First the Hummus Dish, AND NOW THIS? That is becoming a Lebanese habit… Winning That is!!!
LONG LIVE LEBANON!!!

what a doll! she does appear genuine!

GUYS SHE IS ALREADY BEING BASHED ONLINE. I POSTED THE FOLLOWING ON THIS WEBSITE: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100515211226AAS4aH2

PLEASE GO IN AND EITHER VOTE FOR MY ANSWER OR IF YOU CANT VOTE THEN POST A SIMILAR COMMENT….. MY POST FOLLOWS:

First of all, Lebanon is half christan and half muslim. Lebanon has the best night clubs and is known to be more european than arab. I live in lebanon and muslim women in lebanon drink, wear a bikini like my wife and do whatever they want. BEFORE YOU POST AND MAKE YOUR SELF LOOK STUPID JUST GOOGLE BEIRUT, LEBANON voted the #1 paty place in 2009 and 2010 by the NEW YORK TIMES AND LOS ANGELES TIMES. Some people in America are so stupid and closed minded ( im 32 and spent 27 years in america) some just dont know anything and act like they know it all. JUST GOOGLE THINGS YOU DONT KNOW THEN ANSWER. OUR PRESIDENT IS CHRISTIAN AND PRIME MINISTER IS MUSLIM AND THE SPEAKER IS MUSLIM AND THEY WERE ELECTED SO IS OUR SENATE

Hey again lebanon is a winner We made it with Rima Fakih show the world that we come from a holy land called libnan.

She makes us so proud!!

3anjad i am so proud to have a gorgeous lebanese woman representing all over america. Lebanese girls are the most beautiful girls in the world and this is plain proof

GOD BLESS U RIMA,,,AND GOD BLESS LEBANON,,,U MAKE ME AND ALL THE PPL IN LEBANON VERY PROUD,,,U SHOW THE WORLD THE BEAUTIFUL FACE OFF LEBANON!!!!!!

wonderful people… wonderful country…this is Lebanon’s fact…:D

Congrats we r proud of u

Wow how proud you are that your wife drinks and that lebanon is a haven for nightclubs and alchahol.

The SO CALLED muslims behave as thier inferiority complexed
and seriously colonized minds to please who your masters?? the USA or the non muslims ??

So eager to fit in? to what LOL if your that keen to shed your identity and forget your real master ALLAH then dont be a munafiq join them truly by leaving Islam

My wife drinks how pathetic you sound and your too blind to see it
the stuff that goes on in your country its not a wonder that israel bombs you guys so often
may your mothers weep over you and you truly wake up and smell the coffee.

Guys I was out with her a few weeks again and let me say this… she is much prettier in person on the inside and out! What a doll! You make us all proud REMREM!!!!!

Iam ashamed of beeing Lebanese,while Israel is butcherin children in south lebanon and ghaza,the south lebanese Girl Rima Fakih is showing her body to american and jewish zionists..

yyyyyyyyyyyyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

What a way to go Rima we need more progressives girls like you to show the world what you can achieve instead of backwardness that some people preach to throw our covered muslim sisters into medieval mentality, before Khomeini arrived you see hardly Muslim girls covered in Lebanon,Syria Iran ,Egypt or Turkey only the uneducated, where we bad Muslims then and good ones now cause we are covered ,what a logic,anyway I hope you enlighten those people with what you achieved.

I don’t know what to say or write..

Words cannot express my feelings of pride, joy ,and gratitude..

Prima Rima..!! I could see it coming.. M a b r o u k ya
H E L W E H ..

Long Live Lebanon..!! Another feather in OUR hat. Stay tuned.

Good for her. As somebody from Michigan, I am proud of her.

Your comment is so true, well said.

So if a girl walks around half naked that means she is a “progressive girl”??? Your comment is laughable and downright pathetic.

GOD BLESS AMERICA!

For this reason everyone wants to immigrate to America: For the OPPORTUNITIES, the FREEDOM, the JUSTICE, the FAIR PLAY…because America is the land of the FREE and the land of the BRAVE!!!!

Any one wants to immigrate to Saudi Arabia, or Iran or even beautiful Turkey??? I don’t think so.

Go Rima Go! Show them how Free, beautiful (inside out) and successful you are and you’re going to be! God bless you and your open-minded family.

Way to go Rima… Im so proud, even more proud than b4 to be lebanese american.
Good for her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I hope she goes on to win Miss Universe… She will!!!!!!

