Only by the grace of God do some of these women survive such horrific acid attacks on them by Muslim men, often in their own families. They are not dead, but their lives are essentially over. No other Muslim man would have them. (Not exactly a bad thing)
SUN NEWS (H/T Susan K) Memoona, 23, a survivor of an acid attack, smiles while posing for photographs at her residence in Karachi, Pakistan on December 14, 2011. Memoona says the acid attack took place on August 13, 2002, when a boy threw acid on her face and body over an old family feud. Memoona, who is currently enrolled in nursing school, said she lost her eye but not her spirit.
The Pakistan Senate has unanimously passed two bills that impose strict punishments on those who attack women with acid. “This is milestone indeed and from now on, acid and burn attack will be officially recognized as a crime. Punishment will be increased from minimum 14 years to life term imprisonment. For the survivors who were present today in the Senate, democracy is not a myth anymore, they got justice.”
IB TIMES Khodeza Begum (L) and her daughter Sonali attend an international conference of acid attack survivors in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Begum and Sonali were attacked with acid by a neighbour due to a land dispute in 2001. The Bangladesh chapter of the ASF states that the victims are usually young women who are attacked for refusing to accept marriage proposals, denying dowry and refusing to have sex. Robbery, family feuds, land and property disputes are some of the other reasons for acid attacks on women, a violent act often motivated by jealousy or revenge.
The crime of throwing acid on women is particularly common in South and Southeast Asian countries. The number of such incidents in these countries is much higher and, tragically, on the rise, when compared to statistics from other countries. Pakistan’s passage of these bills suggests that women of other Asian countries can look forward to similar reforms.
Mauricio Resende “I can not think of getting married now. I could not face an abusive husband. I do not want people to pity me. Now I want to be with my own feet and earn a living. Everyone wishes he or she is beautiful but in my opinion, your face is not everything. The real beauty is inside a person, not outside. ”
Some of the younger victims were still traumatized by the attacks. Raffat, another burn victim who was only seventeen photographed. Attacked by her own cousin after she refused to marry him, he avenged her while she was asleep, only nine days before their wedding. At first she was calm, but fragile façade broke down when we sit down to talk about the night of the attack.
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Freethinker says
Islamic Peace (A short preview)
1.) Peace attained by throwing acid on women. Eg: several news articles on google.
2. )Peace attained by sleeping with slaves and war captives. Eg: (narrated in sahih bukhari); You can have sex with your wives and with those whom your right hand possess.
3.) Peace attained by killing and destroying entire tribes. Eg banu nadir
4.) Peace attained by creating chaos and unrest in their own countries & then moving to west for refuge. Eg: Yamen, Egypt & Syria.
5.) Peace attained by crying and cutting and blood letting on Ashura Muharram.
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These are just the 5 ways to attain peace in Islam.
For more information read everyday’s newspaper or watch the news.
Islam the Religion of Peace like Earth is flat.
LaMejor says
I also feel sorry about these women and all other victims of any kind of attack or abuse, but it’s not islam the one that is teaching them to do things like that, it’s men taking the law in their own hands.
I believe you should read some books first, educate yourself and then write comments about religions 😉 don’t judge something you have no idea about, don’t dishoner yourself like that.
imran saber oslo says
hahhahha look at this muzzrats muuuuhahahhahahhahhaha laugh rest of my life:)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
imran saber oslo says
hahhahhahahahha hhah MUSLIM REBELS SLAUGHTER BUDDHISTS IN THAILAND: “WE WILL KILL, BURN, AND DESTROY ALL BUDDHISTS: YOU WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO LIVE IN PEACE HERE” and you muzzrats are crying and even complaining to everybody even hillary when you hate usa and all other religions. what do you expect then?? if you hate and want to kill you will get back as you see hahhahahhahahhh aa alla wants this!!
I'M A CHRISTIAN says
If you don’t come face-to-face with the devil sometimes, then you must be going the same direction he is.
