How many of you have heard of Dr. Ahmed Zewail?

Dr. Zewail is an Egyptian professor and scientist. He is director of the NSF Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (LMS) at the California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), one of the top universities and research facilities in the world.

Professor Zewail was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering developments in the field of femtoscience, making it possible to observe the movement of the individual atoms in a femtosecond, a split second that is a millionth of a billionth of a second.

Anyway, someone at work today told me that he is here in Kuwait. He gave a lecture yesterday. OK, so let me get this straight, a Nobel prize winner is in the country and is giving a public lecture about molecular medicine among other thing, and I didn’t even hear he was here! I told myself that it must be my fault, I’m sure it was mentioned in the newspaper but I missed it. So I looked in today’s newspaper, and nothing about the lecture!

Instead, you get this in AlQabas -

Aaaakh ya Kuwait!

How many of you have heard of Dr. Ahmed Zewail?

Dr. Zewail is an Egyptian professor and scientist. He is director of the NSF Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (LMS) at the California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), one of the top universities and research facilities in the world.

Professor Zewail was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering developments in the field of femtoscience, making it possible to observe the movement of the individual atoms in a femtosecond, a split second that is a millionth of a billionth of a second.

Anyway, someone at work today told me that he is here in Kuwait. He gave a lecture yesterday. OK, so let me get this straight, a Nobel prize winner is in the country and is giving a public lecture about molecular medicine among other thing, and I didn’t even hear he was here! I told myself that it must be my fault, I’m sure it was mentioned in the newspaper but I missed it. So I looked in today’s newspaper, and nothing about the lecture!

Instead, you get this in AlQabas -

Aaaakh ya Kuwait!

How many of you have heard of Dr. Ahmed Zewail?

Dr. Zewail is an Egyptian professor and scientist. He is director of the NSF Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (LMS) at the California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), one of the top universities and research facilities in the world.

Professor Zewail was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering developments in the field of femtoscience, making it possible to observe the movement of the individual atoms in a femtosecond, a split second that is a millionth of a billionth of a second.

Anyway, someone at work today told me that he is here in Kuwait. He gave a lecture yesterday. OK, so let me get this straight, a Nobel prize winner is in the country and is giving a public lecture about molecular medicine among other thing, and I didn’t even hear he was here! I told myself that it must be my fault, I’m sure it was mentioned in the newspaper but I missed it. So I looked in today’s newspaper, and nothing about the lecture!

Instead, you get this in AlQabas -

Aaaakh ya Kuwait!

This copy of the murderer’s civil ID was published in yesterday’s AlQabas.

You know whats the scary part? This guy was our next door neighbour for a long time!! He used to rent a place from the guy who wanted to start الأمر بالمعروف و النهي عن المنكر in Kuwait (where they have sticks and run around telling women to cover up like in Saudi). I used to see him when I leave the house, at first I used to say hello, but he was such an ass that he never replied (bcz I was very obviously a liberal).

Anyway, that “saying hi” trend went from trying to be friendly to raising the music really loud and staring him till he turns his head the other way.

When I saw the pic, I recognized him at once, but thought I was crazy, bcz someone wouldve mentioned something from home. So….my mom calls a few mins later telling me the same thing!! Apparently, all the drivers of the neighborhood gathered together in some sort of emergency meeting at the Qurtoba drivers councel and made a decision that it was in fact him, and if I had my doubts before, then I am sure now! (He moved out a couple of weeks ago I think)

So in conclusion, I lived near a murderer, and I actually was giving a murderer dirty looks for many years! scary, no?

This copy of the murderer’s civil ID was published in yesterday’s AlQabas.

You know whats the scary part? This guy was our next door neighbour for a long time!! He used to rent a place from the guy who wanted to start الأمر بالمعروف و النهي عن المنكر in Kuwait (where they have sticks and run around telling women to cover up like in Saudi). I used to see him when I leave the house, at first I used to say hello, but he was such an ass that he never replied (bcz I was very obviously a liberal).

Anyway, that “saying hi” trend went from trying to be friendly to raising the music really loud and staring him till he turns his head the other way.

When I saw the pic, I recognized him at once, but thought I was crazy, bcz someone wouldve mentioned something from home. So….my mom calls a few mins later telling me the same thing!! Apparently, all the drivers of the neighborhood gathered together in some sort of emergency meeting at the Qurtoba drivers councel and made a decision that it was in fact him, and if I had my doubts before, then I am sure now! (He moved out a couple of weeks ago I think)

So in conclusion, I lived near a murderer, and I actually was giving a murderer dirty looks for many years! scary, no?

This copy of the murderer’s civil ID was published in yesterday’s AlQabas.

You know whats the scary part? This guy was our next door neighbour for a long time!! He used to rent a place from the guy who wanted to start الأمر بالمعروف و النهي عن المنكر in Kuwait (where they have sticks and run around telling women to cover up like in Saudi). I used to see him when I leave the house, at first I used to say hello, but he was such an ass that he never replied (bcz I was very obviously a liberal).

Anyway, that “saying hi” trend went from trying to be friendly to raising the music really loud and staring him till he turns his head the other way.

When I saw the pic, I recognized him at once, but thought I was crazy, bcz someone wouldve mentioned something from home. So….my mom calls a few mins later telling me the same thing!! Apparently, all the drivers of the neighborhood gathered together in some sort of emergency meeting at the Qurtoba drivers councel and made a decision that it was in fact him, and if I had my doubts before, then I am sure now! (He moved out a couple of weeks ago I think)

So in conclusion, I lived near a murderer, and I actually was giving a murderer dirty looks for many years! scary, no?

