Kuwaiti Women Still Not Allowed to Vote

**Cowdisease** · 03 May 2005, 06:11 PM

Kuwait's Parliament effectively killed a measure today that would have allowed women to participate in municipal elections for the first time this year, delaying any further discussion of the measure until after the elections are called. The measure's failure ends any chance that women will be able to vote or run in elections for another four years.

OWNED!

"The parliaments of most other Muslim countries don't have as much power as we do," said Waleed al-Tabtabae, head of Parliament's human rights committee and a fervent opponent of the measure. "We have no problem with women voting, but we do have a problem with women standing for elections. Islam dictates that the head of the nation must be a man, and we are technically the head of the nation here."

But, wait, it gets better . . .

Mr. Tabtabae said the effort to get women onto city councils was a preamble to getting women into Parliament, and was therefore illegitimate. "This is a game by the government," he said. "There are many other Kuwaitis who have no right to stand in elections - police, army and others. What makes women so much more special than them?"

**voltz** · 03 May 2005, 06:26 PM

Women in that country need to arm themselves and throw a revolution on their ass.

"The parliaments of most other Muslim countries don't have as much power as we do," said Waleed al-Tabtabae, head of Parliament's human rights committee and a fervent opponent of the measure. "We have no problem with women voting, but we do have a problem with women standing for elections. Islam dictates that the head of the nation must be a man, and we are technically the head of the nation here."

So having a penis gives privilege, what a bunch of dickheads.