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SUBSCRIPTION TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 2017 RAMADAN 18, 1438 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Temperature Britain’s May Iran targets soars as power face fury of World Cup spot consumption MPs in battle as China, Qatar hits new record to keep her job target survival Imsak Fajr Shorook Duhr Asr Maghrib Isha 3 7 20 03:03 03:13 04:48 11:48 15:22 18:48 20:20 US Appeals Court blocks Min 32º Max 49º controversial travel ban High Tide 03:05 &13:10 Low Tide Islamic State’s laptop bomb plot uncovered 07:59 & 20:55 40 PAGES NO: 17255 150 FILS LOS ANGELES: A US Appeals Court yesterday left in place a block on President Donald Trump’s travel ban targeting citizens from six Muslim majority nations-the latest in a string of judicial blows for the controversial measure. The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit largely upheld an injunction on the ban issued by a low- er court, but however said the government was within its right to review the vetting process for people enter- ing the country. Prophet’s wife and “Immigration, even for the president, is not a one- person show,” the ruling said. “The president, in issuing women empowerment the executive order, exceeded the scope of the authori- ty delegated to him by Congress.” The decision came By Tony Braun just ahead of a deadline for states challenging the ban to submit briefings before the US Supreme Court in hose outside of the Islamic faith hold a variety response to the Trump administration’s request that the of views about the treatment of women within nine justices hear the case. Tan Islamic context. It appears that most of these The US Justice Department filed an emergency appli- views are not founded on solid sources. When we cation to the Supreme Court on June 1, urging it to look at Islamic values, it is important to look at them undo two lower court rulings blocking Trump’s decision in isolation of the actions found within Muslim com- to prevent entry to travelers from Iran, Libya, Somalia, munities because pure Islamic teachings are often Sudan, Syria and Yemen for 90 days. The Trump adminis- tainted by culture. After all, we aren’t robots and our tration argues the ban is needed to ward off terrorist own personalities will affect how we interpret and attacks in the country. Critics say the ban is discrimina- adhere to a religion. tory and violates the US constitution by specifically tar- There are about two billion Muslims in the world geting Muslim-majority countries. with vastly different backgrounds, geography, cul- In another development, Israeli government spies tures, ideas, history, etc. Therefore, it is natural that hacked into the operations of Islamic State bombmak- Muslim women would have vastly different experi- ers to discover they were developing a laptop computer ences depending on their region and upbringing. For bomb to blow up a commercial aircraft, the New York example, Muslim women living in China and Muslim GAZA: A Palestinian man reads verses of the Quran during the month of Ramadan at Al Emari mosque in Gaza. Times reported yesterday. The Times said the work by Israeli cyber operators was a rare success of western women living in Argentina will definitely not have Muslims across the world are observing the holy fasting month of Ramadan, where they refrain from eating, intelligence against the constantly evolving, encryp- the same privileges or hardships. It is therefore logi- drinking and smoking from dawn to dusk. —AP tion-protected and social-media-driven cyber opera- cal to examine Islamic teachings in their pure form tions of the extremist group. without applying some type of cultural filter or lens. It said the Israeli hackers penetrated the small Syria- To help understand women’s empowerment with- Blast kills Saudi police based cell of bombmakers months ago, an effort that in Islam, it is very profitable to look at the Prophet led to the March 21 ban on carry-on laptops and other Muhammad’s (PBUH) first wife. Khadijah was a electronics larger than cellphones on direct flights to wealthy business owner, who proposed to marry the RIYADH: A homemade explosive device has killed a neighborhood, where unrest has escalated in recent senior Saudi police officer in a Shiite town where weeks around a redevelopment project in the old dis- the United States from 10 airports in Turkey, the Middle Prophet (PBUH). Already, we can see how empow- East and North Africa. The Israeli cyber-penetration “was ered she was; she was the one who took the initiative deadly violence has flared in recent weeks, the Interior trict. Alaqi is at least the fourth person to have been Ministry said yesterday. Major Tariq Al-Alaqi was killed killed in the violence. The Interior Ministry has said how the United States