‘Govt mum as radical moves force people to fly out in holidays’
“I BROUGHT a box of toys for my granddaughters, and it was a shock when I saw what the Qandhari did to it. The box contained an educational picture of a girl no more than four years old, with her mother next to her, as if she was explaining something to her, so Al-Qandhari entered and covered the girl’s chest with black ink. As for the mother, although she was not naked wearing normal clothes, our friend due to his excessive concern for morals and traditions, he performed his religious duty with black ink to cover her arms,” columnist Talal Abdulkareem Al-Arab wrote for Al-Jarida daily.
“The truth is that what has been happening in Kuwait over the years does not bode well. The representatives and groups of social regression and the intellectual and recreational isolation of the people of Kuwait have forbidden almost everything.
“The strange thing is that the government, for purely political reasons, has surrendered to these forces in a way that has affected the general psyche, and this has prompted most Kuwaitis to flee the country collectively whenever an opportunity for holidays and vacations come their way, to spend hundreds of millions of their money abroad instead of pumping them into the local market.
“It is strange and boring, that all countries of the Islamic world and the Gulf are becoming more open except for Kuwait, whose social status is deteriorating, and the suppression of personal freedoms with it that is not commensurate with the awareness and openness of Kuwait.
“The strangest thing is that the government’s surrender to these groups is clear and obvious. As soon as someone writes on ‘Twitter’ protesting a situation he did not like from his environmental point of view, or a representative who does not know anything about the heavenly religion, he raises his voice in protest against something that angered his group until the government rushes to suppress and ban, without feeling ashamed or even embarrassed.
“Meanwhile, we say what is sad is to see that although we have been educated when we were students during the 1950s and until now to stand up in salute for the flag of Kuwait, because it is the symbol of the country, but the question here is, how some MPs want us to give up our traditions and conventions in this connection, ignoring the fact that saluting the Kuwaiti flag represents a national duty because anyone who doesn’t respect the flag of his/her country or anyone who describes it as just a piece of cloth, the he/she must leave us for good.”
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“In a joint session in the US Congress, 9 days after the events of Sept 11, 2001, the then US President George W. Bush announced the start of a new, unprecedented war, not like conventional wars, and called it the ‘global war on terror’, revealing how to achieve victory. In it, to prevent terrorists from obtaining funding, to make them fight among themselves, and to chase them everywhere until they find no refuge,” columnist, professor at Kuwait University, and the advisor to Human Right Watch (HRW) Dr. Ghanim Al-Najjar wrote for Al-Jarida.
“Given the above, the war in question, would have been indeed like the traditional wars simply because this war aims at eliminating the foe and may be occupy its capital, but the war on terror will be endless. It is war in which the victor wins when nothing happens, but not when an event happens. In other world, when a terrorist act occurs individually or collectively, this means that the war is still going on.
“Thus, the beginning of the war on terrorism was the attack on Afghanistan, because the Taliban did not agree at the time to hand over Osama bin Laden, and here it is after 20 years, the Taliban is returning to its position in Afghanistan, which is only a station in the war on terrorism that financial, military, intelligence and logistical resources were poured into it, not from one or two countries, but from more than 85 countries.
“It was not much different from Iraq, even though it was said that the invasion of Iraq was to dismantle an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction, the existence of which was not proved. The American author Elliot Ackerman goes further, to confirm that things have gotten so bad that the fear was not only of the fall of the government of Nuri al-Maliki, when ISIS reached dozens of kilometers from Baghdad in 2014, but the possibility of creating a fragile state, such as the one in which ‘al-Qaeda’ and then ‘ISIS’ were found.
“Ackerman goes on to say that the problem of the war on terrorism is that it is a war in which there is no victor. Rather, it has changed America from within, and how it sees itself in the world, limiting its ability to move, weakening its influence on its competitors, and distracting it from China, Russia and others.
“The war on Afghanistan may have ended, or so it seems, or at least, the direct American role in it has ended, but the global war on terrorism is still going on, and through it the dictatorship has been strengthened under that loose slogan, and perhaps the first affected by it was the one who ignited it, which is the United States of America.”
“Only a few days separate us from the return of education according to the traditional system -- the attendance of students in schools. It is now time to go back to the days before ‘Corona’, even if the attendance system is implemented by scheduling class days alternately in order to reduce the number of students in one classroom!” columnist Ibrahim Al-Awadi wrote for Al-Rai daily.
“The Ministry of Education is facing a new challenge. It shall undergo a litmus test to prove its efficiency in enforcing health regulations to prevent the spread of the virus among students! Without a doubt, failure in this matter means return to the distance education system, which has been proven to be a failure due to the ministry’s mismanagement of the application of this type of education!
“All that I wish from the ministry and those in charge of private education, especially Undersecretary of the ministry Dr Ali Al-Yacoub is to stress the need for private schools to follow procedures and precautions to protect the students. They should ensure that these schools strictly implement regulations on isolation, maintaining a safe distance between students, prevent students from directly interacting with each other, and implement all other regulations so we do not return to distance education.”
“The World Patient Safety Day, which falls on Sept 17 every year, aims to educate the community about the importance of following safety procedures in providing healthcare to patients in all locations and specialties because it is one of their basic rights,” columnist Dr Hind Al-Choumar wrote for AlAnba daily.
“Interest in this topic has increased due to the successive developments in health care delivery methods, working conditions and the introduction of modern technologies that were not known before.
“The healthcare safety issue has become an obsession and a challenge for health systems, health care providers or patients.
“The World Health Organization has led several global initiatives for patient safety and prepared many training programs and guidelines. Patient safety standards have been incorporated into the standards for recognizing the quality of health care.
“Despite the achievements in this regard, there are still many challenges that require raising public awareness and improving communication between health care providers, patients and the community, as well as encouraging more studies and transparency in recording and discussing accidents that occur in hospitals, drawing out and exchanging lessons on the issue, and safeguarding patients’ right to safety.”