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Monday, May 17, 2010

Most Ridiculous Controversy of the Day: Right Wing Furious About Arab-American Miss USA


Much Updated Below. As this story gets weirder, I'll update this post or add new ones.

My candidate for most ridiculous controversy of the day: the Miss USA Contest — a Donald Trump-run pageant several notches down from Miss America — has been won by an Arab-American of Lebanese origin. Apparently this has produced a lot of craziness on the far right, amid claims that she is a pro-Hizbullah mole of some sort infiltrating our beauty pageants in order to . . . what, exactly? Certainly the pictures of her in the swimsuit competition look like your standard Hizbullah infiltrator. (I wouldn't label these linked photos "not safe for work," but let's say she's not in a niqab.) And she went to Catholic High School in Dearborn, another sure indicator of Hizbullah ties. [Initially I didn't link directly to the insane stuff, but as it gets weirder and explodes in the blogosphere, you may want to read this diatribe, or this one, which flat-out calls her sharmuta, or whore (and not in the best sense, if you know what I mean) in Arabic (but wait: I thought she was a Hizbullah agent), and it gets worse.]

I thought anti-Arab, anti-Islamic paranoia couldn't get worse, but I hadn't realized that we needed to be on constant guard against the Islamist infiltration of our precious beauty pageants.

UPDATED: More evidence of radical Islamist tendencies are emerging: pictures in fishnet stockings and garter belts (see left), pictures of her pole-dancing in a "Stripper 2007 " competition, (also here), etc. She's obviously about one step away from strapping on a suicide vest, if she ever starts wearing much above her waist. Have we gone insane? She's being denounced over here as a (nearly-naked) Hizbullah mole and yet Hizbullah is unlikely to reprint these pictures. And this report says that 1997 "photos show Fakih pole dancing and with dollar bills in her bra.". ..

I'm pretty sure that's prima facie evidence of terrorist activity, aren't you? Obvious money laundering, by putting the dollar bills in her bra they figure they're going to escape detection . . .

Real Americans: Know Your Enemy (Just Kidding):


Ah, Lebanon.

1 comment:

Tim said...

Your post fails to raise two chilling facts. Whether this is a mere oversight or something more sinister is not clear at this moment. Teams of researchers are however scanning your past posts and the contents of MEJ for the answer.

The new beauty queen is from Dearborn Michigan.

As we all know, or should if we don't, that Dearborn was and remains an important center in the US car industry.

Under the current socialist regime in Washington, the US Government has made sizeable investments in two of the Big 3 Auto Companies.

Coincidence or conclusive evidence of the extent of the plot?

Sober folks on the right, like me, are drinking only pure rainwater these days. Avoiding ice cream, particularly children's ice cream.

When GM rolls out the new "Qasir" - available in white only and looking strangely like an older model Peugeot. Or Chrysler the sporty new Mugniyah. It will be too late.