Paul Le Clercq says
To think, the UK gives asylum and money to scum who preach this crap and these poor Women are not…Fuck Islam..
Suzi says
Worst website ever. I’m so sorry I came here. Was that a Christian Cross to the right? I’m so embarrassed. This is NOT what Jesus would do! This website does not represent MY Christianity, nor does it properly or fairly educate about Islam. Why can’t you radicals keep house at home and stop pointing fingers at other cultures’ choices? Again, it is great that you want to highlight the plight of victims, but by attacking their religions, you look like self-centered fools – the “Americans” most non-Americans call typical. If you can’t change the world without bashing others’ religions, you’re only adding to the problem!
ADHD says
You’re a FALSE “Christian” who doesn’t remember how Our Lord COULD be VERY ANGRY!!!
Recall how He Excoriated the Pharisees and the Sadducees? Or how He Drove Out the money-changers from the Temple, Saying “My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.”? Or how He Even Called Peter “Satan” when the latter couldn’t believe that his Master would be Killed, Lie in the grave and Rise on the Third Day??
Besides, I know all too well what Islam is REALLY LIKE – either you’re a pro-Moslem and/or pro-Communist shill, or you’re PROFOUNDLY IGNORANT!!!! If the latter, run immediately to http://www.thereligionofpeace.com; otherwise BEGONE with your taqiyya and kitman!!!!
DEATH TO ISLAM!!!!!
Jasmine says
thank you Suzi, when you speak about religion they should speak of love and forgiveness. Not hate and Killing. If you want to hate and kill please leave God and Jesus out of it. True loves of the true God know he is about love.
Jane says
You think it’s “not exactly a bad thing” for these women that no Muslim man will have them? It’s a terrible thing for them! The vast majority of women in South Asian cultures have few options for a decent life other than marriage. Many commit suicide after becoming targets of these attacks.
Moreover, the victims suffer more than a loss of physical beauty or desirability to men.
Without immediate, quality medical treatment, which is often unavailable to them, many victims go blind and suffer extremely debilitating health effects.
I think it’s a mistake to characterize acid attacks as uniquely Muslim. Acid attacks tend to occur in South Asian and African countries, some of which are predominantly Muslim. Nevertheless, Hindu and Christian men in India have also been known to use acid attacks against women. For example, this video about an abusive, alcoholic Hindu man who attacked his Hindu wife with acid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c2dKx9Vcrk
Also, look at control freak and violent psycho Danny Lynch. He arranged for an acid attack on his girlfriend of 2 weeks, Katie Piper, when she tried to break up with him after he raped her. This happened in London, and had nothing to do with religion. It was all about power and control: http://abcnews.go.com/2020/KatiePiper/secret-drives-katie-piper-boyfriend-sulfuric-acid-attack/story?id=9490538#.TvxH2lbcSqY
Without question, acid attacks are extremely horrific. I think we all should do everything we can to combat these cowardly, heinous acts and help the victims. But associating acid attacks with any one religion and construing them as a hallmark of that religion is a mistake that obscures the actual cause: the perpetrators’ bid to gain/maintain power and control over another person.This is a human rights issue, not a religious issue.
barenakedislam says
Jane, the majority of stories I find on acid attacks on women these days are in the muslim world.
Therese says
It’s all good! Love Peace & Harmony.
Z. Nelom says
dajjal,
I am afraid my main talent is the spreading of
obfuscation.
With a bit of snarkyness thrown in for flavor.
But I genuinely wish you a very merry Christmas.
Time, methinks, for a bit of caroling:
Mediæval Bæbes. Well yclept.
Z. Nelom
Z. Nelom says
Therese,
You wrote: “All good points Z. Nelom. However
I only referred to you in the firsttwo (sic) lines.
Thereafter, I spoke to ‘D’.”
Then you have my most sincere apologies.
As well as my best wishes for a Merry Christmas.
