Malala Yousafzai
 

I've just seen part of 16 year old Malala Yousafzai's speech at the UN today, on the news:-


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013...free-education

What an amazing public speaker she is for someone so young, I think she could have a brilliant future in politics if she chooses to go down that path.

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All the best to her.

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Truly amazing and inspiring young lady. I hope she doesn't go into politics, she is far too brave and honest.

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I was really impressed and touched with her speech - a fantastic and inspiring young lady. Probably the best speech Ive heard in years, when you consider her story.

Also on another thread

http://britishexpats.com/forum/showp...4&postcount=30

Jon

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Check out Panorama Monday 20:30 UK time, 21:30 CET. A documentary on Malala entitled 'shot for going to school'

Jon

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This was marked once as the difference between religión and science. The one destroying, the other restoring.

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Sha has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.

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She'd be a very much more deserving recipient than some who have already received it!

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Totally agree, I have given up on the whole Nobel prize thing, after the EU got it and the grinning Barosso, Shultz & Van Rompoy received the prize. The Nobel prize committee has lost credibility and who really cares anyway......

Malala is getting a lot of press at the moment, and I hope her story is heard by everyone, if that means the Nobel guys get involved, then I suppose I would have to commend it...

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She won a 'Pride of Britain' award last night, it was presented by David Beckham in the US because she is still over there giving talks.

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I've just watched an interview with Malala on the Andrew Marr programme - every time I hear her speak I am in awe, what an inspiring person she is.

She has an ambition to return to Pakistan and enter politics there, and spoke out as clearly and plainly as anyone could wish to hear - the Taliban and the terrorists are a tiny minority, and in her words, the name of Islam is misused and abused by them.

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The Sunday times has a feature on her in todays magazine.

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Interesting that she is becoming a hate figure in Pakistan:blink: Accusations that she is being used as a tool by the West and her Father being a CIA Agent.

I do think she may be a puppet of her Father.

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It would appear that some in Pakistan are just as easily fooled by bigoted views as are some on this forum.

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Yeah. About 179 million of them:rofl:

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There is no doubt that she is being used by the West for propaganda purposes.

She is courted by many influential Western figures. She is no doubt courageous maybe even naïve but it takes people like her to stand up. She may not benefit from any significant changes in her lifetime but I believe that one day the whole of Humanity will judge her well. She is a pioneer.

The girl wants an education, nobody in the West would deny her that but it's not what her attackers believe she should have.

And here lies the problem, most women (Muslim and other Faiths) want in this day and age to be able to go to school, drive a car, wear what they want, socialise with whom they wish. No doubt these desires are driven by images coming from the West. Freedom and Liberation. The Ayatollahs will only hold the tide back for so long.

I remember flying to Dubai with Emirates many years ago and being greeted by several girls at the airport all wearing the full gear. As soon as the plane took off, you guessed it, they removed the veils etc. and underneath all the layers were beautifully made up faces and nail polish.

The dogma of Islam especially for women is overpowering, backward looking and unlikely to survive.

Muslim women will one day find their collective voice and my bet is that they won't be calling for the status quo

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Good article by Rosa Montero.
http://elpais.com/elpais/2013/10/12/...49_778121.html

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On UK main news one evening last week the school wich she attended was shown.
The local girls still attend and the threat from the taliban has been reduced.
A small but significant example that local communities can defeat extreme views.