Now here is a cool rewards section. Most of you Sultan Center Shoppers are familiar with Rewards programme.
So someone mentioned to me lately that Wataniya also has one (I’m a little behind time). So I log on, get my details in and then I hit the registration and apparently I need to cash-in .500 fils to do that.
Now I know you are all thinking it’s not that much. My problem is Reward programmes are not supposed to be chargeable in the first place.
Another corporation sucking on the masses.
**I’ve copy pasted the article incase it was removed**
A Kuwaiti woman who once ran for parliament has called for sex slavery to be legalised – and suggested that non-Muslim prisoners from war-torn countries would make suitable concubines.
Salwa al Mutairi argued buying a sex-slave would protect decent, devout and ‘virile’ Kuwaiti men from adultery because buying an imported sex partner would be tantamount to marriage.
And she even had an idea of where to ‘purchase’ these sex-salves – browsing through female prisoners of war in other countries.
Outrageous ideas: Salwa al-Mutairi’s suggestions have provoked anger and disbeliefThe political activist and TV host even suggested that it would be a better life for women in warring countries as the might die of starvation.
Mutairi claimed: ‘There was no shame in it and it is not haram’ (forbidden) under Islamic Sharia law.’
Mutairi recommended that offices could be opened to run the sex trade in the same way that recruitment agencies provide housemaids.
Example: Mutairi cited Haroun al-Rashid as a man who also had concubinesShe suggested shopping for prisoners of war so as to protect Kuwaiti men from being tempted to commit adultery or being seduced by other women’s beauty.
‘For example, in the Chechnyan war, surely there are female Russian captives,’ she said.
‘So go and buy those and sell them here in Kuwait. Better than to have our men engage in forbidden sexual relations.’
Her unbelievable argument for her plan was that ‘captives’ might ‘just die of hunger over there’.
She insisted, ‘I don’t see any problem in this, no problem at all’.
In an attempt to consider the woman’s feelings in the arrangement, Mutari conceded that the enslaved women, however, should be at least 15.
Browsing: Mutair says female war prisoners could be bought and kept as sex slavesMutairi said free women must be married with a contract but with concubines ‘the man just buys her and that’s it. That’s enough to serve as marriage.’
Her remarks, made in a video posted on YouTube last month and carried by newspapers in the Gulf states in recent days, have sparked outrage in cyber-space from fellow Kuwaitis and others in the wider region.
‘Wonder how Salwa al Mutairi would’ve felt if during the occupation (of Kuwait) by Iraqi forces, she was sold as ‘war booty’ as she advocates for Chechen women,’ tweeted Mona Eltahawy.
Another tweeter, Shireen Qudosi, told Mutairi ‘you’re a disgrace to women everywhere’.
For Muna Khan, an editor at the Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television station, the ‘icing on the cake’ of Mutairi’s ‘preposterous views’ was her assertion that her suggestions do not conflict with the tenets of Islam.
Shopping for sex: Mutairi said that during a recent visit to Mecca, pictured, Saudi muftis said it was not forbidden to own a sex slaveMutairi said that during a recent visit to Mecca, she asked Saudi muftis – Muslim religious scholars – what the Islamic ruling was on owning sex slaves. They are said to have told her that it is not haram.
The ruling was confirmed by ‘specialized people of the faith’ in Kuwait, she claimed.
‘They said, that’s right, the only solution for a decent man who has the means, who is overpowered by desire and who does not want to commit fornication, is to acquire jawari.’ Jawari is the plural of the Arabic term jariya, meaning ‘concubine’ or ‘sex slave’.
One Saudi mufti supposedly told Mutairi: ‘The context must be that of a Muslim nation conquering a non-Muslim nation, so these jawari have to be prisoners of war.’
Concubines, she argued, would suit Muslim men who fear being ‘seduced or tempted into immoral behaviour by the beauty of their female servants’.
Alright, I’m not sure how my perception sits with the rest of Kuwait.
However, off late there seems to have been a hike in prices across all sections (Apparel / Restaurants / Electronics). Now I don’t know much about how the retail industry works and what are the costs involved to import anything. It seems after the Kuwaitis were paid the big bonus, a lot of the big companies got greedy. There are a handful of companies which actually sell the product at par with their Franchisor, while practically everyone else is sooooo expensive.
Is there anyone out there who could provide some information on the import charges, customs duty and other aspects involved? I promise to maintain anonymity.
Retail for Dummies (guilty as charged):
Franchisor: A person or company that grants a franchise.
Franchise: The right or license granted by a company to an individual or group to market its products or services in a specific territory. A store, restaurant, or other business operating under such a license.
Franchisee: A person or company to whom a franchise is granted.
Last night RI Al Fanar went up in flames. As a result stores like Mango upstairs, TopShop to the right and Mac to the left were heavily effected with fumes of burning plastic. The mall was evacuated immediately with disappointed romantic couples, friends and families who were at the mall for movies. After the fire was put out the water has seeped into other stores (no confirmation which ones). Stores below River Island are Primo Emporio, Body Shop and Next.
I could take the heat and chill with a chill beer, uh, I mean 7up..
I simply can’t take the Dust Storms! The last one hit like a scene from an epic movie!
There has been a forecast for today and tomorrow, the storm will return.
All I’m concerned about it how do you keep the fuckin dust out!?
Out of your house, out of your car, out of your butt crack!?