WERE TALKING ABOUT BEAUTY HERE GO TALK ABOUT POLITICS SOMEWHERE ELSE

Soloman if a muslim woman want to wear the Hijab let her. if a woman wants to wear the bikini its not also anyone business. You say these women are inferior? how about you telling them in your country that they’re inferior and they can’t drive or go to school? or you’re to serve your man? what are you saying dude?

Soloman: u pathetic ignorant being! first of all learn to spell or perhaps crawl out from under that Neanderthal rock to use spell check–maybe then, we can take you seriously! I don’t know what sect of muslim you are, but surely your people are denying you right now. This is why the world hates muslims–due to idiots like you~ so sad…just keep that tradition going and we’ll see how far your brand of muslims go in this world You spread hate, violence and ignorance. Congratulations to you!!! Job well done. Bravo!

So my friend Yousef all naked people in Africa are sluts or Indians in Amazon forest and if it is offensive to god then why are we not born with furs so our bodies would be covers how pathetic that we are born naked by your logic.

So my friend Yousef all naked people in Africa are sluts or Indians in Amazon forest and if it is offensive to god then why are we not born with furs so our bodies would be covered, how pathetic that we are born naked by your logic.

BEAUTIFUL
GENUINE
INTELLIGENT
HUMUROUS
BRIGHT
ATTRACTIVE
OPEN MINDED
SECULAR
…LEBANESE
YOU MAKE US PROUD RIMA <3

israel bombed us because of our clubs?? LOL

Not only is your argument flaud, but IN NO TOWN did israel bomb in 2006 were there clubs, bars, pubs etc.

You’re just silly and ignorant, and I bet you’ve comitted HELL of a lot of sins in your life and you’re such a hyppocrite you wana portray yourself as a good being!?

BEIRUT: SIN CITY OF THE ME.. AND NO-ONE HONESTLY GIVES A CRAP ABOUT YOUR OPINION SOLOMON

Now please, go find a club you can join and speak this to, NOT TO US LEBANESE ON YALIBNAN

We’re very proud of you Rima. Will somebody get her pizza for God’s sake. Well done Rima and God bless you and your family too.

Anyone else find it incredibly ironic that all you flag totting Lebanese have come out of nowhere to proclaim your eternal pride that Miss USA is a lebanese american muslim girl when no lebanese muslim girl has ever won miss lebanon? What does that tell you about Lebanon? Clearly the women are equally beautiful across all sects, but the only image of beauty we as a nation have ever exported has been christian beauty… whatever the hell that means.

Congrats Rima, I am glad you left Lebanon and found your strength and path in life because you would not have made it in Lebanon… simply because of your muslim last name. All the best to you my dear within and beyond your breathtaking beauty.

Congratulations Rima!You,re a real beauty!I admire your tolerance and your spontaneity!Indeed a genuine beauty and a beauty of spirit and mind!

Israel did not bomb lebanon becasue of it’s night clubs!!!! HA HA,,, Don’t tell the trator and the ass kisser off Iran and the narrow minded blind idiot like Nasrallah and his dogs. No wonder he lived through it, he was drinking at home.
Just becasue our wives drink and go to the beach and work does not make us bad people who would burn in hell… So before antoher narrow minded idiot open his 10th century mouth, just wake up and smell the roses and try to catch up with times.
The biggest problem the Arabs has is not Israel, or the USA or Russia… Our biggest problem is from the enemy within, and from the ignorant nerrow minded creeps like you…
What I find amazing about your kind of idiotic theory, is that when you come to the USA, you live the American life and you mary or date American women and treat them with respect, but your redicule your own people…
What gives the Arabs in general a bad name is people fo your class…
Americans maybe don’t know about Lebanon, but it is for each any one of us to show by our actions that we are as good and as open for opportunities as then are…
So, why don’t you just to hell and burry your face n the sand until ALLAH calls your name.

That is the thing… we are NOT arabs! We are Phoenicians! We have to be proud of our 7000+ Phoenician roots! This is why we are different from the countries around us, including Europe!

