{"id":14496,"date":"2013-06-06T23:51:49","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T19:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=14496"},"modified":"2013-06-06T23:51:49","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T19:51:49","slug":"miss-world-chiefs-cancel-bikini-round-to-avoid-offending-muslims-as-pageant-is-set-to-take-place-in-indonesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=14496","title":{"rendered":"Miss World chiefs cancel bikini round to avoid offending Muslims as pageant is set to take place in Indonesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/b2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14493\" alt=\"b2\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/b2.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/b2.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/b2-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/b2-463x300.jpg 463w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a>Miss World is synonymous with scantily clad women strutting their stuff on stage.<\/p>\n<p>But this year the pageant will be significantly more subdued, after organisers announced that they are scrapping the traditional bikini round in a bid to avoid offending the Muslim hosts.<\/p>\n<p>The contest, which will crown a global beauty queen chosen from 137 participants, will take place in September on the island of Bali in Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p>The area plays host to millions of foreign tourists every year, and is known for its idyllic beaches where Western visitors are frequently to be seen sporting skimpy swimwear.<\/p>\n<p>However, Indonesia is a predominantly Islamic country, with more than 200million Muslims living in the South-East Asian nation.<\/p>\n<p>The country&#8217;s top Islamic body, the Indonesian Ulema Council, has called for the Miss World pageant to be cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, they will cover up with garments such as sarongs which avoid revealing the body shape.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miss World is synonymous with scantily clad women strutting their stuff on stage. But this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[1224],"class_list":["post-14496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","tag-miss-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}