I know my reply is quite late, but I have to write you this, hoping you will think twice & more.

I was passing by the store when it was locked up, I knew there was something wrong & I knew without a second thought that it was due to selling inappropriate stuff.

Virgin megastore)))<<< what is it all about? Or what should it be all about? As a consumer, I believe it is about providing leisure, educational & entertainment to the audience, by providing them appropriate materials that they could use, talking about that Kuwait is going backwards, I don’t think so, is allowing inappropriate movies, music, magazines & books considered as modern to you? I would love to see any of you who accepts that his daughter/sister/wife goes to the store & buy an uncensored movie (if available) & watch it at home in front of you, knowing that some scenes will show very hot actions that are not far from being a porn movie (excuse me), but if anyone fears Allah truly from the heart wouldn’t even think about if it’s ok or not to allow such materials.

& what’s wrong with you guys? You want to be like Dubai? Do you want to allow alcohol & prostitution? & don’t tell me please that if you are faithful you will go to the mosque & if you are not you will go to the bar, that is a nonsense, you can’t just allow drugs & marijuana & then say to the people: will, this coffee shop sells marijuana & drugs, you have the choice to enter it or not, & this coffee shop doesn’t (soooooo naive).

I was born in Kuwait, I am not a Kuwaiti, but I lived all my life in here, I have experienced so much that I couldn’t believe myself that I am actually in Kuwait, & by years, I have come to notice the good & perfect modernity driven mostly by those who are using their brains & not their wants, desires & wishes, many of those are the religious people along side with a big crowd of mid-religious people.

Freedom is not when u do whatever you want? It is what you select & opt from what is allowed to you firstly within what Allah accepts & then secondly what your own community accepts.

I am not that religious person but it doesn’t mean that I could accept corruption, inappropriate materials, unaccepted values that will only lead to disasters.

Why don’t you ask the ISP’s in Kuwait to unlock the porn sites on the internet???

Why don’t you ask the ministry of commerce to allow porn shops to open? Come one people, wake up, wake up, wake up, would you like to see your own kids watching hot scenes while watching a movie? Or you will tell them when you see such a scene cover your eyes? If you will tell them to do so, why can’t you just cut it off & make sure no bad scenes would appear to them? This includes the awful, disgusting & blood thirst scenes in many so-called horror movies ( I loved the movie (The Others), a perfect horror movie that I will always appreciate.

I can’t believe that you guys ARE STILL LIVING IN THE STONE AGE, I don’t believe that who ever think the way you think has a piece of meet that is called (brain), you have a tiny grain of sand that was left in your head from the stone age, you think like a rock, you stand still in your place until the winds take left & right, drop you in the see or even in the mud.

I felt like reading marshal arts book whats with fights guys ? CHILL !!

and what On Earth brought DUBAI 2 be compared to any part of KUWAIT !! if anything else we should be proud of is that WE GULF Counties always been brothers and always been ONE.

P.S Ppl Who Are Kuwaitis and aren’t PROUD get alife !!

I went to Virgin today and asked several employees why they were closed down, but none of them knew! The manager even said that neither he nor his superiors know the reason!

I asked him if it was because of the Chicago book and he said that he highly doubted it, because it was on a “best-sellers” stand and was ranked third in their chart, but no complaint was issued at the time.

So the issue remains a mystery.. until more info is leaked.

Until then, let’s keep our fingers crossed (or crescented, for the Muslims :D)

And two final notes:

For those defending the MOI action because it’s enforcing the law: Not all laws are morally upright and deserve defending. To defend a censorship law is morally reprehensible because governments aren’t entitled to such authority. Laws don’t define what is moral and, therefore, their morality should be questioned.

And to those who equate opposition of censorship to promoting drinking and clubbing: firstly, there’s a difference between prohibiting ideas and prohibiting practices. To censor books is not the same as censoring porn. Censoring books places limits on your thinking, and prohibiting practices places limits on your actions. The principle opposed by most liberals is the idea that the government is making decisions on your behalf: it decides how you should think and what you should decide, whereas they believe that such decisions rest with the individual.

It’s not a call to get drunk or to sleep around. And if you think that you or society in general will default to such practices if government restrictions are lifted, then this shows how “highly” you regard Kuwaiti society.

For the record, I don’t believe that alcohol or porn should be legalized, but I don’t think that the government should enforce morality on people.

Anyways, this is a broad subject, and I can’t cover everything in it in a blog comment!!

I guess it won’t be “virgin” anymore.

Enough is enough already. Much too much water has flown under the bridge that there now be a closure on this whole Virgin issue. Virgin and perhaps more importantly, all music and book aficionados in the country need to make a clean breast of things by accepting an unconditional public apology from those we do not speak of, at this; their latest act of juvenile delinquency

Stop using words out of your league. I imagine your a wee liyyle girl just out of KU Eng Lit. and wanna show all the big words u learnt. Juvenile delinquency??

wait, wait wait for it….. LOL

o ilzlim ” greentoad ” etha mo 3ajbik shoflik mokan thani y`6ifik ‘3air LQ8 .. !!