I know I am late and gay, but as to the discussion about the laws in Kuwait on filming (Salah’s friend trying to keep his face out of the video, Salah’s alleged over-reaction to FB and the chat): Remember that these are not Kuwaitis, and they will not be afforded the same leeway.
He is considered the same as any migrant worker in Kuwait (under their kafala system). Many thousands find themselves in a similar situation - and there’s not variations upon it, really. Expat parent(s) working in Kuwait have children who’ve never known their homeland, sensitive to their place in the hierarchy, where every Kuwaiti child has a nanny or two that’s worked half to death and sandwiched into tiny living quarters like sausages.
He would’ve been sensitive to this from a young age, and so I think his dislike for her chins was not the sole reason in correcting her hijab. He does not want her crossing a line from mild but continual embarrassment to actually offensive, so he takes her out when no one is there and keeps a close eye on her social media. Wisely, given this
kinda shit causing deportation only last year:
“Syrian man has been deported by Kuwait's ministry of interior for appearing in a video on social media that showed him sitting in front of a large pile of money …accused the man of “tampering with and mocking the local currency”, In the video, the man can be seen sitting in front of a large pile of money and complaining that he was “tired of counting it”, before flamboyantly distributing it to his friends.
Following the man’s arrest by Kuwait’s cybercrime department, he confirmed to police that the money was not his, and that he was, in fact, not financially well off. The money belonged to the owner of the building that he works in, and was rent that had been collected.
In a follow up video, the deported man insisted that the video was intended as a “joke” and was just made for fun, but that there were those who viewed the video with “hatred”. Kuwait’s public prosecution office decided not to formally charge the man, but the ministry of interior did decide to deport him back to Damascus.
Kuwait’s Administrative Deportation Law allows the ministry of interior to deport any expatriate, without a court ruling, if it judges the decision to be in the interest of protecting the country and its security… expats in Kuwait are now scared to make or appear in videos on social media platforms such as Snapchat or TikTok, for fear that they might inadvertently cause offence and put their status in the country at risk and be deported.