Innsbruck - here despite it never being on my to-see list

An election tent in the desert. People vote in election tents and had to wait in line for hours to get in. With the 106F temps and lack of a/c and water there were plenty of fainting spells.
Elections

In the second year that women had the right to vote and they had a 60% female turnout, no women were elected. The women’s rights movement had the two extremes in the paper between the group who want to see women represented in government and the Islamist’s who don’t. Male liberal politicians lost gains to Islamists. Vote buying is common and politicians will pay people $3000 cash to vote for them.

The daily arrest report was replaced with this:

Women only fit to apply makeup
An old woman said she would not vote for a woman because women were not capable of achieving anything. She added that if elected to parliament, all they will do Is quarrel among themselves and apply makeup on their faces during parliament sessions.

Women should focus on child-rearing
After casting her vote for the first time, a women remarked that she was opposed to women becoming members of parliament. She said that a fatwa (religious edict) bans women form holding such posts. She said that Islam honored the role of women and preserved their rights. Therefore, women should concentrate on their basic role of raising children.

Front page editorial – Our own worst enemy
(excerpt)
I cannot express how angry I am with women in Kuwait. We spent decades fighting for our rights. What did we do with our right to vote? Nothing. Women voters outnumbered men in this election and only men were elected. What’s happening to women in Kuwait? Are they herded by their tribes? It seems so. I assure you that most men in Kuwait do not have the mentality for voting for women. But if we had stood united, at least one or two (women) would have been in office in September.