Last week, news of a woman being sexually assaulted by a group of teenage boys in Morocco sent shockwaves across the world.
The incident happened on a public bus in the city of Casablanca. Not a single person intervened to help, the driver did not stop. Instead, people were reportedly cheering the boys on.
Naturally, people were appalled by the bystanders' passiveness and Laila Hzaineh, a Jordanian feminist and vlogger, voiced her concerns in a video uploaded to her Facebook page on Aug. 27.
"They are all accomplices in the crime," Hzaineh says at the start of the video.
She goes on to pinpoint the different reasons why Arab society has nurtured the growth of such violence.
"This kind of mentality is not something that was infused into our society from a foreign world. We have built this mentality with our own hands. On what basis do we teach a man, since the day he is born, that he is better and more preferred than a woman and that he is responsible for policing women?" Hzaineh asks.
"How are we criticizing men's behavior when we have taught them all the patriarchal rules and traditions?"
"We teach these kids regressive, extremist and sexist thoughts," she continues as she criticizes the institutions in which these thoughts are fostered including schools, homes, streets and religious institutions.
"And then we go to war with an evil we created. That is, if we have the courage to do so," Hzaineh says.
"If we want to go back to being human, we have to start from point zero," Hzaineh says towards the end of the video.
She talks about the importance of education in combating such violence: "This education comes in different forms: from mother-father relationships, which should be based on mutual respect and trust, to brother-sister relationships, which should be based on equality."
Hzaineh urges society to be wary of what "schools are teaching our children, and what our children are being exposed to on television and on the internet."
"If the situation stays this way, we are exactly like those who throw trash inside their homes, yet complain about the stench," she concludes in the video.
The video has garnered 13,000 views in less than 15 hours, at the time of writing.
Not a first for Hzaineh
This is not the first time Hzaineh speaks up against sexism, the patriarchy, and regressive trends.
In July, Hzaineh shot back at Jordanian TV presenter Mohammad Rakan al-Gadah after posting a video in which he expressed his harmful beliefs on what women should and shouldn't wear.
She did so wearing long sleeves, well, because she didn't want "Gadah to be distracted."
"You decided to blame all those problems [rape, harassment, violence] on a piece of clothing ... you threw your humanity in the trash and turned into an animal controlled by his sexual instincts," she said in the video.