learned that the terrorist group for proposing the marriage. She was also in full con- was working to make explosives that fooled airport X- trol of her wealth and business. My own grandmoth- and two other policemen were wounded in the blast criminals involved in the drug and arms trade were late Sunday in Awamiya, the ministry said in a state- implicated in the unrest. ray machines and other screening by looking exactly er did not have the legal right to open a bank like batteries for laptop computers,” the Times said. ment. They were patrolling the town’s Almosara Continued on Page 13 Continued on Page 13 Continued on Page 13 Mideast research center brings ‘enemies’ together ALLAN: A top-notch research center that Israeli-occupied West Bank. brought together Iran, Israel and other The centerpiece of SESAME is a syn- Mideast antagonists is launching opera- chrotron light source - essentially a pow- Norway to ban tions this fall in hopes of boosting scien- erful microscope - that fills a large tific discovery with the help of a power- hangar in the countryside of western the Muslim veil ful microscope and opening a window to Jordan, about 35 kilometers from the a better future for a region beset by war, capital of Amman. The contraption zaps OSLO: The Norwegian government yesterday pro- boycotts and closed borders. It’s been a electrons through a circular tube at near posed a bill to ban the full-face Muslim veil in all tough journey since groundbreaking in the speed of light, generating intense schools, from nurseries to universities, saying it hin- 2003, marked by political rows and the light beams. Researchers can train these MARYLAND: Two women walk at the 61st Montgomery County Agricultural Fair ders communication between students and teach- 2010 assassination of an Iranian scientist “beam lines” on their subject of study, Gaithersburg, Maryland. The number of obese people has more than doubled in ers. Norway’s ruling coalition of conservative and linked to the project. from cells to materials, in a wide range of 73 countries since 1980 and has continued to rise in other countries, leading to a anti-immigration rightwing parties had promised Perhaps even more threatening were disciplines, from medicine and biology to large increase in related diseases, according to a wide-scale study. — AFP the ban last year, targeting the full-face veil called chronic funding shortages, said Khaled archaeology and environmental science. the niqab as well as burqas, balaclavas and masks. Toukan, the Jordanian director of the The first two lines will start operating “We do not want clothes covering the face in nurs- project, known by its acronym, SESAME. by November, and dozens of researchers Obesity ‘epidemic’ eries, schools and universities,” Minister of The undertaking was at risk of collapse have applied for “beam time,” said Education and Research Torbjorn Roe Isaksen said several times, but has reached a point of Toukan. In all, two dozen lines are to be no return, he said in an interview. “It is set up eventually, in hopes of drawing in a statement. 1 in 10 affected worldwide working, and I am surprised,” he said of hundreds of researchers from the region. “These clothes prevent good communication, the rare collaboration of eight members Israel’s Science Ministry reported a grow- WASHINGTON: More than one in 10 peo- weight is one of the most challenging which is important for students to receive a good that also include Egypt, Turkey, Cyprus, ing interest in the project among Israeli ple worldwide are now obese and 2.2 bil- public health problems of our time, education,” he added. Norwegian authorities will Pakistan and the Palestinian Authority, a scientists. lion are believed to be overweight, fuel- affecting nearly one in every three peo- consult over the coming months with those who self-rule government in parts of the Continued on Page 13 ing a global health crisis that claims mil- ple,” said Dr Ashkan Afshin, the paper’s could be affected by the draft law. Norwegian lions of lives every year, according to a lead author and an assistant professor of media reported the government can count on the major new international study released global health at the Institute for Health yesterday. Obesity numbers have more Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the support of most parties, saying the bill was expect- than doubled in 73 countries and surged University of Washington in Seattle. ed to pass in the spring of 2018. Local authorities in elsewhere around the world since the “Over the past decade, numerous Norway already have the power to ban the veil in launch in 1980 of the study published in interventions have been evaluated, but schools, however there is no uniform national poli- the New England Journal of Medicine.

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