Adnan Zahid Abdulsamad
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Adnan Zahid Abdulsamad was a former member of the
Supported severing ties with Denmark
On November 6, 2006, the parliament voted 22–15 to approve severing diplomatic ties with Denmark over the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy and spending about US$50 (€39.20) million to defend the prophet's image in the West. Both votes were nonbinding, meaning the Cabinet did not have to abide by them. Abdulsamad voted in favor of cutting diplomatic ties, saying, ""We have to cut diplomatic and commercial ties with Denmark... We don't have to eat Danish cheese."[2]
Temporary marriage mini-series controversy
On September 16, 2007, Abdulsamad and fellow Shia MP
Abdulsamad charged that besides stoking sectarianism, the serial insults and distorts the Shia faith by mocking temporary marriage, a valid, sanctioned concept in Shiism despite the controversy and social taboos surrounding the practice.[3]
Expulsion from Popular Action Bloc
On February 19, 2008, the
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- ^ http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/02/20/africa/ME-GEN-Kuwait-Mughniyeh.php [dead link]