Eve Harassment In Islam: An Introduction To Eve Teasing In Bangladesh

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Introduction:
Eve teasing stands for a kind of sexual harassment of a young woman. . Most of the girls cannot walk on the streets without being teased by an opposite sex. Many girls committed suicide as a result of eve teasing. Many female students stopped their studies and even going outdoors. It is a horrible scenario in Bangladesh. There is no scope for doing eve teasing in Islam. Islam treated eve teasing as a serious offence. There is no scope for doing eve teasing in Islam. Islam treated eve teasing a crime which is punishable not only in this world but also in the life hereafter.
The meaning of the word "eve" is 'First woman in bible: in the Bible, the first woman created by God, and Adam's companion in the Garden of Eden' (Microsoft …show more content…

Young and adult, rich and poor, educated or uneducated all classes are involved in this heinous act. The victims are also from various classes like factory workers, domestic workers, students and high class professional women. Eve-teasing may be cores for poor income group, but richness does not guarantee free from eve teasing. (Irin Khan, 2010)
Form of Eve teasing:
Eve teasers frequently undergo passing vulgar comments, unnecessary touching, pushing & shoving in the streets and mostly in public transports. Other women are frequently harassed at workplaces by male supervisors, colleagues or bosses.
With school going girls: Most teenage boys wait outside school to make indecent remarks on the girl. Afterwards some follow girls from school to home intending to grab her attention and doing eve-teasing by passing dreadful comments and passing offensive letters etc. Sometimes, they pass filthy comments trough vulgar letters or sometimes force girls to go into a relationship with them. Not being to tolerate such mental trauma, a potential life comes to an end when a girl finally decides to take her own …show more content…

A stalker starts with sending a SMS in patterned and abstract language and the girls fall for it. This girl then very naturally develops a feeling on which that boy capitalizes. Then the commencement of a relationship. They spend a few intimate moments together which are captured by hidden video cameras and are later circulated using the internet.
• Directly by internet: The best way in this modern world for girls and guys to come closer to each other is by chatting through the internet. And thus most girls are victimized by boys mostly because of sensuality’s sake.
Causes of Eve-teasing:
Among others there are eight major causes of eve teasing found out by various social research organization and prominent persons. These are: family and social causes, unemployment facimisism, open sky culture, political atmosphere, administrative, carelessness, social cultural activities, demonstration effect, Lacking of respect to each other (Najneen Akhter, Daily Janakontha, 2010). However the following points may be taken into account as causes of eve-teasing:
1. Natural attraction to each other:
One of the great causes of eve teasing comes from the natural tendency of man and woman to attract each other when they openly see each other at the stage of puberty. Sometimes male can not control himself and he indulges with eve

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