‘Arab unity slogan forgotten, race on to mend ties with enemy’
“OUR Arab and Islamic world, despite its huge potentials is unable to provide the necessary protective shield to protect our Arab and Islamic cultural and intellectual identity,” columnist and legal expert Dr. Muhammad Al-Moqatae wrote for Al-Jarida daily.
“In other words, the state still lacks the strategic plan required to maintain national identity and this can be ascribed to a set of factors which can be summarized as follows:
“First is the state of oscillation and contradiction that currently governs the public directions. In other words, it is the state which sometimes remains biased to the roots of its national identity as well as to its intellectual and cultural heritage, as such it hastens to adopt the same through its educational curricula and informational programs and writes the same in its codes and legislative documents, while sometimes relinquishes either partially or completely eventually consecrates imported or emergent cultures, just to keep abreast with some personal impression and a dire political bickering in the community which reflects the state alienation and recip- rocal contradiction from time to time.
“Secondly, the state of cultural breakdown and the civilization defeat before the tremendous Western potentials, so the state will be unable to commit to its basics or capable to protect its national identity under direct Western pressures and impacts which practice a terrifying presence against our national identity and cultural dominance and the promotion of its intellectual and cultural system.
“And thirdly; to find a cultural and intellectual path for both the state and the peoples motivated by the belief that the adoption of such a path shall bring stability for the regime and provides a qualitative leap towards development and nation building.
“Consequently, we in the Arab and Islamic world, have tried all the patterns of cultures and thoughts which the other nations had passed through, but this resulted in more setbacks, loss and alienation, not only at the national level, rather on the level of each state in the Arab and Islamic world and this had created a chronic state for both the cultural and intellectual vacuum.
“Apart from the above, there is another attempt aimed at mixing the religious concepts with some freak thought in order to accelerate the destruction process of the nation basics including that related to wearing the veil and the promotion of such idea saying there is no specific verse in the Holy Quran related to the veil.
“Moreover, there are some people who are attempting to nullify the Prophetic (PBUH) Sunna as one of the source of legislation, although this source is confirmed through many Quranic verses.
“Besides, there some other people who tailor the religion to meet the requirements of a specific party or group and eventually consider others as having nothing to do with religion ignoring the fact about Islam’s pluralism, given the fact pluralism and different opinions within the nation, constitute mercy.
“Meanwhile, we may have observed, that the slogan calling for Arab unity has been abandoned, to such an extent instigations come flying from all directions to abort the ‘unity project’ or ideas to this effect, let alone there is a hectic race to normalize ties with the usurping Zionist entity, while some others are currently attempting to delete Palestine and the Al-Aqsa Mosque from their Arab and Islamic depths and transfer the cause into ‘just a local issue’.”
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“The State granted health insurance (Afiya) to its retired citizens as per law number 114 of 2014. This is one of the citizens’ rights guaranteed by the Constitution, but the application of the law is done through an executive regulation specifying the diseases covered and not covered by the health insurance for retirees,” columnist Dr Hind Al-Choumar wrote for Al-Anba daily.
“We have not seen any specialized technical follow up to ensure the retirees obtain their full rights. They should not end in embarrassing situations, just because the policy does not cover some diseases or the coverage is partial.
“It is logical that common medical conditions among retirees are on top of the list of insurance coverage, such as Alzheimer’s, dementia, palliative care and cancer. God forgive whoever made a long list of diseases not covered by health insurance.
“The result is robbery of the rights of retirees and the opening of backdoors to fraud. In the absence of technical medical supervision over the implementation of the wellness project, it turned into a distorted entity and the stakeholders were absent from its management for the benefit of retirees. By stakeholders, I mean the Public Institution for Social Security and Ministry of Finance, as well as an independent technical entity for health insurance.
“I invite retirees who enjoy the Afia health insurance scheme, Public Institution for Social Security, Ministry of Finance and experts to conduct scientific studies in cooperation with Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences to shed light on the negative aspects of the application of the law and how to overcome them through rational management.”
“Relatively speaking, immunology is one of the modern sciences. It has developed and advanced a lot in recent years, especially in the two years of the Corona pandemic. This science is the main source of vaccines and immunotherapy methods,” columnist Dr Naji Al-Zaid wrote for Al-Jarida daily.
“The latest surprising discovery by this advanced science is the cure for Corona disease – extracted from the blood of llamas and camels, both of which belong to the family of camels (Family Camelidae).
“Scientists have found that attacking the Coronavirus in either a llama or a camel results in very small immune particles called ‘nano-antibodies’ whose effect is very strong, as they stick to the virus and prevent its activity and spread.
“To prove this, the research team exposed experimental mice to Coronavirus, up to the point of contracting the disease, then they were injected or made to inhale a spray containing antibodies extracted from the blood of llamas or camels. Surprisingly, the mice infected with Corona completely recovered from the disease after six days.”
“We all know, as it is no longer a secret, that there are forgers of various important official Kuwaiti documents. Also, we do not see the State working seriously in eliminating this phenomenon to at least restore its prestige,“columnist Yousef Abdulkarim Al-Zinkawi wrote for Al-Jarida daily.
“We do not know why the issues on forgery or those with dual nationalities are not on top of governmental or even parliamentary priorities. Why does the government not present it to the Parliament to obtain support and coordinate the efforts of the two authorities in this direction?
“No one knows why this issue is not the main focus of all members of the National Assembly, if they are really keen on fortifying the original Kuwaiti identity? We wonder: Did the two authorities, God forbid, fail in their efforts to expose the forgers due to the strength of the current of corruption?
“Is it reasonable that we, Kuwaitis, know that there are hundreds of thousands of forgers, and that there are statements on their names and original nationalities - some of whom have not yet relinquished their original nationalities, yet our official institutions cannot summon them for interrogation in order to amend their status or withdraw their Kuwaiti citizenship and for them to leave the country?”