By Ha-Meem Hussain, France.
Compared to the post I'm about to write my privious post appears to be ridiculous. Pouring tears on my silly little life while others are having much much tougher time...:O
On this blog you must know her better then me but if u don't and if keep on reading let me introduce you Malala. A brave Pakistani girl.
Have you ever experienced the awkward moment when you come back home after a moral lesson from school, and confront it with reality and realise that life is not black and white everywhere ? It happens scarcely to French students. But I've experienced it sometimes. And Malala more than me. I came home with my eyes shining with gender equality lesson when an adult said me to keep my feet on the ground. I wanted the same dresses for boys and girls and was again seen as a troublemaker. I wanted we brothers and sisters equally distributed chores and talk to each with same mutual respect, with same rights in every one's backpack. I've beleived in education-for-all dreams that's why, I try my best availing the chance offered to me of studing abroad.
But too often, we encounter oldfashion people reducing girls to a showcase piece. Having daughters is regarded as a burden. In the current situation, bringing up a girl is thrilling at it's boon. Because it's a challenge aginst a whole narrowminded soceity to bring up a girl who can think as fine if not better as a boy.
The privious generation keeps reminding me traditions and history. But the articles I've read, flashes I've heard have enforced my conviction. There's no tradition deserving life sacrifices. And I cannot beleive taliban's and I talk about the same Islam. The mine do not gives such permissions. Anyhow I understand without education it will only be worse. The country will bred more and more ignorants.
I promised the article was about Malala, a 14- year-old young girl. Who has been shot twice (at head and neck) by an unknown-for-always gunman as a van took her back home. [ Infact, two other girls have been victim of this attack too but media do not provide information regarding them, and it's difficult to determine whether it's for there security or just to assure that the main light remain focused on Malala's work and not disturbed by peripherical events...]
¿Why? Because this 14-y-o proned education for all. A every-healthy-mind dream. When we learn something, we want to share it, so that we'll understand each other better. So that we'll stop lagging behind other countries and match our pace with them. But also because education embodies a much much more fundamental role in a human life : It's forging oneself a morale, an opinion, to polish our critical ability, ability to broaden our minds' horizons...
Her voice managed reach the mainstream media through blogging. ( I love internet sometimes 8D) She used to narrate since 2009, her life under taliban's rule in her posts on BBC urdu version under the pen name of Gul Makai ( cornflower in pashto). ( go to an previous post of raafay awan :) ) And that wasn't seen through an good eye by Talibans.
She's only 14, however chairperson of the District Child Assembly in Swat, nominee of Children's Peace prize and Pakistan's National Youth Peace Prize. ( Compared to that kind of CV, my Bac S ( euilvalent of bachelor's science degree ) seems laughable .. :s)
¿ What's extraordinary in her [ yet short] life story ? Few girls do receive that much love from their fathers. Too few fathers do understand fullfilling their responsibility. And fewer accompany there daughters in a battle adventure against talibans.
¿Consequences ?
Concerning her : She's been tranfered to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Burmingham, England. Her and two other victims families have been promised jobs...
On a country scale : A wave of anger crosses Pakistan vertically from Islamabad to Karachi [my city ^^]. People united for once to condemn terrorism. This is not a story of Malala Yousafzai but how a 14 year old teenager voice while speaking truth frightened talibans.
Actually, "taliban" means students not terrorists. A student is a person in seek of knowledge, and it sounds so marvelous in other languages. Student, élève, alumno, etc. Why "Taliban" word lost its shine ? Because their actions are against knowledge ? Enough matter to think here... Malala's father Ziauddin Yousafsai argues : " Islam teaches us that getting education is cumpulsory for every girl and wife, for every woman and man. This is the teaching of the holy Prophet. Education is a light and ignorance is a darkness and we must go from darkness into light."
I hope she'll manage her battle for life and then be back in saddle for her Big Battle. In Pakistan we need that race of people.
¿ You know what's her argument ? "If the new generation is not given pen, they will be given guns by the terrorists. We must raise our voice. "
And it's evident as Gordon brown (former. British PM) said "For one Malala silenced, there are now thousands of young Malalas who cannot be kept quiet "
sources for quotations : Newsweek, TIME mag.
Compared to the post I'm about to write my privious post appears to be ridiculous. Pouring tears on my silly little life while others are having much much tougher time...:O
On this blog you must know her better then me but if u don't and if keep on reading let me introduce you Malala. A brave Pakistani girl.Have you ever experienced the awkward moment when you come back home after a moral lesson from school, and confront it with reality and realise that life is not black and white everywhere ? It happens scarcely to French students. But I've experienced it sometimes. And Malala more than me. I came home with my eyes shining with gender equality lesson when an adult said me to keep my feet on the ground. I wanted the same dresses for boys and girls and was again seen as a troublemaker. I wanted we brothers and sisters equally distributed chores and talk to each with same mutual respect, with same rights in every one's backpack. I've beleived in education-for-all dreams that's why, I try my best availing the chance offered to me of studing abroad.
