21 year old University of Lagos student Obabiyi Aisha Ajibola, beat 19 other beauty hopefuls to emerge Muslimah Queen 2013. Ajibola won the exclusive beauty pageant for Muslim women which took place today Wednesday September 18th in Jakarta, Indonesia. She received 25 million rupiah ($2,200) and trips to Mecca and India as prizes.
The contestants were all required to wear headscarves, covered from head to foot. They were judged on their looks, how well they recited Koranic verses and their views on Islam in the modern world, in front of an audience of mainly religious scholars and devout Muslims
This pageant was actually staged as a retort to the Miss World pageant holding in the same country. The organizers said they wanted to create an awareness within the muslim female community that there is a better form of beauty than the one being portrayed by the Miss World. They said the pageant is Islam's answer to the glamorous Miss World Pageant. Congrats to her!
Have a look at the crowning moments of Miss World Muslimah 2013:
Obabiyi Aishah Ajibola of Nigeria is crowned the World Muslimah 2013 in Jakarta, Indonesia, on 18 September. (Photo: WorldMuslimahFoundation/Facebook)
Obabiyi Aishah Ajibola is the first contestant from Nigeria to win the pageant, which started in 2011. (Photo: WorldMuslimahFoundation/Facebook)
About 20 Muslim women from around the world took part in the pageant in Indonesia, the host countru of upcoming Miss World 2013 pageant that has drawn huge criticism from the country's hardliner Muslims. (Photo: WorldMuslimahFoundation/Facebook)
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