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Kuwaiti liberals step up pressure on govt for crackdown on militants
KUWAIT CITY — Religious groups in Kuwait have gone on the defensive as liberals step up calls for a clampdown on fundamentalists in the wake of deadly gunbattles between security forces and militants. Mainstream Sunni groups moved swiftly to distance themselves from the violence that has rocked the normally peaceful country after the first gunfights broke out on January 10, killing two police officers. | "Wudn't us." "Nope, not me." "I know nothing." "Pshaw." |
Leading religious figures, groups, organisations and charities have since issued statements condemning the militants and declaring their total backing to the government's iron-fist policy to stamp terror. They also held public rallies and lectures focused on the need for "national unity" in order to confront fundamentalism which they said was "alien" to Kuwait and its people. "We meet today to prove on the ground that we all stand united against all terrorists and those who believe in violence," MP Nasser Al Sane told a public rally late Tuesday.
Posted by: Steve White 2005-02-03 |
