Public broadcaster to crown ‘Miss Headscarf’
http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4141 took another bizzare turn Monday when public broadcaster DR announced it would be sponsoring a ‘Miss Headscarf’ contest for women and teens over the age of 15.
DR’s youth club, ‘http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=1247‘ who ‘often make up a very fashion-conscious and style-confident part of the Danish street scene’. The competition is, however, also open to non-Muslim females.
The youth club said it is seeking to hear from the ‘unheard’ members of the headscarf debate – the women themselves.
‘We would like to contact all the http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3139 women who are seldom heard in the debate but are often just as preoccupied with fashion and beauty as other women,’ Bjarke Ahlstrand, editor-in-chief of DR’s youth division, told Nyhedsavisen newspaper.Participants are urged to send in pictures of themselves wrapped in the appropriate headwear via email or mobile phone to DR. The photos will be judged by fashion expert Uffe Buchardt with first prize being an iPod and a specially-designed headscarf from top fashion house Mads Nørgaard.
In addition, the top five contestants receive a year’s subscription to ‘Muslim Girl’ magazine.
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