They want to outlaw Xboxes and ban Christmas, do away with the Arab world's version of "American Idol," and keep female drivers off the roads.
Kuwait is seeing a surge in conservative Islamist legislative proposals just one month after the country's Salafi Islamists and tribal candidates gained a majority in its National Assembly. With 29 out of 50 seats, this newly empowered bloc appears to be testing its political capital and could succeed in making an already conservative country even more socially strict.
Their drive comes as the Gulf region debates the pace of social development in a tug of war between traditionalists and modernists. While the oil boom brings in a flood of Westerners and their ideas, traditional local societies are increasingly questioning how much change they'll accept along with the economic surge.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0618/p01s07-wome.html
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QUOTE (plodder @ Jun 18 2008, 06:00 AM) 
They want to outlaw Xboxes and ban Christmas, do away with the Arab world's version of "American Idol," and keep female drivers off the roads.
Kuwait is seeing a surge in conservative Islamist legislative proposals just one month after the country's Salafi Islamists and tribal candidates gained a majority in its National Assembly. With 29 out of 50 seats, this newly empowered bloc appears to be testing its political capital and could succeed in making an already conservative country even more socially strict.
Their drive comes as the Gulf region debates the pace of social development in a tug of war between traditionalists and modernists. While the oil boom brings in a flood of Westerners and their ideas, traditional local societies are increasingly questioning how much change they'll accept along with the economic surge.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0618/p01s07-wome.html
Kuwait is seeing a surge in conservative Islamist legislative proposals just one month after the country's Salafi Islamists and tribal candidates gained a majority in its National Assembly. With 29 out of 50 seats, this newly empowered bloc appears to be testing its political capital and could succeed in making an already conservative country even more socially strict.
Their drive comes as the Gulf region debates the pace of social development in a tug of war between traditionalists and modernists. While the oil boom brings in a flood of Westerners and their ideas, traditional local societies are increasingly questioning how much change they'll accept along with the economic surge.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0618/p01s07-wome.html
Can you leave some place you never were at? I always thought it was interesting when Bush I said he was "restoring" democracy to Kuwait in 1991. Can you restore what wasn't there?
Kuwait is still functionally a monarchy, and while it does have a parliament, many people in Kuwait, including women, non-born-Kuwaitis like Palestinians and other foreign "guest workers" (of which there are a lot), and other non-Muslim groups, cannot vote.
I remember watching programs after 9/11 talking about Islamic fundamentalists.
The main point of the discussions was that the fundamentalists USE Democracy to get into power and then get rid of Democracy, replacing it with a Shia governed government. You are seeing this in Kuwait and other Islamic countries.
Those who are not followers of Islam are called "dhimmis", those non-Muslims living under Shia rule who pay taxes and do not have the same rights as the "believers" (Muslims"). Second-class citizenry at its best.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhimmi
If you really want to get some interesting insight on Islam and how the fundamentalist use the Qur'an to justify their actions, read Robert Spencer's "Blogging the Qur'an" series on JihadWarch. com
http://www.jihadwatch.org/articles/bloggingtheq.php
It is very interesting reading to say the least.
The main point of the discussions was that the fundamentalists USE Democracy to get into power and then get rid of Democracy, replacing it with a Shia governed government. You are seeing this in Kuwait and other Islamic countries.
Those who are not followers of Islam are called "dhimmis", those non-Muslims living under Shia rule who pay taxes and do not have the same rights as the "believers" (Muslims"). Second-class citizenry at its best.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhimmi
If you really want to get some interesting insight on Islam and how the fundamentalist use the Qur'an to justify their actions, read Robert Spencer's "Blogging the Qur'an" series on JihadWarch. com
http://www.jihadwatch.org/articles/bloggingtheq.php
It is very interesting reading to say the least.
QUOTE (MiniYaYa @ Jun 19 2008, 11:08 AM)
I remember watching programs after 9/11 talking about Islamic fundamentalists.
The main point of the discussions was that the fundamentalists USE Democracy to get into power and then get rid of Democracy, replacing it with a Shia governed government. You are seeing this in Kuwait and other Islamic countries.
Those who are not followers of Islam are called "dhimmis", those non-Muslims living under Shia rule who pay taxes and do not have the same rights as the "believers" (Muslims"). Second-class citizenry at its best.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhimmi
If you really want to get some interesting insight on Islam and how the fundamentalist use the Qur'an to justify their actions, read Robert Spencer's "Blogging the Qur'an" series on JihadWarch. com
http://www.jihadwatch.org/articles/bloggingtheq.php
It is very interesting reading to say the least.
The main point of the discussions was that the fundamentalists USE Democracy to get into power and then get rid of Democracy, replacing it with a Shia governed government. You are seeing this in Kuwait and other Islamic countries.
Those who are not followers of Islam are called "dhimmis", those non-Muslims living under Shia rule who pay taxes and do not have the same rights as the "believers" (Muslims"). Second-class citizenry at its best.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhimmi
If you really want to get some interesting insight on Islam and how the fundamentalist use the Qur'an to justify their actions, read Robert Spencer's "Blogging the Qur'an" series on JihadWarch. com
http://www.jihadwatch.org/articles/bloggingtheq.php
It is very interesting reading to say the least.
Hmmm.
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Jihad Watch is an anti-Islamist website and blog. Founded in 2003, Jihad Watch is dedicated to bringing public attention to the negative role that Jihad theology and ideology plays in the modern world. Jihad Watch's director is Robert Spencer.[1]
In September 2006, Jihad Watch became affiliated with the David Horowitz Freedom Center.[2] Spencer's articles on Jihad appear regularly in Horowitz's Front Page Magazine.
In September 2006, Jihad Watch became affiliated with the David Horowitz Freedom Center.[2] Spencer's articles on Jihad appear regularly in Horowitz's Front Page Magazine.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jihad_Watch]
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The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) called Jihad Watch an "Internet hate site" and said it "is notorious for its depiction of Islam as an inherently violent faith that is a threat to world peace."[12] Guardian writer Brian Whitaker describes Jihad Watch as a "notoriously Islamophobic website",[13] while other critics such as Dinesh D'Souza,[14] Karen Armstrong,[15] and Cathy Young,[16] point to what they see as deliberate mischaracterizations of Islam and Muslims by Spencer as inherently violent and therefore prone to terrorism. Various attempts to block the site based on allegations of "hate speech" have been mostly unsuccessful.[17][18] In response to criticism, Spencer states "I vehemently reject the 'Islamophobe' label, which is only a tool used by Islamic apologists to silence criticism".[19]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jihad_Watch#Criticism
Way to pick your sources MiniYaYa.
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