Julie Aftab
She stopped wearing all black, and now calls her scars "my jewel, my gift from God."

"You don't even see the scars anymore," said Lee, 71. "You see so much beauty."

It was June 15, 2002, two weeks into her new job, when the customer spotted her silver cross, a gift from her grand­father. She wore it despite knowing it branded her as Christian, a tiny minority in the Muslim-majority country.

You are living life in the gutter, the Muslim man told her.

She tried to ignore him, remembering what her mother had taught her since she was a child: "You are no one to insult someone's religion. If someone is insulting religion, they have to answer to God."

You are going to hell, the man told her. You are living in darkness.

"I am living in the light," Aftab replied.

So you think Islam is in darkness? the man demanded.

Aftab was frightened. She knew Christians had been accused of violating Pakistan's strict blasphemy laws in the past when others had twisted their words, to make it sound as though they had attacked Islam.

"No, you said that," she replied. "Not me."

But the man was enraged and returned with the battery acid and his friend. When she finally broke away from them, the acid searing her skin and throat, she ran down the street. As she screamed, teeth fell from her mouth and hit the ground.

A woman heard her screams and threw her head cover on Aftab so she could touch her without getting burned. The woman took Aftab to her home and poured water on her. Others eventually came to help take her to the hospital

frosbel: Religion of Peace indeed !!!

diluminati: religion is a disease

chinedumo: Religion killed Jesus yet he didn't advocate for atheism, agnosticism or the Illuminati

Ptolomeus:
I am not an atheist.
But any religion that encourages this kind of bigotry should be eradicated. No atheist would do something like that!
I insist, Arabs and Europeans enslaved Africa, and then sick with hatred. As Africans continue with that stupid religious hatred, Arabs and Europeans will continue to reign, and Africa remains the continent with the highest rate of infant deaths and deaths from hunger, the continent with the worst level of health, with more infected with AIDS ... the poorest continent ...
Arabs and Europeans are not stupid ... but neither Africans should be.
My respects.