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Nigerian Miss World cancelled
BBC News ^
| November 23, 2002
| BBC News
Posted on 11/22/2002 4:25:42 PM PST by MadIvan
This year's Miss World contest which sparked bloody clashes in host nation Nigeria will now be moved to London, the organisers have said.
The show will be held in London on 7 December instead of the Nigerian capital, Abuja, officials announced late on Friday.
The decision came after more than 100 people died and hundreds more were injured in violent protests in the Nigerian city of Kaduna this week.
In a statement, the organisers said the change of venue was in the "overall interests of Nigeria and the contestants".
Muslim groups in Nigeria believe the contest is immoral and degrading to women and are angry that preliminary events began during the holy month of Ramadan.
TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: islam; london; missworld; nigeria; riots; ropma
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All your cupcakes are belong to us. ;)
Regards, Ivan
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posted on
11/22/2002 4:25:42 PM PST
by
MadIvan
To: TopQuark; TexKat; Iowa Granny; vbmoneyspender; America's Resolve; BigWaveBetty; widgysoft; ...
Bump!
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posted on
11/22/2002 4:26:17 PM PST
by
MadIvan
To: MadIvan
Lucky you...
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posted on
11/22/2002 4:26:58 PM PST
by
Dog
To: MadIvan
Say hello to Miss Israel for me...
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posted on
11/22/2002 4:28:04 PM PST
by
July 4th
To: MadIvan
Dang, I was hoping they'd move it to Baghdad.
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posted on
11/22/2002 4:28:14 PM PST
by
Dog Gone
To: MadIvan
Thank goodness. Now all of the Islamokazis won't have to travel far at all from their local mosque!
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posted on
11/22/2002 4:28:30 PM PST
by
ewing
To: MadIvan
In a surprise announcement, next years nouvelle Beaujolais celebration is scheduled for Tehran!!
To: MadIvan
Well, that's reasonable. If they'd kept it in Nigeria, they would have needed covering fire as they sent each contestant down the gangway.
To: MadIvan
"Muslim groups in Nigeria believe the contest is immoral and degrading to women"
This should read:
Muslim islamist groups are immoral and degrading to women.
To: MadIvan
Muslim groups in Nigeria believe the contest is immoral and degrading to women and are angry that preliminary events began during the holy month of Ramadan.Muslim groups believe the contest is degrading to women?
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posted on
11/22/2002 4:30:13 PM PST
by
calenel
To: MadIvan
To: MadIvan
The muslems are pi$$ed because all of their women are UGLY...
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posted on
11/22/2002 4:32:06 PM PST
by
babygene
To: MadIvan
I guess Ghandi and Martin Luther King were wrong.
To: MadIvan
Kaduna They could have held it in one of the coastal cities without much trouble. Maybe they got a special deal in Kaduna, but little did they know it was going to be like Kandahar, Afghanistan before the liberation.
To: MadIvan
To: babygene
Why would they have it there anyway?
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posted on
11/22/2002 4:33:49 PM PST
by
DWC
To: DWC
Current Miss World (chosen last year) is Nigerian, and apparently their custom has been to hold the contest in the country of the last champion.
To: MadIvan
Does anyone else find it amusing, in a perverse sort of way, that muslims would be concerned with degrading women?
Irony. It can be pretty ironic at times.
To: MadIvan
This is SOOOOOO Toadally NOT FAIR!!
I was planning to fly down there and see the sights and sites. Did you guys UNDERBID Sri Lanka again?? Will there be a buffet?
Grrrrrumbling
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posted on
11/22/2002 4:36:31 PM PST
by
GRRRRR
To: Diogenesis
ROFLOL!!!!!!
Hilarious!!!!
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