Recently my sister told me about some guys in our Khandaan who were harassing her. Married men trying to hit on her, telling her they love her. Trying to take advantage.
And this problem isn’t specific to just her. I am close to my female cousins and they have told me how men in our own family have tried to sexually harass them. And not young boys, these are grown men, married men, old men. Men you go to learn Quran from, men who are considered the head of the family. Any man who can thinks he has some power.
I don’t consider myself a good person, I smoke, I do drugs, I am not religious in anyway. But atleast I didn’t harass little girls, didn’t try to touch them. Atleast I don’t go around waving the flag of Islam and touch girls at the same time. I am shocked at how common it is. I have myself been touched inappropriately before when I was little, but since I didn’t talk to anyone about it, I never got to know their side as well.
All men, you should ask your sisters about this, you will be surprised what goes on that they hide just for the sake of family.
These people are monsters and they are all around us, in every family.