Psyah.. Thanks for taking the time to write all that and explain your point of view.
Yes, I did not read the part about you stating that Taliban should be taken over by ground troops. Your post that I referred to gave a slight hint that just because they are the taliban and they were provoked it made sense that they shot a girl. This is the reason I asked you about it, so thanks for the clarification on that.
I have no problem in admitting I am very biased against them and think they are scum. Their rule of domination over women, and even harming people who don’t grow beards, is very barbaric to me.
Also if you don’t know who the taliban are, then why would you be suggesting ways to engage them in (talking about your sample letter that you thought should have been written) ? I’m not really sure of what you meant when you say that (that you don’t know who they are). Do you mean you don’t know them personally? OR something else?
In your point of view as you stated, you are saying Malala was wrong (bolded bit below in your quote) because she should have known that the taliban are considered to be dangerous. And to provoke them in the manner she did, the people who are around her would know the consequences would be dire for her. In that sense I agree that her father and whoever else she may be getting her ideas from should have had her back. Yet, I still think what she did was courageous, and had more guts than most of us ever could and will. To stand up against tyranny and opression is the purest sense of Islam in my eyes.
I agree with your non binary way of thinking as the world is full of shades of gray, and certainly not black and white. But for me, in this case, things are pretty black and white. Malala right, taliban wrong. I am not sure what you mean by your thrid option of “neither of them” in this case. If you just meant in general, then that’s another matter, but since you brought it up in this discussion, I am not clear on what you meant.
Again, thanks for taking the time to explain what you meant, and I probably did not pick up on some of it so sorry about that.