Due to increasing Islamic traditionalism, a battle exploded over women’s rights in Kuwait. When a professor in Kuwait announced a desert wellness yoga retreat this month, people called it an assault on Islam.
Legislators and clerics grumbled about the danger and the corruption among women who are doing the lotus position and downward dog position publically, at the end government banned the trip.
The positions of yoga represented the latest flashpoints in a long-running culture war because of the women’s behaviour in the sheikhdom, where tribes and Islamists exert growing power over a divided society.
Increasingly, conservative politicians push back against a burgeoning feminist movement, and they consider it an unrevealing of Kuwait traditional values amid deep governmental dysfunction on significant issues.
According to the feminist activist ‘Najeeba Hayat,’ our state and region is backsliding and reverting at that rate which the state did not expect and also stated women’s are running into the park along the palm-studded strand, chiming into the chilly night air for freedoms they say authorities have steadily stifled.
However, in recent years, women have made strides across the conservative Arabian Peninsula. Women have won greater freedoms in long-insular Saudi Arabia under de-facto leader Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
In January last month, Saudi Arabia also organized their first open-air yoga festival, which is something Kuwaitis stated with irony on social media.
According to ‘Alanoud Alsharekh’, the hostile movement against women in Kuwait was always insidious and hidden, but now it has risen to the surface. They even made a group in which they aim to destroy the article of the country’s penal code that sets out lax punishments for the so-called honour killings of women.
A few months ago administration shut down all the gyms that provide belly dancing classes. Clerics demanded police apprehend the organizers of a different women’s retreat called “The Divine Feminine”, stating blasphemy.
There is a case going in a country arguing that the government should ban Netflix amid an uproar over the first Arabic-language film the platform produced.
According to Hamdan al-Azmi, a conservative Islamist, “If defending the daughters of Kuwait is backward, I am honoured to be called it.
As peer one case in Kuwait, one woman named ‘Farah Akbar’ was dragged from her car last spring and impaled to death by a man, but police released that man on bail against whom she had lodged numerous police complaints.