Miss Saudi Arabia Forced Out of Beauty Pageant After Intense Muslim Backlash
Of course in my mind she looks ridiculous, wrapped up like a burrito but it appears she can’t even do that.
Is there any more hateful, misogynistic ideology on the face of the earth? As a fierce and fearsome woman, this hatred and shaming of women is abhorrent to me. It makes my skin crawl. If slaves wish to live under such theocratic tyranny, that is their affair. But bring it to my country and you are going to have the fight of your life on your hands. It’s why I do, what I do.
Miss Saudi Arabia Forced Out of Beauty Pageant
Newsweek, December 22, 2017:
A beauty queen from Saudi Arabia dropped out of the Miss Arab World contest after she was heavily attacked online for participating in the beauty pageant.
Malak Youssef, a 24-year-old beauty queen, was nominated by a Saudi civil society organization to compete as Miss Saudi Arabia in the Miss Arab World pageant held in Morocco on Saturday. But the young woman chose to drop out of the race before the crowning ceremony due to intense online backlash from people who said she was misrepresenting her conservative Muslim country by participating in a beauty contest.
“I announce my withdrawal from the final competition rounds in ‘Miss Arab World 2018’. I am happy with just carrying the Miss Saudi Arabia title,” Youssef announced in a video posted to her Twitter account. She also said she was shocked and saddened by the backlash.
اكملت المقطع أعلن انسحابي من التصفيات الاخيره لملكات جمال العرب 2018 واكتفي بلقب ملكة جمال السعوديه مع خلص شكري #ملكة_جمال_السعودية #ملكة_جمال_العرب pic.twitter.com/h7V1JgQ3Ud
— ملاك يوسف (@mlooka11000) December 15, 2017
Ultra-conservative Sunni Saudi Arabia does not have an official national beauty pageant, and women in the country are expected to wear an abaya, or a robe that covers their entire body, in public. Some Saudi social media users argued that it is inappropriate for Saudi women to compete in a pageant because it goes against the country’s traditional religious values.
“Saudi women are beautiful with their dignity, manners, and upbringing. They don’t need pageants to validate their beauty,” one social media user argued.
This isn’t the first time a Middle Eastern woman has been attacked due to her participation in a beauty pageant. Last week, relatives of Miss Iraq were forced to flee their country after death threats were made against them for their daughter’s participation in the Miss Universe pageant. Among the main complaints were that Sarah Idan, Miss Iraq, had posted a photograph of herself with Miss Israel and had appeared in a swimsuit.
Youssef would have been the second Saudi woman to participate in the Miss Arab World pageant. Moda Nour, another Saudi woman, competed at the same beauty contest and won in 2009. The 2009 competition was held in Cairo, and Nour was later attacked, not for participating in the pageant, but for being what some critics considered “too overweight” to be a beauty queen.
The Miss Arab World pageant tries to be inclusive of women from all cultures and religions, and allows veiled and non-veiled women to compete together. The beauty queens compete in national dress and are not expected to wear swimsuits like women competing in international pageants.
Source: https://pamelageller.com/2017/12/miss-saud-arabia-forced-out.html/
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I hope there is no backlash for participating. She withdrew, but will there be a backlash against her?