Comments on: Willful Blindness http://xrdarabia.org/2009/12/20/willful-blindness/ Informed comment and commentary about Saudi Arabia, reform, and its relations with the US Sun, 12 Feb 2012 04:55:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Daisy http://xrdarabia.org/2009/12/20/willful-blindness/comment-page-1/#comment-26298 Daisy Mon, 21 Dec 2009 04:56:11 +0000 http://xrdarabia.org/?p=9454#comment-26298 A society that accepts this kind of behaviour is a sick society. There needs to be a mass camaign to spread the awareness that there should be no shame involved in reporting abuse. I think the king can take a personal interest in this. I also feel that the police saying they are dealing with it properly is only an effort to cover up the fact that such cases are rampant in the society and they consider it shameful to come out with it. In this sense the police is reinforcing the popular perception of the idea of shame associated with it. But the main issue is the kind of behaviour pattern that is inculcated as normal in the Saudi society, which leads to these incidences - if such cases are widely prevalent. It leads one to think exactly how much the behavioral norms have degraded in this society and if there isn't something seriously wrong in this. Child abuse and child torture leading to death, in which the father himself is an acomplice and relatives may be involved in child sexual abuse is sickening. It's bad enough that abuse happens, it's deplorable that parents and relatives may be accomplices in this. A society that accepts this kind of behaviour is a sick society. There needs to be a mass camaign to spread the awareness that there should be no shame involved in reporting abuse. I think the king can take a personal interest in this. I also feel that the police saying they are dealing with it properly is only an effort to cover up the fact that such cases are rampant in the society and they consider it shameful to come out with it. In this sense the police is reinforcing the popular perception of the idea of shame associated with it.

But the main issue is the kind of behaviour pattern that is inculcated as normal in the Saudi society, which leads to these incidences – if such cases are widely prevalent. It leads one to think exactly how much the behavioral norms have degraded in this society and if there isn’t something seriously wrong in this. Child abuse and child torture leading to death, in which the father himself is an acomplice and relatives may be involved in child sexual abuse is sickening. It’s bad enough that abuse happens, it’s deplorable that parents and relatives may be accomplices in this.

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