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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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