Dear All,
i usually do not post on the forum on a weekend, but today i am making an exception.
as many of you living in kuwait have heard, today kuwait witnessed a dastardly, cowardly terrorist attack on a shia mosque in kuwait city that left 11 people dead and many injured.
i am coming here today to attempt to alleviate some of the fear and doubt that many who wil hear about this will have and question their decision to move here.
first and foremost, this is an isolated incident. ISIS has claimed responsibility, as well as for the other two terrorist attacks that occurred in Tunis and France.
what happened in kuwait was a micro representation of a macro situation that exists in the middle east and has existed for many years - the sunni - shia conflict.
previously it manifested itself in defamations of mosques with spray paint, today it took a bloody turn.
Kuwait remains safe to expats, inshallah, as the authorities will not let this slight go unreplied to.
the mosque that was blown up contained several shia persons, both citizens and expats.
we ask you to keep the families of the deceased in your prayers and pray for them to have patience.
the blood bank is queued up to capacity as everyone in kuwait rushed to donate.
in the end, the decision is yours regarding moving to kuwait or not, but kuwait is just as safe as any other country in the world.
stay safe.