[badcheesecrispy]

I tell you what, for all those who slag western culture for its drinking and 'lack of sexual morals', I'd take a culture like that any day over one where things like this are a common occurance.

Note most are by 'a boy who she refused to marry' 'a relative' 'because of a family dispute' 'a husband'.

and then we wonder why many pakistani men who come over here/live here think they can also treat western women like crap.

[Lamps08]

Hey this gives me an awesome idea on how to get on Dragon's Den, finally. I need to create some sort of Alkali emitting face mask which makes a loud noise when activated by any acids detected.
If someone threw acid at me though I'd hunt them down, cut them up, and make a thousand piece puzzle out of them...

[Abed1993]

Stupid cultures.

[AlligatorSky]

(Original post by Abed1993)
Stupid cultures.

Who said its culture?

[Brandmon]

A shame really. Luckily the younger generations of Pakistan seem to drift away from such a mentality ans such a mentality that fuels these attacks will within a few generations die and be forgotten like those who stand by it, only to remain as a bitter memory for Pakistanis to remember.

[badcheesecrispy]

(Original post by Brandmon)
A shame really. Luckily the younger generations of Pakistan seem to drift away from such a mentality ans such a mentality that fuels these attacks will within a few generations die and be forgotten like those who stand by it, only to remain as a bitter memory for Pakistanis to remember.

Really? Many of those women are very young and were attacked by 'boys', often within the last 3 years.

[sabre2th1]

(Original post by badcheesecrispy)
http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/alleye...-personal.html -(contains sickening pictures, nearly all from Lahore, Pakistan)

Terrorism thats personal

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. It was a young man whom she had rejected for marriage. As the United States ponders what to do in Afghanistan — and for that matter, in Pakistan — it is wise to understand both the political and the personal, that the very ignorance and illiteracy and misogyny that create the climate for these acid attacks can and does bleed over into the political realm. Nicholas Kristof, the New York Times op-ed columnist who traveled to Pakistan last year to write about acid attacks, put it this way in an essay at the time: “I’ve been investigating such acid attacks, which are commonly used to terrorize and subjugate women and girls in a swath of Asia from Afghanistan through Cambodia (men are almost never attacked with acid). Because women usually don’t matter in this part of the world, their attackers are rarely prosecuted and acid sales are usually not controlled. It’s a kind of terrorism that becomes accepted as part of the background noise in the region. ...
“Bangladesh has imposed controls on acid sales to curb such attacks, but otherwiseit is fairly easy in Asia to walk into a shop and buy sulfuric or hydrochloric acid suitable for destroying a human face. Acid attacks and wife burnings are common in parts of Asia because the victims are the most voiceless in these societies: They are poor and female. The first step is simply for the world to take note, to give voice to these women.” Since 1994, a Pakistani activist who founded the Progressive Women’s Association to help such women “has documented 7,800 cases of women who were deliberately burned, scalded or subjected to acid attacks, just in the Islamabad area. In only 2 percent of those cases was anyone convicted.”

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...MEN-WOMEN.html

[Summer In The City]

Some men are nasty creatures. It's just pure psychopathy, how can someone do that to a person? I can't get into the heads of these monsters!

[composite]

This story made me sad too.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18044693

[badcheesecrispy]

(Original post by composite)
This story made me sad too.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18044693

that poor baby

[Issy123]

What an awful thing to do... these pictures make me sad
Why is it so easy to get hold of an strong acids in a closeby shop What a joke.

Hope this disappears from the South Asian culture soon :/ Its horrific.

[Issy123]

(Original post by composite)
This story made me sad too.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18044693

:O

That is absolutely disgusting!!!

[joey11223]

(Original post by composite)
This story made me sad too.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18044693

**** sake! Seriously?! Who was this offering even too? In what way does burying a baby alive protect your other children? I'd actually expect it more of witch doctors in Africa then in Asia.

But anyway those acid attack photos...jaw dropping. I cannot believe the mindset of someone who could do that, though honestly I imagine they throw acid at the woman and never lay eyes on them again. Easier to do something when you don't have to face the results of your actions.

It's that third photo that got me the most, it's like her whole face as been destroyed, and burnt by her father when she was 5..because he didn't want her? Jeez can we educate these people about contraception or something, and anyway in all honesty just abandoning her outside a hospital or the towns Mosque would have been better, she'd have probably been taken in by someone. Anything then trying to kill her...by what throwing acid on her face?! She's had 15 plastic surgeries and it still looks so bad..imagine what it was like without those attempts.

Must be so horrifically painful.

An eye for an eye might leave the world blind, but in this case, her father really needs to appreciate the suffering she's gone through. You can readily buy NaOH in powder form. Mix it with warm water until literally no more can be dissolved, then he can plunge his hand into the stuff. Obviously held in place for a few minutes, I think it would be a good thing, akin to bleach in that it would be very good at "cleansing" him for his past trespasses.

[bishbash72]

It depresses me that we've imported this kind of behaviour.

[effofex]

(Original post by AlligatorSky)
Like I said in my post above, Pakistani politicians are making laws against it, but women dont have the power to do something against men and report it.
Its just really unfair.

One solution would be to establish partition zones across cities in Pakistan (male-only and female-only) to ensure that this doesn't happen.

[EstebanK0]

(Original post by Callum828)
It depresses me that we've imported this kind of behaviour.

Shouldn't have exported your slave trade ways...

This kind of attitude towards women, whatever culture, should be abolished or a harsh punishment should be put in place.

[Brandmon]

(Original post by badcheesecrispy)
Really? Many of those women are very young and were attacked by 'boys', often within the last 3 years.

You can't expect everyone to stop doing so overnight. But there is from what I discussed with people from such countries, namely Pakistan and India, a growing outrage about it. Let us not forget that this is in the end a form of domestic violence, and after all within the western world cases of domestic violence dropped significantly just over a generation.

[bishbash72]

(Original post by EstebanK0)
Shouldn't have exported your slave trade ways...

This kind of attitude towards women, whatever culture, should be abolished or a harsh punishment should be put in place.

Actually slavery was alive and well in Africa hundreds of years before Europeans even knew it was there. They just took advantage of it. And that's ignoring the fact that it was abolished not by any African power, but by the UK.

AND the slave trade in Africa has nothing to do with acid attacks in South Asia. Unless you think that because the British Empire did some bad stuff, then these women deserved to lose their faces?

[badcheesecrispy]

(Original post by effofex)
One solution would be to establish partition zones across cities in Pakistan (male-only and female-only) to ensure that this doesn't happen.

how on earth would that work when many of these case are committed by family members, probably in the home?

[badcheesecrispy]

(Original post by EstebanK0)
Shouldn't have exported your slave trade ways...

This kind of attitude towards women, whatever culture, should be abolished or a harsh punishment should be put in place.

how have we so? Is the slave trade elsewhere still ran by westerners?

what an idiotic statement.