A Danish TV station said it has chosen an Iraqi-born woman as winner of the Miss Headscarf 2008 competition.
Judges picked 18-year-old Huda Falah from photographs of 46 contestants in an Internet-based pageant. The pageant was organized by public broadcaster DR1’s teenage show. One of the judges said Falah was chosen because the light blue Islamic headscarf was qa fantastic and shocking color.”
Denmark has been subject to a lot of debate related to Islam. Controversial comics of the Prophet Muhammad were published in Danish newspapers in 2006. The comics led to violent protests.
Earlier this month there was a bombing outside the Danish Embassy in Pakistan. The terrorist group al-Qaeda said they carried out the bombing because the comics were reprinted earlier this year.
Falah, who is studying to become a social worker, moved to Denmark with her family in 1997. She started wearing a headscarf at age nine.
She said she hopes the contest will help remove barriers between young Muslims and Danes. (STAFF WRITER, WITH AP)
丹麥一家電視台表示，一位在伊拉克出生的女子獲選該台舉辦的二ＯＯ八頭巾小姐比賽冠軍。
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目前就讀社工科系的法拉一九九七年舉家搬遷到丹麥，她從九歲起就開始頭戴頭巾。
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