Acid attacks are a particularly nasty form assault that targets primarily females. They are most common in South Asia and parts of SE Asia, and are carried out for reasons of jealousy and, in some cases, as punishment for “immodesty.”
On December 30, a young Afro-English woman named Naomi Oni was assaulted by a woman in a niqab (AKA hijab, burkha) after working her shift at Victoria’s Secret in the Stratford Westfield mall. Prior to the attack, 20-year-old Ms. Oni had a pretty face, but that has been changed forever.
It seems clear that there was a religious motive behind the attack, and it would be fair to call it an act of terrorism, yet we have heard surprisingly little about it in US news outlets, which typically trumpet anything of this sort to the entire nation as in the case of Bethany Storro of Vancouver, Washington, who splashed herself with acid in a plea for sympathy, and possibly to obtain free rhinoplasty.
An acid attack on a pretty woman’s face is somewhat akin to cutting off an athelete’s legs or a surgeon’s fingers. An important asset has been rendered useless, and this will permanently destroy many of the advantages and opportunities she had prior to the attack. From a Western perspective, it’s an exceptionally evil thing to do.
However, for some sects (not including all of Islam to be sure), the greater evil is the public display of beauty. Victoria’s Secret is therefore the kind of place – and its employees the kind of people – that would make a natural target for religious fanatics opposing Western mores concerning modesty.
But still, we haven’t heard a single feminist make an issue of this. Not one slutwalker has stepped up to denounce the attack. Feminists have maintained an eery silence over this woman-on-woman attack.
Why?
Well, it doesn’t fit their narrative. If a man had carried out the attack, they’d be busy denouncing it very noisily. If it had been a white man who threw acid on Ms. Oni’s face, their response would be deafening. However, in this case it is a non-Western woman, and what good can come of publicizing that? What advantage can be gained? One cannot tax these women, as most do not work, nor can one use them to any other economic advantage. There is no real utility to the story — it is politically useless for feminists, because it falls entirely outside their narrative, which has patriarchal Western men exploiting everyone else.
So, the question is, do feminists really care about acid attacks when they cannot be somehow used to extort Western men? Apparently not. What a morally bankrupt “movement.”
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Couple of questions (not that I’m asking you to answer, I mean who could know) that pop up for me:-
Ms Oni is not herself a muslim? Just a typical Londoner, looks like.
The attacker is actually a muslim? Or was it just a handy disguise, due to its Top Trumps untouchability?
Oh, third query. And Ms Oni was completely unknown to the acid throwing maniac?
I do wonder if it was a woman or a man inside the clown suit.
Multiculturalism apparently trumps feminism in this case, to the chagrin of racist white feminists (feminists at the top of the food chain never really cared about third world women living in abject poverty anyway; it’s the “include them when they need them mentality”).
Yeh this is weird. The girl had finished work and was just about home, miles away from the Emporium of Suburban Cheese that is Vic’s Secret.
And it was like an hour or more after the pubs shut, getting on for one in the morning. Pitch dark, middle of the night, and here’s a full-on Darth Vader tribute act, immodestly striding about the grimy (and not-at-all-safe-for-anybody-never-mind-obvious-immigrant-females) alleys of Stratford with a vial of poison? And suddenly decides to land it on some random black girl going home to her mum? Do me a favour guv.
I wager ten of the Queen’s Finest Olde English Banknotes the niqab-stylist will turn out to be a short fat blond (if you could see his hair, after the No. 1 All Over) geezer called Dave or something, with Union Flag tattoos on his scrotum, and a dog called Tyson. Stirring it, large.
Feminists are obsessed with state by state infringement of reproductive rights (abortion), women’s (free) health care, VAWA passing and equal pay legislation at the moment. They won’t concern themselves with women-on-women violence, such as lesbian DV.
Also, since Muslims are clearly considered members of the “oppressed classes”, along with women, blacks, hispanics, et al…they will ignore “inner cultural conflicts”. Add to that feminists are wholly secular and that taking a position against Islamic Law might incite terrorism against their organizations (i.e.- they’re afraid), and they won’t go near it with a ten inch dildo. There’s far too much work to be done domestically for “equal rights” (at the expense of those less equal).
