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February 2, 2005

Kuwaiti Islamic groups go on defensive

Not only have the Saudis had problems with Islamic extremists, the Kuwaitis have also undergone a recent flurry of problems with Islamists. Even the mainstream Sunni Muslim groups have distanced themselves from Kuwait's recent violence instigated by the Islamic fundamentalists. Of interest are the accusations leveled at the Kuwaiti government by the liberals - they sound familiar.

(...)  Security forces over the past month fought four bloody gunbattles in three weeks with Islamist gunmen linked to Al-Qaeda network and Saudi militants, killing eight of them and capturing 14 others.

(...)  Islamic groups, which form the largest single bloc in the 50-seat parliament with 13 MPs, have however been directly accused by liberals of breeding extremism and creating an environment conducive to the spread of terrorism.

(...)  Liberal groups, reduced to a small minority in parliament after the 2003 elections, have also accused government of turning a blind eye and failing to curb extremism.

(...)  The liberals have accused the government of forming an alleged alliance with Islamist groups directed against them.

(...)  In a statement on Wednesday, the three main liberal groups - the Democratic Forum, National Democratic Movement and National Democratic Alliance - said government leniency was to blame for the rise of extremism in Kuwait.

(...)  Islamic 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 Islamist militants.

(...)  Mainstream Sunni Muslim groups moved swiftly to distance themselves from the violence that has rocked the normally peaceful oil-rich emirate after the first gunfights broke out on January 10, killing two police officer.

Now listen to this next accusation as it rings of the outcries of the blogosphere led by Danial Pipes, Robert Spencer, Jawa Report, Hyscience, inTheBullPen, Digger's Realm, California Yankee, and many others.

(...)  "A lenient policy by successive governments and its educational, security and religious agencies has helped the growth of an extremist tide and a cancerous spread of religious groups and societies," said the statement.

The religious groups referred to here are the Islamic fundamentalists. Our liberal anti-American media, educators, government leaders, and left-leaning Democrats continue to give Islamists a pass which is helping to advance and spread the cancer of fundamentalist Islam in America .

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Posted by Hyscience at February 2, 2005 5:36 PM

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