Hypocrisy And The Shooting of Malala

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Dear friends,

Fourteen-year-old Malala was shot by the Taliban for supporting girls' education. We can help make her dream come true by calling on her government to roll out funding to encourage all Pakistani families to send their girls to school. Click below to give girls' education a fighting chance:

Malala has dedicated her childhood to championing education for girls like her in Pakistan. As she lies in a hospital bed, a tragic victim of Taliban gunmen, let's help make her dream come true.

One part of Pakistan has already started a successful programme of paying families which send their girls to school regularly. But in Malala's province the government is dragging its feet. Senior politicians have offered Malala help, and if we act now we can get them to commit to rolling this out nationwide.

Before the media spotlight moves on, let's raise our voices to demand that the government announces funding for all Pakistani girls who attend school. In days the UN Education Envoy will meet Pakistan's President Zardari and he says hand delivering 1 million signatures will strengthen his case. Sign and forward this email, and let's help make Malala's dream come true:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/malalahopenew/?binitdb&v=18768

North-west Pakistan has been in the grip of the Taliban since 2007 when they systematically started burning and destroying girls’ schools. The Taliban destroyed 401 schools in Swat between 2001 and 2009 -- 70% of them were girls' schools. Malala drew the world’s attention to the Taliban’s reign of terror, when she started writing a blog in Urdu for the BBC. Her writing is a crucial record of the devastating consequences of extremism on the lives of ordinary Pakistanis.

Pakistan's constitution says girls should be educated alongside boys, and the government has the resources to make it happen. But politicians have ignored that for years, influenced by extremist religious groups, and now, only 29% of girls attend secondary school. Study after study has shown the positive impact on personal and national income when girls are educated.

Let’s turn this shock and horror at the Taliban’s attack on a young girl into a wave of international pressure that forces Pakistan to address girls’ education. Click below to stand with Malala and support a massive girls’ education campaign in Pakistan, backed by resources, security, and most importantly, the will to fight the extremists who tear down Pakistan:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/malalahopenew/?binitdb&v=18768

Let’s come together and stand in solidarity with a brave, young activist, who is showing the world how one little schoolgirl can stand up to armed and dangerous extremists.

With hope and determination,

Emma, Alaphia, Alex, Ricken, Ari, Michelle, Wissam, Rewan and the rest of the Avaaz team


SOURCES

Pakistan girl shot over activism in Swat Valley, claims Taliban (The Guardian):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/09/pakistan-girl-shot-activism-swat-taliban

Malala Yousafzai: Pakistan bullet surgery ‘successful’ (BBC):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19893309

Pakistan: The schoolgirl the Taliban tried to kill (The Daily Beast):
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/09/pakistan-the-schoolgirl-the-taliban-tried-to-kill.html

Pakistan’s army is in the mood for a change (FT, Ahmed Rashid):
http://blogs.ft.com/the-a-list/2012/08/15/pakistan-army-is-in-the-mood-for-a-change-of-tack/#axzz28vFUsTZD

Pakistan rebuilds its education network after Taliban are driven out of Swat (The Guardian):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2012/jun/26/pakistan-education-swat-valley-taliban

State of Education in Pakistan (Pakistan Today):
http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2012/04/28/comment/editors-mail/lack-of-education-is-adversely-affecting-girls/

Why Gender Equality in Basic Education in Pakistan? (UNESCO):
http://unesco.org.pk/education/documents/publications/Why%20Gender%20Equality%20in%20Basic%20Education%20in%20Pakistan.pdf

Nothing should stand in the way of a girl's right to education.

