Terrorism, the personal kind.

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We've read about these acid attacks before but it doesn't quite stand out as to how severe these attacks are without pictures and some detail in the descriptions to make you wonder how people can do things like this.

tampabay blog said:
We typically think of terrorism as a political act.

But sometimes it’s very personal. It wasn’t a government or a guerrilla insurgency that threw acid on this woman’s face in Pakistan
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Not suitable.

[via tampabay.com] (also another good photoblog on current affairs)
 
Heard about this on the radio a few evenings ago and saw the link earlier, pretty disturbing to say the least.
 
scorza said:
Very nasty - for what reason was she targeted? Happens in this country too btw.
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Najaf Sultana, 16, poses for a photograph at her home in Lahore, Pakistan on Wednesday, July 9, 2008. At the age of five Najaf was burned by her father while she was sleeping, apparently because he didn't want to have another girl in the family. As a result of the burning Najaf became blind and after being abandoned by both her parents she now lives with relatives. She has undergone plastic surgery around 15 times to try to recover from her scars.
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Any one watch the documentary on Channel 4 the other week about that girl who got acid thrown onto her?


What must make a person do such a thing is beyond my comprehension.
 
Cue the cries of the islam is a violent religion...seeing as Pakistan is mainly islamic.

Anyhow its very sad to see and hear about such things and even worse the women who are subjected to such attacks and ordeal get no help whatsoever from the authorities.

Its something thats pretty close to my heart as one of my cousins was forced to go to pakistan by her dad and mum to get married...she didnt want to so was told to go there for a summer vacation which she agreed to...when she got to Pakistan she was taken to one of her dads uncles house...where they tied her up, beat her silly then tried to pour acid onto her face...luckily they untied and she managed to wriggle free before she majorly damaged but she did get burnt pretty badly.

Shes had cosmetic surgery to fix her face...i helped her pay for that and she went to America to get away from her mum and dad and good on her...we ie my family no longer talk to this particular aunt and uncle...in fact no one in the family talks to them, they are outcasts and have went back to Pakistan to rot away.

So allow the stupid comments please:).
 
If you sit and thing about all the thinks someone could do to hurt ou, you wouldn't want to go outside again.

I'd rather die than end up like the image in the OP, without question. Many of these acts probably stem from religous beliefs because they treat women as inferior beings, and typically they ae very devoted to the casue. I think it's sick, and a reason I can't stand religion at all (does not mean I don't like religious people, please don't misconstrue).

I find it hard to see why in the UK we have a lot of something, and many other places in the world have a lot of nothing.
 
Dup said:
If you sit and thing about all the thinks someone could do to hurt ou, you wouldn't want to go outside again.

I'd rather die than end up like the image in the OP, without question. Many of these acts probably stem from religous beliefs because they treat women as inferior beings, and typically they ae very devoted to the casue. I think it's sick, and a reason I can't stand religion at all (does not mean I don't like religious people, please don't misconstrue).

I find it hard to see why in the UK we have a lot of something, and many other places in the world have a lot of nothing.
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Those religious beliefs are 99.9% of the time completely wrong and backwards though because no religion I have ever heard of Islamic or not puts women in such a low position of power and accepts them merely as objects.
 
"Rejection of marriage" seems to be a common reason behind many of the attacks.
Do the attackers get punished or are these crimes swept under the carpet?
 
JayMax said:
"Rejection of marriage" seems to be a common reason behind many of the attacks.
Do the attackers get punished or are these crimes swept under the carpet?
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Rejection of marraige is probably acceptable casue within their laws, much like killing a daughter who runs away from an arranged marraige. I'm only assuming though. If it was punished, we probably have known more publically about it.

mrk said:
Those religious beliefs are 99.9% of the time completely wrong and backwards though because no religion I have ever heard of Islamic or not puts women in such a low position of power and accepts them merely as objects.
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I've no doubt. Religion in its purest form is more or less harmless. It's how people read into when the problems begin. It just makes me wonder who the people running the country can let these things happen under an unknown quantity like that :(
 
Originally Posted by tampabay blog
We typically think of terrorism as a political act.
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That's because that's what terrorism MEANS:

terrorist

• noun a person who uses violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims.
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Yes it's terrible, but it's not terrorism.
 
The examples given in the link seem the vast majority of the time to stem from a rejected marraige proposal. I'd see the link more to taking away the beauty that attracted you to the person and caused your humiliation than specifically to a religion, although the gender inequality inferred may walk hand in hand.

I'd be interested to see how the perpetrators in this article were treated by the police.
 
I find it very sad that people can do such awful things. These were clearly beautiful women in their prime in many circustances, and knowing how 'backward' some parts of their country can be, I imagine the rest of their lives (not just due to their disfigurements) will be very difficult, in terms of being able to achieve their dreams and goals.
 
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