Stuffing our tummies with all those tablets

This is not a book marketing spin! I append this eye-catching picture merely to depict how we shove a garden variety of tablets and caplets (aside from different colored liquid stuff) down our throats over the course of our life to stay alive or remain fit.

The picture of tummy here reminds me of 'control volume' concept as taught in Engineering Fluid Mechanics or Aerodynamics courses!

Shall endeavor to add some important info on antibiotics later.

Comic Relief: Too much cunning over-reaches itself!

Two Maxwell Smarts OutSmarting Each Other...  :-)

New Parlance of New World Order (NWO)

Try to make a habit of at least reading the headlines of this important Canada-based Alternative News (& Views) Media called Global Research (http://www.globalresearch.ca) on a daily basis to keep yourself abreast of the true happenings around the world especially when it comes to the conflict zones. Below is a specimen that you may like...

William Shakespeare and the New World Order:

“Hell is Empty and all the Devils are Here”

By Prof Michel Chossudovsky

Global Research, April 23, 2015

Today is Shakespeare’s birthday: 23 April
William Shakespeare, born 23 April 1564 (unconfirmed), baptised 26 April 1564, died 23 April 1616

We celebrate the 451st anniversary of the birth of of William Shakespeare. who taught us never to despair in our resolve to Seek the Truth and Confront the Lie, 

“to unmask falsehood and bring truth to light”.

Signs of our times: war criminals in high office are celebrated as messengers of peace:

“And thus I clothe my naked villany, … And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.” (King Richard III)

Those committed to “security by military means” have taken charge of the Nobel Peace Prize… “Lawless are they that make their wills their law”.
The Lie becomes the Truth.
Realities are turned upside down.
War becomes Peace.
“Humanitarian wars” are waged with the most advanced weapons systems to come to the rescue of those who suffer oppression.
“The international community” is the repository of  the “Truth”, which can no longer be challenged.  The American inquisition prevails.
An unbinding political consensus is imposed.
Those who dare oppose ”Peace” and NATO’s “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P) are branded as terrorists.
Bad guys are lurking. Evil terrorists with kalashnikovs are threatening the security of the United States of America and its trillion dollar arsenal of “peace-making” nuclear weapons, which according to expert scientific opinion on contract to the Pentagon, are “harmless to the surrounding civilian population”.
A good versus evil dichotomy prevails: a “Clash of Civilisations”.
The West has a “Mission”: “We must fight against evil in all its forms as a means to preserving the Western way of life.” The perpetrators of war are presented as the victims.
Breaking the Lie means breaking a criminal project of global destruction, in which the quest for profit is the overriding force.
This profit-driven military agenda destroys human values and transforms people into unconscious zombies.
Let us reverse the tide.
In Shakespeare’s words regarding the architects of the New World Order: 

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”

 Our indelible task is to send the “devils” of our time, the self-proclaimed architects of democracy and the “free market”, down to where they rightfully belong.

“One may smile, and smile, and be a villain!”

Challenge the “smiling” war criminals in high office and the powerful corporate lobby groups which support them.

Break the American Inquisition.
Undermine the US-NATO-Israel military crusade.
Close down the weapons factories and the military bases.
Members of the armed forces should disobey orders and refuse to participate in a criminal war.
Bring home the troops.

Violence against women in Turkey

Just like Mursi, Sultan Erdogan, promoter of hateful militant Wahhabi terrorism in Syria using IS, is unable to stem the tide of violence against women in Turkey. What a shame!

‘Violence against women is Turkey’s bleeding wound’
Tayyip Erdogan
18 February 2015

ISTANBUL — Turkey’s president has described violence against women as the “bleeding wound” of the country after a woman was stabbed and beaten to death after trying to fight off a man trying to rape her.

Despite a surge in violence against women in Turkey last year, the particularly brutal, and public, attack on Ozgecan Aslan, 20, has become a rallying point, prompting protests and condemnation by politicians.

Police say she was traveling home on a minibus in the southeastern seaside province of Mersin on Wednesday when a man tried to rape her, according to reports carried widely in Turkish media.

When she retaliated with pepper spray, the suspect stabbed her and beat her to death with an iron bar before enlisting his father and a friend to help dispose of her body by burning it and dumping it in a river.

A 26-year-old man has been arrested with his accomplices, Hurriyet Daily News reported. Prosecutors were not immediately available for comment, police could give no more details.

