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| Denmark: Danmarks Radio to host "Miss Headscarf" beauty contest | |
| 2008-05-27 | |
| Danmarks Radio will hold a beauty contest for women with the only requirement being that they are over 15 and wear a headscarf. Denmark's headscarf debate took another bizzare turn Monday when public broadcaster DR announced it would be sponsoring a 'Miss Headscarf' contest for women and teens over the age of 15. DR's youth club, 'Skum', is behind the project which they believe will display the 'cool Muslim women' who 'often make up a very fashion-conscious and style-confident part of the Danish street scene'. The competition is, however, also open to non-Muslim females. The youth club said it is seeking to hear from the 'unheard' members of the headscarf debate - the women themselves. 'We would like to contact all the Muslim women who are seldom heard in the debate but are often just as preoccupied with fashion and beauty as other women,' Bjarke Ahlstrand, editor-in-chief of DR's youth division, told Nyhedsavisen newspaper. Participants are urged to send in pictures of themselves wrapped in the appropriate headwear via email or mobile phone to DR. The photos will be judged by fashion expert Uffe Buchardt with first prize being an iPod and a specially-designed headscarf from top fashion house Mads Nørgaard. In addition, the top five contestants receive a year's subscription to 'Muslim Girl' magazine. The contest is supported by the instigator of the headscarf debate, Asmaa Abdol-Hamid, who had said she would not remove her headscarf if selected for an MP position with the Red-Green Alliance party. But the competition was not so well-received by a representative of the Islamic Faith Society.
Women must not reveal their beauty.' | |
| Posted by:mrp |
| #2 One of my fonder memories of Denmark is sitting in the Artilleri Bar in the lobby of the Hotel SAS Scandinavia in Copenhagen drinking beer with a friend. We looked up and saw a beautiful brown eyed blonde in a bikini and almost choked on our beer. She was followed by another and another and another... We asked the bartender and were informed that the competition for Denmark's Penthouse Pet of the Year was being held on the hotel's second floor and the girls in the lobby were waiting their turn. We had to leave after about three hours because the girls had all started to look alike and normal people were looking pretty wretched. No headscarves as I recall, but then again, this was in the early 80's. |
| Posted by: RWV 2008-05-27 14:50 |
| #1 She had a face only the radio could love, indeed. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-05-27 13:18 |