Rima Fakih, Miss Michigan & Arab-American, Crowned 2010 Miss USA (PHOTOS, POLL)
Huff Post / O. Garcia
17-May-2010 (9 comments)

LAS VEGAS -- Lebanese immigrant Rima Fakih says it was a certain look from Donald Trump that tipped her off that she had won the 2010 Miss USA title.

The 24-year-old Miss Michigan beat out 50 other women to take the title Sunday night, despite nearly stumbling in her evening gown. told reporters later that she believed she had won after glancing at pageant owner Trump as she awaited the results with the first runner-up, Miss Oklahoma USA Morgan Elizabeth Woolard.

"That's the same look that he gives them when he says, 'You're hired,'" on Trump's reality show "The Apprentice," she said.

"She's a great girl," said Trump, who owns the pageant with NBC in a joint venture.

Fakih took top honors at the pageant at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip after strutting confidently in an orange and gold bikini, wearing a strapless white gown that resembled a wedding dress and saying health insurance should cover birth control pills.

Fakih, an Arab-American from Dearborn, Mich., told pageant organizers her family celebrates both Muslim and Christian faiths. She moved to the United States as a baby and was raised in New York, where she attended a Catholic school. Her family moved to Michigan in 2003.

Pageant officials said historical pageant records were not detailed enough to show whether Fakih was the first Arab American, Muslim or immigrant to win the Miss USA title. The p... >>>

vildemose

Muslim Girl become Miss USA

by vildemose on Mon May 17, 2010 09:33 AM PDT

TeaBags are breaking all over America right now, their Blonde-Aryan-RightWing-Christian-Conservative heroine lost.....again.


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azadi5

Well, she is already in deep poo poo

by azadi5 on Mon May 17, 2010 09:36 PM PDT

From Miss Michigan to Miss USA — to misconduct.

Less than 24 hours after being crowned Miss USA, old photos hit
the Internet of Rima Fakih of Michigan sliding seductively down a pole
during a Detroit radio station’s student strip-tease competition in July
2007.

Fakih, who on Sunday became the first Arab-American to win the Miss
USA title, evidently competed in and won Detroit radio’s Mojo in the
Morning Stripper 101 pageant. For that victory, Hollywoodgossip.com
reports that Fakih was awarded “jewelry, gift cards, adult toys and a
stripper pole for home use.”

"Rima was our overall winner of the best student Stripper 101,"
morning show host Mojo told E! News on Monday. "We do it every July. We
give away awards for the best pole dancing, the best lap dancing and the
best booty shake.

“We just got a phone call from some of the people from the
pageant. They were kind of insinuating to us that she could be in
trouble for doing this contest ... They asked for copies of all the
pictures and they wanted the specifics of what happens at the event ...
We would hope this wouldn't harm anything as far as her status with the
pageant and the upcoming Miss Universe pageant."

Fakih would only be the latest controversy-soaked Miss USA
finalist, after Tara Conner (2006 winner who entered rehab), Katie Rees
(2007 winner dethroned after lewd photos of her were discovered) and
Carrie Prejean (2009 first runner-up who offended many by effectively
dismissing same-sex marriage).

Source  //cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2010/05/17/13982...

 


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maziar 58

.............

by maziar 58 on Mon May 17, 2010 07:37 PM PDT

who cares if she is... or ... leave it there.

enjoy the beauty of khavar miyaneh.        Maziar


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comrade

مرگ بر آخوند و این حرفا به جای خود، اما...

comrade
Mon May 17, 2010 07:33 PM PDT

There are two heavily politicized international awards which almost always raise some eyebrows. Beauty queen, and the Nobel peace prize.


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vildemose

Her video shoot!

by vildemose on Mon May 17, 2010 11:06 AM PDT


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Anonymouse

Says she is a Hezbollah supporter! So she's Asna Hashari 4 sure!

by Anonymouse on Mon May 17, 2010 10:57 AM PDT

Everything is sacred.


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vildemose

Other website say she is

by vildemose on Mon May 17, 2010 10:33 AM PDT

Other website say she is Christian. Her parents were Greek Catholic refugees from the Lebanese war.

//www.dailykos.com/story/2010/5/17/867091/-Muslim-crowned-Miss-USA;-Heads-Exploding


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vildemose

She is Shia according to

by vildemose on Mon May 17, 2010 10:29 AM PDT


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Anonymouse

Is she a Sunni or Shiite? If Shiite, is she Asna Hashari?

by Anonymouse on Mon May 17, 2010 09:50 AM PDT

Everything is sacred.


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