I Stand 100% with 86% of Kuwaitis
This is from today’s Kuwait Times, but it wasn’t online, it was a tiny little article at the bottom of page 2 in today’s paper:
Kuwaitis Oppose Morality Police
Kuwait: According to a recent questionnaire, 82% of Kuwaitis opposed calls to establish a group similar to the Saudi authourity that calls on individuals to commit good deeds while avoiding vices. The survey also discovered that 86% of participants thought such a group would trespass on the authority of the state.
Meanwhile, a government official recently said that some radical individuals and MP’s have attempted to support certain officials in the Criminal Intelligence Department and other authorities to create the foundations for a religious group that promoted virtue and condemned vices under an official cover, Al-Qabbas reports.
There is already a problem with the perception of the police force being “not-us”, not-educated, and not impartial in Kuwait. If radical individuals and MP’s are further subverting the forces of law and order, trying to get like-minded people in positions with real authority, this is not a good sign for Kuwait.
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Dont they have anything better to do ? Also this perception of police force being “not-us”, not-educated, and not impartial is there in many other places. I was in Bangalore, India in 2005 when they imposed a curfew on discos and night clubs coz “they” felt it was causing in increase in crime and lawlessness and so no night clubs after 11pm !! :O
We’re old enough to decide between virtue and vice. What do you say Intlxpatr ? 😀
What the survey doesn’t show is that the other 18% are the ones who go to Thailand for reasons other than tourism and business…
Having those people means enforcing religion on all for a start, and having conflicting authorities on the other. Who keeps order? Police or Them? if a thieve is stealing, do you call police? Or do you bring Amer bel ma3rof to advice him first. Or use their light saber khaizaran?
Some things dont even need discussion. Thanks to the small minds it takes such big time of us
Aafke – 🙂
Mathai – John MIlton said it better: I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virture.
Bu Yousef – Part of me is laughing and part of me is crying. It’s funny, but it is tragic for their families.
Bashar – I totally agree. WHO DECIDES what is moral is the core of the problem with morality police.
I am so raged about this.
We were discussing this today at my grandfather’s diwaniya and one of my uncles mentioned that there had been a lot of encounters with people of this group working voluntarily! They intentionally ignored the law! What the hell is wrong with these people?
That’s it, they have provoked me long enough… If you read in the next few weeks about a guy fighting a group of religious people that could probably be me.
Outraged, Mac, outraged!
Please be careful about confrontation. These moral-guidance volunteers might also be the kind who carry knives to enforce their “suggestions”. The very best way to contain vigilantism is laws, law enforcement, penalties, fines, and at worst, imprisonment. Please, Mac, use your head to fight this. Use your blog, and use your writing skills. Use the law. When you see vigilantes, call the police. Make it an issue.
But this is exactely what these kind of people are all about; they are abobe the law, they are above religion, (or any perception of religion which doesn’t correspond to theirs) and they are above anybody who doesn’t answer to their rigid and narrowminded little rules.
So they have no respect for laws, police or whatever.
Don’t want to ”plug” my blog here, but I have ranted my opinion of this deluded and dangerous percentage of humanity in my own post:
Aafke, I agree with your plug; that is one of the best posts I think you have ever written. A lot of thought went into that post, and you got some great comments, too, from all around the world.