To Stating the Obvious,

State your name to start, but to reply on your claim that only Christians become Miss Lebanon: you know why my friend because muslims in Lebanon are afraid of their own muslim society and of their fellow muslims who are going to criticize them (in the name of Islam) if their women are participating in the Miss Lebanon contest. My friend Islam prevents muslim women from participating in beauty contests, not Christians in Lebanon. When muslims get out of Lebanon to a Christian country like America, Canada, Australia…they breath FREEDOM and can do whatever they want without fear from other muslims. Rima’s story is a perfect example how humans blossom, flourish and advance when they have the opportunity. This is the ugly reality my muslim friend. We need more and more women like Rima Faqih, Haifa Wehbe, Raya el-Hassan, ect… who are practical, educated, open-minded, humans and enjoying all their feminine side. Not breeding machines covered from top to bottom to supposedly “please” ALLAH. As I said in my previous postings, a piece of cloth does not make you closer or farther from God, it is your actions and intentions with others that does.

Also let me remind you that in Islam music is Haram, dancing is haram, singing is haram especially for women.

A kind request for every individual to keep their beliefs between themselves and their God. I might walk naked but not sin, and I might wear layers and sin. Everyone knows their deeds and sins. Through these comments, we are giving a bad image of Lebanon, of not respecting each other, of not minding our own business. And before talking about external bombing, let’s not bomb each others’ minds.

Congratulations Rima, you have aimed at something and well succeeded. Good luck in your journey!

So according to your argument, we should all walk around naked…….

One is ashamed of what he does not of what someone else does.
Some girl that doesn’t know you exist shows her body and now you are ashamed? good luck with your life then, it ain’t gonna be easy.

3isha ba3d aktar chouay

loool pizza
nice one

Please stop talking.
thank you.

No Youssef! Rafik is saying ONLY YOU should walk around naked… LOL

Stating the obvious,
Take your comment and shove it up your obvious ass.
DNA studies proved that we are ONE people, different religions like ANY other nation Except for you… and people like you… you belong in Mars.

Soloman. You have to try to grow up. Try also to learn that in this World there are other points of view to yours so you must not impose. If you want to live your own life one way, why should others live their lives the same as yours. Clearly you chose a closed life in this 21st Century. Continue your style of life but do not impose yours on others. Hisham

Solomon. Do not feel a thing when you say that is why the Israelis bomb you. How inhuman that comment is and non Islamic. You fail your own religious inclinations.Pathatic. Hisham

mar7ba
wowwww
she win
yes of course all arabic woman is beautifull sureeeee and thats the abroveeeeeeeee
yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
shi bejanen
salammm

Lebanese are not Arabs, check the DNA newest research on national geography the Phoenician quest, Lebanese are Phoenicians an ancient people of the east coast of the meditterenean sea.
Stop this American Anti-Lebanese policy by calling them Arab American.
This what the Arabs likes to take credit from all the time with their brothers the Jews and they are most Anti-Lebanese.

You see the one thing is this is about Rima, she is Miss America not Miss Lebanon. To me it doesn’t advance or regress me as a Lebanese person. So Congratulations to her. I don’t take pride or think that Lebanon is better now beacuase person from Lebanese descent can show her beautiful body infront of others.

She has the right to do it and that’s good for her.

I just find it interesting how you all find it a weakness for a women to make her own decision in “Choosing” to veil her self(and i don’t mean Ninja!that is not what we are guided to do) I mean “Choosing” to cover her self modestly and be conservative with her private parts.. they are called “Private,” and its her right to treat them that way if she wants to. Mazboot?

How is that a weakness.. if she wants people to judge her by her actions on how she deals with them, and what she says and what she can accomplish for individual and intellectual aspects as apposed to materialistic ones? I don’t see why this is a weakness to you and you can label Muslim women who choose to dress modestly and veil themselves as inferior and stupid.. these claims are utter ignorance. Explain how showing your boobs and getting drunk is a positive?

Again if this is the girls choice then that is her right.. but dont take the right or belittle the right of the women who chooses to be conservative and want to share her inner beauty as apposed to her physical.

Here in the US i have met soo many Muslim women who truly practice Islam. They “Choose” to wear the veil, they are outspoken, intellectual, have careers, are the best in their fields of education and work, attend the best schools and make up the best communities of doctors, lawyers, engineers, graphic deisgners, bloggers, journalists, social workers,..etc.. and are respected and loved by non-muslims and Muslims. Nothing stops them from being the person they want to be. So Please dont disrespect their choices just becuase it makes you happy to see a naked person infront of you.

