Do you know what the number million means? Millions of others are being shot for their stance? Where?
And even if there are others who have stood up against oppression, how does that equate to “Malala did nothing” as you claim? Malala did something significant, something that millions refuse to do out of fear, or as in your case - fear of losing “reputation/honor”.
As for the West getting all the benefits - No where in the Nobel prize certificate does it claim it is being given because girls all over Pakistan can’t go to school. These are lame assumptions you have made for yourself about some non-issues.
you can never have TWO exactly the same situations. everyone is different and everyone is as deserving as Malala. it doesn’t have to be education, there can be 1001 other issues.
btw, do you think women’s education in other parts of Pakistan is same as it is in Fata or KPK?
lolz…it’s just a phrase…jaise laakhoN doesn’t mean 100,000. i very well know because i count that much money many times over in my closed room every night! :Ds
anyone can draw Taliban’s wrath for whatever he/she says and they don’t like it. she was unfortunate to have attracted Taliban’s attention. about bravery, i would say she just got caught in a school bus and got shot…there was another girl who was shot that day. she wasn’t even given proper treatment.
i would say she was extremely lucky in getting shot and surviving the incident which his greedy father cashed it in FULL. the west got mileage out of it as well…
…you can’t see what opponents see and we can’t see what the supporters say because there isn’t anything to see…it was an incident which was blown out of proportion and she and her parents derived the most benefits to themselves
Correct me if I am wrong. But it didn’t unfold as presented above. Malala, to the best of my understanding, received multiple threats. But was defiant in the face of such threats. So getting shot was inevitable. And she knew it.
I can only speak for myself. Going against the grain when warranted is something that comes naturally to me. So I don’t think I would have followed the herd.
Does that help?
Moreover, there are several Pakistanis here who support Malala. To me, it is not an India Pakistan issue. Very few things are. I liie to frame it as liberal vs conservative.
How does the accidental birth one one side of the border change anything? All that difference is pure BS. Or B.Tech.
Read my last sentence. I respect what she has done and iv always been an advocate of education especially for kids like her who need it to climb out of poverty. But the nobel peace prize that she was given was purely reactionary and to some extent its turned into the Malala Yousaf cause instead of the ‘womans right to education cause’ (through no fault of her own). its turned into the person instead of the cause
It is best that there is no canned formula for such prizes. The world, including the committee was touched by the girls courage. And the committee saw it fit to award her the prize.
I don’t see it as a Malala cause INSTEAD of girls education cause. To me both are synonymous. The more publicity / notoriety she gets, the more benefit to girls education cause, IMO.
so you mean to say that people of Pakistan who chose to appreciate Malala are brainless. Before looking beyond borders, we should first look at differing views at our home. No?
TTP is being dealt with. Malala has moved to UK. NPP was the last nail in the coffin of this agenda. There is nothing new and interesting that Malala can offer to the media. 3-4 years from now, no one would even remember her full name. Unless, she decides to go back to her country and carries out the activism, but she wants to be a politician so I doubt she’s going to become an activist.
Came back to post something I have been thinking about for a while. Will go ahead in spite of above post
No honest person can deny the committee did have a political agenda. To prove a point to the conservatives. There is also no question that several on the east side of the border are gleeful about Malala ’ s selection for all the wrong reasons. And that is a shame. And is pathetic.
