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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And also officials were quick yo say it's not a "hate crime."
Don’t forget Victor Reisel....
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Riesel
Reisel was a Jewish union organizer labor reporter
Acid was thrown in his eyes by a very young Jewish hit man Abraham Telvi who was working for the Genovese crime family
It drew a lot of attention
Apparently the young woman was a college student. That is not acceptable in sharia law. The acid thrower was just striking out on behalf of islam.
Sorry, you are just plain wrong. Acid-throwing started in the west. Specifically it started in the U.K., because that is where industrialization started. When industrialization started in the U.K. in the 18th century, people started to have access to substance like strong sulfuric acid (aka "vitriol." And that's when acid throwing started. It reached it's peak in the second half of the 19th century.
The countries you talked about had industrialization much later.
See posts #27 - 31.
Thanks for the information.
You are welcome.
It does seem like today a lost of Muslims are developing it, but unlike algebra, they did not invent it.
My faulty assumption that the acid throwing attack is South Asian in origin arises from a combination of having been stationed in Calcutta (1970-1971) and a steady stream of reporting over the past 20-30 years. Both almost invariably pointed to the practice as a particularly South Asian practice.
Confirmation bias. Need to work harder in avoiding that.
Good to check the mirror periodically when you start to get too full of yourself. Vindictiveness is a citizen of all nations and peoples.
That is some seriously nasty stuff.
“Cultural. None of our business.”
Neighbors of ours are from the Middle East. They put up Christmas lights so....
But the smells wafting from their kitchen are terrible. The music the 20-something was listening to was some ME guy warbling off-key to goofy instruments. Sounded terrible to me.
I told my wife “It certainly is a different culture!”
So it would fit right in with an acid attack for a broken relationship, a girl wearing slacks, etc.
Fake?
It was called vitriolage. Interesting link...
https://legalhistorymiscellany.com/2017/09/13/acid-attacks-in-nineteenth-century-britain/
I’ll look for the article. He’s been on this topic for a while.
Perhaps he was referencing some point in a more recent past - the 1950s and 60s perhaps?
As a middle-class, suburban American, certainly I NEVER once heard of ‘acid attacks’ as a thing until I first travelled to Asia decades ago. So it occurred in Taiwan and China as well. Also common was drinking pesticide as a means of suicide, but that’s a tangent.
The point now is I think we can pretty much know “who” is carrying out nearly all acid attacks in the west now.
Not just college student. Apparently In Hofstras dual degree BS BA/M.D. dual degree program. Highly selective. Hofstra has a medical school. She was in path to become a doctor.
I am still surprised that western Nassau (I grew up in Malverne and went to school in Valley Stream), hasn’t changed even more considering how close it is to Queens and considering the large outflux of Asians (including south Asians like the folks in the article) and Hispanics from said borough (many of the latter are skipping Nassau and going to Suffolk instead).
But they embraced it as their own.
Throwing acid on a woman has always been a traditional moslem thing, every since they invented vitrol (sulfuric acid).
They are popular in certain countries
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