<font color=skyblue>I read that Ms. France will be boycotting the Ms. Universe Pageant because it is being held in a country where a woman will be sentenced to death by Stoning...because she conceived a baby 5 months after her divorce to her husband. The govt. is allowing her to nurse the baby, and in 2004, she will be put to death. Ms. France, repulsed by this news, said that "We are living in the 21st century..." and she thought this punishment was barbaric and wrong. She has called for other ladies participating in the pageant to follow her example.

My thoughts on this are obvious from my thread title. If Ms. France is the only one not there...I think she should be the only candidate worthy of winning...as the boycott is the right thing to do in my opinion. Or move it to another country, at least. Not held in such an evil and stupid place.</font>

Hehe, well that is the best answer to a win! :D

Unfortunately it seems Sweden will send someone down there to strut around..

Hmm, that indeed is an awful situation. What barbaric country is that, Larry?

A controversial topic to say the least.
Well it would definately appear that Ms. France at least has some degree of personality to her and isn't just a pretty face. As to whether she has the right to spit in the face of thousands of years of tradition is another thing entirely (and in a sentence: Yes I think she does have the right [img]smile.gif[/img] ). Personally I agree with her wholeheartedly, but there will be many others who won't.

Er.. Hierophant..

What was your meaning with that post?
Spit in the face of tradition??

What frikkin tradition? Stoning pregnant women??
A neo-muslim country with sharia control is not tradition..

Meaning that execution of women for engaging in extra-marital sex has been present within the region for thousands of years, on and off as various movements and tribes exchange power. I wasn't justifying at all, I think it's disgusting, but it has always been there in some shape or form.

It is in Nigeria (at least they have had two such cases)

Miss France is the 5th or 6th woman to withdraw.


Miss World Nigeria boycott spreads

Two more contestants in the Miss World contest to be held in Nigeria in November have announced they are pulling out in protest at a Sharia death sentence passed on a woman convicted of adultery.

Miss France and Miss Belgium have joined a growing list of the world's beauty queens who have said they will not be going to Nigeria.

Amina Lawal, 30, is due to be stoned to death after giving birth outside marriage. In August, her appeal was rejected by a Sharia court.

The contest will be held in Nigeria this year after Nigerian Agbani Darego became the first black African woman to be crowned Miss World in 2001.

It is also under threat from militant Islamic groups in Nigeria, which call it a "parade of nudity" bound to promote promiscuity and HIV/Aids.

"The Miss France committee is joining the protests against Nigeria, which condemns women to death for adultery. These sentences are barbaric and unacceptable," said Genevieve de Fontenay, head of the Miss France committee.

"I have decided not to take part if Amina Lawal is not freed," Miss Belgium Ann van Elsen told Le Soir newspaper.

Contestants from Denmark, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Norway and Togo have already announced that they will not go to Nigeria unless the death sentence on Ms Lawal is dropped.

However Miss Sweden, Sophia Hedmark, will be using the platform in Nigeria to protest against the harsh Sharia punishments.

''There is nothing to be gained by not going to Nigeria... but I plan to protest against the ruling in interviews with journalists," she said

So has slavey - that doesn't mean that it should be tolerated either

P.S. I glad that Miss Denmark are among those that have chosen to boykott the event.

It's still wrong I know but I should point out that she isn't pregnant.