Women nationwide have worn black in condemnation of the murder, posting photos on social media. The hashtag #sendeanlat, meaning “you tell us too” was trending globally on Sunday with women sharing stories of abuse on public transport. #OzgecanAslan continued to trend worldwide on Monday.

Several hundred minibuses in Diyarbakir in the southeast were adorned with black ribbons and carried Aslan’s photograph.

President Tayyip Erdogan and his wife called Aslan’s family on Saturday, when her funeral was held, and Erdogan’s two daughters have visited the family’s house, according to the pro-government Daily Sabah. “I will personally follow the case so that they will be given the heaviest penalty. I am already following the case. Violence against women is the bleeding wound of our country,” Erdogan said during a speech in Ankara on Monday. Human rights monitor Bianet says 281 women were murdered in Turkey in 2014, a 31 percent increase on the previous year. Nine percent of these had asked for protection from the state, it said, prompting criticism that not enough is being done to protect victims.

Erdogan, a devout Sunni in the patriarchal Muslim majority nation, has in the past been criticized by women’s groups for failing to speak out more domestic violence, and for saying he does not believe in equality of the sexes.

Some politicians called for the reintroduction of the death penalty in response to the case. The Istanbul Feminist Collective rejected that at as a way of preventing such attacks.

“(M)ost of the discussions do not give any hope of improvement in this respect because political actors or groups, the government in particular, are reluctant to recognise their responsibility in Ozgecan’s murder,” it said, arguing that those calling for the death penalty fail to act when violence against women is committed. — Reuters

Sexual Assaults on Women in Egypt

Women sexually assaulted in Egypt protests
Human Rights Watch says mobs "assaulted and in some cases raped at least 91 women" in Cairo's Tahrir Square.
3 Jul 2013

Egypt's Tahrir Square has seen nearly hundred women falling victim to "rampant" sexual attacks during the past four days of protests against President Mohamed Morsi, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said.

The global rights watchdog said on Wednesday that the mobs sexually assaulted "and in some cases raped at least 91 women" in Tahrir Square amid a climate of impunity.

Citing figures of the Egyptian Operation Anti-Sexual Harassment/Assault, that runs a hotline for victims of sexual assault, HRW said that there were 46 such attacks against women on Sunday, 17 on Monday and 23 on Tuesday.

Another women's rights group, Nazra for Feminist Studies, reported that there were five similar attacks on Friday, said HRW.

Sexual harassment has long been common in Egypt, but its increasing occurrence and ferocity has shaken the protest movement. A large number of women had fallen victim to gang assaults too in the square - the epicenter of 2011 revolution.

Security vacuum

Some say the attacks are staged by thugs who are abusing a security vacuum and confident of escaping prosecution. Others say the assaults are organised to scare women off from joining protests and to stain the image of the anti-government demonstrations.

"The rampant sexual attacks during the Tahrir Square protests highlight the failure of the government and all political parties to face up to the violence that women in Egypt experience on a daily basis in public spaces," said Joe Stork, HRW's deputy Middle East director.

HRW also called on Egyptian officials and political leaders "across the spectrum to condemn and take immediate steps to address the horrific levels of sexual violence" in the iconic square.

"These are serious crimes that are holding women back from participating fully in the public life of Egypt at a critical point in the country's development,” the New York-based watchdog said.

Several women required surgical intervention after the attacks, some were "beaten with metal chains, sticks, and chairs, and attacked with knives," HRW said.

HRW said the attackers needed to be brought to justice but "the government response has been to downplay the extent of the problem or to seek to address it through legislative reform alone."

Gang rape, the dark side of Egypt's protests
By Nina Burleigh, Special to CNN
July 3, 2013

Editor's note: Nina Burleigh is an investigative journalist and author who has reported frequently from the Middle East. Her last book was "The Fatal Gift of Beauty: The Italian Trials of Amanda Knox."

(CNN) -- Last week, a 22-year-old Dutch journalist was gang-raped in Tahrir Square and had to undergo surgery for severe injuries. The assault reminds us yet again of an often overlooked aspect of the Egyptian revolution.

When Egyptians overthrew their dictator in 2011, one of the first celebratory acts in Tahrir Square included the gang beating and sexual assault of American journalist Lara Logan, who, like the Dutch journalist, landed in the hospital.

