“During the service, the man dressed in a traditional dishdasha walked inside the church and went straight to where the priest was speaking. A few parishioners nearby heard that the man was asking ‘to see the Pope.’” If the Pope had been on the scene, he would have explained to him how true Islam and […]
Pakistan’s ambassador in Kuwait says Kuwait hasn’t banned Pakistanis
“Earlier, a newspaper claimed that Kuwait has banned nationals from Syria, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan.” The ambassador denied that Kuwait had banned Pakistanis; it is unclear whether or not there is actually a ban in Kuwait on nationals from Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan. An update on this story. “Pakistanis are welcome in Kuwait, […]
“Islamophobia”: Kuwait imposes visa ban on five Muslim-majority nations, including Pakistan
UPDATE: Pakistan’s ambassador to Kuwait has denied that there is any visa ban on Pakistanis. ———- “The Kuwaiti Government has asked would-be migrants from the five banned nations not to apply for visas, as Kuwait City is worried about the possible migration of radical Islamic terrorists.” But the U.S. is not allowed to have a […]
Kuwaiti MP: “It is the Zionist entity that runs the world”
He didn’t explain how or why the Zionist entity perpetrated the recent US abstention on the latest UN vote condemning Israel. But conspiracy paranoids never feel compelled to match their theories with facts. “Kuwaiti MP Waleed Tabtabaie: Israel Runs the World, Coordinates with the U.S., Russia, and Iran to Destroy Syria,” MEMRI, December 24, 2016: […]
Intel report: Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar supporting jihadis in Germany
No one who understands the ideology that motivates jihad terror, and the status of that ideology in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar will be surprised by this. That means that everyone in the Washington intelligence and foreign policy establishment will be surprised by this. “Saudi Arabia and Gulf states ‘support Islamic extremism in Germany,’ intelligence […]
Kuwait: Security officers order gays arrested, heads shaved
This judgement on these gays in Kuwait comes as a kind of peculiar relief amid the other much worse reports of gays getting beheaded and thrown head first from rooftops. The troubling part, though, is this: although Westerners can pat themselves on the back that it is constitutionally unacceptable and illegal to persecute gays in […]
Kuwait: Muslim kills his own brother for not fasting during Ramadan
It’s such a beautiful time of the year. Note that in justifying his murder, the perpetrator called his brother an apostate, while in the West, Islamic apologists routinely deny that Islam has a death penalty for apostasy. “Gulf man kills brother for not fasting,” Emirates 24/7, June 26, 2016 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): […]
Assyrians file suit against Turkish-Kuwaiti bank for funding jihad terrorism
An Assyrian group that fled the war in Syria has filed a lawsuit in North Carolina against the Turkish-Kuwaiti Bank for funding jihad terrorism. The terrorism fundraising campaigns by the bank (and its parent financial institutions) were allegedly organized under the pretext of funding humanitarian aid, and the article below points out that “the Turkish […]
Kuwaiti businessman: “ISIS has always been here”
Ahmad Sarraf doesn’t mean that the Islamic State has a presence in Kuwait. He means something much more sweeping: that throughout Islamic history, there have been armed movements committing atrocities in the name of Islam and in accord with its teachings. He is decrying the Islamic world’s failure to acknowledge those atrocities, and is right: […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: The madness and malevolence of Kuwait
By now we have all heard of the decision by the government of Kuwait to end all of its flights between New York and London in order to achieve one thing: to be able to avoid having to transport an Israeli, or maybe even two — horribile dictu — on such a flight. It is […]