Mishari and the ears seller
Other Voices
IBy Ahmad alsarraf
t is difficult to write about a colleague whom I have met only occasionally but his modesty and good manner makes writing about him easy. Each time I met him he was calm, but his logic was sound, and he is one of the few who has given politics more than the other way around. He is one of the men at national level with clean hands and good reputation.
The citizens and voters always put their trust. He contested all the parliamentary elections from 1981 to 2006 and did his best legislatively and electorally. He topped the winners in the sixth constituency, in the 1985 and 1992 elections from the same constituency but he lost the elections after that one time, for reasons that are not possible to list here.
He contested again in the 1999 elections and topped the winners’ list. Then again he repeated the feat in 2003 elections. After contesting the 2006 parliamentary election and despite obtaining the first position, something ‘came in his way’ and he decided not to run, in spite of pressure put on him to contest.
As usual loyal Kuwaitis, he abstained from the request, while welcoming any participation or contribution that may be beneficial to his country. Despite his accounting background and previous administrative experiences, he was among the best to assume the Ministry of Justice, and the prints of his accomplishments are still evident in it.
This man is none other than the former Deputy Minister Mishari Jassem Al-Anjari and various heads of government could have benefited from his expertise, but unfortunately very few of them did so, but he can still give a lot.
I am writing this article, not only to praise a sincere and beautiful person who has given a lot to the homeland, but also to write about the pain that overwhelmed me after I received from a friend a picture from the book of “Islamic Education” for the third grade of a primary school.
I was greatly surprised when I found a chapter of a man who set the best example in the filial piety and the book described it as “one of the men in Kuwait”. The surprise was not limited to the extreme exaggeration of the description, but rather to his relationship with who lives between us, and his relationship with his parents is a matter of his own and no one knows its truth, and the curricula of education should not be related to it, and the life of that person is not, in all cases, a subject to be taught because of the intertwining conflicts and disagreement with religious parties, and what happened around the relationship from the severe murmur related to trading in religion, and the wealth that was accumulated after selling golden and silver ears.
In addition to the above, that person promoted magic and sorcery issues on TV and put the number of magicians in Kuwait at five hundred, and his statements about the patients in hospital are bewitched and magic suddenly nullified years the magician who did the magic died in the tsunami disaster.
I don’t know, why? And how did the Ministry of Education choose this particular man to talk about a personal relationship between him and his parents, although there are much better examples.
How did the author know that this person set the best example in filial piety? Will the Ministry of Education in future teach the biography of another preacher, who beat one of his possessed patients to death, and was sentenced to imprisonment who went out to become the most famous in his field, before his nationality was withdrawn and returned to him, because he comforted one of his patients by killing him?
Or will the students study biography of a preacher who publicly admitted that he slaughtered a person and his son only because they are of a different sect, and he returned to teach at the College of Sharia, as he was a righteous professor with his students?
Is this permissible, Minister of Education? This is a scandal by all standards and distortion of the student’s thought. We hope to remove it from the textbooks immediately.
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