I am for each persons right to choose how they want to live and be. This is Rima’s Prerogative, and i am glad she practiced it and achieved what she wants. But don’t use this as a platform to bash people who have different ambitions, beliefs and standards of what makes them a better person.

Peace

But it is common sense to show something beautiful if you posses it,if you buy an expensive car would you hide it,if you build a beautiful home would you not invite anybody and share the the beauty ,if you buy a very nice dress would you wear it inside the house only ,in the old days people used to wash their horses and ride them with a pride if it is a race winner would you enter it into a horse race why yes keep it always in the stable, why Taj-Mahal was build in order to prevent tourist from seeing it, I can go on and on so it is only common sense to show off.In preIslamic times bedouins covered things including pretty wives and valuables so people would not steal them but this is 21st Century.

Hannibaal
the DNA evidence shows unequivocally that Lebanon is an amalgam of people, and history is written in our DNA. Phoenicians are j2 as well as people of the South Arabian peninsula. Let’s not forget the j1 Arabs who ruled Lebanon for more than 2 centuries did leave their mark as well. You will find J1, J2, and R1b1b2 haplotypes in all sects spread in a 20% ratio. J2s are mostly on the maritime cities. However, in the North, Shiites and Maronites are mixed and many of them are R1b1b2. I myself tested my Y chromosome and turned out to be of European descent (R1b1b2). That haplotype could have come from the Romans (0-300AD), Byzantium (400-800AD), Crusaders (1100 – 1200AD) or even Ottoman (1500-1900AD). I myself think based on Church records that my ancestors came to Lebanon from Anatolia with the first wave of Maronites after their persecution by the Jacobites around the 8th century. That being said, I am definitely not a Phoenician and definitely NOT an Arab. I am Lebanese. I know the names of my grandfathers and can recite them all the way to 10 generations. That puts my family back into Lebanon almost 800 years back. Not being Arab, nor a Phoenician, am I not Lebanese? My grandfather’s signature is on the first draft of the Lebanese constitution post WWII. Is he not Lebanese if he is not Arab nor Phoenician?
We are spanning a spectrum of a beautiful history, from the early settlers of Lebanon, Phoenicians Canaanites to Persians, Hellenistic Greeks, Romans, Armenians, Byzantines, Arabs, Crusades, Mamluks, and Turk Ottomans. To define Lebanon by a short period of its history is too simplistic and certainly denies our rich history.

Its common for some people to want to show off and others who want to be humble. There are some who see themselves gaining from the materialistic and physical aspects and others who believe the intellectual and spiritual are what will better them. And there are some who find a common point between the two. All I am saying is just cause there is a point of view it doesn’t mean it gives the right to bash the other point of view.

You are comparing materialistic things that anyone with money can buy or own. The body is not that, it is something sacred and something to respect and something that is given to you not chosen. Some people honor it in ways other in other ways. Again this is my point. Respect each others decision of way of life.

Peace

I am a Shia Muslim women who wears niqab because I WANT to. I pray Allah SWT will judge her on Judgement Day for her sins. Inshallah only the true Muslims will speak for Islam and not the immodest women who wish to show off their skin to insert evil desire within men. She does not speak for Shia Islam or Islam and she should have been only a good Muslim.

I am a Shia Muslim woman who loves Islam because it gives me so many rights as a woman. I wear niqab because I want to and not because someone forces me to. I am in university right now and I am not married. My father does not overtake my life. I submit myself to Allah Most High and not any man, unlike this Miss USA who does not care about herself.

Dear sister God hates extremism and loves moderation. You have just proved that you and Rima complement each other.

In my opinion you are both the extremes that exist to justify each others existence.

Allah yihdeena Jami3an.

Peace

Miss USA does care about herself!She,s beautiful and God loves beauty!

wow, you officially win for stupidest comment ever

i dont think she will, shes not that great looking

Of course Maria
You should not find her pretty… UNLESS…

the thing is mustafa that most women that are veiled are probably forced to wear it either when theyre young or when they get married. i bet if you ask veiled women now wether they would prefer without it most of them would say yes. also when they say drink and wearing bikinis, this does not mean taking it overboard by getting drunk everyday and walking naked; we are in the 21st century drinking and bikinis even for Muslims are normal.

who cares where shes from she won the title miss usa and well deserved! she is beautiful and this is not a political forum for religous arguments! cant you people just be happy for her and leave ethnicity out of it!