...Malala Yousafzai Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani activist for girls' education and the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. She is known mainly for human rights advocacy for education and for women in Swat Valley (her hometown), where the Talibans had tried to ban girls from attending school. Yousafzai's voice has since grown into an international movement. Malala attended a school her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, founded. On September 2008, Malala gave out a speech, after the Talibans attacked the girls' school in Swat. The title of her talk is "How dare the Taliban take away my basic right to education". In early 2009, Yousafzai wrote blogs for BBC about her living under the Taliban's threats to deny her an education. On October 9, 2012, on her way home from school, a man boarded the bus Malala was riding in and demanded to know which girl was Malala. When her friends looked toward Malala, her identity was given away. The gunman fired at her, hitting Malala in the left side of her head and the bullet then traveled down her neck. Two other girls were also injured in the...
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...false idols and doom and human destruction would come to them. He told the people that all human beings deserve to be treated equal to everyone else and with respect. This message was a warning to the northern Kingdom. Amos caused so many problems that King Jeroboam kicked him out of the temple. Malala Yousafzai was born on July 12, 1997 in north-west Pakistan. She loved going to school and learning just like her father. In 2009, Malala started writing a blog for BBC Urdu about how she was scared her school was going to be attacked because of the growing military. Within that year, Malala also decided to become an Education Activist. In 2011, she was awarded Pakistan's first National Youth Peace Prize. Taliban Leaders didn’t like a girl winning all this and they wanted Malala killed. On October 9, 2012 Malala was riding a bus home from school with friends when a masked gunman entered the...
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...There are so many kids that can’t go to school or get their education that is needed because, people do not have a place to go or they are worried they are going to get killed for learning. But Malala changed that for so many people. Before she was just a girl who lived in Pakistan that was afraid to go to school. One reason is there were a group of terrorist coming, after which got to her but she made it through. It states, “A feeling of terror filled the bus. And then the unthinkable happened:The gunmen opened fire.One bullet piercedMalala’s head near her left eye. Two of Malala’s friends were struck inn their arms. Then the gunmen fled, leavingMalala to die.” This is crazy, I could not imagine having to worry about someone coming on your bus and shooting you. If I was Malala I would have been terribly terrified. That is not the only thing that had happened in Pakistan girl schools were shut down. But it states, “In...
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...Malala is a Nobel Peace Prize winner who was born on July 12, 1997, in the Pakistani province of Swat Valley. In 2012, she was shot in the face on a school bus by Muslim extremists for the crime of wanting an education. Although the victim of a brutal crime committed by Muslims, she remains a devout follower of Islam. While born in Swat, which is in Pakistan, she considers herself to be more a Pashtun than a Pakistani. Though she's a Sunni Muslim she embodies many of the values at the heart of Christianity. In Matthew chapter 5 Jesus tells his disciples to not take revenge on anyone who wrongs (Mt 5:38-39) but rather to turn the other cheek. Malala, a devout Muslim and proud Pashtun can, nevertheless, see conflicts in the philosophy of life that they teach. "That's why I have problems with the Pashtunwali code. We are supposed to take revenge for wrongs done to us, but where does it end? ... There is no time limit." (P59) She believes"that if someone kills your brother, you shouldn't kill them or their brother, you should teach them instead."(p60). Her "only regret" about her attack is "that I hadn't had a chance to speak to them before they shot me.......I didn't even think a single bad thought about the man who shot me- I had no thoughts of revenge" (p. 238). A few years before her...
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...Malala is a Muslim girl who lived in Swat Valley of Pakistan and was born on July 12, 1997; the first child to her parents. With her father and her fathers friend starting a private school in their town, Malala visited school before she could even talk. Her father was very passionate about education. Later in her life the Taliban had started killing people for many different reasons, but then they started targeting education. In 2009 she started a diary for the BBC. Perhaps one of the most life changing moments in her life has one she was shot in 2012 while returning home from school. Malala's life before the Taliban was much different from after. Malala loved going to school and made good marks as well. She also loved watching television and going on school trips. But even before the Taliban came people tried to stop her dad's school. A man named Ghulamullah, an...
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...Malala The Powerful Do you know who won the nobel peace prize and a grammy at the age of 19? I did not think you would know who. Here is the story of a little girl named Malala Yousafzai.Malala was a little girl that went to school where her father worked in swat valley.The taliban one day came and shot malala close to her left eye. Malala’s dad had almost shut down the school because of the taliban directing them to close all girl schools.Malala and some of her friends still went but the students percentages went down a lot.Then malala had tried to stand up to the taliban and tell them what they were doing was wrong.Malala was not going to let anyone stand up and try and beat her but it would never work she wanted girls to be able to go...
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...Malala Yousafzai was born on July 12th, 1997 in Pakistan a place called Mingora. This is located in the Swat District of the country. She was born into the Sunni Muslim family that is of the Pashtun ethnicity. Malala has always been a good student at school and has never failed in her exams. Her first name Malala means grief-stricken, named after Malalai of Maiwand who was a famous poetess in Pashtun and a warrior from Southern Afghanistan. Her last name, Yousafzai is of the large Pashtun tribal confederation that is mainly found in Pakistan Swat Valley a place she grew up. She lived with her parents, her two younger brothers, and two pet chickens. Malala is fluent in English, Pashto, and Urdu and was received a lot of her education from her father Ziauddin Yousafzai, who owned a school and was also a poet. Once in an interview, Malala stated that she wanted to be a doctor but was later encouraged by her father to...