Now if you’re talking about the media coverage of it, they’re already on the team and no longer need to take cues from the Feminist Establishment on what to cover and what not to, the correct positioning, etc. Right, had a male or especially a privilaged white male done it, it would be global news and discussed across the internet and cable TV. Let’s pass it off as a little “mean grrl” squabble for now.
Interestingly they are also mysteriously silent on the “women in combat” edict from the Pentagon. Along with the blacks of the NAACP, the hispanics of La Raza and the gays of GLAAD – Feminist Inc. will not bite the hand that feeds, (the Democrat/Progressive Agenda). They’ll have no comment at this time.
Dagenham is in the east of London. It is the home of The Ford Corporation in England, hence the expression ‘Fords of Daghenham’ and I nearly ended up going to school there. That I didn’t, I have surely got to be grateful for, especially as a later headmaster of the said school I was marked down for, and which all my little primary school friends went to, described it – his own school – as “Depressed and Violent”; indeed, we all knew that, which was why our Primary School Headmistress felt compelled to give us a talk as to how that rumour was entirely mistaken – I always knew the evil bitch was lieing! – funny what children correctly sense (what could my parents have been initially thinking of). Most people want to get out of Dagenham, as it is just about the worst place in London, and so it is perhaps surprising to have to reveal that in my lifetime the town has produced one Archbishop of Canterbury, Carey; one Movie Star, Dudley Moore; and one Pop Icon, barefoot-diva Sandie Shaw – as well dare I mention it, Brian Poole and The Tremeloes – the band accepted for Decca Record Company in place of some people from Liverpool called, I forget.. oh yes.. it comes to me now.. I think they were called … erm… The Beatles.
In fairness to the Feminists, this story although has been hidden for a month – and I’d say deliberately, by the Media, who are terrified of saying anything against Islam. Muslims are not the sort of people to be messed with which is why we are told that multicultuiralism enriches us all, which is true, of course provided one does not live in Multi-cultural areas. They drove Rushdie into hiding; the establishment appease them all the time; only this week we learn that the High Court is to permit Sharia divorce – and attack Christians (I am not joking – my Government is a basket-case); and indeed recently there have been reports of young Muslim men in East London, patrolling the streets, removing Alcochol from street-drinkers and informing them that they are in a Muslim controlled area – you never see police on the streets, so perhaps one should be grateful to the Muslims!
Secrets is an American chain, but if you were a young woman would you want to work there now – or for that matter in Ann Summers? The attack on the young woman (who I would have described as British but of African decent) is thus surely effective terrorism. Sadly there have been other Acid attacks on women (by men – jilted lovers) in recent years (I seem to recall). It is not just Acid, however. I know the mother of a young woman whose daughter was murdered by her East European lover. Young English women, do what they like and of course English men tend to put up with fickleness. I am afraid outside the Anglo-sphere, men, whether Black, Brown or Ex-Soviet do not put up with such behaviour. Of course, the mother spins it that her daughter was a victim of stalking. That I am afraid is a way to fail to come to terms with reality: Stalking is a substitute for a relationship and although malign in intent, is not physical violence: Murder is (tautologically) murder.
Regardless how heinous the act of a woman against another woman, it’s taboo for a Feminist to criticize any woman, unless the offending woman is a Western Social Conservative.
To the rest of the world who is not “ideology-crazed”, it’s called “throwing a woman under the bus”.
This could be looked at with two angles. First, this is the kind of human behaviour you can expect once a civilization collapse.
I also suspect that Arab women know something about living in a harsh environment without the support of the state. I think Arab women don’t want to go back to be autonomous.
The women in the news article below is on her own. She does not seem to enjoy to much.
Woman, 80: pension €150, electricity debt €200, no power 6 months… in Athens
http://www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2013/02/01/woman-80-pension-e150-electricity-debt-e200-no-power-6-months-in-athens/
Eventually women will decide what kind of relationship they want with men. We might see traditionalist women or submissive women fight against modern women. It would not surprised me if women start to demand much more assertive and dominant men to mate with.
