Stop barbaric attacks
Activists demonstrate on November 17, 2014, on Moi Avenue against harassment of women. PHOTO | BILLY MUTAI |
What you need to know:
- The authorities must move with haste to arrest and prosecute the perpetrators.
- No brigade of self-proclaimed moral police can be allowed to break the law with impunity.
In no civilised country can lawless mobs have licence to go around stripping naked anyone whose mode of dressing they object to.
Such behaviour is primitive, barbaric, and criminal.
The authorities must move with haste to arrest and prosecute the perpetrators of the violent attacks on innocent women being witnessed in Mombasa and Nairobi.
No brigade of self-proclaimed moral police can be allowed to break the law with impunity under the pretence of enforcing a preferred dress code.
Beyond the crazed mobs, it beggars belief that some otherwise respectable members of society can try to justify the criminal attack on the basis that women who dress indecently deserve to be publicly shamed.
Such arguments fall in the same category as that of the rapist who defends his vile actions by blaming the victim.
All, both men and women, are expected to observe societal mores and the occasion and environment in the choice of attire.
However, what we are seeing is not about enforcing a modest dress code, but demented individuals using any excuse to satisfy their violent sexual fantasies.
They must be made to suffer the full force of the law.
