SUBSCRIPTION WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2013 RAMADAN 8, 1434 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Mexico captures Kerry in Jordan Celebratory fire leader of brutal as Middle East turns Iraq win Emsak: 03:16 Zetas cartel crises mount into nightmare Fajer: 03:27 Dohr: 11:54 Asr: 15:29 Maghreb: 18:48 7 15 20 Eshaa: 20:18 Lawyer asks court to Max 49º Min 35º High Tide suspend aid to Egypt 05:22 & 18:20 Court to rule on disqualified candidates July 21 Low Tide 12:22 40 PAGES NO: 15872 150 FILS By B Izzak conspiracy theories KUWAIT: Kuwaiti lawyer Abdullah Al-Kundari has filed a lawsuit asking the court to order the Council of Ministers Getting to suspend the $4 billion aid package to Egypt decided last week. The lawyer insisted that the action represents a over-emotional major squandering of public funds, besides being a viola- tion of the constitution and the law. The government move, which came along similar deci- sions from Saudi Arabia and UAE, was strongly criticized by the opposition who late Monday staged a public rally to condemn the decision. Speakers at the rally said that By Badrya Darwish the Gulf money should have been sent to Syrian rebels to help them in their fight against Syrian President Bashar Al- Assad. In another development, the Administrative Court yes- terday set July 21 as a date to issue verdicts on petitions [email protected] received from five candidates who have been disqualified from running in the election for failing to meet conditions under the law. The five are among 10 candidates who had wanted to shun away from writing about the been informed by the Interior Ministry that they have soap operas this Ramadan to avoid the accu- CAIRO: Egypt’s Interim President Adly Mansour (center) poses with his new cabinet ministers at the presi- been disqualified from contesting the polls because of Isations of some people who do not know me dential palace in Cairo yesterday. — AP legal barriers. that I am hyper conservative. I am neither a con- The barred candidates include former MP Khalaf servative nor a narrow-minded person. But there Dumaitheer and member of the scrapped Assembly are limits. The soap operas broadcast in Ramadan Violence overshadows Khaled Al-Shilaimi. A number of disqualified candidates are supposed to be dedicated to the family as had been handed jail sentences in the past which is a they represent the family time when everyone in major legal barrier for not contesting the polls. The the house gathers around the TV set. new Egyptian cabinet remaining five candidates are expected to challenge the This has not been the case for two years, Interior Ministry’s decision to disqualify them. though. This year, the soap operas are much The court must issue its verdicts on the cases separate- worse than the previous year. Even Western Brotherhood dismisses cabinet as illegitimate; 7 Die ly before the election date on July 27. The court’s decision is not final as it can be challenged before the Court of movies are categorized for certain age groups of CAIRO: Egypt swore in its new inter- by Adli Mansour, a burly judge who mist tasked with implementing a Appeals. In the previous election, the National Election viewers. One movie is for +16 and another is for im cabinet yesterday, naming mainly was installed as interim president by “road map” to restore full civilian rule Commission disqualified around 40 candidates on various +12-year olds. A third group is considered for liberals and technocrats to lead a the military when it toppled Islamist and repair a crumbling economy. But reasons but almost all of them were reinstated by the family viewing. If this is the liberal west and they transition to civilian rule, but the Mohamed Morsi on July 3. Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood move- Administrative Court. are doing such a categorization what about us in deaths of seven people in overnight The armed forces chief who ment, which has said it would have In a related development, the Constitutional Court yes- the Arab World? We are supposed to be more violence showed the country is still removed Morsi, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, nothing to do with politics until he terday set July 23 to start looking into a petition challeng- conservative. Our serials are supposed to show far from stability. In an ornate hall in was given the post of first deputy to was reinstated, dismissed the interim ing that the Amiri decree that invited Kuwaitis to elect the our local culture. What local culture are we por- the presidential palace, 33 cabinet interim prime minister Hazem El- government as illegitimate. next National Assembly is in breach of the constitution. traying in these series especially during the holy ministers took turns being sworn in Beblawi, a 76-year-old liberal