With two U.S. flags in front of the stage inside a Dearborn restaurant, Arab Americans cheered, danced, and sang into the night Sunday for Rima Fakih of Dearborn — crowned Miss USA in Las Vegas.
“This is unbelievable,” Rami Haddad, 26, of Livonia said Sunday night after the pageant. “It’s a dream come true. I can’t express my feelings.”
Fakih, of Lebanese descent, went into the pageant as Miss Michigan. She is thought to be the first Arab American and Muslim to become Miss USA….
During the interview portion, Fakih was asked whether she thought birth control should be paid for by health insurance, and she said she thought it should because it’s costly.
“I believe that birth control is just like every other medication even though it’s a controlled substance,” Fakih said.
It appears that politics has become a steady feature of the pageant, now controlled by Donald Trump. Last year, social conservatives declared that Carrie Prejean of California was deprived of the crown because she gave the “wrong” answer to a question about same-sex marriage, posed by openly gay and does-something-with-celebrities-on-the-Internet-fellow Perez Hilton.
This year, conservatives are already saying that Miss Oklahoma, Elizabeth Woolard, was handed second place because of her response to a question about Arizona’s law to control illegal immigration:
Editor's notes: This is the second year in a row a politically conservative contestant and leader in the competition, going into the final found round of the contest, has been the only controversial question of the interview portion of the competition, losing as a result. Coincidence or pattern activity? You know what we are thinking.
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