Posted on 04/21/2021 7:41:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A 21-year-old Long Island woman was assaulted by a suspect who doused her with acid on her own driveway in a disturbing incident her family claims was a “planned attack.”
Nafiah Ikram was left severely burned and nearly blind in the appalling March 17 Elmont attack. Her father, Sheikh Ikram, 50, said Nafiah was targeted on her way home from work.
“No it’s not a random attack, it’s a planned attack,” Ikram told The Post Wednesday night. “If it was a random attack why did… they waited for her to come home,” Ikram said, adding the suspect could have attacked his wife, who was outside moments earlier.
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What a horrible thing to happen to this young woman.
Poor kid. Sounds like a jealous guy who she rejected?
Yep.....they brought their violent culture norms with them when they came here.
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Sheikh Ikram, her father says it was a planned attack.
Not knowing any of the details, I think I would be looking very close at her family. This sounds, to me to be real close to an “honor killing”
Was she a heretic?
I'm sorry, but I am well read in literature and history and what you claim is 1005 falsehood.
Acid attacks started in the United Kingdom over 200 years ago, and reached a peak in the second half of the 19th century, when THOUSANDS of acid attacks occured, and it was well known.
It was more common for the attacker to be a woman, and research shows twice as many woman as men stood trial for it from 1837 to 1913.
If you ever read Arthur Conan-Doyle Sherlock Holmes story The Adventure of the Illustrious Client, a woman throws acid on the face of a former lover.
In Graham Greene's Brighton Rock a man throws acid at a woman.
Sorry, you are just plain wrong.
In Phoenix one of those Religion of Peace fellows ran over his own daughter killing her. The law caught up with him in England. He is now in jail where I hope he is never released.
Parliament passed The Pharmacy and Poisons Act of 1933 because of the problem.
No, those are Buddhists. There was a Muslim minority known as the Chams, but the Khmer Rouge pretty much killed them all in the late 70s.
I think if it were a non-Muslim who did the attack it would have come out very quickly.
aloha snackbar! I got a stupid idea... invite a bunch of people into your house who believe their god commands them to either forcibly convert you to their religion, or steal your property and enslave you. Oh! And don’t forget that their god commands them to lie about it. Yeah! What friends and neighbors.
OK. Thanks. I’ll tell Mark Steyn
Cambodia is primarily Buddhist. Next door, Thailand has a Muslim minority in the far south. Myanmar (formerly Burma) has the Rohingya minority group who predominately followers of Islam:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohingya_people
The names of the family in this attack appear to be Pakistani. Acid attacks for various reasons are a common feature of disputes in Pakistan and India (and to a lesser extent in other Muslim countries in South Asia). They are one of the lovely cultural enrichments that came to the West with recent waves of immigration from these parts of the world.
My guess is she rebuffed someone, maybe a potential suitor, and they (or their family) made arrangements to get revenge. It is a cultural, not necessarily a religious, act. Sort of hurting a person in a way they cannot recover from. The attack could possibly been carried out by a third party that has now left the country on “vacation.”
I’m surprised he would say that. He’s usually well informed.
“And if you don’t believe me....I’ll put a jihad on you!”
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