Miss USA divides Muslim community in Michigan
Posted by on May 19, 2010, 00:46
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Before she was Miss USA, and before she was Miss Michigan, Rima Fakih was a pretty good pole dancer.
Photos have surfaced on TMZ of the beauty pageant queen winning a stripper contest (she kept her clothes on) in 2007 for a Detroit radio station.
Fakih, who has become the first Arab American to win Miss USA, is dividing the Muslim community in her hometown of Dearborn. Fakih told the Detroit Free Press before the pageant she was aware that some in metro Detroit's Middle Eastern communities may object to women parading their beauty, but she said her family supports her. In fact, her mother encouraged her to compete. "I think the community in Michigan, in Dearborn, might be a little on the strict side," Fakih said. "But my family, in general, are not."
And some in the community are proud of her today. "It's so exciting. It's so amazing. I love it," Fatan Fawzi, 32, told ABC News. "I'm so happy because I'm Arabic like her. She's so pretty."
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