The Logan rape has always been portrayed as another unfortunate by product of mob violence. In fact, it was much more than that. It was a warning shot fired by men whose political beliefs are founded on a common pillar: Women must stay out of the public square.

One of the hallmarks of revolutionary victory in Tahrir Square has always been rape and sexual harassment. Mobs of men routinely set upon women, isolating, stripping and groping. No one is ever arrested or held accountable, and elected officials shrug their shoulders and blame the victims.

Vigilante groups have been organized to track the incidents. Operation Anti-Sexual Harassment, one of the groups, recorded 46 cases of sexual assaults and harassment against women on Sunday night alone -- and has added 17 more to its list that the group said happened Monday.

Egyptian women are the primary victims of sexual violence, and ultimately they are the intended recipients of the message: Stay home, your input in government and politics is not wanted.

Raping foreign journalists -- guaranteed to attract global attention -- is merely a more efficient way of getting that message across. 

When Egyptians overthrew the dictator, the Muslim Brotherhood took advantage of public hatred of the dictator to ally him with Western progressive ideals, including gender equality. Out went the non-governmental organizations that worked to make divorce easier and inheritance laws fairer. In came the thugs who stripped and beat women in the streets.

Granted, some of these crimes against women were committed by the military and the police themselves, as women like Mona Eltahawy (a journalist whose arms were broken by soldiers) and Samira Ibrahim (a young protester who sued the government, accusing an army doctor of submitting her to a forced "virginity test") have reported.

Dina Zakaria, an Egyptian journalist, reported that the men who raped the Dutch journalist last week called themselves "revolutionists." That label should surprise no one.

If one fervently believes women should stay inside their homes and out of the business of public life, what better way to accomplish that than rampant sexual harassment and sexual assault in a country in which women's virginity and honor is the sine qua non of female participation in society?

Egyptian Salafist preacher Ahmad Mahmoud Abdullah said that women protesting in Tahrir Square 'have no shame and want to be raped.'
Nina Burleigh

Not long ago, Egyptian Salafist preacher Ahmad Mahmoud Abdullah said that women protesting in Tahrir Square "have no shame and want to be raped." The public face of the Muslim Brotherhood would never espouse such a statement. But its founding intellectual lights never hid the fact that a pillar of their planned theocracy was keeping women powerless. And their record in office is one of sexist exclusion. Women held only eight seats out of 498 (four of the eight women were from the Brotherhood party) in the disbanded Parliament.

Women made up 7% of the constitutional assembly that drafted the Egyptian constitution. No wonder then that the document (approved by referendum in December 2012) refers to women only as sisters and mothers, and only within the framework of family -- not employment or public life, even though a majority of Egyptian women work.

Egypt has always been a place where life for women is nasty and brutish, if not short. Last year, a UNICEF survey showed 91% of Egyptian women between the ages of 15-49 said they had to undergo female genital mutilation. The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality in May reported that 99.3% of Egyptian women interviewed said they had been subjected to some form of sexual violence. Rape victims almost never go to the hospital and certainly not the police. There are no medical protocols for rape, and police treat female victims as prostitutes.

Whether or not that violence is political is worthy of discussion. I believe it is. At the moment, no one even debates it. It is the elephant in the room.

As the Egyptian revolution enters another chapter, and more women get stripped and sexually assaulted in the streets while being systematically excluded from the halls of power in Cairo, it is high time for American progressives and other Arab Spring commentators to stop separating anti-female violence from the politics of the Muslim Brotherhood's revolutionaries.

In the broadest sense, the West's response to the treatment of women in post-Arab Spring countries, from Egypt to Syria, says a lot about the status of women here.

We might not be able to do anything to stop violent, organized misogyny in far-off lands, but we can certainly stand up for our own principles and call it what it is.

Prevention of Sexual Harassments in Saudi Arabia - Some Discussions

Continuing from my previous post...

Preventing sexual harassment
Saudi Gazette report
30 May 2014  -  01 Shaban 1435 H


Sexual harassment has forced a number of women to quit their jobs and stay away from public life. Commenting on the topic, a number of experts, scholars and women called for taking stringent legal action against men who resort to verbal or physical sexual harassment.

Muna Ahmad said she quit her job at a private company after she said a number of her male colleagues sexually harassed her.

