Islam and Radical feminists - what do they have in common?

My faovrite is the "Down with beauty!" line.

What Islam & feminism don't have in common:

Muslim groups say the pageant promotes sexual promiscuity and indecency.

Feminism's complaint against beauty pageants is quite different from this: the feminist complaint being that the objectification of women robs them of the right to self-determination or really of the capacity for same in a society where said objectification is the general rule. The Islamic complaint above is simply that women's bodies are indecent in and of themselves.

not to get all dry on yez but you asked :)

If you were to go the opposite extreme and have a Miss Ming competition, with the aim of finding the world's least attractive woman, would there be more or fewer protestors?

I thought this was somehow reviving the threads about the burkas being feminist and stuff

yes toraneko to thread!

Not to excuse the riots, but the article that sparked the riots was pretty flip.

looks like they just rescheduled the Miss World pageant for London.

A 'Pageant of Death' held Thursday in the northern Nigerian town of Kaduna sparked protests amongst rival Muslim groups. Mulsim lovers of beauty and sexual reproduction in the area objected when 100 people were stabbed, bludgeoned or burned to death in the name of the Prophet Muhammad.

As a protest, the Muslim Beauty and Sex League paraded naked up and down the town streets quoting peaceable sayings of the Prophet.

The stand-off began Wednesday when naked protestors entered an office of ThisDay newspaper in Kaduna after it published an article questioning their opposition to the Death Pageant.

"What would (the prophet) Muhammad think? In all honesty, he would probably have rolled up his sleeves and joined in the slaughter with relish," Isioma Daniel wrote in Saturday's article.

The newspaper ran a brief front-page apology on Monday, followed by a more lengthy retraction on Thursday, saying the offending passage had run by mistake.

Now they've moved it to london can we have a murderous riot in disgust.