However the excessive expansion of Christianity has been sharply criticized by Islamists. For example, in February, 2012 few Kuwaiti Members of Parliament openly called for a halt to the construction of new churches in Kuwait. Kuwaiti MP Osama Al-Munawer announced on Twitter that he was planning to submit a  draft law calling for the removal of all churches in the country.
This was followed by the call of the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia for the demolition of all Churches in the GCC states including Kuwait. The displeasure among some sections of the Kuwaiti population at the assertion of Churches and also the intrusion of Christians in the country is increasing.

During my field research among the Kerala migrants to the Gulf, I observed that 
religion is salient factor in a migrant‘s day-to-day life, as it fills the emotional hole created in the context of extreme social isolation that migrants experience in foreign countries.The Christian immigrants of Kerala in Kuwait have noted that in the last one decade or so the spirituality and the role of religion have increased exorbitantly among Kerala migrants.

Till the 1990s in Kuwait religious activities in Kerala and among the migrants  in the GCC, was nothing more than a routine and low key affair.

Radical  religious groups such as the neo-Pentecostal and Evangelical Christian 
denominations, Muslim groups with strong Wahabi traditions such as the 
Jamaat e Islami, and the RSS and various cults such as Matha Amrathandamayee have made deep inroads in the lives of

Kerala immigrants in the GCC states particularly Kuwait. These religious 
groups are transnational in nature and they are actively linked to both home and 
destination countries. Moreover the lack of social interaction with the local 
people and social alienation felt by the immigrants in GCC countries has only 
strengthened their quest for spiritual and religious identity.