Miss USA 2010, Muslim American Cyber-Discourse, and the Question of Exhaustion
On 16 May 2010, NBC Universal and Donald Trump gave the Muslim American community its first Muslim Miss USA.1 Upon finding out the basics – Rima Fakih is of Lebanese Shi`ite origin and represented Michigan at the beauty pageant – many began to wonder what the appropriate response should be: a “Than...
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oai:doaj.org-article:c68d2b19013648b1914f940dadd380d82021-12-02T17:26:13ZMiss USA 2010, Muslim American Cyber-Discourse, and the Question of Exhaustion10.35632/ajis.v27i3.13202690-37332690-3741https://doaj.org/article/c68d2b19013648b1914f940dadd380d82010-07-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ajis.org/index.php/ajiss/article/view/1320https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3733https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3741 On 16 May 2010, NBC Universal and Donald Trump gave the Muslim American community its first Muslim Miss USA.1 Upon finding out the basics – Rima Fakih is of Lebanese Shi`ite origin and represented Michigan at the beauty pageant – many began to wonder what the appropriate response should be: a “Thank you, Mr. Trump” and befitting celebrations, a “No thank you, Mr. Trump” and its share of condemnation, or an ambivalent “something in between.” In this essay I discuss some of the considerations that made the third option a highly favored one among young voices on the Muslim American blogosphere. I argue that their articulation of this position shows significant trends in the development of a young Muslim American cyber-discourse, and that these trends cannot be fully understood without paying due attention to a shared sense of exhaustion among young Muslim Americans today ... Janan DelgadoInternational Institute of Islamic ThoughtarticleIslamBP1-253ENAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, Vol 27, Iss 3 (2010) |
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On 16 May 2010, NBC Universal and Donald Trump gave the Muslim
American community its first Muslim Miss USA.1 Upon finding out the
basics – Rima Fakih is of Lebanese Shi`ite origin and represented Michigan
at the beauty pageant – many began to wonder what the appropriate
response should be: a “Thank you, Mr. Trump” and befitting celebrations, a
“No thank you, Mr. Trump” and its share of condemnation, or an ambivalent
“something in between.” In this essay I discuss some of the considerations
that made the third option a highly favored one among young voices
on the Muslim American blogosphere. I argue that their articulation of this
position shows significant trends in the development of a young Muslim
American cyber-discourse, and that these trends cannot be fully understood
without paying due attention to a shared sense of exhaustion among young
Muslim Americans today ...
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