Islamic Hardliners Go After Bali Beauty Bash
Having already forced the Miss World Beauty Pageant to drop the bikini segment from their two-week 2013 show in Bali and Bogor to be held at the end of September, hard-liner Islamists are now trying to stop the pageant on Indonesia soil altogether.
The government in Jakarta is weighing a decision on whether to block the pageant, officials said.
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