Task 4: blog entries activity 1

1. I feel that treatment of women's rights are unfair. The law should enforce equality of everyone, and not sexist views. To disallow women to drive a car is clearly discrimination of women. Although the religeon of Saudi Arabia may forbid women to drive, religeon and law are two separate things. For example, even if a woman lives in Saudi Arabia, it does not mean she practices the domainant religion there, and hence it would be unfair for her to be forbidden the basic right of driving. For all the government knows, her reliigeon may be one that enforces the need for women to drive.
2. I believe that social media has been an advantage to the women in Saudi Arabia. On the internet they are free to express their views harmlessly, and to plan in secret how they intend to make their views known to the government and proper authorities.
3. Religeon and law cannot be mixed, although the domainant religeon may forbid certain actions, not all in the country practice the same religeon, and hence it is not possible for the law to compromise on these minority groups. A good way of handling the rights is for each individual to have his or her religeon written on their identity card, and police can conduct checks if they suspect someone is breaking the religeous law.
Extention activity:
2. Women are just as capable as men. Although men make up the majority of leaders, there are also capable women leaders. For example, Australia's prime minister, Julia Gillard. Also, in the past, the head of the Greek god Apollo was always a prestess. For the protest in Saudi Arabia, the organiser was also a woman, and she managed to garner 600 signatures from Saudi citizens, who are "usually reluctant to publicly attach their names to political actions. However, this time, they were willing to do so, and this shows that they also agree to Ms Shariff's point of view, that women should be given the basic right to drive. Sometimes, women actually are better leaders than men. They can usually think up solutions quickly, and hence problems are solved quickly. However, for diplomatic leaders, I feel that men are more capable. Men understand the problems of each other, and now, as most of the leaders are men, men will make better diplomatic leaders. Men also make better military leaders. For example, Napoleon, who conquered most of Europe, and Ghengis Khan, who conquered the largest empire known to man.