Showing posts with label headscarf. Show all posts
Showing posts with label headscarf. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

HERE SHE IS...MISS HEADSCARF

We reported on this last week. I figured you were just dying to know who won:

The winner of DR's Miss Headscarf 2008 competition is Huda Falah (18) from Gentofte. Falah was born in Iraq and has been wearing a headscarf since she was 9. She says it was her own choice, as she saw her mother and cousins wearing the headscarf.

Her reason for wearing a headscarf today: women are like diamonds, and a diamond isn't displayed to everybody. She signed up to the competition since she thinks there's a barrier between Muslim and Danish youth, and saw the competition as a way of breaking it down.
Yes Miss Headscarf. You're the Rosa Parks of Denmark.

Thursday, June 5, 2008

DENMARK SEARCHES FOR MISS HEADSCARF

You have GOT to be kidding me. Isn't this the country that just had its embassy bombed by some people in headscarfs?

Hibo Abdull wants to be Denmark's first Miss Headscarf.

The 24-year-old aspiring actress is competing to scoop up the title in a pageant for headscarf-wearing women sponsored by state broadcaster Danmarks Radio. While some Danes regard the hijab as a symbol of what they see as the inferior status of women in Islam, Abdull says her scarf should be celebrated.

The contest comes as Denmark grapples with the fallout from the 2005 publication in a local newspaper of cartoons that linked the Prophet Muhammad to terrorism and sparked riots across the Middle East. This week, a bomb attack outside Denmark's embassy in Pakistan killed at least six people. Danmarks Radio said it wants to ``spark debate'' and won't cancel Miss Headscarf.
What's next? Miss Burqa?