Rima Fakih is first Muslim winner of Miss USA

Rima Fakih being crowned Miss USA.  
Photograph: Steve Marcus/Reuters

A new Miss USA was crowned last night, the first American Muslim woman believed to have held the title in a pageant of beauty that has caused some divided loyalties in the Islamic community.

Rima Fakih, 24, took the prize ahead of 50 other finalists at the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas.

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Divided loyalties in the Islamic community?

Just think of the consternation this is causing among the wingnuts!

(Lucky for her the pageant wasn't held in Arizona.)

What's in the news today?
If you read meme-orandum, the only thing of importance is that a Muslim woman beat out a white girl to win Miss USA.
Think Progress:

In winning the title, [Miss Michigan contestant Rima] Fakih defeated first runner-up Miss Oklahoma Morgan Elizabeth Woolard, who garnered headlines when she responded to a judge’s question about immigration policy by saying that she was" perfectly fine" with Arizona’s radical racist (and illegal) immigration law.
Just as they erupted over that loser Carrie Prejean's loss in the Miss USA contest 2009, the wingnuts are again alleging a liberal bias against Woolard.

But many more wingnuts are enraged over Fakih’s crowning:

– Lunatic Debbie Schlussel blamed Fakih’s win on a supposed “politically correct, Islamo-pandering climate” in America and labeled her a “Lebanese Muslim Hezbollah supporter with relatives who are top terrorists.” [5/16/10]

– Batshit crazy Michelle Malkin ranted that “Fakih’s cheerleaders are too busy tooting the identity politics horn to care what comes out of her mouth” and that “the Miss USA pageant didn’t want to risk the wrath of the open-borders mob.” [5/16/10]

– That idiot Daniel Pipes, who was briefly appointed by the shrub to the U.S. Institute of Peace, opined that “this surprising frequency of Muslims winning beauty pageants makes me suspect an odd form of affirmative action.” [5/16/10]

– The shrew Gretchen Carlson complained that Woolard’s “informed opinion” may have cost her the crown, and said that Fakih may have won because we live in a “PC society.” [5/17/10]

 Oh, My, yes can see why the wingnuts are having a problem with her - she's gorgeous