Laila al-Uhaideb, who had written about the same subject twice previously, has come to write a good analysis to the reasons behind the harassment incident in Riyadh. She thinks that one of the reasons is the total isolation that most young men and women suffer, “to the extent that prevents a young single man from entering malls and parks by himself or with his friends, because in the public eye, he is not trustworthy; he is just a hunter who came looking for a victim, and to the extent that a woman -even an adult responsible woman- can’t leave house alone even to the grocery store next door.”

Moreover, is the environment where girls do not see any males before her eyes except for her father and brothers,” so she does not know how to react with anyone else but with repulsion or giving up; both are too negative.”

She says that what boys and girls watch on TV about the relationship between the two sexes is also a reason for the awful incident. Something that that our Sheikhs could not find a solution for but by banning TV, “and the weird thing, they appear on TV, and then they say it is haram,” she wrote.

Al-Uhaideb, who has written several times before about the unfair view to women in our schools’ curricula, thinks that the problem is also cause by many fatawa that left nothing without banning it, “including wearing jeans for a woman in front of her husband,” she added.

I read many articles about that harassment incident, but I think that this column (Arabic) by al-Uhaideb is one of the few that analyzed what happened in a logical, rational manner. In the title of her column, she asked if there was a light at the end of the tunnel. What do you think? I’d like to read your opinions.