Comments on: Jahra Wedding Hall Blaze

By: deema

deema — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:51:53 +0000

You all should be ashamed of your selves for saying all this about thoes poor people whom have died,if only it your mother,sister,daughter,wife..or anyone dear was one of the victimes you sure wouldnt be talking in such mockery…
This was Gods will and it has absloutly nothing to do with thoes ppl’s mentalty about being covered up or not.

By: Security Adviser

Security Adviser — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:57:25 +0000

This is what this so called liberal country has come to… Let the women burn to death rather than GOD FORBID be seen by some one outside the family… Please note my sarcasam. Oil gave this country material wealth and a chance at a modern education yet they live in the stone age.

By: 3azeez

3azeez — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 12:09:58 +0000

This is not shocking, this is expected.

Do you really expect from women usually covered in black from head to toe to leave the building wearing almost nothing (and I mean nothing but all human standards). This is not Saudi Arabia or the UAE where women are forced to cover themselves and those women wearing what they are wearing by their will.

The problem is with the building and who ever allowed such a building to be built and used for such events without proper maintenance, fire checks, and having proper fire alarms and fire escapes.

This disaster could have been easily solved if there were fire exists in the building, if there were water sprinklers, and most importantly and the cheapest of all… fire alarms.

in a decent country before an even that have people gathering – no matter how small it is – even if it was just twenty people meeting at an office, there would usually be an instruction about the location of the fire exists and hospitality people who have knowldge of how to use the fire extinguisher.

this accident is not a failure of the first responders or the people who blocked them… this is far greater than that.

By: Ghostface

Ghostface — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 09:36:44 +0000

Bedoun Idiots. What do you expect?

By: MBH

MBH — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 08:32:32 +0000

There’s an Egyptian saying that fits: Elee e’3tasho, mato.
It means: Those who were shy, died.

May God have mercy upon their souls, and those idiots who blocked the firemen.

By: Desert Girl

Desert Girl — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 06:21:27 +0000

Every time I attend a wedding or a large gathering here, I look for the exits. I went to one wedding at a hall in Omariya that held approximately 200 people – in a basement hall. There was only one tiny corridor in and out.

“Planning” is not a common task in Kuwait. There aren’t enough fire investigators to go around (we have bars on the back windows of our office – totally against the law; however, the fire inspector in our area was paid off to look the other way).

Unnecessary death and dismemberment don’t have much to do with “destiny” when God gave each of us free will and a brain. Destiny comes into play when you have used both to the best of their capabilities.

Further, had I been one of the women inside the hall in Jahra and found out that my husband/brother/father had stopped firefighters from entering, I would have beat the living crap out of him. Didn’t a similar event take place at a girl’s school in Pakistan for similar reasons?

By: N

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:32:53 +0000

This is really sad

By: Holla

Holla — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:05:11 +0000

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at how stupid this situation is. So fucking pathetic.

By: hilaliya

hilaliya — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:48:45 +0000

Fires happen – it is a tragedy but the fact of the matter is the Hall didn’t have enough fire exits, fire extinguishers, sprinklers and so forth. The fact of the matter is this, had the building been build *up to standard international codes* there would have been many fewer casualties.

The fire dept. must be involved by law in the specs and technical aspects concerning any new edifices and this must be enforced by Municipality and other relevant bodies.

The MPs, citizens of Jahra and the media have been demanding for years that another major hospital be built in Jahra – which has almost 500,000 citizens – they also only have one fire station which supposedly was built decades ago.

Jahra hospital couldn’t handle the casualties, and many were taken to Farwaniya and Sabah Hospital. Is this the way Kuwait – a rich country is supposed to take care of its citizens?

The government is at fault here not ‘veils.’

By: Armani Exchanger

Armani Exchanger — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:45:45 +0000

“..According to an eyewitness, when firemen first arrived at the scene, they were prevented from entering the hall by some men (apparently relatives of some of the women inside) on the grounds that it was an all-women place. “You can’t get in,” they shouted…”

is that how stupid those people are it’s a fire for God sake…WTF!!!! OMG!!! WHY???

By: Abdullah

Abdullah — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:18:17 +0000

The difference but ignorance and stupidity.

By: BT

BT — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:52:54 +0000

why does everything posted here have to turn into a battle of opinions

By: nyx

nyx — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:40:47 +0000

And by publicize I meant; this is a blog where bloggers have free speech and sometimes some one creeps up and passes untowards remarks, without realising the gravity of the issue, i.e. people lost lives and scores got injured!

By: nyx

nyx — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:35:27 +0000

Stafa:
Am amazed; you followed me here as well, :P!
I hate to be the one to break it to you, but this will find its way to the court and investigators will have a field day ascertaining the cause of the fire. I think they do it all the time (in every country actually), unless you dont think a fire is a crime scene where people have actually lost lives!
And remarking on your grilling the MPs or Ministers, is something every parliament follows; havent you heard of Congressional Hearings and the House of Commons holding a questions and answer session on ‘a’ particular MP??
And lets not get personal by asking me to open my mind… after this post of mine, I am of the firm belief that you’ll be the one deciphering who needs to open minds.
Have an awesome evening…

By: Stafa

Stafa — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:19:01 +0000

@ nyx: why not publicize such news? do you just wanna keep the people in the dark without knowing anything? Open your mind for a bit.
and why is it that you’re jumping to conclusion that this has to be taken into court for the law to serve its justice? Haven’t you heard of natural disasters? electrical malfunctions? or is it because this country is so used to questioning every minister for the stupidest things?