Miss Arab world 2009

Been to Arab countries, and let me tell you that.. these are not beautiful compared to what i have seen there.. the problem is that most girls would refuse to go in public competitions like this .. so unfair

that’s just bullshit. the fact, that some woman does not cover all her body, does NOT make her dirty.

maybe one day muslims will grow out of middle ages and realize, that “god” that imposess such ridiculous orders, like stoning people to death, it’s not somebody worth following.

@Martin: I’ve never claimed that I was smart, I eve n started of by saying I was bad with words but calling me the most idiotic person on this planet is a bit much, don’t you think? It took me a while to formulate my reply, I even spell checked it and revised it several times (all in the hopes of making it easier for you to understand) and you have the gall to call me the most idiotic person on this planet? If I cared about what you thought of me I’d probably be offended.

I’m an atheist so I don’t believe in god and if I’ve ever asked myself why I was born then I can thank my biology teacher for teaching me about the sperm and the egg.

I don’t really know what’ll happen to my body when I die. Not saying that my body is “me”, what makes me “me” is located in my brain somewhere and when I drown or suffocate or get impaled by a sharp wooden stake my brain won’t get enough oxygen and it will die. When that dies I will cease to exist. I thought I’d donate my organs but that’s only possible when brain death is in the picture. If that doesn’t happen I’ll just donate my body to some medical place and let the students dissect me into small pieces.

Have you ever thought of the fact that if Adam and Eve were sent down here and they did populate the planet then their children had sex with each other? And when Adam and Eve’s grandchildren were born even They copulated and so on and so forth. Generation upon generation of incest, and we all know what happens to the gene pool when inbreeding occurs over and over again.

@Nihal: I didn’t say the people running the pageants are after money though I’m sure they wouldn’t be hosting such an expensive event if they kept losing money. I said the contestants had to be beautiful, have white teeth and loads of money (employing coaches, buying pretty dresses and devoting many hours to each competition can’t be done without money.) The difference is that prostitution is accepting payment for sex, are those contestant having sex for cash? I don’t think so. Saying that they are prostitutes is the same as saying an athlete is a prostitute because they compete for cash, clad in aerodynamic clothing in the hopes of winning a prize.

A beauty pageant with willing women, women that have dreamed of being crowned miss universe since they popped out of the birth canal and a brothel with unwilling prostitutes isn’t the same thing.

The word owner should be replaced with the word employer and the word tells should be replaced with the word expects. A firefighter is expected to save houses, climb trees to rescue kittens and stay fit so he can keep hosing down burning buildings to the best of his ability. A beauty pageant contestant is expected to prance around in a bikini, a gown, have a skill, answer a question etc. It is a part of the job. A job that they can choose to pursue if they so wish because their fathers, brothers and uncles don’t treat them like property that needs to be locked up and put away. They get the choice, and that is what I call freedom. It is their body and not their uncles or their fathers.

It can’t be freedom to cover up when you don’t have the choice of not covering up.

@ottoman: is caving under peer pressure honorable? They know that if they don’t dress a certain way they’ll be looked down upon so they choose to go with the flow instead of braving the heat. How is that honorable and civilized? Civilized; Showing evidence of moral and intellectual advancement. Isn’t one of the more morally advanced ideas of our society that women and men are equal? if you believe that men have the right to choose what you’re supposed to wear then how can that be advancement?

ohhh and what do u do when u see a woman wearing a very short dress for example???
“….as far as the religious texts say the woman doesn’t belong to herself as men do, she does belong to her father who “gives” her to a husband, etc….” who told u that????

again it’s just your twisted muslim way of seeing things.

women that attend beauty pageans contests doesn’t do it because some men ordered it. i know it’s a new concept for you, but women can actually do something just by themselves. they don’t need any men to give them orders. women who attend beauty pageant contests usualy do it for the money (which is absolutely ok). but most of the women don’t attend these contest at all (which is also absolutely ok).

stop whining. muslim countries like saudi arabia, iran or afghanistan don’t allow almost anything. when they get at least to the level of personal freedoms of poland (most religious and therefore backward country in europe), then the muslims can complain.

and if they don’t like it in europe, than they are more then welcome to go back to their country of origin, where they can be hanged or stoned as much as they please.

I agree, not the top choice, at least by just looking these photos. But first, we don’t know the exact “rules” by which this contest was held, I mean is it only appearance that counts or is there some kind of mental test, or is considered to be the “best housewife”, or don’t know what else may matter.
Second, I’m not deep into Arabian culture but I know that the “standard of beauty” is not always the same as in our western world. To put it simply, not everyone loves skinny, blond girls. Watch any Arabian movie (I believe secret services won’t put you in their suspects list for that!!) and you’ll feel it from the first minute. Same in some Asian cultures, girls do their best to protect themselves from sun rays because pale skin is highly adored there, while in the other side of the ocean, solarium tanning is a massive hit. So, probably we may not agree about Miss Arabia finalist but probably Arabians would have different opinion, according to their own “standards”