One morning two months ago, Shamsia Husseini and her sister were walking through the muddy streets to the local girls school when a man pulled alongside them on a motorcycle and posed what seemed like an ordinary question.
“Are you going to school?”
Then the man pulled Shamsia’s burqa from her head and sprayed her face with burning acid. Scars, jagged and discolored, now spread across Shamsia’s eyelids and most of her left cheek. These days, her vision goes blurry, making it hard for her to read.
But if the acid attack against Shamsia and 14 others ”” students and teachers ”” was meant to terrorize the girls into staying home, it appears to have completely failed.
Can you imagine trying to live like this? Read it all.
Life like this is possibly closer to home than we would like to admit. What is it like to live amongst rival gangs in the inner cities? I recommend seeing Gran Torino; a good movie and an eye opener to American gangs.