إندونيسيا: ملكة جمال الأخلاق الإسلامية ردا على ملكة جمال العالم

خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

أعلنت العديد من الجماعات الإسلامية أنهم بصدد تنظيم مسابقة لملكة جمال الأخلاق الإسلامية، التي تأتي ردًّا على مسابقات ملكات الجمال التقليدية التي تنطوي على مخالفات شرعية، والتي تستضيفها "إندونيسيا"، بالرغم من المعارضات الإسلامية الشديدة والمظاهرات المنددة باستضافة البلد الإسلامي لنحو هذه المسابقات الماجنة.

وقد أشار الإسلاميون إلى أن هذه المسابقة تأتي لتقديم نموذجًا إيجابيًّا للمرأة المسلمة القدوة، التي تقدم أسوة لتحقيق التوازن في العالم الحديث المعاصر.

وقد تم اختيار 20 مسلمة من بين 500 مشاركة، اختُبرن في تلاوة القرآن، وقصص التزامهن بتعاليم الإسلام وارتداء الحجاب عبر الإنترنت، ليتنافسن الأسبوع القادم - بمشيئة الله - وهذا بغرض إرشاد المسلمات الشابات إلى أنه يمكن أن تكون المرأة المسلمة جميلة دون أن تبرز مفاتنها؛ طبقًا لتصريحات ممثلي المسابقة؛ المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Muslimah World’ Vs ‘Miss World’

Amid increasing opposition to the Miss World beauty pageant, Indonesian Islamic groups are planning to host a rival pageant for pious Muslim women who can offer a positive role model for young girls.

"Muslimah World is a beauty pageant, but the requirements are very different from Miss World," Eka Shanti, founder of “Islam's answer to Miss World" pageant, told Agence France Presse (AFP) on Saturday, September 14.

“You have to be pious, be a positive role model and show how you balance a life of spirituality in today's modernized world.”

Anger has been growing at the decision to stage the Miss World beauty pageant in the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation.

Offering an alternative to Muslim women, the Muslimah World was planned exclusively for Muslim women as a new challenge to Indonesia’s Miss World.

Contesting next Wednesday, the 20 Muslimah World finalists were chosen from more than 500, who took part in online rounds, reciting Qur’an and telling stories of how they came to wear the Islamic headscarf, a requirement for the pageant.

The finalists, from Iran, Malaysia, Brunei, Bangladesh, Nigeria and Indonesia, will parade Islamic fashions.

According to organizers, the parade in hijab was planned to show young Muslim women they do not need to show their "immodest" parts to be beautiful.

The contest is not the first in Indonesia.

In 2011, a beauty pageant for hijab-clad Muslim women who can recite the holy Qur’an in Arabic and participate in the welfare of their society was held in West Jakarta to choose Muslims’ ‘Miss Universe’.

Islam’s Queen

Posing a new challenge to Miss World, organizers said they did not support calls to cancel the contest, acknowledging that Indonesia was a diverse country with many faiths.

"We don't just want to shout 'no' to Miss World. We'd rather show our children they have choices," Shanti said.

“Do you want to be like the women in Miss World? Or like those in Muslimah World?”

The 63rd edition of the Miss World pageant, which is due to take place on 28 September in Indonesia, has come under the ire of protesters in the Muslim majority country.

The organizers have already agreed to axe the famed bikini round from this year's contests, with participants instead set to wear more conservative sarongs, but the move has failed to appease protesters.

Last month, the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) voiced support to scholars opposing the government’s decision to host the Miss World beauty pageant.

After repeated protests, government officials announced last week that the Miss World final would be moved from the outskirts of the capital Jakarta to the resort island of Bali.

The organizers, however, were not satisfied with the last minute change.

Despite the decision, protestors from the Islamic group Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia demonstrated in the central Java city of Yogyakarta Saturday, its spokeswoman saying "Miss World is not welcome in Indonesia at all".

The decision to move the final round was the latest victory for Islamic fringe groups, who are wielding increasing power and have succeeded in getting several events they deem un-Islamic changed or cancelled in recent years.