“I couldn’t find a private driver who could take me from my house to my workplace and back. So I had no choice but to use taxis. Whenever I would wait in front of the company’s gate after work to hail a taxi, men who worked in the same company would approach me in their cars and try to pick me up,” she said.

Despite facing a financial crunch, Ahmad had to make the hard decision to quit her job and sit at home. She urged authorities to punish sexual offenders.

Echoing the same view, Hind Adel, who worked at a retail store, said she quit her job after male customers harassed her. She is currently looking for a job where she won’t face sexual harassment.

Azizah Abdul Qader, a businesswoman, said fear of Allah and holding fast to Islamic teachings was important for both men and women. She urged women to handle such situations bravely and wisely so they don’t fall victim to sexual offenders.

According to Abdul Qader, wearing Islamic dress and decent behavior will help women protect themselves from all forms of harassment.

“Even though I have to deal with a large number of men as part of my business, I manage the situation elegantly by holding fast to Islamic principles, especially in my behavior with unrelated men. If a woman follows Islamic principles and does not mingle with men freely, she can escape from all forms of harassment,” Abdul Qader said.

Muhammad Al-Badli, however, said such views put the blame on the victim. Instead, he said, it was segregation between men and women since childhood that was the main reason women face sexual harassment.

“When men and women are denied the basic freedom to interact with one another, some of these men grow up not knowing how to act around women and they tend to harass them whenever they get an opportunity. Parents give all freedom to boys while denying them to girls, and this creates a feeling among girls that they are being sidelined and their rights are being deprived,” he said.

Al-Badli noted that inculcating mutual feelings of respect among young men and women when they interact in public is one of the best ways to curb harassment. “At the same time, all men who try to exceed the proper bounds of the decency of behaving with woman, whom they should treat just like a sister, should be subjected to stringent penal action,” he stressed.

Agreeing with Al-Badli, Kuathar Ismail said decent, civilized and respectful behavior among men and women in society would decrease cases of harassment and added that complete segregation between men and women is counterproductive.

“Men and women should be allowed to enter public places as long as they adhere to the restrictions imposed by our religion and customs. Strict punitive measures should be taken against violators of regulations in this regard,” she said.

Well-known Saudi director and actor Fahd Ghazouli said he hopes the phenomenon of sexual harassment will one day disappear from Saudi society and urged parents to shoulder their responsibilities of monitoring their children’s activities and interactions with others.

“All this free time that young men and women have is one reason why women face so much sexual harassment. Young men and women find nothing to do in their free time and therefore they frequent commercial malls and public places, and this leads to incidents of harassment.”

While many people said segregation between the sexes is the main reason young men harass women, others insisted that segregation was effective and one woman even suggested that senior and juniors in high schools be segregated to curb the increasing number of harassment cases in girls-only schools.

“A lack of proper religious awareness is a contributing factor. Segregation works and senior and junior students should be segregated so as to prevent a further increase in the number of sexual harassment cases occurring between young adults,” said Nida Ali.

Shadia Jonabi, a community specialist at the reconciliation committee in Makkah, said that cases of verbal and physical sexual harassment do not only occur at places where men and women interact with one another but also in women-only places like schools and colleges.

“We receive complaints of harassment from girl victims and the offenders are also girls. There are several factors such as delays in getting married, unemployment and free time that leads to harassment,” she said while blaming satellite TV and the Internet for the rising cases of harassment.

Sheikh Abdullah Al-Mosleh, secretary-general of the International Organization for Scientific Wonders in the Holy Qur’an and the Sunnah, urged authorities to take strict legal action against men who harass women at malls and public places.

He suggested several methods women could use to avoid sexual harassment, and they included strengthening religious awareness, preventing women from mingling with men, educating children about Islamic principles with regard to mingling with unrelated people and conducting awareness programs by civil society organizations, the media and daawah (preaching) organizations.

“Preventing sexual harassment” (May 30)
7 June 2014  -  09 Shaban 1435 H


If you dress modestly and cover your body properly, it is Allah’s promise to protect you from all evil eyes. If you wear revealing dresses, tight jeans, tight abayas displaying the shape of your body, then do not complain about being harassed. You get what you display.

Abu Shahzada Mahmood

Brother, you really need to understand the concept! Nowadays, even women fully covered and wearing an abaya are subjected to such crimes. Just talking about the way they dress and not looking at the mistakes that men are making is really weird!

