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  Kuwait attack shows Gulf vulnerability to Islamic State
  By REUTERS
  
  Published: 17:30 GMT, 29 June 2015 | Updated: 17:
  30 GMT, 29 June 2015
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  By Angus McDowall
  
  KUWAIT, June 29 (Reuters) - By sending a Saudi Arabian suicide bomber to Kuwait and recruiting local members of a
  stateless underclass to help him attack a Shi'ite Muslim mosque, an Islamic State cell struck at
  the Gulf Arab monarchy's most potent internal divisions.
  
  Relations have traditionally been good between the 70 percent of Kuwait's 1.4 million citizens who are Sunni
  and the Shi'ites who make up 30 percent, but regional rivalry between Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shi'ite Iran has opened some fissures.
  
  
  The country, home to the region's most open Arab society, is also divided
  between descendents of its original townsfolk and those of Bedouin tribes, between Islamists and liberals and between rich and poor.
  
  
  For decades, Kuwait's ruling Al Sabah family has played
  the social, religious and political groupings off against each other, say critics, while sidelining injustices such
  as the plight of over 130,000 stateless "bidoon", meaning "without".
  
  
  Islamic State is adept at exploiting vulnerabilities with its violently puritanical
  message and call to an Islamist utopia, a tactic it could use in other Gulf
  Arab states where despite great wealth, bitter inequalities
  persist.
  
  But while many Kuwaitis say they hope the government will respond to this challenge by addressing internal problems and maintaining its open tradition, they fret it will instead
  follow the authoritarian lead of the biggest Gulf state, Saudi Arabia.
  
  
  
  "Now there is a lot of fear after this action that the government will take more measures regarding more security, more limits of rights," said Mohammed
  al-Dallal, a former member of parliament with the Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Islamic Constitutional Movement.
  
  
  Friday's attack, which killed 27 and injured more than 200, put Kuwait on the front line of a jihadist
  problem that has been aggravated in its neighbour Iraq by the tussle for
  regional dominance between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
  
  Kuwait is a rare island of open debate in the Gulf, with elected MPs who
  can challenge the ruling family's appointed government and a tradition of free debate that allows critics to
  publicly question both the state and regional heavyweights.
  
  
  
  TRIBESMEN AND SALAFISTS
  
  This diversity has carried a political price, as the Al Sabah dynasty has often taken advantage of splits to better maintain its rule, giving or withholding patronage
  to prevent any one group from growing powerful enough to threaten its primacy.
  
  
  In recent years, seemingly urged on by Gulf allies, it has grown less tolerant of dissent, jailing citizens for tweets critical of the Al Sabah and changing electoral laws in ways critics say
  make it harder for the opposition to win a majority in parliament.
  
  
  What some fear is that the government will now become the last member
  of the Gulf Cooperation Council, which also includes Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, the United
  Arab Emirates and Oman, to approve a security agreement that could
  limit rights.
  
  Drive up the highway west out of Kuwait City, through
  dowdy suburbs and large open areas of scrub trees intersected by electricity pylons,
  and you pass first the bidoon area of Sulaibiya and eventually the tribal district
  of al-Jahra.
  
  The houses are smaller and shabbier than in Kuwait's inner city where the scions of wealthy
  merchants, both Sunni and Shi'ite, and the professional classes,
  make their lives.
  
  Many bidoon are descendents of Bedouin nomads from inside Kuwait
  who failed to register with the authorities when its borders were set 50 years ago, while others are more
  recent undocumented migrants from Iraq seeking access to its riches.
  
  
  At least two of the suspects Kuwait has detained after Friday's attack are from this
  disenfranchised community, as was the Iraq-born father of Mohammed al-Emwazi,
  known in the West as Islamic State's beheader of hostages,
  Jihadi John.
  
  "Islamic State will find some angry people because of some social issues. I think number one is the bidoon," said Dallal,
  describing the issue as a "time bomb".
  
  Kuwait's Bedouin tribes, while much better off than the bidoon, have historically been looked down on by cityfolk,
  who often regarded them as unsophisticated,
  while they in turn often decried the cosmopolitan urbanites as
  irreligious.
  
  It was among these groups that Salafism, the ultra-strict strain of Sunni Islam native to Saudi Arabia, has thrived in Kuwait, with its sympathy for tribal traditions, its egalitarian approach
  to those within its fold and intolerance of
  Shi'ism.
  
  Fuhaid al-Humailan, spokesman for a Bedouin Salafi party, condemned Friday's bombing, but then quickly turned to what he described as the terrorism perpetrated
  by the West and Shi'ite Iran against Arab Sunnis as representing
  Kuwait's main threat.
  
  
  NATIONAL UNITY
  
  In the 1980s, the government encouraged Salafists as a counterweight to the Muslim Brotherhood and the movement has grown ever since, becoming a force that held many seats in the last parliament and has mobilised young people on the
  street.
  
  Although the Muslim Brotherhood has held fundraising events for rebels in Syria,
  providing cash that the West believes may have gone to
  militants, it is Salafists whose ties to jihadist groups most worry Kuwaiti liberals and Shi'ites.
  
  
  
  "Salafist extremism existed in Kuwait a long time ago. But the government gave us deaf ears. They didn't listen until this tragedy happens," said
  Ali al-Baghli, a liberal former oil minister at a diwaniya, as Kuwaitis call their nightly salons.
  
  
  As Shi'ite victims were buried on Saturday, Kuwait's flag
  hung at half mast by the emir's seafront palace and condolences were heard in the Sunni Grand Mosque.
  
  
  Shi'ites at the funeral, the men and women sipping thimbles of tea at
  the salon held at a liberal political society and
  Islamists in a Bedouin district outside Kuwait City all commended their ruler, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah, for visiting the bomb site within an hour of the attack.
  
  
  Yet despite the emotional pledges of unity and allegiance, few people said
  they expected meaningful changes in how the Al Sabah handled the grievances Islamic State
  exploited, and still fewer seemed to agree on what changes, if any, should be made.
  
  
  (Editing by William Maclean and Philippa Fletcher)
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