"...both men had said she ‘deserved for her face to be ruined because she had not covered her head' "

Nothing says respect from Islam than a face-full of acid.  Transgress any rule and you open yourself up to retribution from any quarter, including your classmates.  These young women deserved to be treated as any young woman should, instead the two young men decided that these girls were "not Muslim enough" and disfigured them for life.  The other women were attacked because they dared to support a Muslim woman who wanted to get out of an abusive marriage but couldn't.  Acid was used in that instance as a lesson to never disobey a man again.

The treatment of women may have been an enlightened view 1,400 years ago when compared against medieval Europe, but even Europe updated their dogma after a while, whereas Islam is still upholding what was laid down over a millennium ago as right and correct for today's world.  With this mindset it is easy to see why these seven women were attacked.


From The Express Tribune September 18 by Shamsul Islam

Acid attacks: 7 women burned in two days  

FAISALABAD: A total of seven women suffered acid attacks in the past two days in Faisalabad in separate incidents.

According to police officials, a first-year student suffered serious burns after being attacked in the limits of Police Station City Jaranwala. First year student Tayyiba was on her way back home from a local tuition academy when students Ali Raza and Hamza allegedly chased her and threatened her life.

“Both boys go to the same college as me and they were heckling me for not wearing a dupatta on my head. They tried to grab me and when I yelled at them they attacked me with acid,” Tayyiba told police officials before being admitted to the hospital. “She said that both men had said she ‘deserved for her face to be ruined because she had not covered her head’,” Station House Officer Malik Zafar Iqbal said.

The victim’s parents filed a complaint and approached the parents of the accused. “Instead of asking for forgiveness they opened fire on us and we barely managed to escape,” Tayyiba’s father Asad said. Area police filed a case on the report of Adnan, a brother of the victim, after having registered a case against the accused under Section 324, 511, & 34 PPC but no arrest has been madeso(sic) far. 

In another incident, a man and his two friends allegedly threw acid at his wife and five other women from her family. According to police officials, Chak 132 GB Dijkot resident Umar Hayat attacked his wife Nabila and five women of her family after she refused to leave with him. “The couple had quarrelled after he beat her several times(4-34). She came home saying she feared for her life and when he came to take her back she refused to leave,” Nabila’s father Muhammad Munir said. “He told her he would never hit her again if she left with him and when she refused he threw acid on her and all the other women,” he added.

Umar also attacked five women of Nabila’s family, who refused to let him take her from their house near the Nawan police station. Neighbours said that Umar Hayat had made several attempts to reconcile with his wife Nabila and had also approached elders and a Panchayat to intervene on his behalf.

“She refused to return with him. She kept saying that he beat her and that she did not want to put her life in danger...”

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