Dear L.J., Armed gunmen board your school bus and ask for you by name. All you want is an education. And now your life hangs in the balance. Today, Malala Yousufzai's condition is still critical, but improving. In fact, she's been transferred to a hospital in the UK for further medical treatment. The 14-year-old Pakistani girl was shot in the head last week by the Taliban in retaliation for promoting education for girls. Two fellow students, Shazia Ramzan and Kainat Ahmed, were also injured in the attack. Malala - along with every girl on that bus - is a face of courage. Send a message of support to Malala and all of her schoolmates. We will make sure that your messages get to Malala's school so that girls in Pakistan know that we stand with them as they pursue their human right to an education. The horrors that took place on the school bus last Tuesday are a child's worst nightmare. Sadly, this tragic story may not be over yet - the Taliban has repeated its vow to kill Malala. But Malala's story has struck a powerful chord. People in Pakistan and throughout the world are staging rallies and speaking out in support of Malala and the rights she was targeted for defending. Wish Malala and her friends a speedy recovery. Wish that Malala's dream for girls everywhere to have equal access to education becomes a reality. There is one more thing that you can do right now to protect women and girls like Malala from violence and discrimination. Because the U.S. has such a critical role to play in protecting women and girls in Taliban-influenced regions in Pakistan and Afghanistan, we must press U.S. officials to get at the root of what is being done to protect women and girls, like Malala, who are trying to claim their human rights. Tomorrow night's Presidential debate will discuss U.S. foreign policy, and we anticipate that the discussion will likely touch on the situations in Afghanistan and Pakistan. We all know that human rights - and stories like Malala's - are rarely mentioned in the debates, and at best given lip service. More often than not, they're altogether absent from the discussion. Submit this question via Twitter to the debate moderator, CNN's Candy Crowley, and push for a real commitment to women's and girls' human rights so that no one ever has to experience Malala's real life nightmare ever again: Q for US Pres Candidates: What steps are needed to end threat of Taliban to safety/rights of women? @crowleyCNN #Malala Please continue to keep Malala and her schoolmates in your thoughts and her message in your hearts. Education is a human right. End this nightmare by helping Malala's dream come true. Sincerely, Cristina M. Finch Program Director Women's Human Rights Amnesty International USA

A girl's fight for education 14-year-old Malala Yousufzai was shot by Taliban gunmen on a school bus after being targeted for her outspoken campaign for girls' education. Send a message of support to Malala and her schoolmates.

Hypocrisy And The Shooting of Malala Yousafzai

By Shaik Zakeer Hussain

October 16, 2012 "Information Clearing House" - The shooting of 14 year old Malala Yousafzai has shocked the world, and shocking it should be, as children don’t deserve such ruthlessness.

What Malala stood for, and what she was fighting against, is not my concern at the moment, for such concerns, whether right or wrong, have already been addressed by a large number of so-called advocates for Human rights and justice. I am not even concerned in knowing who actually tried to kill her, for I as a Muslim do not condone such an act. What I am really concerned about is the hypocritical stance taken by some of the voices who are standing up for Malala today.

Two days after the activist girl was shot, American singer Madonna, dedicated a song for her, and said, “This made me cry. The 14-year-old schoolgirl who wrote a blog about going to school. The Taliban stopped her bus and shot her. Do you realise how sick that is?” Now whether Taliban is responsible for this act or not, I am not sure, but why doesn’t Madonna cry when drone attacks launched by her country kill hundreds of innocent men, women and children every day in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Yemen? The children killed here, also wanted to go to schools, they wanted to live too.  Doesn’t she realises how sick that is?

UNICEF tweeted on October 11 that, “Today our thoughts are with Malala Yousafzai, the inspirational 14-year-old activist for girls’ rights.”  What made this organisation for children rights remain mum, when 16 year old Abdul-Rahman al-Awlaki , the innocent son of Imam Anwar al-Awlaki, was killed by the United States, when he was having barbecue with his cousin and friends?

What moral rights do countries like UK, USA, and their warmongering allies have, to condemn this shooting, when their hands are coloured with the blood of hundreds of thousands of innocent people in Iraq?

More than half a million children died due to U.S. sanctions against Iraq in the 1990s, and continue to do so till today. When asked whether these killings were worth the price, the then U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, said ’We think the price is worth it’. And the result? Ms. Albright got the Honorary Chair for the World Justice Project for this audacity of her’s, and her victims got Metal Contamination, and Birth Defects as lullabies to go to sleep.

The question we should all be asking is does the blood of children become worthless, when the super-power of the world does it, and is sacred when its adversaries allegedly do it? I don’t think so.

Shaik Zakeer Hussain is an independent writer and blogger based in India. He can be reached at: alhittin@gmail.com

 

.......given the history false flag operations have employed in the past by the u.s. this tragic incident needs closer scrutiny.  Such acts could just be what warmongers need to get the public on board. caveat emptor!! 

 kosmicdebris