Yusra Khan

Most incidents occur with women who go to the wrong places.

Abraar Khan

It’s sad that women get blamed because men act inappropriately. This is exactly why the West looks at us as not doing enough to protect our girls. There’s no Islamic provision that says that men are excluded from acting in a pious way when faced with temptation, so that’s a bad argument even from a religious standpoint.

Mariana De Carli

How to fight sexual harassment
Siraj Abu Al-Saud
Al-Sharq
28 November 2014  -  06 Safar 1436 H


Sexual harassment is a crisis faced by most countries in the world. There are several organizations that fight the various forms of sexual harassment. Hollaback! is one such international movement that works to end street harassment and is led by a network of local activists around the world.

The organization carried out a social experiment that involved video recording a young woman who was walking along streets in New York for 10 hours.  Over 100 sexual comments were recorded during those 10 hours. It is evident from this that this phenomenon is very common in the United States. It is also prevalent in Canada and China.

In the Arab world, sexual harassment is alarmingly high. According to figures released by Egypt’s Center for Human Rights, there are around 20,000 cases reported in Egypt each year. Last September, Alsharq newspaper published a report that police gave lashes to men who abused young women in Dhahran. I think such action is needed to deal with sexual harassment.

Those who fail to follow the law should be penalized. However, there is one important question that needs to be answered. How far will such penal action go in deterring this behavior and stamping it out in our society?

Perhaps, there is a logical connection between harassment and speeding on our roads. Saher has been instrumental in reducing speeding. However, some drivers slow down when they see a camera in the distance and then speed up once they have passed it. For a section of the community, it seems that Saher has not made a major difference. This, unfortunately, is also the case with sexual harassment. Lack of proper awareness about what harassment is and how it should  be dealt with and the absence of a monitoring system are the main reasons why this problem persists.

These problems only come to light when members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (Haia) detain perpetrators. Haia staff cannot monitor all the malls and commercial centers in the Kingdom. When perpetrators see that there is no one to keep an eye on them, they do what they want in broad daylight. This could, however, be dealt with via cameras in malls and souks. People would then realize that they are being watched and that their actions are being recorded.

Most shopping areas usually have a sign at the door saying entry is only for families. Security guards at these places are also diligent in preventing single young men from entering. I do not think this is an ideal way to resolve this problem. This only places further restrictions on young people who should have some freedom in their lives. Similarly, most commercial centers are open to both men and women. Preventing a section of society from entering is counterproductive.

Therefore, the best way to deal with this issue is by intensifying surveillance and taking penal action against harassers. This is the best way to prevent sexual harassment and minimize its occurrence within Saudi society.

How best to avoid harassment?
July 19, 2014


Women of all ages and walks of life in the Kingdom are subjected to abuse and sexual harassment. There are seldom any campaigns or workshops that teach women how to protect themselves or how to react to harassment. Whether physical or verbal, harassment is a neglected cause in Saudi society and with women unable to protect themselves, harassers have an incentive to continue targeting women, Al-Riyadh daily reported.

Most women never talk about their experiences with harassment because they fear the reaction of their family and society. Strict and clear rules and laws must be implemented and promoted to protect women and ensure their social acceptance. Among other things, women must take part in sports to develop athletic bodies so they can protect themselves and also attend self-defense classes and workshops.

‘I was saved by my screams’

Asrar Jassim said she does not know what to do when she finds someone chasing her or even approaching her in public. “I am too shy to act aggressively in public and that makes harassers target me the most. There is no place I can go or number I can call. Even the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (Haia), the most concerned committee in this matter, is not easy to reach if you are a woman,” she said.

Jassim recalled an incident when a harasser went too far and her only method of defense was to scream until he ran away. “Passersby frowned and chided for being a woman and raising my voice in public,” she said.

Throwing stones

Hibatullah said her method of self-defense is slightly primitive but very effective. With no self-defense classes available where she lives, Hibatullah throws stones or even her shoes at harassers. She has been criticized by family members and other women for her actions but she insists she has no other way to repel harassers.

“Once, I was approached by two guys in a car. I threw a rock at their car, broke their window and they sped off and left me alone. When you’re in this situation you just have to do whatever you have to do to protect yourself. I was never taught how to defend myself, this is one way that works,” said Hibatullah.

