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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Was it brown acid?
I first read about acid attacks sixty years ago in an old adventure novel THE SARACEN BLADE by Frank Yerby.
THE GOLDEN BOUGH by Frasier
XXVII.
“With such examples before us we need not hesitate to
believe that many tribes have felt no scruple or delicacy in
observing a custom which tends to wipe out a single family.
To attribute such scruples to them is to commit the common, the
perpetually repeated mistake of judging the savage by the standard
of European civilisation.
If any of my readers set out with the
notion that all races of men think and act much in the same way as
educated Englishmen, the evidence of superstitious belief and custom
collected in this work should suffice to disabuse him of so
erroneous a prepossession.”
Definitely worth reading! Along with THE EVIL EYE by Elworthy.
How horrible!
Acid... the favored weapon of the dishonored Muslim.
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