Members of the National Assembly of Kuwait

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Chapters: Waleed Al-Tabtabaie, Ali Al-Rashid, Musallam Al-Barrak, Saleh Ashour, Rola Dashti, Ahmed Al-Sadoun, Abdullah Al-Roumi, Abdulatif Al-Ameeri, Jassem Al-Kharafi, Faisal Al-Muslim Al-Otaib, Hassan Jawhar, Nasser Al-Sane, Adel Al-Saraawi, Marzouq Al-Ghanim, Saleh Al-Mulla, Daifallah Bouramiya, Hussein Al¿Qallaf Al-Bahraini, Khalaf Al-Enezi, Massouma al-Mubarak, Mohammed Hayef Al¿Mutairi, Adnan Zahid Abdulsamad, Jamaan Al-Harbash, Ali Al-Omair, Mohammed Al-Sager, Abdulwahed Al-Awadi, Ali Al-Daqbaashi, Ahmed Lari, Hussein Nasser Al-Huraiti, Sadoon Al-Otaibi, Ahmed Al-Mulaifi, Salwa al-Jassar, Abdulaziz Al¿Shayji, Mikhled Al-Azmi, Ahmed al-Rubei, Mohammed Al-Abduljader, Mohammed Al¿Mutair, Jabir Al-Azmi, Marzouq Al¿Hubaini Al-Azmi, Ali Al-Hajri, Khaled Al¿Sultan Bin Essa, Askar Al-Enezi, Mohammed Al-Kandari, Rija Hujailan Al-Mutairi, Roudhan Al-Roudhan, Mubarak Al-Mutairi, Essam Al-Dabbous, Saad Al¿Khanfour Al-Rasheedi, Abdullah Al¿Barghash, Nasser Al-Duwailah, Mohammed Al-Rasheedi, Mohammed Faleh Al-Ajmi, Fahad Al-Azmi, Hussein Quwaian Al-Mutairi, Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ajmi, Abdullah Al-Fahma. Excerpt: Waleed Al¿Tabtabaie is a member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly, representing the third district. Born in 1964, Al-Tabtabaie obtained a PhD in Islamic studies from Al-Azhar and was an assistant professor at Kuwait University before being elected to the National Assembly in 1996. While political parties are technically illegal in Kuwait, Al-Tabtabaie affiliates with the Islamist and Salafi deputies. Al-Tabtabaie is socially conservative. He opposed allowing Kuwaiti women to vote or run for office-on the grounds that it would irrevocably change Kuwaiti society-and has taken socially conservative stands on several issues pertaining to speech, media, and Westernization. In September 2000 he criticized the BBC for a radio broadcast which included material about extramarital affairs. The program-part of a series on sex and reproductive health-discussed sexual excitement for men and women and extramarital affairs. Earlier that month Al-Tabtabaie called for some Olympic events to be banned from television because they were too sexy and indecent. Al-Tabtabaie is against the Westernization of Kuwait. In January 2001 he told the press, "We as Islamic parties oppose the Western behavior in this community, like the women voting and the western concert music that we see.... Also we oppose the new Western clothes that have invaded this country and the hairstyles and also the tradition we see among the youth of smoking and drinking liquor." In February 2008, Al-Tabtabaie called for the Kuwaiti government to boycott Denmark in response to the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy. In September 2008, Al-Tabtabaie called for the government to block YouTube to prevent the dissemination of videos that were blasphemous or pornographic. Al-Tabtabaie has spoken out against the Guantanamo Bay detention center. In 2004 he called for U.S. President George W. Bush to "uncover what is going on inside Guantanamo," allow family visits to the hundreds of Muslim detainees there, and allow