This story would be risible if not for demonstrating the utter cruelty towards women in Islam, in which women are deemed inferior.
No matter how hot the weather may be, women are required under Islamic law to fully cover up, as the Qur’an instructs:
(Quran 24:31) And tell the believing women to reduce of their vision and guard their private parts and not expose their adornment except that which appears thereof and to wrap [a portion of] their headcovers over their chests and not expose their adornment except to their husbands, their fathers, their husbands’ fathers, their sons, their husbands’ sons, their brothers, their brothers’ sons, their sisters’ sons, their women, that which their right hands possess, or those male attendants having no physical desire, or children who are not yet aware of the private aspects of women. And let them not stamp their feet to make known what they conceal of their adornment. And turn to Allah in repentance, all of you, O believers, that you might succeed.
If a woman does not cover, she is fair game to be assaulted:
(Quran 33:59) O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to bring down over themselves of their outer garments. That is more suitable that they will be known and not be abused.
It is remarkable how so many Westerners continue to be deceived into believing that female coverings are culture, not Islamic.
Kuwait is now boasting that it is “modernizing” by allowing women to join the army and fight for the country in combat. But they must remain fully covered and they are not allowed to carry weapons. In other words nothing has changed.
“Kuwait army allows women in combat roles, but without guns,” AFP, February 17, 2022:
Kuwait City (AFP) – Kuwaiti women are angry after the military, having allowed female soldiers in combat roles, decided they need the permission of a male guardian and banned them from carrying weapons.
Activists have decried the policy as “one step forward, two steps back” after the defence ministry also decided that women in the armed forces, unlike civilians, must wear head coverings.
The moves have sparked an online backlash in Kuwait, usually regarded as one of the most open societies in the Gulf.
“I don’t know why there are these restrictions to join the army,” Ghadeer al-Khashti, a sports teacher and member of Kuwait Football Association’s women committee, told AFP.
“We have all kinds of women working in all fields, including the police force.”…
“I don’t understand on what basis they see women as weak.”
The ministry decided in October to allow women in combat roles but then imposed the restrictions after the defence minister was questioned by conservative lawmaker Hamdan al-Azmi.
Azmi, emboldened by an Islamic religious edict, or fatwa, had argued that having women in combat roles “does not fit with a woman’s nature”.
‘Women martyrs’
Lulwa Saleh al-Mulla, head of the Kuwaiti Women’s Cultural and Social Society, said the ministry’s restrictions are discriminatory and unconstitutional and vowed legal action by the organisation.
“We have women martyrs who defended their country of their own volition,” she told AFP. “No one ordered them to do that but the love for their country.
“We are a Muslim country, that is true, but we demand the laws not be subject to fatwas. Personal freedom is guaranteed in the constitution, on which the country’s laws are based.”…
BTeboe says
Kuwaiti women in combat = cannon fodder.
Keith O says
Had that thought as well.
gravenimage says
Exactly, BTeboe.
Pray Hard says
I guess they’re tired of little boys.
Infidel says
While the Saudis, Bahreinis and Emiratis have been moderating, however slowly, Kuwait is still one of the holdouts, and actually arguably the worst country in the Arabian peninsula, competing w/ Yemen and Qatar. They’re already on record as stating that they’ll be the last country to normalize relations w/ Israel, and they’ve also joined Pakistan in interfering in the burqa issue in India
I continue to believe to this day that 1991’s Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm were major mistakes: that country should have been allowed to become Iraq’s 19th province
James Lincoln says
Infidel says,
“I continue to believe to this day that 1991’s Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm were major mistakes: that country should have been allowed to become Iraq’s 19th province”
In your opinion, what would have been the short / long term ramifications if Kuwait had become part of Iraq?
Infidel says
Great question. Few that I can think of:
‣ Iran would have been contained, or at least a cold war following the 8-year Iran-Iraq war would have ensued
‣ Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf states would have been forced to divert money from dawa and jihad activity worldwide to their actual own defense
‣ 9/11 may not have happened, as Saudi Arabia would either have not been occupied by Americans, or occupied by Iraq. Still, we would have traded w/ Iraq and the oil would have kept flowing
‣ Iraq may have threatened Israel, but the latter would have had the option of playing Iran and Iraq against each other
‣ There would have been no Arab Spring, nor civil wars in all the Arab countries, and thereby no ISIS
‣ No mass migration of muslims into Europe or the Americas
One downside I can think of – probably no jihadwatch, and probably, none of us would have been informed on islam or jihad
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gravenimage says
I actually don’t think that giving Saddam Hussein’s aggression cringing sanction would have indicated that we are ready to defend against Jihad.
Doesn’t mean that the West hasn’t made many other mistakes in dealing with Islam, of course.
James Lincoln says
Infidel,
Thank you for your excellent analysis. Much food for thought.
At this point, of course, we can only speculate on how things would have played out.
One thing, however, is for certain:
The United States (and the rest of the Western world) is not in a good position now – likely due to some terrible decisions made decades ago.
John Allan says
Unarmed!? In combat roles!?
It would be farcical … were it not so serious!
somehistory says
These women in full burk, can deceive the enemy….by hunkering down and pretending to be a black rock. When the enemy draws close to sit down for a rest…or if mozlum, to worship the black rock…the male soldier can accost him. Or the “rock” can rise up and smother the enemy with her extra clothing.
islam is full of stupidity and mozlums go along….the males lusting for the domination and control. The women who go along…just stupid.
PRCS says
“The women who go along…just stupid.”
A great many of them don’t go along willingly. Afghan women, for example.
The result of consensual sex between men and women not married to each other can and have been punished by stoning–there.
https://jihadwatch.org/2022/02/afghanistan-couple-stoned-to-death-at-sharia-court-for-sex-outside-marriage
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
Innovative and economical military thinking. Iran pioneered in unarmored, unarmed combat.
https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-history/iran-iraq-war-child-soldiers-mines/
gravenimage says
Kuwait: army ‘modernizes,’ allows women in combat roles, but unarmed and fully covered
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In other words, they can distract the enemy and be shot to death with no means of defending themselves.
More proof that Islam hates women…