econo- Continued on Page 15 Continued on Page 15 month of Ramadan? Even the rest of the world knows about our holy month and its rules. Thank God, I discovered Ramadan Kareem I was not the only one who is not happy with this year’s soap operas. I have been receiving many comments from people about many series. As if the merits of Ramadan is the time to screen stories of love, illic- it affairs, extramarital relationships, divorces, supplication cheating, adultery and violence. On top of that, all viewers can enjoy the skimpy outfit of the upplication or invocation to Allah (Duaa) is part actresses and the vulgar slogans and comments and parcel of worshipping Allah. In whatever in the dialogues which are not suitable for all Sproblem you find yourself, just resort to Allah ages. What is worse - they do not fit the spirit of in supplication. Allah says in the Holy Quran: “And Ramadan. your Lord says: call on Me; I will answer your prayer. Bless our producers who become overemo- But those who are too arrogant to serve Me will tional and express their strong feelings and show surely find themselves in Hell - in humiliation.” us their sexuality in Ramadan. Do producers (40:60) gather to create stories like this all year long? If we only pray to the Lord of the present and the Trailers for the soap operas are advertised for future, and He will respond, forgive us, guide us, and make our lives smooth and easy. He will also guide months before the start of Ramadan. Trailers us to solutions for the problems we face. In order to show snippets of the religious serials we should have our supplications and invocations heard and expect to see. Why in the month of Ramadan? taken into consideration by Allah, we have to fulfill Why don’t you show these in the rest of the year? some conditions which act as prerequisites. For God’s sake, respect Ramadan which is only Following are some of them: one month a year. WEST BANK: Palestinian girls read the Quran in a mosque in the West Bank Balata refugee camp during the (A) Sincerity and devotion to Allah: When you Muslim holy month of Ramadan. — AP raise your hands in supplication to Allah Almighty your heart and emotions should be engulfed with the feeling that you really need Him yet He doesn’t 5,000 die every month in Syria need you. In spite of that, He is able to give you whatever you ask of Him. In your quest for Allah’s assistance and unstinted grants avoid associating UNITED NATIONS: Five thousand peo- executions of Hutus in 1994. He said partners with Him. ple a month are dying in the Syria war the gesture of Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan Saudi sets new rules He says in Al-Hadith Al-Qudsi: “I am the richest of which has now thrown up the worst and other countries to accept refugees the rich; whoever associates partners with Me in his for domestic workers refugee crisis since the 1994 Rwandan was “saving hundreds of thousands of seemingly acts of worship, I will definitely abandon genocide, UN officials said yesterday. A lives.” “This crisis has been going on for him to those he associates with Me.” What a loss! host of top officials called on the divid- much longer than anyone feared with Who can reward and care about you more than Allah ‘Respect Islam; Obey your employers’ ed UN Security Council to take stronger unbearable humanitarian conse- - your creator, cherisher and sustainer? Ramadan is action to deal with the fallout from the quences,” he added. RIYADH: Saudi Arabia announced yes- also insisted that employees must the best training course in sincerity to God (Allah.) 26 month old civil war in which the UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos (B) Avoid asking Allah things that He has prohibit- terday new rules to protect the rights of respect “Islam and its teachings... and United Nations says up to 100,000 peo- said the international community may foreign domestic workers, most of obey the orders of the employers and ed or asking Him to give you something that is total- whom are from South Asia, but stressed their family members concerning get- ple have died. have to consider cross border opera- ly under His jurisdiction; like asking Him to make you they must “respect” Islam and “obey” ting the agreed work done.” A domestic “The extremely high rate of killings tions to get aid into Syria. Amos said a prophet. He says in the Holy Quran: “Call on your their employers. Labor Minister Adel worker “does not have the right to reject nowadays-approximately 5,000 a $3.1 billion was still needed for opera- Lord with humility and in private: for Allah does not Faqih said the new rules require a work, or leave a job, without a valid month-demonstrates the drastic dete- tions in and around Syria for the rest of love those who trespass beyond bounds.” (7:55)So employers to pay workers “the agreed reason,” he added.