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Harassment has become an entrenched issue in the world. Everyone is feeling worried because of it’s increasing ratio. So let’s talk about harassment, its causes, and action plan to control it.
What is harassment?
Harassment is basically known as a behavior that upsets or disturbs. There are many types of harassment i.e. sexual harassment, torturing, abusing, threatening and blackmailing etc. It is very common in European countries. But nowadays its ratio is being increased in Islamic countries also. Men, women, and children all can be subjected to harassment but the majority of its victims are women.
Almost 40% of the world’s women have been harassed so far. It is an alarming situation for all of us that our women are not safe in this society. Harassment is a rising issue in every country and every state of the world. Now we should seriously think about its causes and action plans to stop it.
Causes of harassment:
There are so many causes of harassment but in my perception, its first and basic reason is that we are going away from our religion (Islam). People have forgotten the teachings of Islam. They do not know the difference between allowed and forbidden (halal and har’am). Students are being taught modernity in educational institutes. Morality has been skipped from the modern educational syllabus. Our new generations do not know about sin and reward. Their knowledge about wrong and right path appointed by Allah Almighty is zero. Therefore they are adopting bad habits including harassment.
In some cases, women become victims of harassment due to their own fault. Modern women of this era used to wear such outfits in which they look objectionable. Narrow-minded people look at them with nasty eyes. It seems like women themselves are inviting priests of lust to cast evil sight on them. In the name of so-called freedom, women do not feel any hesitation in making consensual relationships and dating with opposite sex. In such kind of relationships, men use to play with feelings of women and fulfill their lust. Later they (men) use the intimate material to blackmail women for money or for other wrong purposes.
In our society, many sufferers of harassment kept themselves quiet over this injustice because they do not want to embarrass their families. They thought that they will be labeled as characterless. They are ashamed of becoming the gossip of people. So they do not raise their voice against harassment. That is why criminals take advantage of the situation and scold in society shamelessly without fear of being punished. This is also the main reason for increasing rate of harassment.
Action plans for harassment:
Harassment has become a world-wide issue. Its ratio has been increased to such an extent that if we do not take strict actions for its prevention then it would result in great destruction. According to my perception following steps should be taken to control this hot issue:
First of all Islamic rules and teachings should be promoted. Children should be taught ethics and awareness about harassment from school level so that they can become civilized citizens. Every Muslim (either man or woman) should be well aware of his/her rights, duties and status. Both men and women should remain at a specific distance from each other.
We can’t ask anyone to be religious because its personal matter between man and Allah but being a Muslim we must know the basics of Islam. Both men and women are equally contributing to the progress of the world. It is a requirement of time to live in touch with official colleagues either men or women. But too much frank behavior with opposite sex causes the destruction of societies and individuals. Therefore everyone should be careful in such kind of matters.
The most important step that we should take for prevention of harassment is to take stand against this injustice and cruelty. The sufferers should not keep quiet. In fact being a human we should support the sufferers so that they could not consider themselves weak. Many NGOs are working for the welfare of human rights we should ask them for help. This issue needs continuous attention and it demands secrecy. Although laws are present in every country but implementing those laws still remains a challenge for all of us.
So governments should take an active part in the welfare of public and country. Anti-harassment policies should be made by governments. Police should help the sufferers by arresting the criminal. The criminals should be punished hard so that no one could dare to harass anybody. If these steps are not taken then people (especially women) will feel unsafe in this society.
