Muslim Women Can Still Participate In Beauty Pageants!

Last month, I heard of a story where a Muslim lady was Disqualified from partaking in a pageant because of the hijab she was wearing. Well I just want to give my opinion about this and also educate people about pagents

Now what is a beauty pageant? A beauty pageant is an event where an intelligent ,smart, and charismatic person is crowned. Now pagenry falls into so many categories. There are male pageants ( Mr world, female pageants (Miss World, Miss universe, Miss globe, Miss planet, miss earth, Miss international, Miss intecontinental,etc,), children pageants (little miss world, little miss Nigeria, etc) Christan pageants (I have seen one in my life), Muslim pagents (world muslimah) ,Miss petite Nigeria ( for short women), Miss bum bum Brazil (very funny pageant grin), Miss unilag, Miss imsu, Miss Abuja ,mbgn (most beautiful girl in Nigeria), etc.

The most important thing about pagents is "what is the reason or the objective of the pagent "? Do you know that the miss world pagent is mainly a philantrophic pageant? Do you know that the Miss universe pageant is mainly a motivational pageant? Do you know that the Miss Earth pageant is focused on the problems facing the earth eg global warming, and other natural disasters? Every pageant has a goal. Also every pageant has rules and regulations and also age limit.

Now let's focus on our main topic. The miss world muslimah is a pageant in which intelligent and smart Muslim women can contest for a pageant. The main objective of the pageant is to prove to the world that the hijab cannot prevent you from being crowned as a beauty queen. This also arose from the fact that most pageants are not in line with the laws of Islam and so, Muslim women can not participate. This is the goal of the pageant.

Now before you can contest for the pageant, you have to contest first in your country and then represent your country on the world Muslim stage. Miss Nigeria won it in 2013. But the problem is that not many Muslim organizations are even aware of the pageant not to talk of staging such pageants in Nigeria. An association like muric ,the Islamic association of Nigeria,or even the sultan of sokoto can take up the pageant so that Nigeria can have constant delegates to represent the country in the Muslim world stage. I'm not sure if Nigeria has ever had a representative since 2013.

 

I would advise the Muslim community in Nigeria to take up the responsibility of sponsoring such pageants and even open up more pageants so that our Muslim sisters can also show the world that hijab and Islam is beautiful.

And lastly, I am not a Muslim lady, I am an igbo girl and a pageant lover. My name is Munachi.I hope to contest for mbgn in the nearest future .i am only giving my advice to the Muslim ladies because I believe that every woman can contest in a pageant.