2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15
The last Miss Universe pageant that took place in Las Vegas in November was an event for Iraq, since for the first time in 45 years it had a contestant, Sarah Idan.
Proud to make history, in a moment of camaraderie in the days before the grand gala, she decided to take a photo with Miss Israel, Adar Gandelsman. "I said, 'Let's take a photo so that our people can see that we have no problem and that we are actually ambassadors for peace.'"
Alongside the image, Idan wrote "peace and love of Miss Iraq and Miss Israel", referring to the long and bloody conflict in the Middle East.
What must have been a positive message became one of his worst nightmares. Six days before the contest, she received an order from the Miss Iraq contest organization to delete the photo from her social networks. Although the worst were the death threats he received.
“My mother was going crazy. When I posted the photo, I didn't think for a second that there was [a bad] reaction,”Idan told CNN. “I woke up to calls from my family. The death threats I received on the internet were terrifying. People in Iraq recognized my family, they immediately knew who they were and received death threats."
The model received not only threats for fraternizing with her Israeli colleague, but also for having shown her figure in a bikini in the acts prior to the gala.
A day after sharing the photograph, Idan published a text explaining that it does not support the Israeli Government, with which Iraq has no relations, nor its policies in the Middle East, and apologized to whoever "thinks it is an attack on the Palestinian cause."
"Many people have a wrong idea about Iraq, and while we have extremists, we also have good people. Most good people go unnoticed,”said the 27-year-old model, who also has American citizenship. “I am trying to give a good image of our country and our people, but I receive a negative response. I have no support from the Miss Iraq Organization and our government."
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