Men seems too weak to come up with something on their own. Men cannot do anything without the approval of women. Women will start looking for men that don’t worship them. Time will tell
By the way women are not weak and can contribute much more then most men think. We, men, should demand much more from women.
For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of World War II
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/For-40-Years-This-Russian-Family-Was-Cut-Off-From-Human-Contact-Unaware-of-World-War-II-188843001.html?viewAll=y&page=1
Look how strong and useful the women are. Look at the kind of work they are doing. We, men, must demand much more from women.
I was having a coffee at the shopping mall, at some point there were two Arab couple by my side. I was looking at the body language of these women, their body language is really submissive unlike the traditional women.
Traditionalist women are not submissive at all, they are using the church to control men and shame men. If they were submissive, they would give away the divorce law they love so much.
Feminists have no problem living in a world of pretend. The main tenets of their basic philosophy has little to do do with reality in many ways. They do not want it known that women commit the same horrible and violent acts as men do.
I believe that women, generally, are more cruel, greedy and vicious than men. I saw a story a while back on true case histories of crimes about a women who hired a hit man to kill her grandchildren in order to collect insurance money………………………….
A little off topic but,What do we think the likes of Andrea Mitchell, Diane Sawyer etc would do with that story if it were a man who tried to kill his grandchildren for money?
“What a morally bankrupt “movement”. ”
Unlike ours, it is a movement and we’re all governed by it, Bill.
I find it interesting that the obviously Muslim attacker targeted a woman who worked at Vicky’s Secret…rather than a man shopping there to outfit his GF or wife.
Apparently, to the mind of at least this one Muslim attacker, it is the female who is responsible for her sluttery, not the EVIL PATRIARCHY that cast the poor sweet snowflake into the Caucasian pool of harlotry.
You go, grrrrrl.
Did you ever watch feminists in a restaurant . They are the biggest complainers and offender of Non-Tipping . The sight of a women making an Honest living and being taxed at 1.65 an hour is just to much for them .
On the other hand a Feminist waitress will last about 1 hour on the Job . The first Two buck tip will insight a a Full out Rage .
Time to go put my Male burqa on and shovel the driveway
Okey dokey. As Our Man in the East, Opus says, it was right across the top of The Hams and Barking from her work, in Da’g’Naam in the darkest East End.
Actually worse than Stratford (check out Streetview). Still about seven lonely miles from The Olympics-enhanced plush zone where she worked.
And as Opus informs us, the erstwhile home of FMC.
Apparently the epicenter of Equal Pay, and the beginning of the end for motor-manufacturing and much of the rest of local industry in Blighty, as the corporations, seeing the writing on the wall with the Equal Pay Act, immediately began to investigate relocation elsewhere.
A trite and genuinely amusing socialist/feminist film comedy was made about the Ford Plant a few years back, expressive of the ’60s workplace struggles for parity across different trades, in this case the metalbashers (men) and the upholstery dept. (women). ” Made In Dagenham” . Had that Bob Hoskins in it. Garn, ‘ave a butcher’s.
Chances of a random muslim matron strolling about the streets at kick-yer-’ead-in time round there, on prime NF/BNP/EDL turf? Yer ‘avin’ a giraffe!
Personal, or just maybe False Flag, I bet.
Isn’t multi-culturalism great? It’s such a convenient way to experience the shittyness of other cultures without having to leave your country, state or prefecture.
I feel this too, I really feel that feminism’s silence on the matter is something more practical on their part. I think the fact that women are doing this is probably Muslim clerics response to the stronghold of feminism which is the west. Once women are doing it, and they feel they have effectively culled the masses into fear of speaking out; Muslim men will start in droves.
The thing about the forces of the extreme left; is they halt ineffective in the face of extreme terrorism in their own backyard. I sense it reminisces the old memories of schoolyard bullies from their grade school days; and there was no big conservative athlete to come to their rescue being the under dog.
When these same individuals actually come into our military, and use our own training against us; they look for a story line to suit their narrative; case in point the female police officer at fort hood who was shot by the Muslim extremist Chaplin; a colonel, and his general boss went on TV claiming how proud they were she shot him being a woman. It turned out it was her male partner who saved him. We never learned his name as far as I can remember!
No one discussed him as a terrorist; just “confused.”
