Preventing Rapes, The Most Heinous Crimes Against Women — High Time! — Grow with me naturally

Another day, another incident, unfortunately!!!

No, not just one but several. When I opened the website, rediff.com today morning, the first thing I saw was this. I was beginning to wonder whether we are becoming the ‘rape capital’ of the world, nay the universe! No, seriously! That Botswana has the highest rate of rape in the world gave me some relief. But my heart goes out to the poor women of Botswana who are bearing the shameful crime of rape!

Reasons for the continued incidents of rape

• In cinemas, sitcoms, Over-the-top (OTT) media services, advertisements, etc., creators show women as objects of desire and sex. This makes them easy targets for rape and other crimes. We cannot trust any man regarding women unless proven otherwise. Every man has the basest of the desires and the noblest thoughts. Human emotions are like a sine wave with crests (highs) and troughs (lows). The unfortunate thing is not every man can control his desires. And this kind of men act upon their lewd desires and thoughts and commit rape.
• According to Islam, alcohol is the ‘mother’ of all evils. Rightly so because cases of rape occur when men are under the influence of alcohol…