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Spendthrift Food Habit A Distant Fear For Kuwait

A Consumption Paradise

While the Western economies are mired in stubbornly high and painful unemployment rates that have sunk rising numbers of households below the poverty line, the citizens of old-rich Kuwait are in the thick of consumerism. According to official figures, the nation’s food intake grew 4% year-on-year in 2010, thus further extending a multi-year pattern.

It [...]

Fined For Driving Wearing A Niqab In France

Present Case Of Fine For Driving Wearing A Niqab

Police in Vaucluse in southern France stopped a car that was being driven erratically, and found that the driver was wearing a niqab. The headscarf was obviously “bothering the driver in her manoeuvres”, said a spokesman. She was fined  €22 ($29) for driving with a reduced field of [...]

German Muslim Woman Turns Apostate

Recently women MPs in Kuwait won the right not to wear the Muslim headscarf in Parliament.  In many western countries, freedom of dressing for women is a given.  But for many Muslim women, they have a dress code to observe.

Qory Sandioriva, the current Miss Indonesia (Putri Indonesia) 2009 caused some disquiet when she did not wear a [...]

Kuwait – Women MPs Need Not Wear Hijab

The Constitutional Court of Kuwait has recently dismissed a case brought by a Kuwaiti man, Hamad al Nashi, to have 2 female MPs dismissed from Parliament for violating the election law.  MPs Aseel al Awadhi and Rola Dashti did not wear the hijab in Parliamentary sessions. Citing the election law, Hamad al Nashi told the court: [...]