Islam vs Human rights

I read an article in arabicnews.com in which Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh, a Saudi Muffi, opposed the French government's banned the wearing of veil in France's public schools and in Public Administration Offices.

Somehow, I see this gesture to be the same as the Saudi government's banning of not wearing a head scarf in public. The Saudi Rule has no exception-that includes women from different countries who enter Saudi Arabia. Simply put, if you're woman, black, white, Saudi, Irish, American French, Dominican, Finn, Bahamian, British, American, Latina or whatever you may think you are, if you go to Saudi Arabia, you have to comer your head- that was not complicated, was it?

Now, if the Saudis can say, "you must wear a scarf", the French can also say, "you can't wear a scarf". I just don't see the point to argue on this. However, the Saudi Muffi complained that France violates the laws of "human rights" should Muslim Women living in France be forced to unveil themselves- "interference in the veil of the Muslim woman is an intervention in a personal matter and a violation to human rights which they advocate" he stated according to arabicnews.com.
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/040128/2004012820.html

Did I hear "Human rights"? If a woman goes to Saudi Arabia, should she refuse to wear a head scarf? What would the Saudi authorities do to her? Will, they respect her "human rights"? Exactly what, are her rights?

It's perplexing how people rationalize or should I say fail to rationalize. I've begun to think if those in leadership positions don't see the conflicts or do they just want to maintain the status quo for their own personal.

The world has seen many dictators such as: in Latin America, Africa, the Caribbean and in other parts of the world that I don't even care to mention. Idi Amin Dada and Duvalier (father-son) of the Republic of Haiti for example, had opportunities to bring much needed reforms to their countries. Both failed to do so. Rather then championing human rights to advance their countries, their citizens, they used their positions adversely and for their own benefit.

Of course, for as long as they abused the powers of their existing positions, they failed to realize that mankind has a limit on tyranny . The human being, an intelligent being that bears natural need to be free, yearning for these basic natural rights, will inevitably become free.

Most recently, 7 men gang raped a 19 year old Saudi young woman. Having suffered the humiliation, emotional pain that she will have for the rest of her life, the Saudi Justice Ministry has chosen to add to her punishment. As if what she went through as 7 sub-human violated her body repeatedly, is not adequate punishment. I wonder if some men understand women. Are men in leading positions so focused on their own needs that they fail to use their common sense? Are some of today's leaders so caught up on their own needs that they choose not to challenge the irrational?
Is it absurd? Distortedly so.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,256980,00.html

As human beings, it is our duty to make sense of the irrational.

By: Marie Gachelin