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Danzig

10-15-2012 02:51 PM

Malala

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/11/op...rage.html?_r=0

i'm not sure how many here have seen the original story, or all that's happened since. i check the news for updates on this girl. i hope that she is able to recover from this attack, and live a full life, and will be able to continue her fight.

thousand and thousands marched over the weekend, outraged at the shooting of this young girl. maybe this will be the catalyst to get pakistan moving more towards fighting the taliban, rather than continuing to try to sit on the fence.

malala is now in the uk. doctors are hopeful that she will make a full recovery. she is able to move her extremities; she was removed from a ventilator from what i read, but they did choose to put her back on it.

bigrun

10-15-2012 03:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Danzig (Post 896184)

Sickening...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49420507/

dellinger63

10-15-2012 03:39 PM

I hope she not only makes it but returns to Pakistan and becomes their President.

There can not be a sicker group on earth than the Taliban.

Riot	10-15-2012 04:23 PM

Somebody on Twitter commented, "Nothing more threatening to the existence of terrorists than an educated child with a book"

Hope she continues to improve.

joeydb

10-16-2012 07:29 AM

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Originally Posted by dellinger63 (Post 896194)

I hope she not only makes it but returns to Pakistan and becomes their President.

There can not be a sicker group on earth than the Taliban.

That was tried with Benazir Bhutto. Didn't turn out so well, unfortunately.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassi...Benazir_Bhutto

dellinger63

10-16-2012 10:25 AM

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Originally Posted by joeydb (Post 896259)

That was tried with Benazir Bhutto. Didn't turn out so well, unfortunately.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassi...Benazir_Bhutto

You're right but that's more of a reason to fight on. All great civil rights movements occurring in the U.S. were not started by people outside of the group pursuing their civil right but by the group itself. Imagine if blacks had called it quits following MLK's assassination?

I've said before that I believe the only way to take the extreme out of extreme Muslimism is to empower the Muslim women.

Malala and her father could become a Rosa Parks moment in that movement.

bigrun

10-16-2012 10:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by joeydb (Post 896259)

That was tried with Benazir Bhutto. Didn't turn out so well, unfortunately.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassi...Benazir_Bhutto

Yes, too bad...a smart lady and a beauty..

Danzig

10-16-2012 11:05 AM

with enough benizirs and malala's, things will get better. the majority wants peace and freedom. seeing that tens of thousands protested this wknd about malala's shooting gives me hope that pakistan will straighten themselves out.

joeydb

10-16-2012 12:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Danzig (Post 896288)

Of course the majority want peace and freedom. I would think that is common to all cultures.

Maybe Malala's case will bring about "enough is enough" mentality from the majority who want peace.

Danzig

10-16-2012 12:45 PM

http://news.yahoo.com/pakistani-girl...003934447.html

Danzig

10-19-2012 06:38 AM

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2...icate#comments

an update, good news!

dellinger63

12-15-2013 09:17 AM

Fantastic story pushing her for Time's Person of the Year

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This is a golden opportunity for Republican leaders to join Malala and speak out forcefully in support of women’s rights throughout the world. Furthermore, it is an opportunity for our leaders to distinguish real women’s rights issues from the fabricated issues peddled by the left. It is insulting to claim that women are oppressed in our country unless the government pays for their birth control.

Is it not disgraceful to complain about made-up discrimination against women in this country when girls in other countries are aborted or killed after birth because their parents do not want to pay for their dowries when they get older? Does having to pay for a one dollar condom without a government grant compare to a woman being murdered in an “honor killing” by her family simply because she had premarital relations :tro::tro:?

http://communities.washingtontimes.c...should-take-n/

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