AP The reigning Miss USA has come out against the Ground Zero mosque, saying “it shouldn’t be so close” to Ground Zero. The 24-year-old Rima Fakih, is the first Muslim winner of the Miss USA ...

Halima Aden, the Muslim teen who competed in the Miss USA-Minnesota pageant wearing an hijab, walked in Kanye West's Yeezy fashion show Julie Mazziotta is the Senior Sports Editor at PEOPLE ...

Rima Fakih is believed to be the first Muslim to win the title of Miss USA when she was crowned the winner in 2010. Now, the beauty pageant winner has converted to Christianity, recently sharing a ...

Reuters Looks like Miss USA — a practicing Muslim and the first Arab-American ever to snag the sparkly crown — won’t be unrolling her prayer mat in the mosque near Ground Zero. Rima Fakih ...

the first Muslim woman to win the Miss USA contest, it was just much for some conservative commentators. Fakih happens to have the same last name as some officials in the militant Lebanese Shiite ...

Fakih is the second Arab-American to claim the Miss USA title, and she told pageant officials that her family is both Muslim and Christian. There was also this report, which details Fakih entering ...

Rima Fakih swapped her “Miss Michigan” crown for “Miss USA” Sunday night ... to be both the first Arab American and the first Muslim ever to earn the title. “This is historic ...

she is very likely the first Miss USA who is Muslim. At a time when many Americans view Muslims with suspicion and hostility, Fakih, 24, sees herself as a testament to America’s promise as a land of ...

The first known Muslim Miss USA has converted to Christianity ahead of her wedding. Rima Fakih, 30, who won the title in May 2010, is set to tie the knot with Wassim Salibi, a Maronite Christian ...

“We should be more concerned with the tragedy than religion,” she says. , a proposed Islamic Center, will include recreation facilities, a restaurant, a culinary school. The mosque, which will ...

The poll also famously had 24 percent of respondents believing the president himself is Muslim. While Miss USA Fakih disagrees with the president on the issue, she’s made it clear she is ...