Kuwaiti liberals and women's rights activists slammed Islamists' campaign to attract women voters for the next parliamentary elections saying the members of the Islamic Constitutional Movement (ICM) were the main hurdle in the way of women achieving political rights. The change in attitude by Islamists is a political ploy and they will not be able to draw reasonable number of female votes in these changing circumstances, said a prominent scholar and women's rights activists.Dr Badria Al Awadi, Professor of International Law at the Kuwait University told the daily Al Watan yesterday that Kuwaiti women are well aware of the fact that ICM never supported women's rights and only played political games in order to achieve their goals. Islamists' campaign for women's votes launched this week has sparked a political debate in Kuwait over whether Islamists will allow their female followers to run for parliamentary seats. "The change in attitude of Islamists shows, to what extent they can go to achieve their personal goals. They will try to create hurdles for women to bar them from exercising full political rights," she added.