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Miss World Pageant Moved To Bali After Muslim Protests In Jakarta, Indonesia by deolascope: 7:18pm On Sep 10, 2013
By Zara Lenore

Following a series of protests by Muslims in Jakarta – Indonesia, the Indonesian government has been forced to move the location of the final events of Miss World Pageant to another city.

The latter rounds of the international pageant were scheduled to be held outside of Jakarta, Indonesia, but thousands of Muslims took to the streets in the city, protesting against it. They denounced the decision to hold the beauty pageant in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation, with protesters burning the organisers in effigy and branding them “infidels”.

The Indonesian Government has now announced that the competition will now be held entirely on the Hindu-majority island of Bali, where the opening ceremony took place yesterday.

According to Daily Telegraph, the contest opens in Bali on Sunday and later rounds were due to take place in and around Jakarta, with the winner originally set to be crowned at a venue outside the capital on September 28.

But the government said on Saturday they had decided all events would now be held on Bali, where hard line influence is almost non-existent and which is used to hordes of foreign tourists sunbathing in skimpy swimwear.

Here are some more pictures from the protests:
http://www.maktoubplus.com/miss-world-pageant-moved-to-bali-after-muslim-protests-in-jakarta-indonesia/

Re: Miss World Pageant Moved To Bali After Muslim Protests In Jakarta, Indonesia by InsaneTamie(m): 12:56am On Sep 11, 2013
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