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...Malala Yousafzai was treated differently than the other girls in Swat Valley, Pakistan. Her father Ziauddin actually took pride in her. He carved her name on the family tree, a tradition usually only practiced for the men in the family. Her father nicknamed her Jani Mun, which means soul mate. Malala’s father founded a school. Ziauddin had wanted to learn ever since he was a child. Though, he once wanted to be a militant Muslim, he realized his mistake. Without his family’s support , he went away to college. It was there became a great public speaker and debater. His college experience urged him to pursue public debate and share his support of education . Through Ziauddin’s want to bring change to Pakistan , he spoke about environment, education and government. His speeches were controversial, but he never change his viewpoint.....
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...Bang bang bang, goes the Taliban’s assault rifle. Two women not wearing headscarves drop to the ground dead. Other women scurry away scared that they also broke one of the Taliban's many rules. Imagine living in this horror for years on end. Many Pakistanis do live in such bad conditions that they leave Malala is one of them. The Taliban began raiding Swat Valley, Pakistan around 2008. They focused their attacks on people not following how they perceive the holy Quran. All people should be equal is a theme that is shown through I am Malala because women in Pakistan do not have educational rights, independence, and religious freedom. Women's education rights have improved because Malala fought back against the Taliban and Government. Years later all girls were allowed a public education until 16 years of age. In Pakistan many girls are forced into house labor and shopping but never even learn to write or read. The girls who do receive an education would be hunted...
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...Malala. Motivational speaker. Idol. Independant woman. Role Model. She has inspired so many people in so many ways and she is such a great person and is a symbol of freedom and equality. Part of the reason as to why she is so amazing is because although she grew up in a hostile environment it was actually extremely beneficial for her and helped her become such a mature woman. Her environment and the horrible place she grew up in helped mold Malala so that she can one day inspire so many people to make a difference and to stand for equality. She has done many things in her life and most of them truly remarkable, however they were all because of the Taliban’s hatred and how she decided to react to it. The Taliban is the horrible group that has...
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...Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani activist for female education and also the youngest person to have ever won the Nobel Peace Prize at just seventeen years old. She was born on July 12, 1997 in Mingora Pakistan. A few years later, the once peaceful country started to change as the Taliban strengthened their control. The Taliban originated in the early 1990’s in northern Pakistan after the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan. The Taliban’s goal to the Pashtun people was to restore peace and security and enforce their own strict Islamic law once in power. In both Pakistan and Afghanistan, they performed acts of Islamic punishments consisting of public executions, convicted murderes and amputations of those found guilty of theft. By 1998,...
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...of Pakistan. Her name is Malala Yousafzai, and she was 17 when she accepted the prestigious award. She is a human rights advocate centered on children’s education and women’s rights. Though she has been an advocate since she was a young child, she has become the face of an international movement. Malala’s father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, ran the school in her valley. When the local Taliban began banning girls from attending school, he spoke out against them. When she was twelve years old, inspired by her father’s advocacy, Malala began writing a blog about living under Taliban control and her ideas about children’s, specifically girl’s, rights to education. The blog was published by the BBC (British Broadcast Company) under a pseudonym. Her name was released when a New York Times journalist, Adam Ellick, made a documentary about her life and the military of Pakistan intervening in her region...
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...She has pushed for girls’ education in foreign countries. Yousafzai has overcome many different obstacles in her life and keeps pursuing what she believes in. She decided to start campaigning for girls’ education after Taliban had taken power of the Swat district where she lived. She never gave up when the higher powers closed schools. Later, after the Taliban lost most control over the Swat district and schools opened back up, as Malala was walking home from school, she was shot by a Taliban gunman and suffered a gunshot wound to the head. She started recovery and rehabilitation and continues with campaigning. She had been attempted assassinated and still continued to work for what she was passionate about which shows this proverb. In 2014, Yousafzai was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize for the struggle she went through against suppression of children and young people. She never stopped believing in herself and never lost sight of what she was trying to achieve. By following in Malalas footsteps, everyone could achieve their goals such as...
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...Education is readily available in many countries. The convenience of receiving a proper education resulted in us taking it for granted. However, it is not the case for Malala Yousafzai. She is a teenager, 17, from North- West Pakistan. She lived her childhood in the darkness of ‘space’. Under the Taliban’s rule, education for girls was restricted. Offenders will be severely punished by the Taliban. However, this society barrier did not hinder Malala’s desire for education. She stood up and fought for equality in education despite living under the control of the terrorists. Malala secretly wrote a personal diary which chronicled her love for education and for girls to have a fair chance of education. Malala continuously spoke up for the weak....
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...Can you imagine getting shot in the head because of something you strongly believed in? Well, that is just what happened to this lady. Her name is Malala Yousafzai and she was able to survive a bullet to the head. Malala was born on July 12th, 1997 in Mingora, Pakistan. She attended the school her father founded called Khushal Public School. She and her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai both of them shared a love for education. At this time in Malala’s town, the Taliban were trying to take control of her area. The Taliban began to try to restrict education and prevent girls from attending school. In 2009, BBC was looking for someone to tell what life was like living under the Taliban’s threats. Malala’s father actually recommended her and she began to write what her life was like. To hide her identity she went by the name Gul Makai but she was revealed later that year by...
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