Kuwaiti MP calls for private school segregation

A socially conservative member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly has called for the segregation of boys and girls in the Gulf state’s private schools.

Waleed Al Tabtabai submitted a proposal to parliament that would amend law number 24 of 1996 to bring private education in line with Shariah law, Kuwaiti daily Al Watan wrote.

Under the proposal, Article 3 of the law would read: "The first article of this law is applied to private schools in accordance with the general educational objectives in the State of Kuwait and Islamic values."

Kuwait's parliament passed a law in 1996 stipulating that male and female students at Kuwait University and other higher education institutions be completely separated.

It passed another law in 2000 extending the ban on co-education to private universities.

Al Tabtai opposed giving women the vote in 2005 and was one of several Islamist MPs who supported a fatwa issued by Kuwait's Islamic Affairs ministry in 2004 against reality TV show Star Academy.

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