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Sharia in action: Kuwaiti woman loses child custody after wearing a bikini

May 29, 2014 10:44 am By Robert Spencer

Bikini-Burqa-Beach-420x0Kuwaiti politicians say that ”wearing a bikini is not a personal choice or a matter of personal freedom,” but rather ”an assault on local values and sense of decency and modesty.” Wearing one runs counter to “the precepts of Islam.” And that’s that, in Kuwait, and increasingly in the West as well, courtesy of terrified and cowed politicians and a complicit media.

“Kuwaiti woman loses child custody after wearing a bikini,” ANSAmed, May 28, 2014 (thanks to Insubria):

(ANSAmed) – DUBAI, MAY 28 – A Kuwaiti mother has lost custody of her children after her ex-husband showed the court a picture of her wearing a bikini in the company of a man lacking blood ties to her. The incident has occurred in an emirate known for being a trailblazer in the Gulf region on the issue of women’s rights. ”Their mother could not be trusted with them,” the father’s lawyer, Yousuf Hussein, was quoted by Gulf News as saying. ”My client presented pictures to the court that prove her unfit lifestyle.” ”The mother cannot be trusted to raise the children properly and the picture as an example indicates a lack of modesty and a deficiency in her morals that erode trust in her and result in public disdain as society assesses her actions morally or religiously,” the lawyer said.

The court’s verdict led to an initiative by Kuwaiti lawmaker Hamdan Al-Azemi, head of the anti-social behavior committee, to submit a proposal to ban ”nudity” in public areas and hotels.

The concept of nudity – he told the daily Al-Rai, quoted by Gulf News – does not require any additional explanation, as it would be for any other ”negative phenomena” running counter to local culture or ”the precepts of Islam”. Al-Azemi said that that women’s bathing suits were ”alien to the Kuwaiti culture and could not be accepted or tolerated”.

The issue of bikinis has thus become the center of debate raised by conservative politicians, who say that ”wearing a bikini is not a personal choice or a matter of personal freedom,” but rather ”an assault on local values and sense of decency and modesty.” The decision by the committee will have to be approved by the parliament before it is referred to the government. If it is accepted by the ministers, it will be enacted as a binding legal text. (ANSAmed).

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  1. Charli Mian says

    May 29, 2014 at 10:57 am

    Whats sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
    Muslim women arriving in Western countries dressed in black bin bags and wearing nose rags should be compelled to change into mini skirts and short tops—–its a Western cultural thing and the Muslims should respect our culture and dress accordingly.

    • mariam rove says

      May 29, 2014 at 11:08 am

      Islam is supremacist so this ain’t happening!!! M

      • john spielman says

        May 29, 2014 at 12:25 pm

        well, it’s happening in France!

  2. CogitoErgoSum says

    May 29, 2014 at 11:03 am

    If something offends you, close your eyes or look away. People do it all the time when it comes to seeing the naked truth about Islam.

    • Jay Boo says

      May 29, 2014 at 11:10 am

      Good one

  3. Jay Boo says

    May 29, 2014 at 11:21 am

    Somewhat off topic
    Pakistan stoning for perceived ‘immorality’

    (from NPR interview yesterday)
    Jimmy Carter went on record as being against stoning, and yet ……
    Jimmy Carter said this is not about religion — It is about custom.
    Which religion is this supposedly not about?
    He chose not to say
    Jimmy Carter said this is about (courts and laws)
    He chose to forget to mention the word (sharia).
    The reason we can be absolutely certain that stoning is in fact about Islam is the way international leaders puff themselves up with shock-and-awe while they circle around Islam and completely fail to put a stop to it.
    The PC United Nations is dumbfounded what to do.

    • CogitoErgoSum says

      May 29, 2014 at 11:40 am

      Jimmy Carter (along with Barack Obama, David Cameron and others …including the Pope) does not seem to understand the Bible, much less the Quran. Either he believes that Muhammad was a prophet from God or he does not. If he does believe the Quran is from God, then he should be fighting to spread belief in the Quran with all his might …. which means he must also believe that Jesus was not the Son of God and the Bible is wrong. If he believes his Bible is correct and the Quran is wrong, then he should be doing all that is legally possible to spread the truth and stop the lies of the Quran. Is Jimmy Carter the victim of sloppy thinking or am I? If I am, then what am I missing here?

