Kuwait: Islamists Freak After Girl Hugs and Kisses Singer During Concert.....

The horror.....

KUWAIT: Islamist MPs yesterday called on the government to act and apply the law with regard to what they called "immoral violations" committed at a musical concert held at the Al-Raya hotel on Friday night. The concert was cancelled halfway through by Information Ministry inspectors after a teenage girl reportedly hugged and kissed popular Egyptian singer Tamer Hosni.

Following disputes over musical concerts, the government introduced strict controls in May 2004 that prohibited the audience from dancing and imposed stricter segregation of the sexes. Some Islamist MPs threatened action if the interior and information ministries did not apply the law. They also called on the commerce ministry to penalize the owner of the hotel.

Qanas Al-Adwani, who heads the government department that monitors public entertainment, said the girl's behavior at Friday's concert "defied the conservative traditions" of Kuwait. Al-Adwani also said Sunday that the fan's behavior broke the controls on public entertainment. Concerts have to be licensed by the government, and monitors from the Information Ministry watch the crowd to make sure nobody stands up to dance.

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Comments

[Mullah Lodabullah]

* Kuwait: Islamists Freak ...

Le Freak, c'est sheik!

[alle]

Context is slighly different but for people who think that this is an overreaction then please remember the fuss, bother and $500,000 fine when Janet Jackson - in America - had her famous 'wardrobe malfunction'!!

[pulsar182]

concerts in the west don't have the Islamic religious police in the audience ready to shut down the concert should anything deemed improper occurs..

I guess, when attending concerts in Muslim lands, one must sit perfectly still, hands folded in lap, feet not moving, and women must be coverted...the band members, in fear of violating some insane Muslim rule on music, must feel like they are viewing a potato sack factory warehouse.

The fact that young Muslims even show up at concerts whenever possible indicates they want more freedom...freedom from Islam and Islams 7th century mindset...that insane, violent 7th century Islamic mindset..

Muslims do spend a lot of time just monitoring their own people ...monitoring with an iron fist...ready , willing, and able to kill their own people.

[Elric66]

"Context is slighly different but for people who think that this is an overreaction then please remember the fuss, bother and $500,000 fine when Janet Jackson - in America - had her famous 'wardrobe malfunction'!!"

Yeah thats almost the same

[Deez]

I don't blame them--Kuwait saw that nothing good came from the filming of the "Dancing in the Dark" video.

So is there at least a partition between the teen girls and gay guys that attended this concert?

[Stefanovich]

She will probably be stoned to death at the gates of the city.