What do Rima Fakih and Jumana Albahri have in common? The former is Miss USA, and the latter is a university student. They are both victims of Likudist terror and the supporters of Israel, who defend a neo-Nazi terrorist state, the only one of its kind since Hitler and the Third Reich, and condemn victims from inside this state. Rima has become famous; she is originally Lebanese, and emigrated to the United States with her family when she was a child. She settled in Dearborn, Michigan, where there is a huge Lebanese community, most of whose members are Shiites. She won the Miss Michigan title and then the Miss USA title, which caused the enemies of Islam to have a nervous breakdown, after their permanent moral breakdown. They had been promoting Muslim women as oppressed, behind the hijab, the niqab, the burka or the chador. They were surprised by a very beautiful woman in a tiny bikini. They were more surprised when they discovered she pole danced. The extremist Likudnik Daniel Pipes, one of the vilest neoconservatives, did not see Rima as a rebel against tradition; he considered her victory a case of “affirmative action” in reverse. Pipes considered Rima's victory an example of this type of policy, while remaining blind to her looks and her smarts. Debbie Schlussel was even nastier than Pipes. She decided that the girl from the village of Srifa belonged to a family with members in the Hizbullah leadership, and that eight others of them had been killed in Hizbullah confrontations with Israel. She described Dearborn as Dearbornistan, and reminded her readers of the Marine Barracks bombing in Lebanon [in 1983]. She talked about joint operations between al-Qaida and Hizbullah, entering the realm of the impossible, and with all of the vileness that this blond woman possesses (of course, she is not a natural blond, and everything about her is false). The right-wing websites continued the campaign, deciding that Rima would be killed because of Islamic law; the letters from readers repeated similar ideas, along with bets on when she would be killed. Before Rima, we were talking about the beauty of Haifa Wehbe, who is also Shiite. Before them, there was Georgina Rizk, who was Miss Universe in 1971, and she is still beautiful. We all know that the most daring Lebanese female writers are Shiites, and some of them are pioneers, and trailblazers for others. From Rima we move to Jumana, the student at the University of California. On May 21, I wrote in this column about her clash with the vile Likudnik David Horowitz, who runs an extremist pro-Israeli website. This took place during Israeli Apartheid Week, which was organized by the campus' Muslim Students Association. I wrote about this, and then took a trip. When I returned two days ago, I found a lot of news about Likudniks, who attacked the Muslim girl, who this time was wearing the hijab. She was wearing a Palestinian kuffiyeh and responding to the Israeli terror-supporter, in the fashion of black, Goebbels-like propaganda. A female university student confronts a harsh campaign by supporters of Israel, i.e. supporters of neo-Naziism, killing and destruction. They want people to condemn Jumana, claiming that she has called for a Holocaust because she responded to a question by Horowitz, full of anger at his attack on the Lebanese and Palestinian resistance. On her websites, her name has become “genocide girl” and they claim that she is “burning” for a new Holocaust. Jumana responded in a long statement in which she explains what happened during her confrontation with David Horowitz Goebbels, who does not hesitate to attack prominent Jewish thinkers who are advocates of peace, such as Norman Finklestein. Jumana denied belonging to any armed group and said that on 19 April of this year she took part in an activity against racism, genocide and the Holocaust, and volunteered to speak about the topic. I have another response: I support Hamas and Hizbullah against Israeli terror and consider them national liberation movements, confronting neo-Nazis who kill women and children. I support Jumana Imad Albahri against the terror being used against her by supporters of Israel. All they are doing is condemning themselves and exposing their terrorist, extremist thinking. If not for those extremists, who feed extremism on both sides, the Palestinians and Israel would have reached an agreement on a peaceful solution years ago, and saved the blood of innocent people. Rima is a beauty queen, and Jumana is a student. Both are victims of extremism by the pro-Israeli enemies of humanity. I hope the latter die of jealousy, and that the two Muslim girls have happy lives. [email protected]
