Talk:Politics of Kuwait

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This is biased and inaccurate:

"It is noteworthy that, according to the Constitution, the Amir's person is immune and inviolable. Therefore, He can never be criticized in the State's mass media or elsewhere in the country. But it is not because of the Constitutional ban that the Amir is not criticized - it is simply because there is no real need to do that: partly because He - being a symbol of State - is held in high esteem by all Kuwaiti citizens and partly because most of His every day activities are of diplomatic nature - sending cables to the Heads of other States, receiving ambassadors and attending important events both locally and internationally. Amir exercizes His authority through Cabinet ministers. To some extent, His position can be likened to that of the UK monarch."

It is not only ridiculous to speak for "all Kuwaiti citizens", but also it does not stand to reason that there would be a constitutional ban if there were no fears that this might occur. Also, as a point of format, capitalizing "He" to refer to the Amir is unneccesary as a capitalization of pronouns is reserved for demarcating the diety in standard modern english. Look at the entry for "British Monarchy", which is the comparison the author of this entry makes, all pronouns refering to the monarch are not capitalized. It may be that they would be captialized in certain diplomatic exchanges, but certainly wikipedia is not a diplomatic exchange. I am not argueing that there is no constitutional ban on the person of the Amir, but saying that ALL the people would not violate this rule is conjectural, and effectively false. I predict that the author has the objective of regime apologetics which is not appropriate.

I agree, and when I get some time I plan on going through that paragraph to make it NPOV. I'd appreciate if someone more familiar with Kuwaiti politics could do the same. - Haunti 19:55, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Suffrage

Shayhs of the al-Sabah do not vote, but is this a matter of family custom, or of law? I think it is family custom. I have seen copies of Kuwaiti voter rolls with the names of members of the al-Sabah listed as registered voters (though not many of them). Could we reword this to say that, as a matter of family custom, shaykhs do not vote. I think this is useful information to add. MikeHerb 18:59, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

What does this really mean? 'Parliament permitted women's suffrage, effective for the 2007 Parlimentary Election and subject to Islamic Law.' I can't find anythinging in Islamic Law about voting... Rangek 00:21, 2005 May 20 (UTC)

Thats caused quite some confusion to many people in Kuwait too. I believe it meens that women (and men) have to dress conservatively and possibly the segregation of ballots, which wouldnt make any sense. My opinion is that its quite a joke and that Kuwait is becoming far too conservative due to the parliament. -Zer0fighta 23:54, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] International organization participation cleanup

Can we do better than just a list of unlinked uncontextualised acronyms? SP-KP 12:29, 30 June 2006 (UTC)