Friday, February 3, 2012

Islamists Win "Landslide" Majority in Kuwaiti Elections

Since Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance, we should all be thrilled to learn that people who want to enforce Sharia are doing so well in recent elections.

KUWAIT CITY — Kuwait's Islamist-led opposition has won a landslide majority in Kuwait's snap polls by securing 34 seats in the 50-member parliament, officials results released on Friday showed.

Sunni Islamists took 23 seats compared with just nine in the dissolved parliament, while liberals were the big losers, winning only two places against five previously.

No women were elected, with the four female MPs of the previous parliament all losing their seats.
Voters punished pro-government MPs, reducing them to a small minority, especially 13 former MPs who were questioned by the public prosecutor over corruption charges.

The opposition scored strongly in the two tribal-dominated constituencies, winning 18 of the 20 available seats. Kuwait is divided into five electoral districts, with each electing 10 lawmakers.

Minority Shiites who form about 30 percent of the native population saw their representation reduced to seven MPs from nine, with four of them from Islamist groups. (Read more.)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Allahu Akbar

The Arab Spring is going to a night mare for the rest of us. Ond of course the state controlled media and the drive bys will hail this as democracy in action.