Member of the National Society of Human’s Rights’ executive board Suhaila Zain Al-Abideen said if harassment is merely verbal, then the best thing any woman can do is to ignore it. If the perpetrator resorts to physical harassment, women should act to defend themselves.

“If the woman was touched by a harasser, this is where we can interfere. Women should learn self-defense sports such as karate and female gyms and sport facilities should be available for them to use. The responsibility does not rest on women alone. There should be laws that will hold harassers accountable for their actions. There should also be surveillance cameras in shopping centers and on the streets,” she said.

Al-Abideen also accused the Shoura Council of dragging its feet when it comes to endorsing laws against harassment.

“We should not be waiting for enough victims to go through harassment before we pass laws against harassment. Moreover, when the law is implemented it should be implemented on all without exemption. We can ask girls to learn self-defense but that is not a solution. There is a great need to have a law governing this matter,” she added.

The circle of shame

Manal Al-Somali, social specialist at King Fahd Hospital in Jeddah, said Saudis face many problems due to the culture of shame that exists in society.

“There are certain body parts that we are unable to discuss with females. Molestation exists in all societies and is a result of several social, psychological and economic reasons. Having a legal system encompassing this issue is what is needed. Women face difficulty expressing harassment as many fear the social and familial reactions and some even believe it is their fault that they were molested,” she said.

Al-Somali urged schools to raise awareness among students regarding the issue.

“Girls need to be educated on how to defend themselves, who to go to for help and on their rights in the matter. In addition, there should be a social media campaign regarding harassment so everyone, from children to adults, has at least some knowledge on the subject and there is a sense of communal security,” she added. — SG

Harassment of Women in Saudi Arabia

As a sequel to my previous post, I present here few specimen and proofs of harassment of Muslim women in the most conservative country like Saudi Arabia. Of course, you need to understand that this is just the tip of iceberg. Only Allah knows how many more cases go unreported...

Street harassment of women on the rise
JEDDAH: FOUZIA KHAN
18 November 2014


Women in Jeddah are becoming increasingly concerned about the rising trend of harassment and have urged the traffic police to be more vigilant in dispensing their duties considering that the reckless young men often chase taxis and cars with women passengers at high speeds posing a risk to fellow motorists and pedestrians.
Taxi drivers and women passengers regularly complain about this nuisance.
“I was taking a taxi to my workplace when suddenly a young man driving a Jeep began ramming the car from behind and ordered the taxi driver to pull over. I advised the taxi driver to change his route but it did not help and the man continued to follow and harass us,” said Farah Zaman.
She added that he finally swerved in front of the taxi blocking their path. “He began shouting at us to scare us and said that he would call the police, but before he could do so, I dialed 999 and called them myself. The police officer was very cooperative and asked me to look around to see if there was a police officer available,” said Zaman.
She explained that she was lucky to find a police officer after 10 minutes. The police officer told the young man to leave or risk arrest, she said.
Another victim, Sameera Zahrani, said that these unruly young men not only harass women on the streets, follow taxis and cars and terrify expatriate drivers but they also harass women pedestrians. Motorist Faroq Ali said: “These youth drive recklessly creating havoc on the roads which could result in terrible accidents or even death. However, as an expatriate, I am afraid to interfere.”
Tariq Abbasi, a visitor from the UK, told Arab News that he was shocked at seeing the way the youth chase women. He said: “We don’t expect this to happen in an Islamic country hosting the two holy cities. In fact, we haven’t seen such things happening on the streets of London.”
Vice president of the Social Science Forum organization and a social scientist, I. Hasan, said that the solution to the problem is to have the traffic police exercise more vigilance on Jeddah’s streets. "They should also be authorized to arrest anyone doing this obnoxious activity and there should be strict laws.”
He added that the "wasta system" should be eliminated as the guilty party takes advantage of its contacts with high officials to obtain a release without punishment.
He said that the guilty youth should stand trial and have the sentence read out to them in the presence of their parents, who should also be warned to reign in their sons or risk facing punishment themselves.
“Just as the traffic department is introducing a points system for reckless drivers, there should be one for youth who harass women where they stand to lose their driving license if they continue with the behavior,” he said. “Introducing stricter laws will certainly be a deterrent and the behavior will disappear with time,” he concluded.
Female harassment also takes place in malls which has resulted in some malls barring entry of young men at weekends.


