A Pakistani Teen’s Courageous Stand At age 16, Julie Aftab took a job to help support her family after her father was injured. Instead, she faced the greatest test of her faith and her life – and became a role model of courage for the next generation of Americans in the process. Aftab is now a U.S. citizen, college student in Houston and director of Renew the Hope, a group she created to aid girls who have been persecuted like she was. She recounted her story in an interview with NextGeneration.TV’s Allen West days after he gave her the award for courage that Act for America gave him. Aftab refused to betray her faith when a radical Muslim badgered her to do so at her workplace. “He tried to offer me money,” she said. “He tried everything to make me to convert to Islam.” When she stood firm, he tossed acid on her face and body. Another man then held her by the hair as the attacker tried to pour the acid into her mouth. Two hospitals declined to treat her for fear of the police and an Islamic mob that threatened to burn the hospital. When the third hospital took her as a patient, one of her doctors poisoned and tortured her. “With the acid, my cheek was melted and fell on the ground in front of me,” Aftab said. “And half of my esophagus [was] gone.” She was briefly blind in both eyes, still has no vision in her right eye and has endured dozens of surgeries. And she simply can’t understand why Americans hear stories like hers and still make excuses for radical Islamists. “Wake up before it’s too late,” she admonished them at the end of the interview. “And God gave you this country, and this freedom. Don’t take it for advantage.”
Posted on: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 19:05:34 +0000
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