Imam Tareq Oubrou Urges Society to Protect Children from Sexual Violence

Addressing the issue of sexual violence against young people, Tareq Oubrou states that this controversy reveals a number of practices that were taboo and invisible. "In the 1960s, it was not shocking to see an adult caress a child... Today, it is normal for the Legislator to try to provide a response to the injustices that the most vulnerable, the children, have experienced and are experiencing," he explains to Mizane.

To protect young people from a sexuality that is increasingly imposed on them by the prevailing culture of society, Tareq Oubrou proposes to prevent the phenomenon through sex education, in the noble sense of the term, that parents must provide to their children. "The real question is: how to fight a phenomenon that goes beyond the simple repertoire of the law, because sexuality is everywhere and takes on multiple forms," he wonders.

"Sexual maturity today is not what it was yesterday. Societies evolve and the Legislator tries to accompany these evolutions. We always need a collective, shared and common morality. Abusing a child or a woman is a crime that everyone condemns," he notes.

Ultimately, Mr. Tareq thinks that we do not need to "reinvent a new model of the family in this 21st century". But rather, to "educate our children in individual moral values with an altruistic impact". "I think Islam is a religion of individuals. If the individuals are good, they will produce a good collective. Let’s change the individual, the society will change," he concludes.