For how long, dear deputy?
In the era before electricity, theater actors and artistes sought to appear, and stayed for longer period of time, in the area of light, or the so-called limelight area, where the stage was lit in an innovative manner through a device that produced light by an oxyhydrogen flame or the stage was lit with candles and by dropping lemon juice on it to produce a glow to illuminate the surroundings.
In politics and art, some seek to remain in the limelight, sometimes by raising the most ridiculous issues, or by fabricating news and publishing false allegations against innocent people or entities for the sake of fame, or slandering other person to seek personal benefit.
The problem with those who have such mentalities is that being silent about their allegations may lead some to believe them, and if they are responded to, they will get what they want; therefore, I will choose the lesser of the two evils.
MP Hamad Al-Matar’s latest joke was his accusation of a foreign resident working at the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research of stealing research papers of a Kuwaiti doctor who has been working for 35 years in the same place.
This claim reminds me of a joke that was spread during the Syrian military presence in Lebanon, where a person went to the police station complaining that a Swiss person had stolen his Syrian-made watch.
How can a sane person believe that an expatriate and a non-Arab in particular, dares to steal research papers from a Kuwaiti doctor who has been working for 35 years at the institute?
The summary of the incident is that the doctor accused the expatriate of stealing her research, so the KISR management formed an investigation committee which proved the innocence of the expatriate. The presence of common historical data and general information between the two researches is not considered evidence or validity of the accusation.
The complainant did not like the decision, so she resorted to the Prosecution which opened an investigation into the matter and asked the institute to send a translator with the defendant to carry out the translation process because the expatriate did not know how to speak Arabic.
The Prosecution also did not find evidence to prove the accusation was correct, and the case was closed.
The complainant did not like the decision of the KISR and the Prosecution, so she went to the deputy Al-Matar and he found something in this case that would bring him to limelight, so he sent tweets and one of the tweets read: ‘An Asian who stole the research of a Kuwaiti doctor and KISR filed the case with the prosecution’.
I do not think that the issue deserves all this exaggeration from the deputy brother, who is researching issues of attracting attention. The doctor is definitely not ignorant, and she resorting to Al-Matar is nothing but evidence of her disapproval of the decision of KISR and the Prosecution, and this is neither in her interest nor in the interest of Al-Matar, so does the representative know that? I doubt it!
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In tomorrow’s article, I will write about what is behind the scenes regarding the move of the American University of Beirut to Kuwait. It is a return that may be temporary to publish every Friday to ease the weight of the accumulated articles.