Z. Nelom
dajjal says
Merry Christmas/Happy Hanukkah & happy new year to men of good will. Therese & Z. Nelom, you crystallized difficult concepts and made them clear.
Up yer snout, CAIR, go to Hell. Jesus will convict & condemn those who blaspheme him by calling him a genocidal warlord.
Therese says
All good points Z. Nelom. However I only referred to you in the firsttwo lines. Thereafter, I spoke to “D”. Merry Christmas to everyone.
Z. Nelom says
Therese,
*My* “fantasy world of peace”?
If you use the word “you” to apply to me
directly, you impute to me attitudes which
I do not possess.
If by “you” you refer to the people of the
United States . . . well, Winston Churchill
said ” Americans can always be counted on
to do the right thing . . . after they have
exhausted all other possibilities.” I fear that
the Old Bulldog was correct.
Americans do tend to leave it a bit late,
but I doubt it will be a “run” this time.
Gandhi’s non-violent civil disobedience
works only against an opponent who, at
bottom, finds slaughter abhorrent; Islam
does not fall within that ambit.
Whom do I love?
I believe Bo Diddley also asked that:
I walk 47 miles of barbed wire,
Use a cobra snake for a neck tie;
Got a brand new house on the roadside,
Made out of rattlesnake hide,
With a little bitty chimney built up on top,
Made out of a human skulls;
Now come, baby, take a walk with me, honey,
And tell me, who do you love . . .
Best wishes,
Z. Nelom
Therese says
Z. Nelom, There is a lot of truth in what you say. The first General being Michael the Archangel and it was OK with God to fight the Satanic forces and send them to hell.
So if it is religion your are coming from “D” better for you to take a second look. Jesus himself was not always passive you may remember he threw the money lenders out of the Temple. The Bankers of the day. They had to be fought, and taught to show some respect for the house of God – just as they are today. Different warriors, but still fighting evil.
Today look what is happening with Iraq with hundreds of people being bombed again. There is no FORCE to deter them. I am glad those soldiers of yours are going home for Christmas though. It sure makes Obama’s speech the other day on the boys coming home look totally stupid.
I hate war and I hate violence, but when we are put upon by thieves, we must stand up and be counted. Who do you love “D”? Your country, your people or your fantasy world of peace. You are the people Islam loves best. You can be easily conned, you can be fooled, and this is what they want “a roll over dead doggie society” where we just let them in and take what they want. When WW2 was taking shape in Europe people used to ask why didnt the Jews get out of there, many could not, some left their run too late and others bless their hearts were so good that they could not comprehend evil. This is you “D”. Dont leave your run too late.
Z. Nelom says
D,
Two quotes:
“Anyone who clings to the historically untrue—and thoroughly immoral—doctrine that, ‘violence never settles anything’ I would advise to conjure the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedom.”
– Colonel DuBois, Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
– Joel 3:10 KJV
Z. Nelom
Therese says
“D” it is so easy to see that you have never been bashed and beaten by the soldiers of Allah. I have and I will give them no mercy. As most people know I lived in an Islamic country for three years – have you lived in an Islamic country as a Christian? And as for you saying we are judging, well what the hell ar you doing to us. I suggest you try some muslim atrocities on yourself before your criticise others. It will be people like us that will probably save your neck one day, Dont talk about things you know nithing about.
ABenedetto says
Wow the perpetrators should be brought to the U.S. so we can beat/imprison them .
barenakedislam says
AB, no thanks. Obama is flooding the country with Somali muslim criminals as it is. Don’t need more.
dajjal says
Does “D” stand for dumb, damned or deluded? Perhaps two out of three.
Visit CMJE and read the Qur’an in three translations. Then read Sahih Bukhari, particularly the books of Marriage, Menstruation & Divorce. You have a great deal. to learn before criticizing others.
