{"id":281568,"date":"2016-11-29T02:34:56","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T01:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/muslim-teen-wears-hijab-burkini-while-competing-in-miss-minnesota-usa\/"},"modified":"2016-11-29T02:34:56","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T01:34:56","slug":"muslim-teen-wears-hijab-burkini-while-competing-in-miss-minnesota-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/muslim-teen-wears-hijab-burkini-while-competing-in-miss-minnesota-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslim Teen Wears Hijab, Burkini While Competing In Miss Minnesota USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Beauty pageants are generally known for praising a conventional model of beauty, but a contestant in this weekend\u2019s Miss Minnesota\u00a0USA\u00a0is taking her own path by wearing traditional Muslim clothing.<\/p>\n<p>Halima Aden, a Somali-American teen, wore a hijab and a burkini while participating in the Miss Minnesota USA pageant. Aden, 19, is the first fully-covered Muslim contestant in the competition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis pageant is so much more than just beauty. Their whole message is being confidently beautiful, so I didn\u2019t think that I should allow my hijab to get into the way of me participating,\u201d Aden said in an interview with <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mprnews.org\/story\/2016\/11\/23\/muslim-teen-hopes-to-win-miss-minnesota-pageant-in-hijab-burkini\" target=\"_blank\">MPR News<\/a><\/em>. \u201cThis is a great platform to show the world who I am \u2026 just because I\u2019ve never seen a woman wearing a burkini (in a pageant) it doesn\u2019t mean that I don\u2019t have to be the first.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p>Halima Aden starts off Miss Minnesota USA&#8217;s swimsuit segment to big cheers from the crowd. Announcer: &#8220;She&#8217;s making history tonight.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OUvbHv6xct\">pic.twitter.com\/OUvbHv6xct<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Liz Sawyer (@ByLizSawyer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ByLizSawyer\/status\/802706552696274944\">November 27, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Aden was born in a refugee camp in Kenya, and moved to Minnesota as a child. Islamophobia has been a prominent theme with the presidential campaign of Donald Trump and the spike in hate crimes after his election, but Aden said she wasn\u2019t focused on those things when she entered the pageant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I wanted to do was to just give people a different perspective,\u201d Aden said. \u201cWe just needed one more thing to unify us. This is a small act, but I feel like&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/muslim-teen-wears-hijab-burkini-while-competing-in-miss-minnesota-usa\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beauty pageants are generally known for praising a conventional model of beauty, but a contestant in this weekend\u2019s Miss Minnesota\u00a0USA\u00a0is taking her own path by wearing traditional Muslim clothing. Halima Aden, a Somali-American teen, wore a hijab and a burkini while participating in the Miss Minnesota USA pageant. Aden, 19, is the first fully-covered Muslim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-281568","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}