Gazing, silent violence

If you give a Middle Eastern child a pen and paper and ask him to draw a symbol for violence, he will probably draw a picture of a dead person, blood or a bomber bombing people, whereas a Western child will likely draw a dead insect or a broken dish. The concept of violence and harming others in a society that allows husbands to beat their wives differs from that in Western societies where laws incriminate a husband for having sex with his own wife against her will and subjects him to penal measures in that case. In our minds, violence is associated with assault, killing, blood, beating, sabotage and wars against enemies and rivals. Any other concepts and practices of violence are absent to us.

With the secrets they enclose, various forms of violence are being practiced within families in many houses such as beating children, subduing and abusing domestic helpers or spouses despising one another. The same happens in schools where some pupils are subjected to violence from teachers or their peers. We also practice violence on streets with disrespecting traffic rules. Environmental violence is also practiced by individuals and governments.

One of the forms of violence is gazing at each other and violating their privacy, which is a bad habit prevailing in our societies. One can easily notice that it does not exist in civilized nations that have less forms of violence among people and are ruled by laws. In these nations, benignant forms of violence prevail as violent sports such as rodeo and riding wild horses, violent games such as rugby or American football, mountain biking, ice skating and most recently, games where players jump some hurdles between skyscrapers.

— Translated by Kuwait Times

One of the forms of violence is gazing at each other and violating their privacy