The Kuwaiti Progressive Movement rejects the government's decisions, parliamentary positions, and puritanical claims to restrict personal freedoms and to liquidate the civil character of the state.
With resentment and anger, we are constantly noticing day after day as the government keeps issuing policies and announcing parliamentary positions and filling lawsuits that some might perceive may contain extreme reactionary content. That seeks to pressure more restrictions on the personal liberties, and the sudden and crude interference in every detail of the private lives of the individuals, and enforcing a specific way of life with strict standards and the limitation of personal choices from the people, and preoccupied in discriminating against women, closing down parties and activities in arts, social, sports and entertainment, and the restrictions of Television channels, relying on fatwas (religious advice) as a primary governmental decision-making tool, and the liquidation on whatever is left of the civil character of the state.
This has become a very desperate and miserable look on the social reality of Kuwait, which is the closest it can be to a Religious Totalitarian State, and this contradicts the openness nature of the Kuwaiti society and the civil foundations that the country's constitution was founded upon; including going beyond what was specified in second article of the constitution on the matter of having the Islamic Sharia as a primary source of legislation, and imposing constant attempts in revisionism to the point it became the only source of legislation, while ignoring and marginalizing other sources , which represents nothing more than an attack on the civil constitutional foundations of which the modern Kuwait is built on.
We are in the Kuwaiti Progressive Movement respect religious beliefs and social legacies of all kinds. This does not make us indifferent on the exploitation of these beliefs and legacies to enforce a legislative reality and a totalitarian way of life to restrict personal freedoms, and to establish the right environment for religious political parties to be formed within the framework of the state.
From that we invite citizens and all active powers in Kuwait's society to fight back the reality of what is being enforced on the nation , society, and individuals in Kuwait. We see that those in authority and its classist, parasitic, capitalistic allies is the one in benefit by enforcing this new backward-mentality into a reality as a way to distract the Kuwaiti public in these conditions and prevent them from paying attention to the basic political dilemma in fighting political, financial and administrative corruption, as well as the organized looting of the country's monetary capabilities and safe keeping its social gains and fighting against the privatization of oil, education, healthcare, and filtering out the public sector. /p>