Cowardice in the face of your enemies does not make them treat you better. Nor does hamstringing the very people who would fight them for you.
Please, someone tell them that; as I don’t know how to get them to listen to me.
*saved HER* not him.
Meh Women exist to extract resources from men
Its one of the main reasons feminist scum’ve always existed
All Women are feral, its just a matter of degree & how much male influence they have to keep their ferallity at bay
When a woman can divorce for being simply being unhappy, proves how feral & primitive women really are
Destroying your family & children for an emotion, it doesnt get more primitive or feral …
A culture without a strong patriarchial society, & the women will leave in droves in search of patriarchial men, in the form of alphas & thugs
Women are driven by subserviance & worship of authority, instead of logic & reason, primitive & feral behaviour, is the logical conclusion for most women
From what I understand there are about 400 acid attacks a year. Out of a world population of 7 billion, that is an amount so statistically rare as to be irrelevant to gauge a societal norm or value.
This is even more so when you consider that many of these attacks had males as victims and women as perpetrators.
Feminists get gina tingles from things like this.
I bet that most of the thousands of women who write love letters to serial killers also identify as ‘feminists’.
Lebanon at one time was known as the Paris of the middle east. Was predominately Christian, then they embraced multi culturism and were tolerant of other religions (including radical Islam). We all know how that turned out.
Feminism is jealousy for the sexual power of beautiful young women. That’s why feminism is often populated by ugly women. A beautiful woman has little use for feminism.
Me thinks Welmer is straining too hard to make a tendentious connexion here.
The one, acid attack on woman by a man or a woman in a burqua, has no relevance to the other, liberal feminism’s silence on the matter.
Mohammedanism IS patriarchal not feminist. But what has the throwing acid in the face of a woman to do with Mohammedanism or multi-cult ?
A disguised, jealous white or black girl or spurned black or white man could just as easily have committed the crime.
I don’t get it Welmer.
[Does the silence of russian feminists, FEMEN on THIS attack mean they are pro or anti Russian Orthodox Theology Welmer ?]
Acid attacks have always been around everywhere. We can’t really cherry-pick now. http://rt.com/news/bolshoi-director-acid-attack-255/
“””Masked attacker throws acid at face of Bolshoi Theater’s artistic director.
The Bolshoi Theater’s artistic director was attacked by a masked assailant in Moscow who splashed acid onto his face. Sergey Filin is suffering from severe burns, and may lose his sight. Police have linked the attack to his professional work.
The 42-year-old former dancer, now the Bolshoi Theater’s artistic director, suffered severe third-degree burns to his face and eyes, and is being treated at a hospital in Moscow where doctors are working to save his eyesight.
He underwent eye surgery, and has now been placed in intensive care. It will take up to seven days to see if the surgery was successful, Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets said. Earlier, Moskovsky Komosomolets newspaper reported that it would take two weeks to determine whether Filin’s vision could be saved.
The artistic director of the legendary Russian theater was attacked near midnight on Friday as he left his car outside his home in central Moscow. The masked assailant then fled the scene.
Filin is “in a satisfactory condition, in our burns center, not intensive care,” a hospital spokesperson said. Medics also suggested that Filin will need plastic surgery, and said the acid had affected his hair, which will start falling out soon, forcing him to wear a wig.
The theater’s supervisory board said it decided to send Filin to a foreign clinic for treatment, indicating Germany and Israel as the two main options, Interfax news agency reported. However, this will only be possible after Filin’s condition improves.
Filin will need at least six months to completely recover, Bolshoi spokesperson Ekaterina Novikova said. Filin’s position at the theater will be vacant during this period, but any replacement must first be approved by him, Novikova said.
Filin had received threats from anonymous callers before, Novikova explained to Channel One: “We never imagined that a war for roles – not for real estate or for oil – could reach this level of crime.”
Bolshoi general director Anatoly Iksanov said he believed the attack was linked to Filin’s work at the theater. “He is a man of principle and never compromised,” Iksanov said. “If he believed that this or that dancer was not ready or was unable to perform this or that part, he would turn them down.”
