Women in this country are fortunate to live in the United States, because they have better opportunities and equalities in life just like men do. However, women have the educational opportunities to become lawyers, doctors, and many more extensive career opportunities in the USA. Swat Valley in Pakistan, was a beautiful place full of mountains, waterfalls, crystal lakes and was surrounded by tourists before Maulana Fazlullah, leader of Taliban army, twenty eight year old, brought chaos to Swat Valley. The Taliban army made a huge impact in Swat Valley geographically and with women’s rights because they introduced feared in this community, but mainly to women. The Taliban prohibited music, TV, Radio, and later would go house by house to check …show more content…
Malala, an activist warrior, tell her autobiography how she fought for her and women’s rights to have an education in her country. Ziauddin, Malala’s father, an activist who believe everybody should have an education also helps his daughter to fight and speak out against the Taliban for women’s rights. Malala illustrates how the Taliban would punished those who spoke against them, but also women that would break the rules. Malala would describe how she would fear for her own life, yet later her father helped her out change her views towards death. In October 9, 2012 Malala was shot three times in the head by a Taliban man, while she was in the bus coming back from a field trip. The news of Malala being shot notified the whole wide world; therefore, social media made her famous and with the help of doctors in England and prayers of people helped Malala survived the tragedy she was going through. Even though Malala was shot, she saw it as second chance in life to achieved the rights of women’s education in her country. Education is an important tool to fight against terrorism because if people are not educated well they tend to go for what they hear than what they learn. For this reason, education helps in fighting terrorism because well educated people learn how to stop any group from …show more content…
An uneducated person like Maulana created tragic events to mark people around the world and created a riot towards women in Pakistan. To demonstrate, “He’s actually a high school dropout whose real name isn’t even Fazlullah” (114) Malala father stated. An ignorant person who does not have an open mind would do more damage than a person with knowledge because is easier to dehumanized people than to accept the changes. Malala talk about how in the Quran the things that Fazlullah would say were not true for instance, “ I was confused by Fazlullah’s words, In the Holy Quran it is not written that men should go outside and women should work all day in the home” (116). Fazlullah would lie to the people and he knew most of the people in Pakistan were not well educated just like him to understand and read. Education is a huge role because it opens people’s mind but also people are not fooled easily to believe people like Fazlullah, Just like in today’s era we have people like Donald Trump, the attackers of San Bernardino, and many more who do not have enough knowledge but they tend to know how to persuasive uneducated people to believe on their words or do damage to people around the
The Taliban was a group destined to do wrong and was against equal rights for women. Malala Yousafzai was a girl determined for women to have the same rights as men and she got “punished” by the taliban with a gunshot through the head. Malala recovered fine and went on to become a women's right activist. She also was awarded many prizes for her great courage. Malala Yousafzai was a strong women strengthened by the obstacles she faced that have gotten her where she is.
First, Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani civil rights activist fighting for equal education in her country. Both Malala and her father, who ran a school close to their house, were threatened by the Taliban to stop allowing girls to go to the school and stop speaking outright about equal rights. However, Malala was already an advocate for girls education, writing on a BBC blog under a pseudonym, and neither her nor her father would back down. As a result, the Taliban attacked Malala’s bus one day as she was going to school, singling her out, the terrorists shot her three times and injured some of her friends. Although she
Malala started her heroic journey when she started blogging under a pen name “Gul Makai” how life is with the Taliban for the BBC. She knew that by doing this she was taking a risk, but for her, the risk was worth it if she could get girls to have an education. She was able to go back to school when
A Taliban leader said that if girls did not stop going to school within a month, there would be repercussions. Instead of capitulating, this proclamation only made Yousafzai more passionate and courageous. She continued to attend school, despite the numerous threats and causes for fear. As an education activist, she was in more danger than most of her classmates, so it was not safe for her to walk anywhere, instead she had to take a car or bus. One day, while aboard a school bus with her classmates and friends, two men entered asking which girl was named Malala. The other girls looked at Yousafzai which unintentionally gave away her location. The men shot 15 year old Yousafzai in a defining moment in history. This not only had consequences for her and her family, but it also had consequences for the citizens of Pakistan and people living around the world. This was a turning point because people began to realize that the Taliban would target anyone with opposing views, even teenage girls.
Bibliography Yousafzai, Malala, and Christina Lamb. I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban. N. p. : n.p., n.d. print.
Women in America do not have to worry about a terrorist group coming and taking their rights away. They have a government that protects them from these groups and makes sure they have the same rights as others. In the Middle East, especially Afghanistan and Pakistan, women are scared to speak too loudly. These women live in fear each day of their lives because if they make one small mistake it could mean their life. Yet, there are some people who are fighting for women’s rights, especially women’s education. Malala Yousafzai is a girl who fought for women’s education. At the age of eleven, Malala began writing a blog for BBC Urdu. The blog described how she was upset that women’s education under the Taliban would be forced to stop. Malala also appeared on national television talking about women’s education. She has become a symbol of resistance against the Taliban. Even after Malala was put on the Taliban’s hit list, she continues to speak out about what she felt needed to be said. Malala would give her life for this cause, and she almost did. On October 9, 2012, Malala was on her way home from her morning classes when a man walked on to her bus and asked, “Who is Malala”. When she said it was her he shot her. The bullets hit her head and her leg. The Taliban ordered for her to be shot because she was promoting western culture in Pashtun areas. In another case Mukhtar Mai stood up for women’s rights and was sexually assaulted by multiple men with orders from the tribal council. The tradition in Mukhtar’s tribe was that a woman who is sexually assaulted by multiple men should kill herself, but instead of committing suicide she fought for her cause (Samira 28-30). Although the Taliban restricts women’s education for religious reaso...
