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I literally already did, it's in the Wikipedia article I linked, in the region area. Clearly you didn't bother to look.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_attack
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/14/world/asia/14kandahar.html
And I'm totally comfortable saying that there are Jewish extremist groups who commit terrorism to harm others as well. And there's Christian and Buddhist groups that do that as well. It's not antisemitic or Islamophobic to literally describe what people are doing, per survivors from those groups. That it makes those specific Islamic groups look bad is, well, on them. Don't burn people with acid. Don't genocide Gazans. Etc.
And as I've already said, yes, other people and other groups burn people with acid too. That's not really relevant to my original comment though, which is about how Islamic sects will likely not tolerate someone like the Tates, even if those same people do other things that harm women. Yes, there is abuse of women in Islam with some groups, including acid attacks, but that abuse is often informed by the moral code of those practitioners and absolutely nothing the Tates do is justifiable by the religion. The idea of the Prophet Mohammed being okay with sex trafficking - that’s extremely offensive. It's an extreme moral incompatibility that will likely result in conflict since he is harming real people pretty indiscriminately.