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Does an ardent Jewish neo-conservative ever agree with an anti-Semite who despises neo-conservatives?

We didn鈥檛 think so, until the Miss USA contest showed that Muslim-bashing author Daniel Pipes and racist radio host do indeed share some common ground. The men suggested on their respective blogs that 24-year-old Rima Fakih of Dearborn, Mich., captured the pageant crown on Sunday because of her Muslim religion (Pipes) or her Arab ethnicity (Edwards).

Edwards, the host who has claimed that white women are physically superior, griped that he wasn鈥檛 surprised by Fakih鈥檚 win. 鈥淚t鈥檚 pretty much a federal law now that beauty pageant winners have to be non-white,鈥� he wrote in his Monday blog post, 鈥渁nd now that Arabs are the latest 鈥榦ppressed minority,鈥� they鈥檙e finally getting their place at the top of the quota totem pole.鈥�

Meanwhile, Pipes 鈥� whose resume includes posts at elite universities, a stint at the State Department, and a presidential appointment to the board of the U.S. Institute of Peace 鈥� made a remarkably similar point. In an article titled 鈥淎ffirmative Action in Beauty Contests?鈥� posted on his website Sunday, Pipes posted the names (and photos) of six Muslim women who had won pageants in America and Europe over the past five years.

鈥淭hey are all attractive,鈥� he conceded, 鈥渂ut this surprising frequency of Muslims winning beauty pageants makes me suspect an odd form of affirmative action. My suspicion is borne out by the selection of Anisah Rasheed as Miss A&T at North Carolina Agriculture and Technical State University.鈥� Pipes went on to quote from an article about Rasheed鈥檚 coronation that described her tiara sitting atop her hijab, the headscarf traditionally worn by Muslim women. (None of the other Muslim contest winners in Pipes鈥� article were pictured wearing the hijab.)

In an update posted Monday on his website, Pipes shared three non-critical responses from readers who wrote to him about the article. They included the following item, which Pipes presented without comment: 鈥淣o surprise here. Affirmative action was first applied in beauty contests for black women to win in the 1980s, then it was the turn of Latin, brown skinned women, and now it鈥檚 Muslims. That鈥檚 why most people ignore these rigged 鈥榚vents.鈥� They are money losers and require controversy.鈥�

Elsewhere, however, bloggers were taken aback by Pipes鈥� article. David Weigel, who writes the 鈥淩ight Now鈥� blog for The Washington Post, : 鈥淲ow.鈥� A spokeswoman for the Miss USA pageant told The Daily Beast, an online publication, that she didn鈥檛 believe Fakih鈥檚 victory had 鈥渁nything to do with affirmative action.鈥� (Actually, though she鈥檚 from a Shiite family, Fakih attended Catholic schools growing up and celebrates both Muslim and Christian faiths with her family, .)

Late Monday, Pipes posted another update dismissing the outcry provoked by his blog item. 鈥淪omebody doth protest too much,鈥� he wrote.

Pipes鈥� post wasn鈥檛 the only one to suggest that Fakih benefited because of her religion. 鈥淚 just wonder if this whole contest is rigged,鈥� anti-Islam blogger Debbie Schlussel wrote on Sunday. 鈥淚 have a feeling that it is. Clearly, there is affirmative action for Muslim women in beauty pageants and other such 鈥榗ontests.鈥欌�� In a blog post Tuesday, Schlussel called Fakih 鈥淢iss Hezbollah鈥� and stated that 鈥渉er family is chock full of top Hezbollah terrorists.鈥�

We thank Hatewatch reader Mason Green for the tip that inspired this blog post.