Iraq beauty queen and her family forced to flee country for this reason

Sarah Idan, beauty queen of Iraq and her family has reportedly been forced to flee the country in the face of death threats.

Miss Iraqi’s family forced to flee the country over Selfie with Miss Israel her counterpart from Israel.Miss Iraq Sarah Idan and Miss Israel Adar Gandelsma met during the Miss Universe pageant in Japan and have shared a good friendship since then.

The family of Sarah Idan, Miss Iraq 2017 has fled the country after receiving threats over Sarah’s photo with Miss Israel Adar Gandelsma and a bikini photoshoot.

Adar told that Sarah lives in USA and her family has been forced to flee the country after receiving threats to their lives over Sarah’s bikini photoshoot and a selfie she posted with Miss Israel on Instagram.

Iraq doesn’t recognize Israel as a state and the two countries thus have no diplomatic ties.

Miss Israel Adar Gandelman told Jewish Chronicle that Sarah’s family had received threats over the photograph she posted on Instagram.

Sarah Idan, Miss Iraq, and Adar Gandelsman, Miss Israel, took the picture together at a beauty pageant in Las Vegas on November 14. “Peace and Love from Miss Iraq and Miss Israel,” she wrote.

The selfie was widely shared in Iraq and throughout the Arab world, where anti-Israel feelings run high.

“People made threats against her (Ms. Idan) and her family that if she didn’t return home and take down the photos, they would remove her title, (and) that they would kill her… Out of fear, they left Iraq at least until the situation calms down,” she said.

Sarah later apologized “to all those who consider [the picture] harmful to the Palestinian cause”. She did not take down the picture though. “Posting this does not mean that I am supporting the Israeli government and does not mean that I accept any of their policies toward the Arab world,” Sarah wrote.

Iraqi and Israeli forces fought against each other in 1948, 1967 and 1973. In 1981, Israel bombed and Iraqi nuclear reactor near Baghdad while Saddam Hussein fired missiles into Israel in 1991 and later made payments to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers.