(RNS) “My family didn’t say, ‘Don’t show emotion and don’t fall in love.’ They simply said, ‘Don’t make out with somebody on television.’ I don’t need to make out with a man to know whether I like him.”
– `The Bachelor’ contestant Selma Alameri, who was born into a Muslim family in Iraq, telling reporters why she didn’t want to kiss Bachelor Sean Lowe on television. She was quoted by USA Today.