This may seem like a weird question, but do we really know the history of our country??

I work with an American, and she was asking some stuff from Kuwait’s history, like how and when it started, and more questions like that…..

To my own surprise, I didn’t know the answer to most questions, I mean I know the general information, but the details and dates were beyond me.

That got me to thinking, why do I know more about World War II, American history, and even history of the ancient Egyptians and Romans more than I know about Kuwait’s history! There are many reasons for this -

• University education in the US, which included several history classes including American history and government.
• My addiction to chanels like the History chanel and Discovery Civilization chanel, which show alot of documentaries about recent Western and ancient history, but nothing more.
• Lack of documentation of our history? Maybe its not fair to say that since I did get a few recommendations on books about Kuwait history after asking around some specialists, but not hearing about these books, or them not being visible is a problem.
• Most importantly, school education. History classes when I was a kid were basically propaganda brochures instead of insightful information! I learned more about Kuwait in two days of reading, than everything I learned about our history as a kid.

Anyway, back to my main point, do you think that the Kuwaiti population in general knows enough about its country’s history?? I shall be reading further about it and will probably post information that I think is useful.

P.S.- While trying to find information online was very difficult, one website really stood out and deserves a look. www.kuwaitpast.com From the main page, enter the arabic version, very interesting information there!

This may seem like a weird question, but do we really know the history of our country??

I work with an American, and she was asking some stuff from Kuwait’s history, like how and when it started, and more questions like that…..

To my own surprise, I didn’t know the answer to most questions, I mean I know the general information, but the details and dates were beyond me.

That got me to thinking, why do I know more about World War II, American history, and even history of the ancient Egyptians and Romans more than I know about Kuwait’s history! There are many reasons for this -

• University education in the US, which included several history classes including American history and government.
• My addiction to chanels like the History chanel and Discovery Civilization chanel, which show alot of documentaries about recent Western and ancient history, but nothing more.
• Lack of documentation of our history? Maybe its not fair to say that since I did get a few recommendations on books about Kuwait history after asking around some specialists, but not hearing about these books, or them not being visible is a problem.
• Most importantly, school education. History classes when I was a kid were basically propaganda brochures instead of insightful information! I learned more about Kuwait in two days of reading, than everything I learned about our history as a kid.

Anyway, back to my main point, do you think that the Kuwaiti population in general knows enough about its country’s history?? I shall be reading further about it and will probably post information that I think is useful.

P.S.- While trying to find information online was very difficult, one website really stood out and deserves a look. www.kuwaitpast.com From the main page, enter the arabic version, very interesting information there!

This may seem like a weird question, but do we really know the history of our country??

I work with an American, and she was asking some stuff from Kuwait’s history, like how and when it started, and more questions like that…..

To my own surprise, I didn’t know the answer to most questions, I mean I know the general information, but the details and dates were beyond me.

That got me to thinking, why do I know more about World War II, American history, and even history of the ancient Egyptians and Romans more than I know about Kuwait’s history! There are many reasons for this -

• University education in the US, which included several history classes including American history and government.
• My addiction to chanels like the History chanel and Discovery Civilization chanel, which show alot of documentaries about recent Western and ancient history, but nothing more.
• Lack of documentation of our history? Maybe its not fair to say that since I did get a few recommendations on books about Kuwait history after asking around some specialists, but not hearing about these books, or them not being visible is a problem.
• Most importantly, school education. History classes when I was a kid were basically propaganda brochures instead of insightful information! I learned more about Kuwait in two days of reading, than everything I learned about our history as a kid.

Anyway, back to my main point, do you think that the Kuwaiti population in general knows enough about its country’s history?? I shall be reading further about it and will probably post information that I think is useful.

P.S.- While trying to find information online was very difficult, one website really stood out and deserves a look. www.kuwaitpast.com From the main page, enter the arabic version, very interesting information there!

That is a quote from a man who slit his daughter’s neck in front of her younger brothers. They ran away and called their uncle, and when he got caught, that is what he said. This story is beyond belief! The guy works at Al-Awqaf ministry, and belongs to جماعة التكفير و الهجرة. He was jailed for a year and a half in Saudi for his terrorist beliefs, and now he works at Al-Awqaf, comforting though, no??

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So he comes back from Hajj, and goes straight to the house and kills his daughter. In Kuwait Times it says that he claims she was a prostitute, but doesnt say that in AlQabas. Now let me get this straight, the man suspects his THIRTEEN year old daughter of prostitution, so he comes home, ties her up (she was laughing thinking he was playing around with his daughter), then calls her younger brothers, tells her to titshahad and that she will be going to heaven, points her head towards Mecca, starts cutting her throat while she’s begging him to stop.

So everytime he suspects something he will act without thinking?? Lets say for his argument’s sake that he was right and that she was doing what he claimed….does that give him the right to kill her seeda!?! Even more importantly, wouldnt he blame himself for being such a wonderful father, jailed for a year and half for his extremist beliefs, leaving his young daughter with no father figure or someone to look up to?!?

Alla yaakhith hal khamma o tafkeerhum o takfeerhum ba3ad! There you have it ladies and gentlemen, جماعة التكفير و الهجرة and their ideologies and excellent morals they want to spread.