The day I raised the white flag
i have been hoping, preparing, and reassuring myself and those who were around me for 20 years ago or more that things will change for the better, inevitably. my last hopes were pinned on the results of the last parliamentary elections but the results disappointed me, so i went back and rested on hopes for a strong modern ministry, and again i was also disappointed. i grasped the last straw, which is the election of the committees, and i saw how the ‘superman’ controlled ten committees and others headed the important and vital ones and i felt tired and admitted defeat.
i admit that i have respect, especially for his highness the prime minister, and that often prompted me to find an excuse for him and to remind myself and others that he is a human being like us who do not always have his decision and he works in a stressful environment of forces that have a strong presence that is difficult to overcome.
an era has gone and another has come and i expected things to be easier, but it seems that we are still suffering from the previous era because all the outputs are similar to what was before.
perhaps his highness does not want to admit that kuwait needs an uprising, a cultural revolution to something that relieves it of all this unjustified slowness in taking decisions that we have been waiting for several months, or perhaps several years.
the experiences of the world have shown, in the last two hundred years at least, that it is impossible for any country to progress and prosper if it chooses to adhere to the ambiguity of the past, break the dignity of women, prevent the teaching of modern theories, and forcefully suppress education within curricula injected with every extremist idea away from science and closer to backwardness, which is what our societies would not know, were it not for government leniency and perhaps even collusion with the forces of extremism.
if our government contributed to all this, then where is the hope? when will we open up to the world, join the ranks of civilization, and co-exist with others as did the closest countries to us politically, intellectually, culturally, and religiously?
what is expected of the parliamentary committee of ‘family and women’ when one of its three members is an extremist muslim brotherhood member, the second is a salafi, and the third is sympathetic to isis?
how is it possible to accept seeing almost the same faces, and faces of those who are more extreme as members of the negative phenomena committee, which sees everything negative in kuwait?
matters are definitely not measured by the veil, the niqab, the bathing suit, the unveiling, the singing, and the supplication because the matter is much more dangerous than that.
they have kept us preoccupied with these marginal issues and seized the opportunity to eliminate the civil state and education and made us false witnesses to medieval thought and during all that the government remained on the sidewalk looking at the erosion of the foundations of the modern state without trying, or perhaps afraid, to do anything to stop this decline.
accordingly, i raise the white flag of surrender, announcing victory for backwardness, and putting the idea of the civil state, which we have always dreamed of, into the recovery room.
