NEWS SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2015

Saudi Shiites defiant after IS attack kills 5 Continued from Page 1 Ashoura, said Sada. Witnesses said the meeting hall, known as a husseiniya, and an adjacent mosque were It lies at the heart of Islam’s divide into Shiite and both targeted in Friday’s shooting. Sunni sects. “We demand more protection and a law that would Jaafar Al-Abbad, the uncle of Buthaina Al-Abbad, 22, criminalize sectarianism,” said Sada. “We are living in a the only woman killed, said she died a “martyr for the place made out of paper, which could catch fire any sake of her beliefs”. “She was about to graduate from uni- minute. People are angry. And these attacks will only versity as a doctor. Now she is a martyr, and this is even make us more attached to our rituals,” she said. “They better,” he said. “People are pouring in to congratulate can’t stop us from practising our beliefs.” her parents,” said Abbad. He echoed other Shiites in say- Security has been tightened at Shiite institutions ing that such attacks “will not deter us from continuing since May, when suicide bombings at two mosques to observe our rituals”. claimed by IS killed 25 people. During Ashoura last year, Romain Caillet, a French expert on jihadists, said the gunmen killed seven Shiite worshippers, including chil- attack poses a double challenge for Saudi authorities. dren, in the eastern town of Al-Dalwa. The interior min- First, they should avoid the risk of “pushing some of their istry said the unprecedented incident had links to IS, (Sunni) citizens into radicalization” by allowing Shiites to which has also targeted police. The Gulf Cooperation practice their beliefs. “The other challenge is security, as Council issued a statement yesterday saying it “strongly authorities should deploy more...means to protect their condemns the terrorist attack”, which it described as a population.” He said this was the first attack by this “horrific crime”. branch of IS in the Arabian Peninsula, and said the use of Saudi Arabia and its Gulf neighbors last year joined a the name was in keeping with the group’s aim of redraw- US-led military coalition that is bombing IS in Syria and ing borders. Centuries ago, “Bahrain” referred to a large Iraq, where the jihadists have set up an Islamic part of modern Saudi Arabia’s east, as well as the neigh- “caliphate”. In July, Saudi Arabia said it had broken up an boring kingdom with that name, he said. IS-linked network and arrested more than 430 suspects Nasema Al-Sada, an activist from Eastern Province, involved in attacks and plots. Earlier Friday, Saudi said volunteers had set up checkpoints at the entrances Arabia’s top cleric, Grand Mufti Abdulaziz Al-Sheikh, to places of worship in coordination with authorities branded IS as an enemy of Islam. “The reality is that they since the start of Ashura. Residents of Dammam, a city are shedding Muslim blood and destroying Islam. There where Shiites are not allowed to build places of worship, is no good in them,” he said during weekly prayers in come to Saihat to attend regular sermons during Riyadh.— AFP

Outrage over rapes of children in Delhi Continued from Page 1 old. Shameful,” Delhi Commission for Women chair- woman Swati Maliwal tweeted. Maliwal told Indian tele- several recent cases, children - that have sparked out- vision station NDTV that violence against women had rage in India and abroad. “We have launched a manhunt assumed “epidemic proportions” in Delhi. for the suspects. So far no one has been arrested,” Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal expressed Pushpendra Kumar, West Delhi police chief, told AFP of anguish over the rapes, terming them “shameful and the younger girl’s case. “Two men were involved in the worrying” on Twitter, but blamed Prime Minister abduction of the girl and the tests have confirmed rape,” Narendra Modi’s government for the security situation in A Palestinian protester runs for cover from teargas fired by Israeli soldiers during clashes with Israeli troops Kumar said, adding that further examinations would Delhi. “Repeated rape of minors is shameful and worry- near Ramallah in the West Bank yesterday. — AP show whether both men raped the toddler. He said they ing. Delhi police has completely failed to provide safety. found the younger child bleeding profusely several What are PM n his LG (lieutenant governor) doing?,” hours after she went missing. Authorities have released Kejriwal tweeted before heading to meet the victims in Brotherhood missing from ballots... CCTV footage of two men riding away on a motorbike hospital. with the victim in an attempt to catch the alleged perpe- Kejriwal and Modi’s administration are jostling for Continued from Page 1 going through such an experience,” he added, referring trators. control of the capital’s police department, with Delhi city to the widespread repression the movement experi- Separately, police in eastern Delhi arrested three men authorities saying they are unable to improve security tolerated, which fielded candidates in parliamentary enced under President Gamal Abdel Nasser following overnight in the case of the five-year-old victim, whom for women. They deflect the blame on to Modi’s central elections under former president Hosni Mubarak. Then, an assassination attempt in 1954. tests showed was raped multiple times, after locals man- government which controls Delhi’s 84,000 police, the campaigning under its own name, the Brotherhood took The Brotherhood participated in all but one parlia- aged to catch her alleged assailants. “Her clothes were largest metropolitan police force in the world. Ranjana a whopping 44 percent of seats in the first free democrat- mentary election since 1984 but it is now blacklisted as partially torn with blood spots all over them. Some locals Kumari, head of Delhi-based Centre for Social Research ic elections following Mubarak’s ouster in 2011. That par- a “terrorist organization” and mustering supporters for saw her and she told them she was sexually assaulted,” said the ongoing turf war between the two govern- liament was dissolved in June 2012, but the today’s vote would be unthinkable even if its members an officer from Anand Vihar police station in eastern ments left Delhi vulnerable to such horrific crimes. “Delhi Brotherhood’s