Another rape case again. In the days to come, I feel we would be more upset about the Indian team not performing than a brutal rape of a 15 or 18 years old innocent girl. Things will turn casual if this repeatedly happens. Oh wait! It is repeatedly happening. Not justifying what the terrorist do, but although they have no good reason to do what they are doing, at least they have the courtesy to rig a bullet straight to your head rather than form a group to gang rape, torture, and dump your loved one on the highway or a sewage whichever comes first on their way back home. A minister in the paper recently said, “Marry the boys young to avoid rape.” Wow! The concept of rape in marriages, exciting, isn't it Mr. Minister? (Oh yeah! By the way, Ministers lead our country or at least are supposed to lead.)
In a nation where we boast of culture and tradition that regards women as the source of goodness, where are we heading? It is really depressing and all the more disturbing to see our fellow brethren disregarding women and stoop down to the level of raping an innocent woman travelling back home with her boyfriend. No, I do not wish capital punishment for these accused. Rather, I would like them to be exposed to sheer brutality like we see in any gore movie and then be dumped into a sewage to rot and if their luck favors, probably die. They need not be executed; rather we need to make them suffer to kill them. Although this is my personal opinion, I bet most of you folks reading this would agree.
As I travel this morning to work I pondered on the brutality we have aligned ourselves to. This rape case was just one of them. Every day millions of rape/molestation cases happen across our nation. And not just that, young girl children are victims too. How can we stop it? Is subjecting the accused to capital punishment the solution? Is nailing the accused to sheer brutality and terminating him from society a solution? What if the demons fail to rest and still opts for rape despite the dire consequences he is aware of? Also, what if a woman falsely accuses a man of rape? Although from the bottom of my heart I want the accused to be butchered to death, I can’t stop but push myself to think about the solution. Would I be at peace to send my girlfriend/sister/wife or even my mother to a World out there ridden with rapist hiding in the dark corner of almost every street? I definitely wouldn't. Even if the accused are executed, the wounds may heal, but the scars remain.
To battle this situation, all of us need is a self-awareness about respect, our limits, and self-control. Sorry to say this, but especially the men need to learn this. No capital punishment would curb the rape/molestation cases that are reported daily and tossed into fame and the ones that remain covered under the filthy sheets of traditional practices. We need to learn to love and allow to nurture it through self-control. No amount of punishment can cub this evil practice permanently unless there is self-awareness and an immense feeling of love or at least respect for the other. Education needs to take pace and pierce through poverty and the reach out to the remote masses. People need or rather have to understand what the consequences of any evil are on the victim rather than on the accused. Would they choose the same thing to happen to their mother/sister or their own wife? People need to be aware of this and if not, they need to be made aware of this. The only solution I see is educating them and bringing them up to a level to learn to respect every woman they see, even whilst bird-watching and understand and master the art of self-control. To end this post, I wish and pray for every girl who is a victim of such irrational and lunatic behavior. May GOD give them all the strength, power, grace, or whatever we may call it to battle such an extent of bitterness they have experienced in life.
Some terrorist are outside the country, but a million are already resting inside!
