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Women shunned in Kuwait election
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Posted on Friday, 30 May 2008
Women rep in Kuwait Election.
Posted by Srivatsa at 09:58 UAE time
If Kuwait is serious on women reps in its parliament, it should reserve seats for them otherwise it would take decades for women reps to have a fair play, as happened in Britain and other countries, where women reps came only during the begining of the century.
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Posted on Wednesday, 21 May 2008
Missing the point
Posted by richard at 14:13 UAE time
Isn't the point here that women still have no representation in the legislative process? The country they are part of, which relies on them to bring up its future still doesn't give them the chance to take part in the parlimentary process.
By the way, aren't we all just humans with different opinions and beliefs?
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Posted on Tuesday, 20 May 2008
Islamists and Muslims
Posted by Paul at 13:39 UAE time
All Islamists are Muslims. But not all Muslims are Islamists. Muslims are the people who follow the religion of Islam. Islamists are Muslims who believe that Islam is also a political philosophy, as well as a religious belief. For instance, Khalid Mahmood is Muslim politician in the UK. But he's not an Islamist.
The difference between 'Muslim' and 'Islamist' is a very important distinction to make, and such a distinction isn't made frequently enough in the Western media.
Then again, since it seems that ordinary Muslims such as Wasiullah are incapable of telling the difference, it seems a bit much to expect non-believers to get things right every time either.
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Islamist means...
Posted by Mohamed Gad at 10:21 UAE time
An Islamist follows "Islamism" not Islam, rather a Moslem follows Islam. In the same way, a Chrisitianist means a follower of Christianism not Christianity. Islamism, like Christianism, means political activism based on the relevant religion.
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Islamist
Posted by Quraysh at 06:22 UAE time
A rare yet smartest observation I have seen in ME Media, in a long time. We surely need more Wasiullahs, to arrest the obvious erosion of Islamic values and diminishing pride in the Islamic Identity. Islam is increasingly linked to radicalism in a systematic, deliberate smear campaign, and negatively pitted against the 'West', with comparisons like 'Islam versus West', as though Islam were some mere region and not a religion. Has anyone heard of 'Christianity versus East' or 'Hinduism versus Far-East'? If that sounds ridiculous, then why do Muslims not only meekly accept such junk, but even adopt it in their own vernacular and legitimize it?
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Posted on Monday, 19 May 2008
A touch too sensitive?
Posted by Skand Bhargava at 17:32 UAE time
I think Mr. Wasiullah should re-read the article. It nowhere says "Islamists take the lead". It has phrases as "Sunni Islamists". "moderate Islamic Constitutional Movement", "Shi'ite MPs are Islamists". So I really don't follow why is he so charged up.
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What Islamists? Why do we inflame Radicalism
Posted by Wasiullah at 14:01 UAE time
Im sorry to touch a rather "touch-me-not" subject. You have mentioned Islamists take the lead in these Elections. - Does this mean that all others are non-Islamists? Does the Adj or Noun Islamist not mean someone following Islam (Like Communist, buddhist, etc.). Im not sure who gives these acronomical nomenclatures?
At least respectable Arab media, such as yours should act responsibly and not get carried away by the linkage of Islam with Radicalism, Fundamentalism that the western media tries to portray.
Im sure you have never heard in anywhere in the west that Jews took the lead in elections, or Roman Catholics lost some seats, or WASPs are trailing or Zionists had a setback, etc., so why do we emulate such terminology of micro-division here in the Middle East.
I think this needs a good introspection in the Arab world Media in general and stop copying the AFPs and APs verbatim with their underlying messages. It would be good to see ArabianBusiness take the lead.
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