Afghan Supreme Court Bans Beauty Pageants

IOL ^ | 10-30-2003

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Afghan Supreme Court bans beauty pageants

October 30 2003 at 10:45AM

Kabul - Afghanistan's Supreme Court has condemned beauty contests as un-Islamic after an American-based Afghan woman paraded in a bikini as Miss Afghanistan in an international beauty pageant in Manila, state media reported on Thursday.

"The Supreme Court in its Wednesday session announced that appearing naked in beauty contests is totally un-Islamic, is against Afghan tradition, human honour and dignity," state news agency Bhakter reported.

"Based on the holy religion of Islam any one who attends such contests no matter what religion or country they belong to is condemned to hell," the report added.

A 25-year-old Afghan woman, Vida Samadzai who lives in United States, paraded in a red bikini last week at Miss Earth competition in the Philippines during a public appearance.

'It is not women's freedom but to entertain men'

She is the first Afghan woman in 30 years to participate in the Miss World contest. But she has incurred the wrath of the few Afghans who have seen her photos or read the international news stories.

Afghan women affairs minister, Habiba Sarabi, condemned Samadzai saying her semi-naked appearance "is not women's freedom but in my opinion is to entertain men", she said.

"What this Afghan girl has done is not freedom but is lascivious," Sarabi said.

"We condemn Vida Samadzai, she is not representing Afghanistan's women and this not women's freedom," the minister added.

Samadzai in an interview in Manila had claimed that she represents Afghanistan in the Miss Earth beauty contest, but Afghanistan's Embassy in Washington denies recommending her representing Afghanistan and says it is her personal decision.

'What this Afghan girl has done is not freedom but is lascivious' "Afghanistan's embassy in Washington DC declares that claims by Samadzai representing Afghanistan are baseless, it has been her own decision to attend in the beauty contest," reported Bakhtar News Agency.

Vida Samadzai, a dark-eyed brunette of the Pashtun tribe who fled Afghanistan with her family in 1996, professed to make the world aware of "Afghan women talent, intelligence and beauty".

Samadzai decided to attend the Miss Earth Beauty contest to give the world a different image of Afghan women and appeared public in bikini while most Afghan women in her hometown two years after the fall of extremist Taliban wear all-covering Burqa robes. - Sapa-AFP

[finnman69]

[LurkedLongEnough]

That's no "bikini".

[TrebleRebel]

The Supreme Court made this decision after examining photos and videos of the semi-naked women for 17 hours.

[longtermmemmory]

Islamic law is not law it is religion.

What case is this based on?

Afganistan's government has a looooong way to go.

[finnman69]

"Mohammed, I have a jihad in my pants again."

[Chancellor Palpatine]

That would be like hugging a bag of sticks.

[nmh]

Too funny. ;)

[BSunday]

That's the WINNER??? No wonder they outlawed the pageants LMAO

[Armed Civilian]

I am crying so hard from laughter, this is the funniest post I have ever seen.

[Austin Willard Wright]

Another example of how Rumsfeld's social engineering plan to create "democracy" and "unitary states" in medieval hell holes like Afghanistan and Iraq is a utopian pipedream.

[You Dirty Rats]

I don't know what the penalty is for consorting with a woman who has entered such a pageant, but if it's a one-way trip to hell, she might be worth it!

[finnman69]

[Naspino]

The Supreme Court in its Wednesday session announced that appearing naked in beauty contests is totally un-Islamic

Their version of naked is showing ankle.

[Steve_Seattle]

"That's the WINNER??? No wonder they outlawed the pageants. LMAO"

Two comments: (1) I think she's sexy; if she knocked on my door, I'd let her in. (2) Does anyone on this thread seriously think that the early Christians would approve of modern beauty pageants?

[old patriot]

Woman showing any skin is a sin in Islam, but porking young boys, camels, donkeys, sheep or goats is somehow OK? And we liberated this country for what reason? I know now, the Dems and Libs condone such actions as normal. Oh well, one man's pretty-boy is another man's son. Let them have it, and Barney Fag.

Old Patriot

[davisfh]

"Does anyone on this thread seriously think that the early Christians would approve of modern beauty pageants?"

You're probably right. But what are we talking about here? Early Muslims or modern Muslims? The greater question appears to be, "Is there such a thing as a modern Muslim or do they all desire to live in the dark ages?" Another burning question is, "Do we, as Christians, wish to make a retrograde move to the dark ages in order to pacify these violent and intolerant people?"

[blam]

"Does anyone on this thread seriously think that the early Christians would approve of modern beauty pageants?"

Early? I have some Southern Baptists friends who still frown on it.

[Steve_Seattle]

It's one thing to frown on beauty pageants, it's quite another to blow people up for having beauty pageants. I'm not advocating the latter, just saying that the former isn't all that far removed from our own religious traditions.

[TADSLOS]

Looks like she's guilty of violating the crawl, walk, run doctrine of Islamic style liberation. She went right to an all out sprint.