posted by: Jack   2002-11-26 09:30:41  

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