Finally...Kuwaiti women get what they deserve...

Living in Kuwait...it was common knowledge that the women played a big role in running Kuwait, they were running it from their homes, offices, cars, under their 3abayat (black body cover) or from under their pairs of jeans and sleeveless tops...They were the ones who went on the streets demonstrating during the Iraqi invasion in August 1990 while many of the men where at home scared...

Out of my experience with my Kuwaiti women...they are generally smarter, more mature and definitely more ambitious...

However, only yesterday did they get the recognition for being an active part of the Kuwaiti society (in my opinion, the most active)...now they can vote and run at the next parliamentary elections in 2 years time...They have been trying to get their rights for decades to be only supported by the Prince of Kuwait in the year 1999 but since then the law was voted against for a few times, the latest of which was March 2005...

To get it voted in, the government had to adjust the law to:

"a Kuwaiti woman, voting and running for political office, should do so while fully adhering to the dictates of Islamic Sharia"

This was so the people who fall in the middle between the liberal direction and the Fundmentalist one would vote for the law...the voting came out to be 35 in favour, 23 against and one abstention...

I see some alarm signals though...what does the second phrase in the law really mean??

Its a good step all the same...

Yesterday...Kuwait managed to conquer the Fundmentalist Islamists...However, managed to conquer them through democracy and not by rounding them up and putting them in jail...Hope Egypt can learn a thing or two from this other tiny Gulf-state I call home...

Mabrook ya Hareem El Deera El Kuwaitiya

Dr. Soad Al-Sabah, a poet and a member from the Royal Family kissing the Prime Minister's forehead...though a relative, it is still not acceptable by Kuwaiti standards...She is really happy!!