Corrected photo credit – I hope this is right!: Malala Yousafzai in Islamabad, Pakistan, on 8 March 2012. Malala was shot and wounded by Taliban gunmen in Swat on 9 October. Photograph: T Mughal/EPA
The Taliban today attempted to assassinate a 14-year-old Pakistani girl who blogged in defense of education for girls.
Malala Yousafzai is now fighting for survival with bullet wounds to the head and throat. According to the BBC and NBC News she may very well survive, but she may never regain her speaking voice.
So today, I offer this post in tribute to her bravery and the importance of equality and education for women and girls.
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Thank you for posting this, John
You are welcome. She is an incredible human being.
I am afraid I have to agree with Cecilia and it makes me want to weep. But that young woman has brought the state of the female sex in her country and area to the fore more than any politician or organization. May her life blossom . . I have been contributing in a small way thru’ the AVAAZ organization in cases like this . . . peace . .
Malala of course has been out of Pakistan for a long time now – and she can speak and how! Have just listened to her at the United Nations Assembly as I hope all of you have – what a voice and delivery: 16 going on university educated 25 🙂 ! All her family were ther, her mother quietly weeping, father as proud as can be. If you missed it, there must be catchup programmes . . . !
Hello Eha, in the reblog I include the link to her speech from yesterday. She is incredible. Fearless. Fierce.
Peace to you too.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MALALA – who LIVED to celebrate her 16th birthday today by addressing the U.N. and demanding education for all!!!!
Is this what passes for manhood and righteousness with the Taliban … attacking little girls?
I’m Pakistan I’m Malala..!
Natalia, thank you for this post! Thank you for naming this courageous heart of a girl!! Should she survive (and we pray she does!) even if she loses her speaking voice, this unearthly-brave girl will not be silent. Thank you again, Natalia!
She deserves our support…speaking out for what o many of us take for granted! And risking her life for her beliefs…
Extremist religion is without a saving grace. The Crusades and the Auto da Fe said it loud and clear. Humans have to stop imposing their beliefs on one another.
What a brave child and what horrible people to want to kill a child. She will definitely be in my thoughts and prayers.
How shocking! I’m saddened to the very core. Hoping there will be a full recovery.
I hope so to. Keep good thoughts for her!
The Taliban can never be driven out. They are somebodies brother or sister or father. They are not a band of renegades camped out in the hills to be hunted down. Often it is the brothers and fathers who do these dreadful things to their own women.. Poor poor girl.. such a brave wee thing and the irony of losing her voice.. I hope they can get her out of the country somehow.. such horror..c
I am so gutted about this, she is symbolic of so many girls around the world…and nations do so much better the more equality there is between the sexes!
So sad. I just read her dairy and she’s such a brave young girl. I hope she will get the education she deserves! My thoughts are with her and hope she’ll recover quickly.
I hope so too! She seems to have come thru the surgery well!
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Grazie tanto, Alberto. This assassination attempt on such a young girl is horrifying…we must spread the word.
I hope that one day all peoples come together before a banquet table for the pleasure of being close to each other
I hope so too, Alberto. Magari un giorno….presto….
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Malala Yousafzai recibió un disparo en la cabeza cuando volvía del colegio en la ciudad de Mingora, la principal del Valle de Swat.
Esto de los taliban me parece una barbaridad… te felicito por el gesto. Lo voy a reblogear si no te importa.
Bss
G
Me parece buen idea disseminar la noticia e ir aumentando las oraciones y la furia con la situacion…
Will be keeping Malala in my prayers for days to come. Being someone so obviously brave (and at such a young age), bodes well for her recovery and her future. May God bless her. Thanks for posting this Natalia!
I hope she will recover fully and get that education she (and all girls and boys) so richly deserves.
The Taliban’s view of the world is so regressive and despicable that it defies the
imagination; it is sad to hear about cases like Malala and even more saddening, it is to realize that
there will be many more instances of oppression and sadism in Afghanistan in weeks, months and years to come….
This wasn’t Afghanistan! It was Pakistan…in a place that the Taliban had supposedly been driven out and which was under military control. Which makes it even more scary.
May she recover fully. x
Oh I hope so. She is a force to be reckoned with and the world needs young women like her!