It's not bikinis that help win this Saudi pageant

[AlphaCentauri]

Sukaina al-Zayer is an unlikely beauty queen hopeful. She covers her face and body in black robes and an Islamic veil so no one can tell what she looks like. She also admits she’s a little on the plump side.

But at Saudi Arabia’s only beauty pageant, the judges don’t care about a perfect figure or face. What they’re looking for in the quest for “Miss Beautiful Morals” is the contestant who shows the most devotion and respect for her parents.

“The idea of the pageant is to measure the contestants’ commitment to Islamic morals ... It’s an alternative to the calls for decadence in the other beauty contests that only take into account a woman’s body and looks,” said pageant founder Khadra al-Mubarak.

http://lifewise.canoe.ca/Beauty/2009/05/12/9432246-ap.html


We could have a liberal pageant contest not based in silicon patches but in progressive thinking

[msongs]

1. why is it that MEN do not have to cover themselves up like this????? hmmm nt

[bkkyosemite]

2. Because the women have to. To protect the men from their hornyness

[leftstreet]

3. Because men don't have any sex appeal

[Bobbieo]

5. No! Saudi men and theTaliban have no self control or will power

and that makes them weak so they get even by attacking women.

[RB TexLa]

4. No veils for Prince Alwaleed's staff

[billyoc]

6. The winner gets a time machine!

(commonly known as a map)

[Drunken Irishman]

7. And the losers are stoned.

[Bobbieo]

8. One Ayatollah declared "Women, cover thyselves lest you tempt men"

WOW!!! That is some definition of will power.

[NYC_SKP]

9. She's got pretty eyes...

:P

[proteus_lives]

10. She does!

I'm a sucker for a woman with glasses.

[AlphaCentauri]

11. those must be reading glasses n/t