Nigerian Miss World cancelled

BBC News ^ | November 23, 2002 | BBC News

[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.

[HennepinPrisoner]

No, there are not that many Muslims. No more than I dare say than in New York City, for example.

Ivan...I am going to have to disagree with you here. Maybe there are an equal (or even greater) number of Muslims in NYC than London, but based on the press reports I have read since the Oldham riots and subsequently 9/11, the Muslims in the UK are far "louder" and more "militant" than those here in the US. Maybe because they are more afraid of retaliation here than they are in the UK.....they are definitely "bolder" in the UK.

[sarasmom]

Re your #44.

NYC had 9/11/01.

Looks like a possible 12/07/02 for London.

Watch your back, MI.I enjoy your posts, and I hope the day passes with nothing more spectacular occuring than the crowning of a new Miss World.

No offense intended, but perhaps Russia or China would have been a safer and more formidable choice of venue.

I intend no sarcasm.While I am not a big fan of beauty contests, I do watch some of them, and I have no desire to see any of the participants harmed in any way.Russia or China may, in this case, be better prepared to offer the degree of controll needed to successfully air this program.Not that I harbor any great love for either country, but I am capable of pragmatic thought processes in a pinch

[Revolting cat!]

How niggardly of Nigeria! Oops, that's two offenses in one sentence against Queen Hillary's Royal Decrees! You're sentenced to a double time at the re-education camp!

[nhoward14]

You are sentenced to make a mural out of macaroni showing people of indistinghishable ethnicity holding hands and being joyous! Your mural must contain a least one African-American, one Mexican-American, one Native American, one Muslim, and four homosexuals. Three people who are not African-American must be physically challenged.

Under no circumstances shall a person be a WHITE MALE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Cacique]

brilliant graphic, tells it like it is!!

[Illbay]

Muslim groups in Nigeria believe the contest is immoral...

As opposed to rioting and murder, which is completely justified.

[Travis McGee]

OMG! Is that Miss Saudi Arabia????

[jrlc]

Islam is a peaceful religion as long as the women are beaten, the boys buggered, and the infidels killed.

[daviddennis]

So what was wrong with that publication's statement that Mohammed would have married one of the Miss World beauties?

It's pretty obviously true, but it sparked the riots.

I'm not sure if I understand why that is, considering that Islam allows polygamy, and I'm sure many Muslim men are, in fact, affected by the appearance of the women they marry.

Incredible.

D

[Mark17]

Would you classify that as a 10 bagger?

[TheHound]

Emcee: "Miss Canada, if could wish for one thing what would it be?"

Miss Canada: "World Peace".

hahahaha

[A CA Guy]

They kill people and burn churches down because they are both evil, follow a false god and are nuts and that is the bottom line.

[yonif]

Cool. Thanks for posting this. Now I know whose representing us!

[yonif]

HAHAHAHA

[Steve Eisenberg]

This year's Miss World contest which sparked bloody clashes in host nation Nigeria

Why do they keep on calling the communal violence "clashes." Sounds more like the Islamists are burning churches and massacring Christians, while some of the more intrepid Christians defend themselves. While there may be a few Christians who went too far, the press reports I've read imply a false moral equivalence between the massacred and murderers.

[Cold Heat]

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.

It certainly can!

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

IM THANKFULL AMERICAN MUSLIMS DONT BEHAVE LIKE THAT. They dont have the numbers yet,when they do,look out.

When they do, THEY had better look out.