Sunday, September 14, 2014

Malala's shooters finally captured two years after the attack- Faith Cleaver P4

If you are not familiar with Malala Yousafzai then you are not familiar with one of the bravest people in the world right now. On October 9th, 2012 at the age of 15, Malala was on her way to school with friends when two armed gunmen pulled the bus over, climbed on board and asked "Who is Malala?" She was shot point blank in the head but miraculously survived with little to no permanent damage. In her home of Pakistan, along with many other places in the world, girls are not allowed to be educated. Malala fearlessly spoke out about the injustice and secretly went to school along with other brave girls her age. The Taliban who were responsible for the attack have gone as far as to bomb schools, publicly flog educated women, and throw acid in the faces of female students. Since the attack Malala has not backed down and has published a book titled 'I Am Malala'. Most recently she spoke out about the kidnapping of Nigerian female students by Boko Haram which translates to, "Western education is a sin."
   The first man to be captured was Israr ur Rehman, who was one of the two men who confronted Malala on the bus. He gave the names of other members of the Taliban group known as Shura and specified those who took part in Malala's attack. He told investigators that a furniture shop owner named Zafar Iqbal ran the group and also created the lists of those who were to be executed. These lists of names we also passed on to a man by the name of Mullah Fazlullah who had created a list of 22 names at the time of Rehman's capture. At the moment Fazlullah has not been captured and has recently been chosen to be the head of the Pakistani Taliban.
  Malala has become an advocate for the education of females around the world and in 2013 became the youngest person ever to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. She told Diane sawyer in an interview that she had spent much time before the attack thinking about what she would say to her attackers. She concluded that she would tell that man, "I want education for your daughter." Sawyer asked if Malala truly believed that her statement would work against a gun to which she answered, "I thought that words and books and pens are more powerful than guns."

http://abcnews.go.com/International/malalas-plotters-captured-year-hunt/story?id=25455836

2 comments:

  1. Malala represents the thousands of women who are oppressed in third world societies. Jumbles of women were denied the right to education as children, and now it is affecting their present and spiraling millions of people into poverty. I stand with Malala and everything that she is fighting for because if someone does not bring attention to these morally corrupt societies, then the cycle of poverty will never end.

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  2. must be a huge relief for all the people victimized

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