      • Jay Boo says

        May 29, 2014 at 11:48 am

        I forget the details but Jimmy Carter had an epiphany and left his Baptist church because he felt it was leaning too conservative and joined a more liberal church.
        How ironic that he should criticize Baptists for being too conservative while he bends over backwards providing cover for Islamic justification of stoning.

        • john spielman says

          May 29, 2014 at 12:47 pm

          This is why we call him- Dhimmi Carter!!!!

  4. ApostateOfWesternism says

    May 29, 2014 at 11:21 am

    Typical propaganda by omission. The key phrase is: ” in the company of a man lacking blood ties to her”. But no, the degeneracy of Western civ mandates that children be raised by prostitutes rather than betrayed fathers. At present, Western civ in its sorry state is a civ that in general despises men – especially those who have provided for their wives and children, only to be betrayed and thrown away like toilet paper by their Westernized wives.

    • Nan says

      May 31, 2014 at 2:20 pm

      In the West too, women and children were once considered chattel. The law called for the mother to raise the children until they were 7, then they went to the father. A woman leaving her husband didn’t even own the clothes on her back. We have come a long way since then; women and children are no longer chattel, child custody is determined by the best interests of the child which may not be to live with a misogynistic father.

  5. mariam rove says

    May 29, 2014 at 11:26 am

    Jimmy Carter said this is not about religion — It is about custom….

    Carter is in the same boat as Obama. M

  6. Rezali Mehil says

    May 29, 2014 at 11:56 am

    It is obvious that this woman is seeing the other man….she was not yet divorced …she has a court case going on and she pull a stunt like that.

    She obviously lost her marbles…and now her children…the prospect of her getting them back is slim to none….you are not going to win against the state.

    What ever you may think that is the law of the land – (and she would have avoided in getting sunstroke in the sun too) .

    The primary concern here is for the children – and their rightly guided Islamic upbringing …this is not to say that the father would be a good choice…only that the mother is a bad choice.

    Oh well – let her get some “new” children off her new man…

    More Later …

    Rezali

    • CogitoErgoSum says

      May 29, 2014 at 12:15 pm

      It’s obvious the woman has lost her marbles? Rezali, I’ll agree with you that it’s obvious in her if you will agree with me that it’s obvious in you.

    • vickie says

      May 29, 2014 at 2:56 pm

      Speaking of loosing their marbles!!

      Did anyone think to ask the woman if she had breast fed the man?

      If she has then according to the marble-less mind of Mohammad she could be in he company of the man without a chaperone!!

    • Concerned says

      May 29, 2014 at 3:32 pm

      You’re a dick.
      If she was divorcing the man (how do you know?) he was probably a dick like you.
      Tell me you’re not a retarded rag head?

    • Brian Hoff says

      May 29, 2014 at 5:50 pm

      I agree with you this woman was born in this nation than mostly likely born than muslim she could have know the local custom and Islamist law.

    • Medina says

      May 29, 2014 at 10:09 pm

      Muslimas are more likely to get a vitamin D deficiency AND a sunstroke wearing those black bags.

    • Nan says

      May 31, 2014 at 2:26 pm

      Islam is fucked up.

  7. mark says

    May 29, 2014 at 12:39 pm

    I would support a motion to ban bikini wearing in public in Canada, if it ever got warm enough to wear bikinis up here. But I would not support the motion if it came from the Muslim quarter. And I would make the penalty to be a fine, nothing more, maybe a day or two in jail, only applicable to offenders who are post-pubescent, with the penalty being leveled against the parents in cases where minors are involved. I believe the Puritans would support me on this. I stand with them. And please don’t anyone mention the Puritan/witch thang. I have dealt with that enough times already.

    • Concerned says

      May 29, 2014 at 3:17 pm

      What sort of hypocritical pervert are you?
      If you don’t want to see any female bodies then go around with a blindfold and cane!!
      Who are you to say what half the population of the world should wear? And I like to see the female body in a bikini. It’s one of the great things about being a guy!

      People who are concerned about the appalling action should leave complaint at the Kuwaiti embassy..

      Phone:+1 202-966-0702

    • John says

      May 29, 2014 at 3:41 pm

      Dear Mark,

      Please stay in Canada and keep your puritan thoughts to yourself.

      Sincerely,

      Every American Man who loves a woman in a bikini.

      • Carlos Danger says

        May 29, 2014 at 8:20 pm

        Amen.

  8. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    May 29, 2014 at 2:34 pm

    The gal in the photo is the object of sympathy, losing her child. What she should do is sneak out of Kuwait and into America. She can stay with me until she gets on her feet.