But too often, we encounter oldfashion people reducing girls to a showcase piece. Having daughters is regarded as a burden. In the current situation, bringing up a girl is thrilling at it's boon. Because it's a challenge aginst a whole narrowminded soceity to bring up a girl who can think as fine if not better as a boy.
The privious generation keeps reminding me traditions and history. But the articles I've read, flashes I've heard have enforced my conviction. There's no tradition deserving life sacrifices. And I cannot beleive taliban's and I talk about the same Islam. The mine do not gives such permissions. Anyhow I understand without education it will only be worse. The country will bred more and more ignorants.
I promised the article was about Malala, a 14- year-old young girl. Who has been shot twice (at head and neck) by an unknown-for-always gunman as a van took her back home. [ Infact, two other girls have been victim of this attack too but media do not provide information regarding them, and it's difficult to determine whether it's for there security or just to assure that the main light remain focused on Malala's work and not disturbed by peripherical events...]
¿Why? Because this 14-y-o proned education for all. A every-healthy-mind dream. When we learn something, we want to share it, so that we'll understand each other better. So that we'll stop lagging behind other countries and match our pace with them. But also because education embodies a much much more fundamental role in a human life : It's forging oneself a morale, an opinion, to polish our critical ability, ability to broaden our minds' horizons...
Her voice managed reach the mainstream media through blogging. ( I love internet sometimes 8D) She used to narrate since 2009, her life under taliban's rule in her posts on BBC urdu version under the pen name of Gul Makai ( cornflower in pashto). ( go to an previous post of raafay awan :) ) And that wasn't seen through an good eye by Talibans.
She's only 14, however chairperson of the District Child Assembly in Swat, nominee of Children's Peace prize and Pakistan's National Youth Peace Prize. ( Compared to that kind of CV, my Bac S ( euilvalent of bachelor's science degree ) seems laughable .. :s)
¿ What's extraordinary in her [ yet short] life story ? Few girls do receive that much love from their fathers. Too few fathers do understand fullfilling their responsibility. And fewer accompany there daughters in a battle adventure against talibans.
¿Consequences ?
Concerning her : She's been tranfered to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Burmingham, England. Her and two other victims families have been promised jobs...
Actually, "taliban" means students not terrorists. A student is a person in seek of knowledge, and it sounds so marvelous in other languages. Student, élève, alumno, etc. Why "Taliban" word lost its shine ? Because their actions are against knowledge ? Enough matter to think here... Malala's father Ziauddin Yousafsai argues : " Islam teaches us that getting education is cumpulsory for every girl and wife, for every woman and man. This is the teaching of the holy Prophet. Education is a light and ignorance is a darkness and we must go from darkness into light."
I hope she'll manage her battle for life and then be back in saddle for her Big Battle. In Pakistan we need that race of people.
¿ You know what's her argument ? "If the new generation is not given pen, they will be given guns by the terrorists. We must raise our voice. "
And it's evident as Gordon brown (former. British PM) said "For one Malala silenced, there are now thousands of young Malalas who cannot be kept quiet "
sources for quotations : Newsweek, TIME mag.
nice article
ReplyDeletesurely she did somethng good but u know what; everywhere ppl talking on the same topic malala, malala nd malala. Everyday ppl r getting shot in karachi, wat abt them. they r killed nd the daughters nd wives have to bear it. wat abt those malalas? they r also struggling and fighting. where are those united pakistanis fighting against terrorism?
ReplyDeleteWell, u point out an intresting point. But if you Malala is only an icons who represents all the other girls. i wish i could write about everyone.
ReplyDeleteDon't you think all these people burst in anger not only for Malala but because all the other murders wern't to be kept quiet anymore.
isn't Malala the last straw ?
Let's see Malala like a X Y Z girl.
But yeah warned you, u must have heard more then me about her ^^'
thanks Sanwal Malik :)
ReplyDeleteand thanks Aqsa Faisal giving me matter to thinl upon :]
finally got the answer Aqsa Faisal :
ReplyDeleteWhy Malala? Because BBC ( foreign media ) used a pakistani girl to say waht they couldn't against taliban in order to find more n more allied against them.
what do we know correctly about what prohibition taliban made on girls education? What do we know about there motivations? what do we know about what us actions lead them to this decision?
Because media has used that girl and now have to protect her life as they do for there journalists. And this freaking world wants news, any kind of news.
why Malala, because it's a tool against against an antiUS group fighting for there land and there own opinions.
voilà, hope it satisfies you.