April 4, 2006

THIS TOO IS REGIME CHANGE:

Kuwaiti women vote for first time (BBC, 4/04/06)

Polling is taking place in a Kuwaiti council by-election in which women are allowed to vote for the first time.

Two women are also among eight candidates running for the seat in the Salmiya district, south of the capital.

The 28,000 eligible voters, 60% of whom are women, are voting in segregated polling booths, a condition demanded by Islamist and tribal MPs.

Women were granted equal political rights last year and will vote in full legislative polls in 2007.

Posted by Orrin Judd at April 4, 2006 7:50 AM
Comments

I read after 9/11, Kuwait was about to institute sharia and then they shelved it.

Wise choice.

They and Morocco might just get the last laugh.

Posted by: Sandy P at April 4, 2006 10:38 AM

Mr.Judd: How do you square this implied good of Kuwaiti women voting with your own deeply held belief that western suffarage should be repealed?

Posted by: Buttercup at April 4, 2006 10:46 AM

Their societies didn't develop properly and require radical surgery.

Posted by: oj at April 4, 2006 10:51 AM
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