Miss Muslimah World sebagai `Respon Islam` terhadap Miss World
Miss Muslimah World an `Islamic Response` to Miss World
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
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SEORANG wanita Nigeria dinobatkan sebagai Putri Muslimah Dunia (Muslim Miss World) di final kontes kecantikan yang diselenggarakan oleh kelompok wanita muslimah untuk merespon kontes kecantikan Miss World berlangsung di Indonesia.
Miss Nigeria, Obabiyi Aishah Ajibola, 21, memenangkan kontes Muslim Miss World yang diselenggarakan oleh World Muslimah Foundation, sebuah kelompok wanita muslim, dan diselenggarakan di ibukota Indonesia, Jakarta sebagai protes kepada kontes kecantikan dunia yang diadakan di Bali bulan ini.
Kegiatan tahunan wanita muslim - kini menginjak tahun ketiga - yang diadakan khusus untuk wanita Muslim, yang dinilai tidak hanya penampilan mereka (dalam busana Islam), tetapi juga tentang keimanan, pengetahuan agama mereka dan pemahaman Alquran.
Lebih dari 500 wanita Muslim mendaftar kontes secara online, dan juri memilih 20 finalis. Peserta diminta untuk berbicara tentang pandangan mereka terhadap Islam untuk agama dan apa tujuannya mengenakan busana muslim.
Ketika Miss Nigeria diumumkan sebagai pemenang - dan memenangkan tiket naik haji ke Mekkah - ia mensyukuri kemenangannya dengan membaca surat Al-Fatihah.
Sementara di Bali, kontes kecantikan dunia tunduk pada protes umat Islam di negara berpenduduk Muslim terbesar di dunia, meskipun penyelenggara mengalah dan setuju untuk membatalkan babak kontes bikini, seperti dilansir Mail Online.
Selain itu, final - diadakan pada 28 September - seharusnya berlangsung di Jakarta, tetapi akhirnya disepakati bahwa seluruh kontes akan berlangsung di Bali, pulau yang dihuni mayoritas penganut Hindu, yang dikawal polisi bersenjata untuk menjaga segala kemungkinan dari ancaman para penentang kontes Miss World.
A NIGERIAN woman has been crowned Muslim Miss World in the final of a beauty pageant organised by a women´s group in direct response to the mainstream Miss World competition taking place in Indonesia.
Miss Nigeria, Obabiyi Aishah Ajibola, 21, won the Miss Muslimah World contest which was organised by the World Muslimah Foundation, a Muslim women´s group, and held in Indonesia´s capital city of Jakarta as a protest to the traditional contest being held in Bali this month.
The annual Muslim event - now in its third year - is held exclusively for Muslim women, who are assessed not only their appearance (in Islamic dress) but also their piety, religious knowledge and understanding of the Koran.
More than 500 Muslim women entered the contest online, with 20 finalists chosen by judges. Entrants were asked to talk people through their path to the religion and what wearing a headscarf meant to them.
When Miss Nigeria was announced the winner - and won a trip to Mecca - she recited a verse from the Koran.
Meanwhile in Bali, the mainstream pageant was subject to protests by hard-line Muslims within the world´s most populous Muslim country, even though organisers relented and agreed to cancel the bikini round.
Moreover, its final - held on 28 September - was due to take place in Jakarta, but it has now been agreed that the whole pageant will take place in Bali, a Hindu-majority island, where armed police are on high alert following warnings that the contest could be a target for terror attacks.
