This past October the world was shocked and saddened by the Taliban assassination attempt on a 14 year old schoolgirl, Malala Yousafzai. Malala had been a thorn in their side since the tender age of 11 when she wrote a blog about the oppression under Taliban rule in her town of Mingora, Pakistan. She became an activist fighting for the right of girls to education in Pakistan, something the Taliban stands vehemently against. Instead of killing Malala as they had intended, by shooting her in October, they sparked an education movement that has gone globally viral. Instead of snuffing her one small voice, they have ignited a firestorm of education initiatives that span the globe. The UN has designated November 10th as Malala Day, and United Nations Special Envoy on Global Education Gordon Brown has pledged to help Pakistan formulate a plan to provide education to all of Pakistan’s children by 2015. Malala is on her way to recovery, reading, writing and walking again, and sure to be fighting for her cause again soon. She has unwittingly become an international symbol of girls right to education worldwide. Today I stand with Malala to defend the right of girls everywhere to equal education, and signed the global petition to make my voice count. You can stand with Malala today too.
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This young woman is a true inspiration, while other 14 year old girls here in America biggest woes are what to wear today and “does johnny like me?” This girls is fighting for her rgiht as a human being to get an education and be treated like a human not a dog.I hate the taliban, are they so threatened by a 14 year old girl they have to try to assaniate her WTF? I guess they aren’t so big and tough if they are so threatened by a teenage girl. I pray Malala gets what she is fighting for, and I pray someday that women and girls in the middle east can live happy human lives and not be incarcerated in their own homes. I pray that girls in the middle east may be able to have a crush on another teenage boy and not have to worry about their parents pouring acid on them or having their own brothers murder them. I hope someday that any girl born in the middle east may have the same oppurtunities as the ones born in America, Canada, Europe, Brazil, Australia (do we see a trend here? the rest of the world is not afraid of women having rights. why is the taliban so scared of it) The taliban must be completely eliminated, they ahve gone way too far with trying to assassinate a child, I pray Malala is a thorn in the talibans side for many decades to come.