The evils of western democracy

[Raven]

Several hundred people have staged a peaceful protest in support of women's rights outside the Kuwaiti parliament.

The all-male assembly is debating a government request to speed up the passage of a law on women's rights.

The cabinet approved the law last May, and the government recently mounted a media campaign to win public support.

One of the organisers of the protest, Lulwa al-Mullah, told the BBC that both women and men were taking part and that there was a heavy police presence.

The Reuters news agency reports that some of the demonstrators were allowed to enter parliament to view the debate.

Most Islamic groups in Kuwait oppose granting women political rights. The parliament has twice defeated similar measures in recent years.

Islamists in the Kuwaiti parliament have said they will thwart this latest government-sponsored law.

Kuwaiti constitution

The demonstrators carried placards reading: "Women's rights now", and "Islamic law does not contain anything against women's rights".

The AFP news agency put the number of protesters at more than 400 people, mostly women but also including a number of male sympathizers.

"We cannot be elected or give our vote to any political candidate. We are deprived from this political right," Ms Mullah, from the Kuwaiti Women's Cultural and Social Society, told the BBC's World Today programme.

"This is our demand, because there is an article in the Kuwaiti constitution that says decisions are equal and there are no differences between the sexes."

Middle Eastern governments, including long term allies of Washington, have been coming under pressure to bring in political reform.

Kuwaiti women serve as diplomats, run businesses, and work at all levels in industry, but cannot vote or stand in elections.

In other Gulf states, such as Bahrain and Qatar, women can already vote and stand for election.

Isn't great what those infidel westerners have achieved...if it wasn't for evil people like us those protesters would have been stoned to death by righteous muslim men everywhere.

Anyhoo....how long do you think it would take for calls of seperation between faith and state? Do you think it could ever happen in an Islamic society?

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[Professur]

It's stupid anyways. Everyone knows that women should do exactly what their men tell them to do. All they're doing is doubling the amount of work involved in every election. Unless those women disobey .... Then we get to stone them.