{"id":25,"date":"2005-03-06T14:00:36","date_gmt":"2005-03-06T10:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/archives\/2005\/03\/06\/women-vote\/"},"modified":"2005-03-10T04:20:48","modified_gmt":"2005-03-10T00:20:48","slug":"women-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"Women Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it\u2019s the hot topic here at Kuwait now, and among bloggers, so I wanted to say what I think about it<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <em>Do they want it? <\/em><br \/>\nI know most of you would yeah! But why can&#8217;t we see it? Why aren&#8217;t they asking for it, demanding it, going to the street?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <em>Where are the demonstrations ?<\/em><br \/>\nHit the street, if you can&#8217;t vote the only way to show support is to take it to the street, big rallies, show that there is really women who want it, that\u2019s why some say they are going to rally a lot of women (not likely)<br \/>\nShow them you can gather more, 1000 women is not a big rally for something this important<br \/>\nGet 10,000.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <em>Victory has many fathers, defeat is an orphan<\/em><br \/>\nThat\u2019s a famous Arabic proverb, which is exactly what\u2019s happening here<\/p>\n<li>women organization: I\u2019m sorry but in the last 10 years they didn&#8217;t do anything<\/li>\n<li>liberal groups: they are going to claim they are the ones that did it, with their parliament majority of zero<\/li>\n<li>Islamic brotherhood: same as liberal, but they have a bigger majority in the parliament, two.<\/li>\n<li>hizb al ummah:  they are going to claim they are the ones that did it, with their parliament majority of zero <\/li>\n<li>salaf: as sad and as stupid they think we are, they are going to claim they are the ones that did it, while they were not for it in the first place<\/li>\n<p>So having listed most of the &#8221; major power &#8221; that should claim he did it if women got to vote? In the end the government <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <em>Do I think it\u2019s going to make it this time?<\/em><br \/>\nI\u2019m sure it would, why? Because this time the government is trying to rally people behind the idea for women to vote, this time it\u2019s on the TV, it wasn\u2019t on TV in 1999<br \/>\nNot to mention the backing of the government newspapers (alwatan) <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <em>Can the government pull it?<\/em><br \/>\nWhy even ask? The government hold all the cards in the game, the only reason its doing it to show it self as a force for democracy in the middle east, to show that they also care about women votes, Qatar got the spotlight when they let women and men vote, why not have some of that spotlight<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <em>Is our democracy missing?<\/em><br \/>\nIf you go by western standard yes its missing women vote, and to be complete women should vote<br \/>\nBut that doesn\u2019t mean it wasn\u2019t there to start with!<br \/>\nThat\u2019s what I hate the most<br \/>\nPeople that say stuff like  \u201c women vote mean democracy in Kuwait \u201c, \u201c we want democracy in Kuwait! Let women vote \u201c<br \/>\nNo, not having women doesn\u2019t mean you don\u2019t have democracy, it mean you don\u2019t have a complete one, just like the USA, they say their democracy is 400 years old, while women were only able to vote in the last 100 of it, they didn\u2019t discard all the years before, they are still proud of it<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipu.org\/wmn-e\/suffrage.htm\">women suffrage timeline <\/a><\/p>\n<p>What I think of women voting rights<br \/>\nIf you asked me that question 3-4 years ago I would tell you women shouldn\u2019t vote<br \/>\nWhy did I think of that? For two reasons:<\/p>\n<li>First that women aren\u2019t ready for voting rights in Kuwait, and that our democracy is young, of course after more years talking with the voters and the new generation of voters, I see that most men aren\u2019t ready to vote either, so why not add more people who aren\u2019t ready to vote.