Crackdown on single men paying women to access malls in Saudi Arabia
Legal action to be taken against young women who help bachelors access venues
By Habib Toumi, Bureau Chief
November 19, 2014

Shopping malls in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province are planning to take legal action against young women who get paid to help single men access the venues.

The decision to sue was taken after the security departments were alarmed by the number of contraventions booked by members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, the religious police, against men who entered the malls despite the ban on the presence of single men.

“We became familiar with the sight of women selling items in front of the mall gates,” Abdul Aziz Al Brahim, the manager of a shopping mall, said. “We have also seen female beggars pleading to be allowed inside the mall. However, we are now noticing a new phenomenon — women who help men go past the security guards tasked with making sure that only families are allowed inside the mall,” he said, London-based Al Hayat daily reported.

The women who are paid by the single men to pretend they are wives, sisters or relatives and assist them go inside the mall can make up to 1,000 riyals (Dh978) a day, he added.

‘Fed up’

“They are very active during the weekend,” he said. “Several malls are fed up with the grouping of single men in front of the gates looking for women to help them get inside and we plan to take legal action.”

The malls imposed the ban on single men as a precautionary measure to prevent harassment of families and women.

Abdul Rahman Al Dossary, a security head at a mall, said that the women ask for 50 riyals or 70 riyals per head and move between gates to avoid being spotted by the security guards.

A young woman who made money by posing as a sister or wife to help young men past the security guard said that she was not breaking any rule, insisting there was no legal text that banned men from entering the mall.

“So there is nothing wrong with me receiving money for doing something that is not illegal,” she said. “I refuse to joke or exchange pleasantries with the men as I am working. I am always serious about work and I do not feel any shame doing it. The security guard is wrong by not allowing single men into the mall,” she said.

Several businessmen have called for the lifting of the ban saying that it was causing huge losses, especially in men’s clothing.

Many men said that they wanted to go inside malls to sit in cafes and enjoy their weekend.

“Whoever is in charge should think of other ways to prevent harassing women,” Rami, a single man, said.

Why women and girls are harassed

This topic really needs elaborate discussion which I am not ready to embark on at this time due to time constraint. Dr Razia, however, hit the nail right on its head when she opined, "this is a deep rooted problem of some of the mens psyche".  She, however, failed to furnish proper preventative measures.

Even in absence of strong religious or ethical values, this kind of abuses can be prevented with strict and unbiased implementation of laws. This is what is lacking in the third world countries. Molesters don't give a hoot when they know that they can get away with any crimes with the blessing of their political patrons. Can we imagine things of this nature in the Western countries even when the women are provocatively dressed, free-mixing is the norm, religious education is totally absent, porno is readily available, guardians are oblivious of the doings of their children, etc? These mischiefs take place even in conservative Muslim countries when there are opportunities. I shall propound proofs in separate posts...

Re: Assalamu Alaikum. Do you know why women and girls are harassed
Posted by: "Syeda Sultana Razia" syedasrazia@che.buet.ac.bd ssyeda2001
Date: Fri Apr 17, 2015 3:54 am ((PDT))

Assalamualaikum Dear Chacha,

I would like to add few more points to your comment. I remember, 20-25 years back when we were students of college/BUET, free  mixing and pornography were not prevalent like today. However, girls were scared of going out in public places like in boi-mela, banijjo mela, Gausia market, public bus etc as they were molested by men invariably every day. Remember, all of these girls were modestly dressed and they generally were accompanied by family members like father, mother, uncle or brother. But all of these did not protect them from molestation.

Chacha, this is a deep rooted problem of some of the mens psyche. Irrespective of womens educational/social status these men think women are
weak and less of a human being and they can be touched without permission. What happened on Pahela baishakh 1422 at TSC is an extreme manifestation of this psyche, which was catalyzed by poor law and order situation of the country as well as free mixing and recklessness of a faction of our youth.

However, be assured that this is not new.

We need to take long term and short term measured to change this situation. First of all, we need to teach our children/grown ups the concept of Tawheed with special focus on equality of creation, especially the equality of human being irrespective of race, colour, GENDER, wealth etc.  We need to carry out awareness campaign, socially boycott the molesters and finally bring them under justice and make the punishment exemplary and public. These are some of the steps we may consider. More brainstorming is needed to find effective measures.

