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Ziauddin Yousafzai said doctors estimated 14-year-old Malala still had only a 50% chance of survival.
She was shot as she travelled home from school on Tuesday.
The Pakistan Taliban claimed responsibility and said Malala, who sprang to prominence for a blog describing life under extremist rule and for her campaign to get more girls into school, was guilty of preaching "secularism". A spokesman said they would try to kill her again if she survived.
Mr Yousafzai told The Daily Telegraph he was grateful for international support but said his daughter still needed the worldﾒs prayers.
"They should pray for her early recovery and support the army's campaign against Taliban. They should help us to rebuild the Taliban-damaged schools," he said.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/9601934/Pray-for-my-daughter-says-father-of-schoolgirl-shot-by-Taliban.html
who says education was the reason?
ReplyDeleteIt's a reasonable assumption. The Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan have been trying to shut down schools for girls for years. Even if that is not the reason shooting a 14 year old girl and then admitting it is a crime beyond belief.
ReplyDeletespreading secularism- yes?
ReplyDeleteTaliban like thinkers are just destroyers. I wonder how they treat their Mothers and sisters.
ReplyDelete`hey Moza - what do you think of Malala?
ReplyDeletethe media says she is an activist but never go into detail. Malala is a marxist who regulalry attends marxist youth forums in her fight for socialism under the banner of LeonTrotsky . Good stuff
ReplyDeleteI think even if that is what she was doing she does not deserve to be shot in the head. A 14 year old can have all manner of,silly views b adult man should not try to kill them for it.
ReplyDeletesilly views?? I think she is a better understanding of how the world works and what needs to be done to make it a better place for the majority than many adults, especially the religious.
ReplyDeleteThat's the point, individuals can have whatever views they like even if others disagree with them. Those that shoot a 14 year old in the head are not the defenders of Islam they are the scum of humanity. Those people that also deny women education on the flimsiest of excuses are the enemies of humanity, the abuses and should be sidelined from the human race. Pakistan seems to revel in such people, which I am sure is a shame for all the normal Pakistanis out there
ReplyDeleteMoza - the why with the gratuitous use of the word "silly"???
DeleteBecause I'm not a Marxist and i think their ideas are silly.
Deletewhy?? Marxism is a methodology used to analysis capitalism and its on the money in terms of predicting the rise in finance capital, monopolies and why we have boom bust.
Deletei think its silly and rather irresponsible that people dismiss ideas without any thought what so ever and just swallowing propaganda of those that hold Power - persons, institutions and corporation, that constantly feed you from the day you are born.
As marx once said - to fill your mind with religious nonsense doesnt leave much room for revolutionary thought
Nothing against people that hold Marxist beliefs but I do not believe they are good for the human race. Nice theories in principal but does not work in practise.
Deletejust told you - its a scientific method of analysing social relations. We live in a class society. What is the nature of these relations which distinghusers capitalism from all other social economic forms??
DeleteNo - a system that holds the welfare of the 1% at the expense of the 99% such as the current system does not work in practice for us - the majority.
NOTHING justifies shooting people (a 14yr. old @ that) in the head (or anywhere). That is all there is to it. taliban are really scum & deserve to put out of their misery, the whole lot of them. Just line up the whole lot & put a bullet in each of their heads,just so they know what it feels like,it's all empty space between their ears anyways so there won't be much "brain" spilling out.
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ReplyDeletethree children DEAD in NATO airstrike
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/18/world/asia/3-children-die-in-afghan-strike-by-nato-led-coalition.html?ref=asia&_r=0
and Just last month, a NATO air strike killed eight women and girls gathering firewood near their village in Alingar district, Laghman province.
"Just line up the whole lot & put a bullet in each of their heads"???
Funny how their names and k=life stories are not news in our media
and here they are. Makes you sick
ReplyDeletehttp://morallowground.com/2012/10/17/nato-air-strike-kills-3-afghan-children/
Can't justify the killing of children in any war but that does not justify local men shooting a 14 year old. NATO have killed in Afghanistan and Pakistan on the border, some off which were just villagers with no contact to either side but Afghanistan is much better for the majority than it was 12 years ago. That then begs the question are a few deaths worth it if it improves the life of thousands?
ReplyDeletejustify this statement " Afghanistan is much better for the majority than it was 12 years ago"
ReplyDeletewatch and please educate yourself; Give Afghans self-determination: Joya
Afghan politican and human rights campaigner Malalai Joya ran secret schools for girls during the Taliban regime and is an outspoken critic of president Hamid Karzai and the US-led occupation.
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2012/s3473632.htm
I agree. Self determination for the afghans and all people. As for karzai and his brother they hardly have spotless reputations. I doubt they will last long when the Americans leave.
ReplyDeleteyou didnt even watch it
ReplyDeleteEMMA ALBERICI: But you would have to say that Afghanistan today is a better place, especially for women, than it was 10 years ago.
MALALAI JOYA: You know, not only woman, men and women of Afghanistan. The Taliban time, they had one enemy, but now they have, in this 10 years of occupation, almost 11, three enemies: warlords, Taliban and occupation forces. And unfortunately, in two years of the war during these decades of war, women was the most and first victims and still many violences against them.
Especially in faraway provinces, situation for woman is like hell, but catastrophic situation of woman was very good excuse for US and NATO to occupy our country, as now rape cases, domestic violences, acid attacks, burning the girls' schools, cutting the nose, fingers and ears of women and many other kind of different kind of inhuman violences increasing against woman day by day more.
It's 'G'
ReplyDelete3,191 individuals including 'girls and boys student' have been killed as a result of U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan between 2004 and October 2012.
Mozaismyhero, Speak out on this issue too pl.!
Anonymous: Civilian deaths in war is senseless, but you seem to forget that the Taliban is also maIN killer of innocents and that means their own people in the war there. Think about it since the rise of the Taliban in the mid nineties they've murdered 100's of thousands. Did you know that and would anyone of you cared? Of course not.
ReplyDeleteAfghanistan is undergoing a civil war, Pakistan is in civil turmoil and ignorant people use religion as an excuse for their murderous actions in killing anyone who opposes their cultural/politcal motives.
Malala was shot to serve as an example an instill fear in the masses within her locale. Thankfully in the age of instant news it becomes a world story, which brought upon world opinon to affect changes. Certainly Malala wouldn't have survived her assault if she hadn't become a "news item" and then spirited off to the UK to recover. The world is a messy place and the main cause of discourse anywhere in its purest form is an individuals personal greed and the ability to enforce oppression.