Without noting one obvious fact, namely that already in the past three years the Kuwaiti ministries have more than twice created increasingly stronger (anti-lower class and anti-foreigner) apartheid-like rules in Kuwait concerning access to driving license for foreigners by first stating in 2005 that one needed to earn 850 dollars-a-month to obtain a license and raising it again this year to over 1300 dollars a month, Al-Otaibi tells readers tongue and cheek:
"As solution to the [road safety] problem, we propose that the Interior Ministry suspend all expatriate driver's licenses. It should provide mass public transport system to commute them to their work places. One condition, though, the drivers should be Kuwaitis."
Note: The irony in Al-Otaibi's punch-line "condition" is that some Kuwaiti kids--as young as 5 or 6 years of age-are regularly given charge of foreign born drivers to traverse the city in at their convenience. Meanwhile, many other Kuwaiti families's find the roadways now so dangerous, i.e. with so many other Kuwaitis driving about at 200km with impunity, that they themselves have had to hire foreign drivers.
The only Kuwaiti drivers I know who drive for others are the aging retirees of past generations who drive some of the large metal-plated taxi cabs at the airport-which charge 25% more than other taxis. In short, the idea of Kuwaitis driving professionally for others is not in the cards for the future generation of Kuwaitis currently.
Al-Otaibi also takes opportunity to compare the current new practices in Kuwait for deporting foreigner to laws in Apartheid South Africa and Idi Amin's Uganda.
He also adds, "It is similar to the situation in Israel now. It does not allow Palestinians to use roads earmarked for Israeli settlers."
Al-Otaibi points out what a sudden shock it must be to the poor and suddenly expelled expats and their family.
Noting that it is likely a major breadwinner in the family who can afford to drive a car in any case, Al-Otaibi adds, "The new rule is akin to passing a death sentence for the entire family. It ruins every human being's ambition regardless of creed or gender. It is the violation of the equality principle that exists between the citizen and the expatriate and above all, contradicts Islam."
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