<\/li>\n<li>The second reason is that I believe that women shouldn\u2019t take major ruling part, or as they say it in Arabic &#8221; \u0648\u0644\u0627\u064a\u0647 \u0639\u0627\u0645\u0647 &#8220;, but watching the parliament in the last few years made me believe that they aren\u2019t much of a power<br \/>\nTo begin with.<\/li>\n<p>So in short, if they can get their voting right, good for them, if they can\u2019t I\u2019m not going out burning cars for it<\/p>\n<p><strong>good luck ladies, may Allah give you power and make you successful if you deserve it<\/strong><br \/>\n<!-- BEGIN HTML Generated by Qur'an Viewer --><br \/>\n<!-- QVIEWER2 Version: 2.9 --><br \/>\n<!-- IF YOU FEAR YOUR CREATOR, DO NOT MODIFY QUR'AN TEXT. --><br \/>\n<!-- ONLY FORMATTING CHANGES ARE ALLOWED, BUT BE CAREFUL. --><br \/>\n<!-- CONTACT DIVINEISLAM IF THERE ARE MISTAKE(S) IN TEXT. --><br \/>\n<a NAME=\"QURAN_VERSE_009_105\"><center><\/p>\n<table BORDER=2 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=4 WIDTH=520>\n<tr>\n<td BGColor=#F5F5EF>\n<table BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=4 WIDTH=100%>\n<tr>\n<td ALIGN=\"Right\"><font FACE=\"Traditional Arabic\" SIZE=\"5\"><b><font FACE=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma\" SIZE=\"2\">009.105<\/font><\/b> <bdo DIR=RTL>&#1608;&#1614;&#1602;&#1615;&#1604;&#1616; &#1575;&#1593;&#1618;&#1605;&#1614;&#1604;&#1615;&#1608;&#1575; &#1601;&#1614;&#1587;&#1614;&#1610;&#1614;&#1585;&#1614;&#1609; &#1575;&#1604;&#1604;&#1617;&#1614;&#1607;&#1615; &#1593;&#1614;&#1605;&#1614;&#1604;&#1614;&#1603;&#1615;&#1605;&#1618; &#1608;&#1614;&#1585;&#1614;&#1587;&#1615;&#1608;&#1604;&#1615;&#1607;&#1615; &#1608;&#1614;&#1575;&#1604;&#1618;&#1605;&#1615;&#1572;&#1618;&#1605;&#1616;&#1606;&#1615;&#1608;&#1606;&#1614; &#1608;&#1614;&#1587;&#1614;&#1578;&#1615;&#1585;&#1614;&#1583;&#1617;&#1615;&#1608;&#1606;&#1614; &#1573;&#1616;&#1604;&#1614;&#1609; &#1593;&#1614;&#1575;&#1604;&#1616;&#1605;&#1616; &#1575;&#1604;&#1618;&#1594;&#1614;&#1610;&#1618;&#1576;&#1616; &#1608;&#1614;&#1575;&#1604;&#1588;&#1617;&#1614;&#1607;&#1614;&#1575;&#1583;&#1614;&#1577;&#1616; &#1601;&#1614;&#1610;&#1615;&#1606;&#1614;&#1576;&#1617;&#1616;&#1574;&#1615;&#1603;&#1615;&#1605;&#1618; &#1576;&#1616;&#1605;&#1614;&#1575; &#1603;&#1615;&#1606;&#1618;&#1578;&#1615;&#1605;&#1618; &#1578;&#1614;&#1593;&#1618;&#1605;&#1614;&#1604;&#1615;&#1608;&#1606;&#1614;<\/bdo><\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<hr SIZE=1 COLOR=\"Silver\"\/>\n<tr>\n<td ALIGN=\"Left\"><b>009.105<\/b> And say: &#8220;Work (righteousness): Soon will Allah observe your work, and His Messenger, and the Believers: Soon will ye be brought back to the knower of what is hidden and what is open: then will He show you the truth of all that ye did.&#8221;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><font SIZE=2>Al-Qur&#8217;an, 009.105 (At-Tawba [Repentance, Dispensation])<br \/>\n<br \/>Text Copied from <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.DivineIslam.com\" TARGET=\"framDivineIslam\">DivineIslam&#8217;s<\/a> Qur&#8217;an Viewer software v2.9<\/font><\/center><br \/>\n<!-- END HTML Generated by Qur'an Viewer --><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it\u2019s the hot topic here at Kuwait now, and among bloggers, so I wanted to say what I think about it &#8211; Do they want it? I know most of you would yeah! But why can&#8217;t we see it? Why aren&#8217;t they asking for it, demanding it, going to the street? &#8211; Where are &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/?p=25\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Women Vote<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}