Maassalam

Syeda Sultana Razia, PhD
Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET)
Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh

Badhon molested at TSC circa 2000

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From: "Shah Abdul Hannan shah_abdul_hannan@yahoo.com [dahuk]"
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Subject: [Dahuk]: Assalamu Alaikum.Do you know why women and girls are harassed in Ist Baishakh and such other functions?


> Assalamu Alaikum.Do you know why women and girls are harassed in Ist
> Baishakh and such other functions? It is because of free mixing of
> boys and girls, immodest dress,lack of morality in educational
> courses,porno literature of all types,carelessness of guardians and teachers..
>
> In the long run we have to change these.Let us create public opinion
> and try to stop free mixing of boys and girls.
>
> Shah Abdul Hannan

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"This book is solely involved with the question of who were the 100 persons who had the greatest effect on history and on the course of the world. I have ranked these 100 persons in order of importance: that is, according to the total amount of influence that each of them had on human history and on the everyday lives of other human beings. Such a group of exceptional people, whether noble or reprehensible, famous or obscure, flamboyant or modest, cannot fail to be interesting; they are the people who have shaped our lives and formed our world."

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"I have stressed that influence has been the sole criterion in ranking the individuals in this compendium. It would, of course, be possible to construct lists of "outstanding persons," based on other criteria, such as fame, prestige, talent, versatility, and nobility of character."

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3.     Jesus Christ 
4.     Buddha 
5.     Confucius 
6.     St. Paul 
7.     Tsai Lun 
8.     Johann Gutenberg 
9.     Christopher Columbus 
10.   Albert Einstein 
11.   Karl Marx 
12.   Louis Pasteur 
13.   Galileo Galilei 
14.   Aristotle 
15.   Lenin 
16.   Moses 
17.   Charles Darwin 
18.   Shih Huang Ti 
19.   Augustus Caesar 
20.   Mao Tse-tung 
21.   Genghis Khan 
22.   Euclid 
23.   Martin Luther 
24.   Nicolaus Copernicus 
25.   James Watt 
26.   Constantine the Great 
27.   George Washington 
28.   Michael Faraday 
29.   James Clerk Maxwell 
30.   Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright 
31.   Antoine Laurent Lavoisier 
32.   Sigmund Freud 
33.   Alexander the Great 
34.   Napoleon Bonaparte 
35.   Adolf Hitler 
36.   William Shakespeare 
37.   Adam Smith 
38.   Thomas Edison 
39.   Antony van Leeuwenhoek 
40.   Plato 
41.   Guglielmo Marconi 
42.   Ludwig van Beethoven 
43.   Werner Heisenberg 
44.   Alexander Graham Bell 
45.   Alexander Fleming 
46.   Simon Bolivar 
47.   Oliver Cromwell 
48.   John Locke 
49.   Michelangelo 
50.   Pope Urban II 
51.   'Umar ibn al-Khattab 
52.   Asoka 
53.   St. Augustine 
54.   Max Planck 
55.   John Calvin 
56.   William T.G. Morton 
57.   William Harvey 
58.   Antoine Henri Becquerel 
59.   Gregor Mendel 
60.   Joseph Lister 
61.   Nikolaus August Otto 
62.   Louis Daguerre 
63.   Joseph Stalin 
64.   Rene Descartes 
65.   Julius Caesar 
66.   Francisco Pizarro 
67.   Hernando Cortes 
68.   Queen Isabella I 
69.   William the Conqueror 
70.   Thomas Jefferson 
71.   J ean- Jacques Rousseau 
72.   Edward Jenner 
73.   Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen 
74.   Johann Sebastian Bach 
75.   Lao Tzu 
76.   Enrico Fermi 
77.   Thomas Malthus 
78.   Francis Bacon 
79.   Voltaire 
80.   John F. Kennedy 
81.   Gregory Pincus 
82.   Sui Wen Ti 
83.   Mani 
84.   Vasco da Gama 
85.   Charlemagne 
86.   Cyrus the Great 
87.   Leonhard Euler 
88 .  Niccolo Machiavelli
89.   Zoroaster 
90.   Menes 
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92.   Mencius 
93.   John Dalton 
94.   Homer 
95.   Queen Elizabeth 
96.   Justinian I 
97.   Johannes Kepler 
98.   Pablo Picasso 
99.   Mahavira 
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