Blogger Alfarhan Freed

Blogger Alfarhan was arrested in December for expressing his views towards the Saudi government. He was released on the 26th of April and is at home with his family.
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Congratulations Fouad!

الكويت هنأت الدنمارك بعيدها

Quoting from Alwatan Newspaper today:

"بعث حضرة صاحب السمو امير البلاد الشيخ صباح الاحمد الجابر الصباح حفظه الله ورعاه ببرقية تهنئة الى الملكة مارغريت الثانية ملكة مملكة الدنمارك الصديقة عبر فيها عن خالص تهانيه بمناسبة العيد الوطني لبلادها.
كما بعث سمو ولي العهد الشيخ نواف الاحمد الجابر الصباح وسمو رئيس مجلس الوزراء الشيخ ناصر المحمد الاحمد الجابر الصباح حفظهما الله ببرقيتي تهنئة مماثلتين.

"تاريخ النشر: الخميس 17/4/2008

It made me laugh in fits, I wonder what happened to our lovely friends who wanted to throw the Danish ambassador out of the country?

حامض على بوزكم يا اسلاميين

Spanish first woman defence minister

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The new Spanish government appointed their first female defense minister. At the prime age of 37 and seven months pregnancy, I wish this lady the best of luck. (She is the one with white top, fourth from the left)

She made me feel proud seeing her strutting her baby bump to the troops on EuroNews.

Now, what does Waleed Altabtabie feel about this? hmmmm

Move on..

Fascinating how I am reading increasingly more articles which state that segregation stems from a cultural need, and there are no religious grounds for it. Just fascinating.

Mr. Almuttar, a student in the Faculty of Political Sciences; spends 2/3's of his articles citing research proving that segregation increases students' schooling potential. He raves on saying that since the US and Bush are advocating segregation, then it must be the way forward. Puzzling that those Kuwaitis who exemplify the US when convenient, are the same who justify the actions of terrorism. They are just the same people who said that women should not have their political rights, but once women were granted; they rushed to preach that voting is a religious and Godly duty.

On a much brighter note:
Kuwait Public Transport Company (KPTC), Ministry of interior and the Ministry of Education have started a new initiative in an attempt to tackle the ever worsening traffic congestion problem. They created the mottamen campaign which aims at transporting students from their homes to school and back via specially designated air-conditioned buses. The vehicles operate from September to June. Apparently, they have cut down on the traffic problem in Romaithiya by 70%. Bit by bit, they will expand the project so that eventually they cover all of Kuwait. I hope our proud, golden-spoon-fed and eccentric Kuwaiti bright students along with their parents will show full participation.

I say..way to go Kuwait, I hope you keep it up.

Pregnant Man

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It is just like any Lesbian women who decides to dress and beautify herself in a masculine manner but chooses to get pregnant. I can't believe the part where s/he claims in the article that his wife's family can't even tell that he was a woman, where will he hide that growing belly?!
If he is married to a women, it only means that the wife is gay too. Otherwise, with him not giving up his sexual organs, how can they do it??

and it all gets a bit confusing...I can't help but think that the picture is photo-shopped!

If anyone knows when his/her interview will be with Oprah, please let me know

Observations

Every newspaper in Kuwait is dedicating a section to cover the "democratic" activity in Kuwait. Some are biased and others are unbiased. However; I never thought that it was allowed for the papers to label candidates for the elections based on their sect. Specifically, AlSeyasah paper lists a table of all the individuals running for elections with a column indicating their Islamic sect!
By doing so, we are emphasizing sectarian divisions rather than political affiliations. It is a known fact that every runner-up indicates to which party they belong to. However, their religious believes have nothing to do with their political party. As much as I support freedom of expression in Kuwait, papers should try to stay as impartial as possible. Meaning no advertising and no bias...only coverage.

the government has to do something about getting this round of elections right for the obvious reasons:
1. Two many constitutional dissolutions.
2. Women will be involved as voters and candidates.
3. Five constituencies for the first time.

Otherwise, we will only get yet another dissolution and yet another resignation....