The vicious roars of the canons of the Taliban carved out the voice of Malala, who not only had the courage to fight for her rights but was also dauntless enough to take bullets in the forehead for her cause. “I’m hopeful that we all in the UN will be united in the goal of education and peace, and that we will make this world not just a better place, but the best place to live. Education is hope, education is peace,” Ms. Yousafzai stressed. But as always, there are people, burdening mother earth with their figures, who not only debate against gender equality but also question the plausibility of Malala Yousefzai. There is one question that spawns amidst this scenario:
The Taliban had began targeting girls' schools in Swat valley because they believed that female education went against their extremist Islamic beliefs. When the Taliban had prevented her and several other girls from attending school, Malala publicly spoke up against the Taliban's outrageous actions. In 2008, Malala spoke to an audience at a local press club in Peshawar about the Taliban taking away her, as well as several other females, basic right to an education by destroying educational and government institutions. Her speech entitled, “How Dare the Taliban Take Away My Basic Right to an Education,” displays the passion and outrage that Malala feels about the events occurring in her hometown. While Malala's speech was well received and made her publicly known among her village, it was her blog that made her rise to world wide fame. After hearing the announcement by Mullah Fazlullah that girls' schools were to be closed by January 15th, Ziauddin Yousafzai was asked by a BBC reporter if he could search for a girl who was willing to write about life under Taliban rule (Profile: Malala Yousafzai, 1). One girl had volunteered but was later dissuaded by her parents who feared the risks and danger of going against the Taliban (Alter, 1). Malala's father encouraged Malala, who willingly accepted the challenge. In order to avoid discovery, Malala wrote under the pseudonym of
The article “Malala the Powerful” by Kristin Lewis, defined a girl named Malala a Pakistani girl who stood up for her right to let girls go to school during the war. Malala was standing up for her right when she was shot in the head during the Pakistani war. She and her dad were very courageous in their actions.With Malala doing so the word was spread of the Taliban. Notes were passed under her door saying and warning her of death. October 9, 2012 was when the Taliban shot her and 2 of her friends on a bus, luckily Malala and her 2 friends survived. Throughout the time Malala took very courageous acts as well as facing some very hard and scary challenges. Malala is one out of trillions who would stand up to such a powerful force, the Taliban, without her some girls wouldn’t be able to go to school this very year.
Nelson Mandela once said “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”. It is the very same “legacy of change” that Nelson Mandela used that inspires what Malala Yousafzai does today. At the age of 15, Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by the Taliban for advocating for girls’ education. Since this appalling incident, Malala has gone on to be the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize, start the “Malala Fund”, that funds education in developing countries, and is currently the figure of women’s rights. Malala has been constantly speaking, advocating and helping women and children acquire the rights they deserve. In her powerful speech to the U.N, she opened the world’s eyes to the truth about education
Malala Yousafzai released her memoir, I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban in 2013, recounting her struggles as a schoolgirl oppressed by the Taliban while living in Pakistan. For those who may not be familiar with her story, Malala became an undercover correspondent for BBC at the age of 12, writing about her thoughts on the ongoing war and how the Taliban was frightfully forcing the girls in ...
In protest to this, Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani girl, refused to follow these rules, and even began a blog for the British Broadcasting Corporation, detailing her life under Taliban rule. In response to her protest, a gunman approached her, and shot her three times. This assassination attempt started a global movement in support of Yousafzai and her beliefs. Like Thoreau, Gandhi, King, and Yousafzai, one must realize when others are being oppressed and take action against those in power who oppress the people they rule. Otherwise, there will never be change, and the world will never see justice.
Before the Northern Alliance and Taliban governments came to power, nearly half of all university students were women prior to the US-Soviet conflict in Afghanistan. In fact, women were doctors, teachers, and civil servants. Then, an Islamic extremist political campaign in Afghanistan came to power in 1996: the Taliban. Under the Taliban, women couldn’t be employed or get an education until the Taliban came up with a suitable course of study (Ewig, November 23 Lecture). These restraining circumstances in Afghanistan silenced many people, men and women alike.
“I am Malala” by Malala Yousafzai is a beautiful and hard breaking book at the same time. This book is an autobiography that describes the author childhood and her support on the right for girls to have an education. Through this autobiography, Malala describes the restrictions that are imposed on females in her country. There are many that believe that woman of Pakistan should not be educated in the other hands there are a few that oppose this idea. Malala’s support on education for girls almost cost her life, since she was shot by the Taliban. From a multicultural perspective Malala’s story touches on topics such; culture shock, discrimination within your own culture, oppression, religion, family and woman’s right. Despite the opposition
Malala Yousafzai give a speech at the United Nations. The terrorist attack make her strong person although she is young. She did not give a speech for revenge, however, she finds that talking about the importance of receiving education for all people at the time of shot. Further, Malala has a pure heart so she can’t hate Taliban. She has learned to be peaceful to all people from Muhammad-the prophet of mercy, Jesus Christ and Lord Buddha. And that what the religions asks people to be. She also talked about the importance of receiving education, and how educated people are stronger than uneducated people. That is the cause why Taliban against education. Malala pointed that peace and education are related to each other. Moreover, she presented that women and girls should be encouraged to receive education therefore they are the most individuals who suffering from inequality to be educated.