Strangers: Kuwait is the same

Submitted by VIking Woman (Kuwait), May 11, 2008 at 03:15

Yasemin--You're story is more than believable, which is why I am writing a book on my life in Kuwait.

Nobody cares what these men do to you, it's not their business is the attitude. You are lucky you even found a woman judge, yet the restraining order does little good in any case.

And if you think their governments care, think again. I have the "who's who" directory and it does no good. My family filed human rights complaints in D.C. at the Kuwait Embassy, they ignored this too.

I dialed repeatedly to the Prime Minister's office, only to be put on old for months. They have a human right's office here (which is a joke) and they wouldn't take the case for fear of offending the powerful family. The compassion in Islam you hear about, sorry, it does not exist. Mind you this is considered a modern country, imagine the poverty stricken countries.

My Embassy had to intervene at the end of the day. God bless them all.

To think, people in my family are in the armed forces, and supported the liberation of Kuwait (only because I was stuck here during the war) and this is the thank you they received. We can die for them, and still get ignored after the war, and their freedom was restored.

They were totally ignored by the Kuwait Embassy. Ignored. Americans do not matter at the end of the day except politically speaking. The Al-Sabah's are too busy counting their billions to worry about women, especially American women.

No respect for Americans, even when you liberate them.

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