Foreign infiltration concerns MP

KUWAIT CITY, Nov 19: MP Mohammad Hayef Al-Mutairi has submitted a bill on amending Article 79 of the Constitution in order to protect the Kuwaiti society from the infiltration of foreign cultures, which are not in line with the Islamic Sharia. This article states: “No law shall be promulgated save upon ratification by the National Assembly and sanction by the Amir.” Al-Mutairi’s proposal stipulates the third condition for the promulgation of laws – to be in line with the Islamic Sharia. He explained: “We cannot wait until foreign cultures invade our country as it happened in other countries which used to criminalize homosexuality for example; but now they approved it and even criminalized objections to such acts. Our aim is to protect the nation’s future when there might no MPs who defend the Islamic Sharia.

The Constitution allows such amendment, provided it is approved by at least one third of the MPs. A total of 21 MPs have so far signed the proposal. Others should follow suit in order to record their historic position on developing the Islamic Sharia.” MPs Muhannad Al-Sayer, Hassan Jowhar, Abdullah Al-Mudaf, Abdulkareem Al- Kandari and Abdulwahab Al-Essa have proposed the cancellation of Article 80 of Social Security Law number 61/1976. This article allows the Council of Ministers to grant exceptional allowances, pension or incentives to those covered by the law and the supplementary beneficiaries who are not covered by the law.

The proposal states that the Council of Ministers should withdraw decisions that were issued based on this article and the pension of beneficiaries should be reviewed. They explained the proposal is aimed at ensuring justice and transparency, preventing confl icts of interests, and limiting the authority given to the Council of Ministers in granting exceptional pension and incentives.

On the other hand, MP Hamad Al- Obaid warned that the return of those convicted in the Abdally Cell case to their jobs; especially the teachers, is more dangerous than granting them amnesty. He called for withdrawing the decision on allowing them to return to work and to question whoever is behind the issuance of such a decision.

He stressed that educating the young generation is an important task, which cannot be entrusted to those convicted of manipulating national security. MP Muhammad Hayef Al-Mutairi wants to know the rationale behind the decision to exclude the Abdally Cell convicts from the category of those convicted of State Security crimes, considering some of the latter were incarcerated for expressing their political opinions on social media. By Saeed Mahmoud Saleh Arab Times Staff