Vladimir Urin, the general director of the Moscow Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Theater, called the assault on Filin “an attack on Bolshoi Theater beyond any boundaries.” Urin stressed that Filin has been the Bolshoi’s artistic director for three years, and “you could always discuss any problem with him, reaching a compromise decision.”
Filin’s mother said that the threats began on December 31. The Bolshoi’s artistic director’s Facebook page and his email account were hacked shortly before the attack, and his car tires were reportedly slashed on Friday. Someone also called Filin repeatedly, but kept silent when he picked up the phone.
Police said that Sergey Filin’s professional activity is believed to be the primary reason behind the attack. Security forces are looking into the attack, and said that the assailant, if convicted, could face up to eight years in jail for inflicting willful damage to health.
The former Bolshoi ballet star was appointed as the theater’s artistic director in March 2011 amid fierce rivalry for the position.
The Bolshoi Theater reopened in October 2011 after a massive six-year reconstruction effort. The opening was surrounded by scandals, and delayed several times due to construction problems. The theater also found itself in the midst of a massive row over the sacking of ballet superstar Nikolay Tsiskaridze’s, which came after the dancer said he had not expected such poor results after six years of repair works worth over $1 billion, according to Russia’s Accounts Chamber. The star slammed the acoustics, makeup and rehearsal rooms.”””
Just to make a point, apparently one does not use the term Mohammedanism as a synonym for Islam. It’s apparently the same as describing Christianity as Jesusism.
Feminists also avoid topics such as honour killings, clitorectamies (sic), underage marriages in foreign countries, and gang rape when it is culturally motivated. None of these issues are important in furthering their agenda against western men. I may as well include ass-eaters like Manboobz in the above as well, he would never dare cherry pick this post for comment.
Seems like a very naive article. What makes you think it was a woman? (the evidence isn’t that strong). Why is “clear” that the motive was religious?
Whether it was a man or woman acid thrower is irrelevant. It’s the PERCEPTION of those who react, or don’t react, to the incident based on the offender being a woman.
News articles state that it was a woman who threw the acid, so the world acts accordingly.
“…very naive article.” you say?
Hardly.
It’s a good illustration of how corrupt, ruthless, hypocritical and unprincipled Feminism is.
To actually believe that women are not at least as evil as men, is naive.
I think that’s Bill’s point.
Knacker of the Yard feels a couple of collars.
“It is believed a 21-year-old woman and a 28-year-old man were arrested over the weekend on suspicion of causing Naomi Oni grievous bodily harm, and have subsequently been released on bail.”
meanwhile, in the Wail
“Police said yesterday they were also investigating whether the attack may have been self-inflicted after they seized her computer and found she had searched websites about acid attacks before she suffered her injuries.
She is believed to have researched Katie Piper, a model who became famous for her bravery after she had sulphuric acid thrown in her face by an ex-boyfriend in 2008.”
My my, hey hey ..
Whatever did become of Tawana Brawley? She sacked up a load of cash.
And some wite guys got accused. Omelette>eggs, no consequences as usual, I suppose …?
Your argument makes no sense. Feminists are concerned with issues of sexism. If jilted lovers can throw acid on their ex-wives or the girls who won’t date them and not get charged, that is an issue, arguably, of sexism. (Reportedly 80% of acid attack victims are female.) If it’s an angry female friend, that’s not an issue of sexism. But these women, caring about human rights, will care about this issue as a violent crime. I have heard plenty of people talking about this case, many of whom I know to be feminists. But in this case it is arguably not an issue of “sexism,” it is an issue of violence. Either way, acid attacks are an issue of violence, and they’re fucked up and terrifying, so please stop whining because some women have realized that a lot of them are gender-motivated. That doesn’t mean they don’t recognize the horror of those attacks which aren’t.
I also just have to add that all of your generalizations about feminists seem to contradict your haughty attitude that you are somehow better than those feminists who do generalize.
Some feminists, like myself, simply believe in gender equality and that sexism is a bad thing. I am not some cultural relativist and I am not against Western men or any men. I love men. People are people, and I dislike anyone who calls themselves a feminist and claims men are inherently to blame for all the world’s problems. Both women and men commit crimes, and crimes against humanity are clearly terrible things.