I do not deny that misogyny & patriarchy are more likely artifacts of Bedouin culture than Islam, but the two travel together. Islam and tribalism can not be separated.
D says
I am so horrified by this story BUT I am even more horrified by people’s comments. Wow guys! Judge not! Many are making really harsh comments about other people’s religion. I myself am Christian and yet I will today stand by Hollis. Talking with such hatred in your hearts. You should be ashamed. Concentrate on your own salvation. God will judge you the same way you judge others. I refuse to blame an entire religion on those extremists who obviously are not following God’s way. I do not practice Islam so I cannot say that the way they believe is wrong! Wrong was done to many which is a shame but lets not forget, hate begets hate. We need not treat the guilty with such contempt. Let’s rather stand together in PEACE. Together we can make it right but it won’t work if good people such as yourselves resort to this kind of behavior…
Therese says
With all the rhetoric about these laws in Pakistan, they are only as good as the enforcement of them. When you have Muslim police, Courts, and a population that is far flung and many isolated in villiages. I cannot see how it would work.
I wish it would with all my heart for these poor women. Acids attacks last for the rest of their lives. Skin glued to other parts of their bodies. Movement is restricted, and the ever present danger of infection as in most burns victims even in progressive countries with great medical care as we have in our countries. They are isolated for the rest of their lives and no one else will ever marry them. Who would ever take a chance on another Muslim husband even if it was her own choice.
Phil says
An atrocity is an atrocity and theses acts transcend all religions and races! People of the world should be outraged by all cruel senseless acts committed under the name of any religion or cultural belief. We must to stand together to PROTECT the innocent and voice our outrage as human beings. Those who commit these crimes should pay the price for their evil deeds. Mans inhumanity to man is alive and well..
Pete Whittaker says
well, it is good to see people being able to write their views and thoughts on this topic without copping remarks of “racist”, “bigot” etc. Perhaps we have had progress, for when I posted my angry thoughts about the stupidity of allowing Islam to sway our government in our traditionally Christian country only a year ago, I was blasted at from all angles for being a racist.
barenakedislam says
Pete, you are very welcome here.
Phil says
People need to also take a peek at how many women are being beheaded in Saudi Arabia. Many are servants who can’t even read or understand what they are being charged with! They are tortured and beaten by those they serve for trumped up reasons and then sent off to the sword! The numbers are rising however the outrage is not! Indonesian women who simply try to earn enough to eat are subject to these atrocities. They need to be warned of the dangers that await them. Th Saudis are doing nothing but protecting their oil!
Therese says
Yes indeed, just being the loving father of the house.
ICE says
dajjal
Well done.
Z. Nelom says
This is obscenity.
May the perpetrators, their accomplices and
their enablers burn in Hell. Forever.
Z. Nelom
Liana says
Manu Tripathi,
Good catch.
You can see these muslims/pseudo Christians posting on other sites that report on muslim atrocities.also.
They have a pattern.Deny the muslim acts in the article,separate the religion from violence,tell personal stories to appear friendly,change the topic,try to draw people into a discussion ,get upset over a comment and act wounded.
How logical is it to post muslims are great stories in response to something as horrific as the acid attacks committed by muslims ?
Anyway…….i was going to ask if these attacks are linked to males in terrorist organizations or just the general population.They seem so extreme for something like turning down a marriage proposal.And if it is inter family marriage ,wouldn’t that leave the family with the victims being life long dependents ?
barenakedislam says
Liana, most are not in terrorist groups, they are ordinary muslims doing what ordinary muslims do.
Therese says
Hollis, dry up!! you are a fool.
Therese says
Hey BNI have you got an article about the Turks being the greatest genocidal maniacs the world has ever known? There are some beauties around, and it is timely to take them out of mothballs for this very naive woman. This Hollis is a fruit loop or perhaps her Turk is on life support.
barenakedislam says
Therese, I have several on Turkey, just type “Turkey” or “Armenian Genocide” into the search box.