Okaz

A terrible crime that ended in murder at Alexandria beach last Friday was a result of harassment. This means that some harassers are bold enough to attack their victims if they did not comply with their ill behavior or object to it.

Harassers think that harassment is part of their right because family, society and law did not recognize it as a crime yet, therefore they can do what they want.

The overwhelming majority thinks that the best way to end harassment is by isolating both genders from each other and to specify certain clothes and looks for women, which they view as respectful, in order for women not to fall victim to harassment.

When a person interferes to stop harassment, it could turn against him because it will be seen as interference in a matter that is not of his business. Most of us resort to expressing anger against harassment but have not done anything practical to put an end to it.

And they do not fight it in the same robust manner and boldness as some of the harassers show when they harass people with impunity.

A society that does not fight its problems and try to solve it peacefully will allow such problems to evolve to a level that it cannot be contained in the future.

The problem will grow because society is not fighting it and will soon become normal behavior that will be difficult to cure because society was lenient toward it and is not trying to find a permanent solution.

Such problems are rarely seen in advanced societies, not because men are different there, but because there is a strong law imposed that tamps down on harassment.