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Name: A Bikinied Muslim Miss USA
Uploaded: 2010-05-26T00:00:00+00:00
Channel: CMS Admin
Description: When I tell people that I study religion and beauty pageants in America, they usually ask, "What do beauty pageants have to do with religion?" "Everything," I reply. So I was excited to see that another pageant participants' religious beliefs are in the news—if only because it confirms my hypothesis. This is the second consecutive

May 26, 2010

A Bikinied Muslim Miss USA

Mandy McMichael, guest blogger

The backlash to Rima Fakih’s win suggests mainstream America still wants their national beauties to be Christian.

June 17, 2009

Pageant Preachers

Mandy E. McMichael

Carrie Prejean isn’t the only Christian contestant using the contest as a platform for her beliefs—or who has faced questions about compromising them.