Family of Iraqi beauty queen 'forced to flee country after she took a selfie with Miss Israel'

The family of an Iraqi beauty queen has reportedly been forced to flee the country in the face of death threats after the young model posed for a selfie with her counterpart from Israel.

Sarah Idan, Miss Iraq, and Adar Gandelsman, Miss Israel, took the picture together at a beauty pageant in Las Vegas on November 14.  "Peace and Love from Miss Iraq and Miss Israel,” she wrote.

The selfie was widely shared in Iraq and throughout the Arab world, where anti-Israel feelings run high.

Ms Gandelsman said she had stayed in touch with Ms Idan and learned that the young Iraqi and her family had fled their country in the face of the backlash, as well as criticism over a picture of her in a bikini.

"The two of those things together caused a mess for her back home where people made threats against her and her family that if she didn’t return home and take down the photos, they would remove her [Miss Iraq] title, that they would kill her,” Ms Gandelsman told Israel’s Hadashot News.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/12/15/family-iraqi-beauty-queen-forced-flee-country-took-selfie-miss/

Which shows the extent of Jew hared in the Arab world.

When is the world going to stand up to this hate, as is nothing more than the successors to Nazism

Do you know what really disappoints me about the left?

If this woman was being hated for being a Muslim if and hounded by western people and her family had to flee the UK. The left would be all over this, rightly shouting  outrage and such xenophobia.

When it comes down to people seeing past hate, as this Iraqi woman has done and that her family has to flee. Simple because she has made friends with an Israeli Jew. The silence from the left is deafening.

This is the sad reality we face today. Those on the left will rightly defend Muslims wrongly targeted with hate, but are silent when a Muslim family recieves death threats, simple because they see peace over that of hate, by making friends with a Jew.

Because its once again acceptable in the west to hate Jews, Israeli Jews.

That is the reason, they are silent.

What a bloody pity !

Didge wrote:Do you know what really disappoints me about the left?

If this woman was being hated for being a Muslim if  and hounded by western people and her family had to flee the UK. The left would be all over this, rightly shouting  outrage and such xenophobia.

When it comes down to people seeing past hate, as this Iraqi woman has done and that her family has to flee. Simple because she has made friends with an Israeli Jew. The silence from the left is deafening.

This is the sad reality we face today. Those on the left will rightly defend Muslims wrongly targeted with hate, but are silent when a Muslim family recieves death threats, simple because they see peace over that of hate, by making friends with a Jew.

Because its once again acceptable in the west to hate Jews, Israeli Jews.

That is the reason, they are silent.

I agree with .

I read this, its appalling to treat this Iraq girl this way.

They sounds so primitive their ideologies and expectations. Poor girl.

magica wrote:I read this, its appalling to treat this Iraq girl this way.

They sounds so primitive their ideologies and expectations. Poor girl.

Well, sadly this is the level and extent of antisemitism in the Middle East.

Its sadly endemic.