I would like to see what the rightwing honchos like IIF, Whirlaway, JD, and IB have to say about Michelle's obvious disregard to a very strict and highly enforced custom in Saudi Arabia.
However, I do feel when you are on another soil or in another country you should respects their law-it is mentioned that foreigners- specifically women are not required to wear the head scarf-
Originally Posted by wellendowed1911
If I were you I would read a couple takes on the event. If you do then you will see were you made your mistake (again). Foreigners and non-muslims are not REQUIRED by law to cover their heads. Most women do to avoid problems and that includes wives of politicians, diplomats, and military women but it is not a law. You want to call it a "custom" but a "very strict and highly enforced custom" which it is not among foreign women. Should we respect certain secular laws (my point) when we visit other countries? Probably, but should we pay strict attention to their laws? It depends on if it requires us to do something that we don't believe in as opposed to standing by and allowing something to happen. Take the idea of slavery which is still practiced in a modern form in the Middle East (meaning mostly women, young women). Should you take a female slave if your host offers her to you (he should know that you can't do that but we are are in his country)? I would think that you can politely refuse without insulting your host. How about if your host asks you to hold a woman while he beats her for some slight? I think not again but you might get off on that sort of thing. What should you do if you are introduced to a woman, an underage woman, who is a sex slave? Should you grab her and push her behind you and fight your way to the airport to rescue her? Probably not again.
The point is that you really don't understand what is allowable and what is not, what is custom and what is law.
Some American women in Saudi Arabia, notice what they have in common?
Oh, as for Michelle O...kudos to him for not giving in.