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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
Published
May 18 2010
6:40PM EDT
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)
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