"... Islamic law (Sharia) only requires women candidates and MPs to wear the veil, not female ministers..."
An update on this story. "Kuwait: MPs support unveiled women ministers," from Adnkronos International, June 30:
Kuwait, 30 June (AKI) - Members of the Kuwaiti Parliament 's Sharia Issues Commission have backed a request by the country's two female ministers to appear in Parliament without the Islamic veil, Kuwaiti daily Al-Seyassah reports.
Commission members on Sunday agreed that Islamic law (Sharia) only requires women candidates and MPs to wear the veil, not female ministers, according to Al-Seyassah.
On 2 June, both female ministers, Education Minister Nouria al-Sabahi and her colleague Moutha al-Mahmoud appeared bare-headed in the Parliament.
Islamist MPs in the Parliament stormed out of the building in protest.
Half of the MPs elected to the new Kuwaiti Parliament in last month's elections are Islamists.
Women gained the vote in Kuwait in 2005. Female candidates ran but failed to win a single seat in the 2006 and 2008 parliamentary polls....
Moutha al-Mahmoud...Oh I know, it doesn't mean what it looks like it ought to mean, but still...Mouthy, uppity woman, shuckin' off the veil. Awesome!
"Islamist MPs in the Parliament stormed out of the building in protest."
From the article.
Sounds like that would have been a perfect time to bring up a vote on expelling a few MPs, those who walked out.
Boy, that ol' sharia sure has all the answers. What detail! Plain old women MP's still have to be veiled, but women cabinet ministers don't. Now, what about women opposition MP's who are members of the shadow government? Veiled? Or no? Or maybe Kuwait doesn't have an opposition or a shadow government?