Posted on 07/19/2019 7:09:26 AM PDT by rickmichaels
Miss World America has stripped beloved conservative commentator Kathy Zhu of her Miss Michigan title over “insensitive” political tweets and her refusing to wear a hijab during a leftist campus event in 2016.
The heartbroken 20-year-old University of Michigan student posted screenshots of the email and text exchanges that she had with MWA’s State Director Laurie DeJack on Twitter.
In the exchanges, DeJack continuously declared that there was a “problem” without explaining the situation to a clearly increasingly worried Zhu. Eventually, she finally revealed that one of the issues was a tweet in which Zhu declared that the majority of black deaths are caused by other black citizens.
DeJack also sent Zhu an email demanding that she return her crown and sash, as well as remove any mention of having participated in MWA from all of her social media.
The organization also took issue with an incident in which Zhu refused to allow an activist to put a hijab on her head during an event on campus. Zhu responded by saying that “what is ‘insensitive’ is that women in the Middle East are getting STONED TO DEATH for refusing to obey their husband’s orders to wear hijabs. A Muslim woman tried to FORCIBLY put a hijab on my head without my permission. I tweeted about it on my social media, and it got the attention of the media. Almost everyone was supportive of me refusing to be put in that situation.”
Following her refusal to wear the hijab, angry Twitter users had attempted to get the Chinese-American student expelled from her university.
“Are the people in MWA implying that they advocate for the punishment of women who refuse to wear a hijab?” Zhu asked DeJack.
Zhu refused to back down or bow before them throughout her email response.
“I am completely disheartened by this situation. I was so excited to represent the state of Michigan and advocate for ‘don’t be afraid to speak your truth’ as my main statement. For them to take my title away due to right-leaning tweets shows that they only want pageant girls to have brainless statements like ‘world peace’ and not meaningful ideals that would actually make a difference,” Zhu told The Gateway Pundit.
You are more than welcome to strip me of the title I earned because it is you, not I, who brought it into disrepute.
However, I can no more change the past than can you. Hitler's launching of World War II in 1939 did not change the fact that Jesse Owens won medals at the Berlin Olympics in 1936. Let that sink in.
MWA’s State Director Laurie DeJack ... continuously declared that there was a “problem” without explaining the situation to a clearly increasingly worried Zhu. Eventually, she finally revealed that one of the issues was a tweet in which Zhu declared that the majority of black deaths are caused by other black citizens. DeJack also sent Zhu an email demanding that she return her crown and sash, as well as remove any mention of having participated in MWA from all of her social media. The organization also took issue with an incident in which Zhu refused to allow an activist to put a hijab on her head during an event on campus. Zhu responded by saying that “what is ‘insensitive’ is that women in the Middle East are getting STONED TO DEATH for refusing to obey their husband’s orders to wear hijabs. A Muslim woman tried to FORCIBLY put a hijab on my head without my permission. I tweeted about it on my social media, and it got the attention of the media. Almost everyone was supportive of me refusing to be put in that situation.” Following her refusal to wear the hijab, angry Twitter users had attempted to get the Chinese-American student expelled from her university.
I've not watched a pageant since my parents controlled the remote, but a boycott might still work. Meanwhile...
Obviously, I’m only here to determine guilt or innocence.
Bkmrk
When deer season starts ,I bet she isn’t sitting in her hunting camp wearing a hijab. Make the judges wear them also then.
Welcome to the United State of Islam.
I wonder how MWA would feel if someone tried to force another to wear a cross.
How long before they sic Klantifa on her?
MWA just wanted to make Rashida Tlaib happy....
She represents my America!
SUBMIT OR DIE
Those are the only options under Islam.
Nice fake emeralds.
Sue that corrupt, politically correct sorry excuse for an organization......not for money but to show how stupid and outrageous the left is.......and the left is certainly the worse thing that could ever happen in this country!!
bkmk
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