{"id":7442,"date":"2016-11-29T00:20:35","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T05:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/?p=7442"},"modified":"2019-06-06T21:48:15","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T01:48:15","slug":"halima-aden-hijab-miss-minnesota-usa-contestant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/halima-aden-hijab-miss-minnesota-usa-contestant\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Barriers: Meet First Hijab-Wearing Miss Minnesota USA Contestant!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>This past weekend history was made. Nineteen-year-old Halima Aden became the first woman to compete in the Miss Minnesota USA pageant wearing a hijab for all four rounds of the competition AND she made history as the first woman to wear a burkini in the swimsuit segment.<\/h4>\n<div id=\"attachment_7444\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7444\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_20161128_165721_1.jpg\" alt=\"Making history\" width=\"640\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_20161128_165721_1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_20161128_165721_1-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7444\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Making history<\/p><\/div>\n<h4>Halima, who is Somali-American, made it to the Top 15. Although she didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t win, she was proud to break down the outdated standards of beauty. She spoke to media after the pageant and told them she entered the pageant to fight Islamophobia and to empower Muslim women. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153A lot of people will look at you and will fail to see your beauty because you are covered up and they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not used to it. So growing up I just had to work on my people skills and give people a chance to really know me besides the clothing.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d She later added, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I feel like I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m here to bust those misconceptions and stereotypes of Muslim women.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Standing up for her Muslim community in Minnesota was particularly important for Halima because of Donald Trump. Before he become president, Trump had made comments about Somalian refugees and how Minnesota had suffered by accepting them.<\/h4>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\"\n     data-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0039743795063875\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"4997725053\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<h4><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7445\" src=\"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_20161128_165952_1.jpg\" alt=\"img_20161128_165952_1\" width=\"640\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_20161128_165952_1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_20161128_165952_1-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_20161128_165952_1-390x205.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153This pageant is so much more than just beauty. Their whole message is being confidently beautiful, so I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think that I should allow my hijab to get in the way of me participating.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/h4>\n<h4><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7446\" src=\"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_20161128_165736_1.jpg\" alt=\"img_20161128_165736_1\" width=\"490\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_20161128_165736_1.jpg 490w, https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_20161128_165736_1-230x300.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4>You are absolutely right Halima. Thank you for being a trailblazer!<\/h4>\n<h5>*************<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #f50f44;\">WHERE ELSE TO FIND ME!<\/span><br \/>\nFACEBOOK: <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/miss.amindhillon\">http:\/\/facebook.com\/miss.amindhillon<\/a><br \/>\nINSTAGRAM: <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/amindhillon\">http:\/\/instagram.com\/amindhillon<\/a><br \/>\nYouTube: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/theglamourg\">www.youtube.com\/theGlamourG<\/a><br \/>\nTWITTER: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/amindhillon\">http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/amindhillon<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend history was made. Nineteen-year-old Halima Aden became the first woman to compete in the Miss Minnesota USA pageant wearing a hijab for all four rounds of the competition AND she made history as the first woman to wear a burkini in the swimsuit segment. 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