A Reuters photo from the linked article.
That is Miss Michigan, crowned Miss USA, an Arab American woman named Rima Fakih, who has prompted some bizarre ravings that she is the vanguard of the caliphate:
Fakih, a 24-year-old Arab-American whose family hails from Lebanon , has almost nothing in common with the religious zealots who inspire militant Islam. Yet the tiara had scarcely come to rest on her cascading dark tresses Sunday night when the far reaches of the right wing blogosphere went ballistic.
Debbie Schlussel , a conservative blogger, charged that Fakih was a radical Muslim because she shares her family name with some officials in Hezbollah , the militant Lebanese Shiite Muslim group.
The Jewish Internet Defense Force , a pro-Israeli website, proclaimed it "a dark day for America."
Daniel Pipes , an outspoken neoconservative author and former adviser to Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign, wondered about "this surprising frequency of Muslims winning beauty pageants" — he listed five examples in three countries since 2005 — and suggested that the Donald Trump-owned Miss USA pageant had bowed to affirmative action.
So she's the next Panty Bomber, eh? Peace be upon her, I say!
I like to think my knuckles drag as much as the next conservative blogger, but despite some email I've gotten that assert otherwise, I must not be part of the "rightwing blogosphere" that "went ballistic" over her win. Oh, I got worked up over this issue, if I have to come clean on the topic--but not into a rage.
In the spirit of open-mined inquiry, you may want to see for yourself just how skillful Ms. Fakih is in disguising her hatreds.
Just one question, so where does she hide the suicide vest? Or is the thong bomb really a threat?
Good grief, people. Get a life. Celebrate this as a victory over the scum who would cover her in a burqa, if they had the power.
UPDATE: Seriously, people, this is not a retreat in the face of some clever jihadi ploy to inflitrate us and lull us into passivity. This is a counter-attack against Islamism and a victory, with more potential than any number of presidential speeches to the Islamic world.
