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Miss USA’s Muslim Bikini Diplomacy

By making a Muslim woman their Miss USA, the judges may have done more to further American cultural diplomacy than all our government efforts combined. So instead of calling her win exploitation or affirmative action, why not rejoice in it?

Tunku Varadarajan
Tunku Varadarajan
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Rima Fakih, 24, of Dearborn, Michigan, reacts after she was crowned Miss USA 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada on May 16, 2010. (Darren Decker / Landov)
Tunku Varadarajan

Tunku Varadarajan

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