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Thursday, October 20, 2005
College beauty queen keeps with
tradition: A tiara over her hajib
THUMBS UP"
Roger Ebert, nai & roeper
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ROANOKE, Va.-Excited
and jittery, Anisah Rasheed of
Roanoke pondered a fashion
dilemma that few beauty
queens have faced before;
Matching her coronation
gown with her hajib, a head
scarf worn by Muslim
women.
Rasheed, 20, was crowned
Miss A&T for 2005-06 on
Thursday night in a
sparkling Eshtail gown —
with a tiara glittering over
her golden hajib — during
homecoming ceremonies at
North Carolina A&T State
University
University officials say
Rasheed is the first Muslim
selected as campus queen by
the 11,000-student school.
She’ll be featured, along with
others fix)m black colleges and
universities, in an upcoming
issue of Ebony magazine.
Rasheed was elected at a
forum in April, competing
against eight women in the
categories of talent, formal-
wear, speech and debate. She
said no one hasmade an issue
of her faith or coveiing her
body with traditional garb.
“Once you leani to accept
yourself, it washes away
everyone’s opinions about you
and lets you do what you will
in life,” she said. ‘Tm ^ad Tm
a role model for Muslims, but
it is for everyone who faces
challenges, It is about being
confident.”
Worldwide, Ihere are just a
handfiil of Muslim women
who’ve won beauty pageants.
Some conservative Muslims
say the contests defy Islam’s
edict requiring public mod
esty in women. Other Mus
lims fiown on men or women
flaunting their sexuality and
say exposing the body is
degrading. Still others oppose
pageants on feminist
grounds, considering the con
tests as throwbacks that
objectify women.
In September, a Muslim
leader in Liverpcx)!, England,
ui^ed an Iraqi woman to
withdraw fix)m the Miss Eng
land competition. In the past
few years, there has been fiic-
tion over Muslim contestants
in beauty pageants in Pak
istan, Canada and elsewhere.
In 2002, Nigerian crowds riot
ed after an English newspa
per made a disparaging
I'emark about Islam’s prophet
Catholic integrated church
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nys will,’” Donahue said
Evans, 70, is understanding
about the reluctance of some
of the parishioners to accept
her and other members of St.
Anthony’s, but she believes
some of the resistance was to
change in geno'al, not specif
ically to integration.
‘When I go to church on
Easter or Christmas and
someone is sitting in my seat,
r want to say Now, this is
where I sit every week,”” she
said. "I think that was how
some of them felt.”
Some parishioners opened
their hearts to the black fam
ilies, welcoming them to their
new home. Some left. Others
begrudgingly stayed.
“They stayed because they
couldn’t afford to move out
east, but some of them with
held money fix)m collection,”
Donahue said. "Monsignor
just kept right on, as if he did
n’t notice all this. But you
know he did, and you know it
made it tough for him.”
Although changing church
es — and going into an all-
white church — was tough for
the families coming fiom St.
Anthony’s, there were many
gocxl people coming together
to make it work.
Ethel Dukes, 74, who was
one of the first children to be
baptized at the church and
has attended her entire life,
never considered leaving.
“As far as I was concerned.
I’d just as soon go to diurch
with black people as with
white people,” she said.
Leppert insisted that all
church groups be integrated,
including the women’s group
that had been meeting dur
ing the week.
Thrive for
women
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The Anointed Voices will
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Memcaial AME Zion Church
in Kannapolis. The church is
located at 400 Huron St. For
information, call (704) 932-
2863.
‘WeU, aU the black women
were working then,” Donahue
said. “And to tell the truth, I
was kind of glad I was, so I
wouldn’t have to go. But
when Monsignor found out it
was on a weekday morning,
he changed it to Saturday so
we could come.”
The women alternated
homes for their meetings,
and soon it was Donahue’s
turn to be the hostess.
She was a little nervous,
but then Hough called and
offered help.
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tition.
But Leila Ahmed, a Har
vard University professor of
women’s studies in religion,
said she doesn’t see anything
controversial.
“On the face of it, I don’t
know why her faith should
interfere with her. There is
nothing she is doing that is
degrading. Why do women
who wear the hqib also put
on makeup and tight jeans?”
she said. ‘Tt is true that Mus
lim requires modesty and you
shouldn’t be flaunting your
self se2aially But isn’t that
also true for people who are of
(Christian and Jewish faiths?”
Rasheed is at peace with her
decision. Occasionally,
Rasheed said she felt like “an
outcast” as a Muslim and at
times didn’t wear her h^ib
because of “peer pressure” at
her junior and senior hi^
schools.
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