    ***

    Are visiting Infidel women allowed to wear bikinis in Kuwait? Or does that offend local values over there?

    • Nan says

      May 31, 2014 at 2:28 pm

      Everything offends local values over there. No exception for infidels.

  9. Champ says

    May 29, 2014 at 3:52 pm

    You’re kidding she wore a bikini to the beach and in red, no less? …shocking!!!!

    Hey and which woman looks more out of place at the beach? lol!

  10. Carlos Danger says

    May 29, 2014 at 8:18 pm

    Kuwait…..hmmmmm……Kuwait. didn’t the West (particularly the U.S.) help them out when they had a spat with their neighbor back in 1991. I remember the American Army, the Brits, and a few others doing the heavy lifting while Kuwaiti men played in Beiruit.

  11. Eric Retzlaff says

    May 30, 2014 at 11:10 am

    This is a false dichotomy: the West that has become increasingly pornographic and objectifying toward women as it rebels against Christian values (e.g., telling women sex is their real value, using them and then emptying them out [abortion] for further use) –V.S. — the misogynist Islam enslaves women while allowing a lot of latitude for men’s libido (e.g., a woman can be secretly raped but be charged with adultery if she accuses him, Islam’s “temporary wives,” its sex-saturated “heaven,” and polygamy).

    Christ shows the middle ground that upholds the dignity of women.

  12. Dragon says

    May 30, 2014 at 10:58 pm

    I was just in Las Vegas. On the one hand, there were women wearing bikinis and see-thru tops as street attire. On the other hand, there was an Orthodox Jewish couple with the wife in a shirt and skirt that covered elbows and knees, respectively. (Husband wore regular shirt and pants and a kippa.)

    Bikinis are fine in the right setting. And one can be modestly dressed without wearing a burka or veil. Anyone who can’t get the latter through their heads shouldn’t live in a Western country.

  13. mark says

    May 30, 2014 at 11:00 pm

    Some of you don’t like my former comment. A sense of decency is not inconsistent with a hatred of Muslim terrorism.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      May 31, 2014 at 12:42 am

      Mate: I come from Australia.

      I have attended church **every Sunday (except for illnesses)** since I was seventeen.

      When I was in my late teens and early twenties I was part of a Christian youth group. We went on camps to the beach. We did bible study and so on. **And we went swimming** – in freshwater creeks and at the beach.

      The young gentlemen in the group wore either speedoes or boardshorts…and the young women in the group, **including myself**, wore bikinis. Yes, **we wore bikinis**. BOO!

      And guess what? – *no* hanky-panky took place. I’m sure the lads thought we young ladies were a pleasure to behold; but they were nice young Christian gentlemen, and observed the basic rule of the Aussie beach – look, discreetly, but don’t touch. A lot of the people in the group did eventually start courting, and *marry* each other, and the marriages are doing fine, twenty-plus years down the track.

      On an Australian beach from dawn till dusk all year round *every* imaginable form of swimwear can be seen, on people of every age and size. One sees, side by side, skimpy bikinis and speedoes through to two-pieces, one-pieces, and (for the keen surfers) boardshorts, swimshirts, and wetsuits. *Toddlers* (aged 2 and under) often scamper about **naked**. Women occasionally sunbathe topless, though they are discreet about it. If people cover up (swimshirts), they are doing it not out of modesty, for fear that they may excite uncontrollable lust (ROFLMAO, the only people who grope and grab and hiss obscenities at the beach are – surprise! surprise! mohammedans) but to avoid joining our unenviable skin cancer statistics.

      I wouldn’t wear a bikini to the beach today… because at age fifty, and after having given birth to four children, I don’t exactly have the figure for it anymore, and because I got tired of having to cover myself with gallons of sunscreen (five minutes in the sun without sunscreen and I’m toast). I wear a onepiece and also a swimshirt to save on sunscreen. But it wouldn’t even enter my head to stalk about the beach like Mrs Grundy glaring daggers at the pretty young things – or the not-so-pretty older things – who *do* wear bikinis. Nor would I forbid my daughters to wear them.

      If you want to start a campaign to Ban the Bikini you won’t get a signature from *me*.

      • Rezali Mehil says

        May 31, 2014 at 9:29 am

        Yes DDA,

        But we talking about 2014, not 1950

        More Later….

        Rezali

        • CogitoErgoSum says

          May 31, 2014 at 11:21 am

          Why does what year it is make any difference?

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