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The newly crowned the Muslimah World 2013 Obabiyi Aishah Ajibola (C)
A Nigerian woman tearfully prayed and recited Koranic verses as she won a beauty pageant exclusively for Muslim women in the Indonesian capital Wednesday, a riposte to the Miss World contest that has sparked hardline anger.

The 20 finalists, who were all required to wear headscarves, put on a glittering show for the final of Muslimah World, strolling up and down a catwalk in elaborately embroidered dresses and stilettos.
After a show in front of an audience of mainly religious scholars and devout Muslims, a panel of judges picked Obabiyi Aishah Ajibola from Nigeria as the winner.
While the event in a Jakarta shopping mall paled in comparison to Miss World on the resort island of Bali, in which scores of contestants are competing, Ajibola was nevertheless overwhelmed.

Upon hearing her name, the 21-year-old knelt down and prayed, then wept as she recited a Koranic verse.
She said it was “thanks to almighty Allah” that she had won the contest. She received 25 million rupiah ($2,200) and trips to Mecca and India as prizes.
Ajibola told AFP before the final that the event “was not really about competition”.

“We’re just trying to show the world that Islam is beautiful,”she said.

Organisers said the pageant challenged the idea of beauty put forward by the British-run Miss World pageant, and also showed that opposition to the event could be expressed non-violently.
Eka Shanti, who founded the pageant three years ago after losing her job as a TV news anchor for refusing to remove her headscarf, bills the contest as “Islam’s answer to Miss World”.


“This year we deliberately held our event just before the Miss World final to show that there are alternative role models for Muslim women,” she told AFP.

“But it’s about more than Miss World. Muslim women are increasingly working in the entertainment industry in a sexually explicit way, and they become role models, which is a concern.”

Hosted by Dewi Sandra, an Indonesian actress and pop star who recently hung up her racy dresses for a headscarf, the pageant featured both Muslim and pop music performances, including one about modesty, a trait the judges sought in the winner.
The pageant, which also featured bright Indonesian Islamic designer wear, is a starkly different way of protesting Miss World than the approach taken by Islamic radicals.


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wey the beauty na? me neva see any figure 8 o.

Ok na!!!

I see no changes

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder my brother.

Freiburger: wey the beauty na? me neva see any figure 8 o.

D most interestin part is "25million Indonesian money = 2,200 dollars" Nigeria is indeed a great country

muslim pageant? i c signs of endtym.

Subhanallah! Muslim pageant!! This is absurd and strange in islam.

Her hijab is so sexy!
:p

Islam is beautiful...Lovely

Unbelievable! Congrats to her.

Eyaaah

Oh boy, I no fit laff abeg.

What's with d struggle 2 belong?
Cant u people just b yourself? At least for once?

[size=18pt]islam is beautiful........this is saudi arabias queen[/size]

What's with d struggle 2 belong?
Cant u people just b yourself? At least for once
Abegii!

Btw-just wondering what criteria were used.
Winner? Of a beauty pageant?
Smh!!!

eluquenson: Islam is beautiful...Lovely

Where is the beauty, maybe u re being sarcastic.

ayodeji752: D most interestin part is "25million Indonesian money = 2,200 dollars" Nigeria is indeed a great country

chai.. to buy car 4 dat country Person go need lyk 500million ...d beauty of d girl is 70% coverd ..so I cnt say if She's realy worth it or nt...

This face? boxing things! she won the medal in islam boxing joo

Wahala dey ooo. see beauty. Obasanjo go win beauty contest be that, hope dey!

Good for her! But seriously she's not pretty

Chinaimporter: [size=18pt]islam is beautiful........this is saudi arabias queen[/size]

All I see powder and black pencil, moreover where was she when this contest was on?

It's only yoruba muslims that can attend this type of competition. I can almost swear that a muslim girl from kano, katsina or sokoto can never

So our Muslim 'fwends' are finally waking up eehn?


Should not have taken this long to know that "Boko is NOT Haram"!
Just some smart Imams taking you for a ride!

I hope the "copy-copy" ones in Nigeria will learn from these and stop causing riot and anarchy, anytime we want to host a Miss World or Miss naija in their enclave?

Shine ya eyes, l say. Ahliham-dundun-nlahi!

Lastpage!

BTW: As a "sign/show of protest", l gerrit. Its a "protest beauty protest" .... not a pageant really.

dats cool good luck

Na wa o

miss world in Nigeria- cancelled
miss islam - won
islam, the religion of peace!
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"if he no be panadol, he no fit be like panadol"