Is This How Bongo Bongo Land Treats Charity?

[Snafu03]

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/08/08/zanzibar-acid-attack_n_3723578.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cukt1%7Cdl7%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D200270

In their defence, the attackers probably didn't know they were charity workers, over there to support the islands infrastructure. The fact they were Western is probably reason enough.

[naomi24]

Frightening.

[Old_Geezer]

One finds scum all over the world.

[ichkeria]

Why is not knowing they were charity workers a defence?

[naomi24]

ichkeria, it isn't. That they were westerners seems to have been sufficient cause.

[Peter Pedant]

You mean tha if the attacker DID know theywere charity workers, they would have used aqua regia or aqua fortis ?

caps for emphasis not shouting...

[ichkeria]

Of course it is no defence. i was merely questioning the wording of the question. Godfrey Bloom also has a lot to answer for.

[ludwig]

Vile scum. We can only hope they have some kind of accident where their own acid ends up on themselves at some point.

[Peter Pedant]

I think if I had an acid attack - I would be truly terrified about losing my sight.

poor kids....

[douglas9401]

"Police in Zanzibar have launched a manhunt...."

Why am I not filled with confidence? Unless of course the great satan gets involved.

[Svejk]

// godfrey bloom has a lot to answer for///
Pathetic. It might show the futility of wasting charity on some people.

[emmie]

vile act,

[naomi24]

// godfrey bloom has a lot to answer for///

So two blokes riding a moped in Zanzibar read Godfrey Bloom’s remark, took offence at it, and in revenge threw acid at two young English girls. How ridiculous!

[sandyRoe]

If this was an act of terrorism, and it looks as though it was, then these young women can think themselves lucky that they weren't murdered.

[emmie]

no it was the fact that it's yet another example of men taking offence over nothing, they came to help, and this is what they received for doing so. They were targeted because they were western women. The reports have said they were appropriately covered, long sleeved dresses, i don't understand this vile mentality, nor do i understand the same in any country including UK,

[naomi24]

Rather than an act of terrorism, I'd say it's an act of hatred and defiance. I caught a bit of an interview where a spokesman for the government of Zanzibar said that actions like this are likely to have a major detrimental effect on the tourist industry, upon which Zanzibar relies heavily. I don't think mindsets such as those possessed by the people who committed this atrocity will give a hoot about that.

[emmie]

there is the rub, that many of these places have relied on tourism, if you read of incidences like this, it may well make one change ones mind from going. They won't care and this probably won't be the last.. poor lasses

[sandyRoe]

If it was just a mysogynistic act of thuggery then the perpetraters likely didn't give any thought to the consequences. If there was any terrorist motive then harming the tourist industry would have been one of their aims.

[emmie]

charity workers have long been targeted, it's seen as interference by the west, strange eh?

[naomi24]

More than a mysogynistic act of thuggery. A politically motivated mysogynistic act of thuggery.

[anotheoldgit]

How many times do we hear of such cases were voluntary workers are either killed or maimed in these African countries.

If "lessons are to be learned" they should be that our young people should refrain from working for charity in these types of countries, because it seems that their good work isn't always appreciated.