YES! finally what all the women in Saudi Arabia have been waiting for! A Miss Saudi Arabia competition is going to be held this week with more than 200 contestants striving to become the first ever Miss Saudi Arabia. You may be confused as to how such a competition is going to be held in one of the most non-women-friendly countries where women cannot even drive. However, this competition is not like those held in other countries where half naked women show off their beautiful figures and faces to a bunch of judges, the Miss Saudi Arabia is actually quite deep where God given looks and figure is not part of the competition.
So what is the judging criteria, if not beauty? There will be four areas that the contestants will be judged on, those are her morals or manners, her commitment to her family, obedience to her parents and her commitment to her religion, Islam.
I must say that it would be really tough to judge on these things unless each woman comes in with a file of her entire life. How are they going to judge her morals or manners? Will they drop rubbish on the ground and see how the girl reacts to it? Will they start yelling at them and see how they react, or will they wait until its prayer time to see who prays and who doesn't? Will they ask the women about their life experiences and from that make a judgment?
Unfortunately I won't be able to know how the competition works, and neither can anyone since it is not going to be shown on TV since its a women only thing and the Saudis are not very fond of women being on TV. This is the second time this competition is held. The winner receives a prize amount of $2600
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