popularity shone through days later when were able to run for office. With the Brotherhood out of Delhi told AFP on condition of anonymity. “Some of the is not safe and secure for women and the situation is Morsi, a civilian, was elected, putting an end to six the running, the Islamist mantle will be carried by the locals then barged into the house and caught them (the deteriorating,” Kumari told AFP. decades of presidents coming from military ranks. Al-Nour party - an openly pro-Sisi Salafist group that alleged perpetrators) before handing them over to us,” “Most of these incidents have been reported in lower But while it has been wrested from Egypt’s political backed Morsi’s ouster. The party is fielding 200 candi- the officer said. Both girls are undergoing medical treat- income areas like slums and densely populated areas, arena, analysts say this is unlikely to be the last voters dates and “is operating in the same space that was giv- ment but are believed to be out of danger. where mostly migrants stay. These men live in crammed see of the Brotherhood. “The Brotherhood will stay out- en to the Brotherhood under Mubarak”, Sayyid said. The latest attacks come eight days after a four-year- spaces with no social or parental control and usually no side the political game as long as President Sisi is in “There is a change in the thinking of Egyptian voters old girl was allegedly raped and slashed with a blade fear of law,” she said. The fatal gang rape of a young stu- power,” said Hazem Hosny, professor of political science given the current political situation,” said Al-Nour vice before being abandoned by a railway track in the capital. dent on a bus in Delhi in 2012 led to an outpouring of at Cairo University. “The Brotherhood and the regime president Ashraf Thabet. The party is contesting only Police arrested a 25-year-old man in that attack, in which anger over frightening levels of violence against women. have gone too far in their confrontation.” Meanwhile, one-third of the 596 legislative seats, compared with 95 the young girl suffered severe internal injuries. “When India recorded 36,735 rape cases in 2014, with 2,096 of Sisi supporters are widely expected to sweep the parlia- percent in 2011. will Delhi wake up? Till when will girls continue to be them in Delhi. Experts say those figures likely under-rep- mentary elections. Although things look grim for the Brotherhood, brutalized in Indian capital. Gangrape of 2.5 year n 5 year resent the true scale of the crimes. — AFP Although reeling from the past two years, political experts say its experience in overcoming decades of analyst Mustapha Kamel Al-Sayyid said it is “out of the repression means the group is not gone forever. “The question that the crackdown will lead to a complete dis- conditions that led to the emergence of the appearance” of the Brotherhood. Formed in 1928, the Brotherhood are still present - deteriorating living PAYS blames KFA after FIFA suspends Kuwait body was tolerated despite being officially banned dur- standards of the middle class and the attraction to reli- ing Mubarak’s three-decade rule. Sayyid said the gious slogans in a conservative Egyptian society,” said Continued from Page 1 fying campaign and are scheduled to play again on Nov Brotherhood still has pockets of support and is capable Sayyid. Or, as Hosny predicted: “The Muslim 17 away in Myanmar. of organizing protests in rural areas, “even if the gather- Brotherhood will return to the political scene, even if it Meanwhile, Malaysian champions Johor Darul Ta’zim Kuwait have twice previously been banned for gov- ings are small”. “It’s not the first time the Brotherhood is takes them years.” — AFP will take on Tajikistan outfit Istiklol in the final of the ernment interference, in 2007 and 2008. The world gov- AFC Cup after their semi-final opponents were kicked erning body has traditionally taken a dim view of gov- out of the competition following Kuwait’s FIFA ban. ernment interference and banned Kuwait’s fellow AFC Kuwait pavilion marks 1.5m visitors Defending champions Al-Qadsiya, who beat JDT 3-1 in members Indonesia for the offence in May which ruled the first leg last month, and Al-Kuwait, who thumped them out of the ongoing World Cup qualifying cam- Continued from Page 1 Ansari was very proud of the success of the Kuwaiti Istiklol 4-0, were due to play the second legs away next paign. pavilion in showing its honorable image and its sons’ week. The AFC Cup final will be held in the Tajikistan capital Mazen Al-Ansari, the pavilion’s head, told KUNA that epic in challenging nature and building renaissance. “Following the decision by FIFA to suspend the Dushanbe on Oct 31 and will see a new name and visitor number 1.5 million was the target of the pavilion Meanwhile, the Italian visitor, who was given a gift Kuwait Football Association and its members from all nationality lift the trophy. Kuwaiti clubs have dominated at this international event. He added that this “unprece- from the ambassador and Buthaina Al-Qallaf, the pavil- football activities, Kuwait SC and Qadsiya SC are no the second tier regional tournament of late, winning dented number” is an evidence of the success of all who ion’s director of operation, was impressed by the pavil- longer eligible to compete in the AFC Cup semifinals,” the last three editions and making the finals of the pre- contributed to the event to meet the desire of HH the ion’s distinguished design and interest in visitors as well the Asian Football Confederation said in a short state- vious six. Al-Kuwait’s three titles make them the most Amir. The success is the fruit of hard work over four as the warm reception. He added he was attracted by ment yesterday. The AFC did not mention what would successful AFC Cup team in the tournament’s 12-year years and the contribution of Kuwait’s institutions, civil Kuwait’s achievements in overcoming the issue of water happen to Kuwait, who are currently second in Group G history. Their last title came in 2013 when they beat Al- society organizations, the wise leadership of the minis- scarcity through modern and advanced technologies, of their joint 2018 World Cup and 2019 Asian Cup quali- Qadsiya in the final. — Agencies ter of information and all senior officials, he added. which form an “exceptional accomplishment”. — KUNA