Leaving her weekly workout class, Lama was shocked to discover she was no longer a Kuwaiti – one of tens of thousands of people, mostly women, suddenly stripped of citizenship.
After her credit card payment for the class in Kuwait City was declined, she learnt her bank account was temporarily frozen because her nationality, acquired through marriage, had been revoked.
The mass revocations have been cast as part of a reformist agenda spearheaded by Kuwaiti emir Sheikh Meshal al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, who dissolved parliament and suspended parts of the constitution five months after taking power in December 2023.
His latest citizenship policy appears aimed at restricting nationality to those with blood ties to the tiny, oil-rich nation, reshaping Kuwaiti identity and potentially trimming its electorate after years of political crisis, analysts told AFP.
Perhaps it is time for these countries that essentially hate women to have a mass exodus of them.
See how long it takes for countries with anti women laws to die out.
That’d be great if freedom of movement wasn’t one of the first rights they take away to prevent something like this.
In a televised speech to the country of nearly five million – only a third of them Kuwaitis – the emir pledged in March to “deliver Kuwait to its original people clean and free from impurities”.
Have you read the article? It’s obvious the bar is way past misogyny at this point. Also first of all where the fuck millions of people from “these countries that essentially hate women” would even go on their mass exodus, and secondly, as we have seen with the US, whichever country you are in that you think doesn’t hate women or minorities is a single election away from becoming a lawless authoritarian state that disappears people off the streets in broad daylight.
Most countries hate women, even the ones that are nice to us usually still hate us
It’s not like women in those countries have the ability to do that….also every single country on earth hates women. Just because we give women somewhat better rights in the west doesn’t mean women aren’t treated as a perpetual underclass.
I don’t like Saddam, but he was right to invade that shithole
Yep grew up there. It’s a sick place, opened my eyes to environmental damage exploitation of poor people, wealth inequality. Nothing will teach a mfer Marxism like experiencing imperialism first hand
Reminds me of The Handmaid’s Tale when suddenly women couldn’t own things or have jobs
Seems like every country is doing this these days. People should form a union for the stateless. They’ll outnumber everyone else pretty soon.
