The Justice and Peace Alliance (Arabic: تجمع العدالة والسلام), sometimes translated as the Justice and Peace Gathering, is a moderate Shi'a political bloc in Kuwait.[1] Of the fifty elected members of Kuwait National Assembly, only one belongs to the Justice and Peace Alliance: Saleh Ashour.
Justice and Peace Alliance تجمع العدالة والسلام | |
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Leader | Saleh Ashour |
Founded | 31 December 2004 |
Headquarters | Kuwait City |
Ideology | Islamism |
Religion | Shi'a Islam (Shirazi) |
The bloc members are followers of the Shirazi school of thought which in turn is against Hezbollah and the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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edit- ^ "Most Kuwaiti political groups boycotting polls". Ahram Online. AFP. 29 November 2012. Retrieved 18 September 2014.