Move Over, Bess Myerson

An "Arab-American Muslim-Christian" has won a highly coveted infidel beauty crown:

LAS VEGAS — Lebanese immigrant Rima Fakih says it was a certain look from Donald Trump that tipped her off that she had won the 2010 Miss USA title.

The 24-year-old Miss Michigan beat out 50 other women to take the title Sunday night, despite nearly stumbling in her evening gown...

Fakih took top honors at the pageant at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip after strutting confidently in an orange and gold bikini, wearing a strapless white gown that resembled a wedding dress and saying health insurance should cover birth control pills.

Fakih, an Arab-American from Dearborn, Mich., told pageant organizers her family celebrates both Muslim and Christian faiths. She moved to the United States as a baby and was raised in New York, where she attended a Catholic school. Her family moved to Michigan in 2003.

Pageant officials said historical pageant records were not detailed enough to show whether Fakih was the first Arab American, Muslim or immigrant to win the Miss USA title...

I think we'll need to see her birth certificate for proof of her provenance--if, indeed, she's able to produce it and it hasn't gone astray some place. Just kidding. I wish Rima all the luck in the world. And here's hoping the Muslim side of the family--the side that's probably likelier to take her strutting about in a bikini like a brazen strumpet as an insult to the family's "honour"--does, too.