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Malala Yousafzai - Inspiration Or Danger?
The All Pakistan Private Schools Federation, which says it represents more than 152,000 institutions across the country, has decided that allowing pupils to read the book, ‘I am Malala’, would have a "negative" effect on them. The federation's president, Mirza Kashif, said, "Pakistan is an ideological country. That ideology is based on Islam.... In this book are many comments that are contrary to our ideology."
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What hope for education - or for progress?
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What hope for education - or for progress?
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The attack against Malala was carried out by a handful of thuggish lunatics. Personally, I don't actually care all that much whether her book is taught in schools or not - but to remove from the curriculum on the grounds that it is the least bit critical of Islam seems to me like an implicit level of agreement with the theology of her attackers.
It's like saying, "Well, I don't agree with shooting little girls... but.... y'know... she WAS asking for an education." Shame on them.
It's like saying, "Well, I don't agree with shooting little girls... but.... y'know... she WAS asking for an education." Shame on them.
Malala is putting us at risk by attacking Pakistan/taliban Islam from our shores. Her book could endanger the lives of Pakistan/taliban girls if they followed her banner. Better she study till she is older & stronger to defend herself, preferably on their soil.
Her father is a teacher; he should be in Pakistan lobbying their Gov.
Her father is a teacher; he should be in Pakistan lobbying their Gov.
Keyplus, Mr Galloway has stupidly overlooked one vital piece of information. Malala is not a casualty of war, true, but she was specifically and cold-bloodedly targeted for elimination by a bunch of misogynistic madmen, who fearful that their backward culture is in danger of being eroded by education, fully intended to shut her up. Unfortunately for the Taliban, their assassin’s bullet rebounded – and struck them firmly in their own foot. How ironic that one little girl who has the courage to speak out strikes such abject terror into the heart of an oppressor for whom learning is the enemy. Do you think that this book presents a threat to that culture, Keyplus? Should it be banned?
Krom, I agree completely.
Tamborine, you know the old saying …. “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” More power to her!
Mikey, //Naomi...I still can't see anything in Gromit's post that suggest he favours banning this book//
…. and I can’t see anything to suggest he opposes the ban either. This is not a personal attack on Gromit – simply a difference of opinion. The banning of literature is detrimental not only to educational progress, but to human freedom, and Gromit’s indecision is something I simply do not comprehend – unless, of course, it emanates from his penchant for defending Islam and its practices – which is why I’ve asked him how he would react if I suggested banning the Koran. I doubt very much that he would say he can’t make a decision about that – but I could be mistaken. We shall see – perhaps.
Krom, I agree completely.
Tamborine, you know the old saying …. “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” More power to her!
Mikey, //Naomi...I still can't see anything in Gromit's post that suggest he favours banning this book//
…. and I can’t see anything to suggest he opposes the ban either. This is not a personal attack on Gromit – simply a difference of opinion. The banning of literature is detrimental not only to educational progress, but to human freedom, and Gromit’s indecision is something I simply do not comprehend – unless, of course, it emanates from his penchant for defending Islam and its practices – which is why I’ve asked him how he would react if I suggested banning the Koran. I doubt very much that he would say he can’t make a decision about that – but I could be mistaken. We shall see – perhaps.
naomi, there are far more prominent & richer islamists who choose not to stir the hornets nest in Pakistan & Taliban.
Youve read her book, does it fit with this:
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Youve read her book, does it fit with this:
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some of their ways have crept in here, make no mistake that is not something we should be allowing, like making the girls cover up, sitting in the back of classrooms, or in universities being treated as second class citizens for the same reason, getting the women to be modest in their dress, including burkha, veil perhaps, and sitting separate from the men, how is that right, after the inroads it has taken to get some deal of parity with men in education and other walks of life here in UK>
From the original link. //Mr Kashif, who said 25 million pupils attended private schools in Pakistan, claimed that in the book Malala had defended the writing of Salman Rushdie on the grounds of free speech and had failed to use the abbreviation PUH – "peace be upon him" – when referring to the prophet Mohamed. He said there was a sense that Malala had not written large parts of the book, because it referred to things that happened before she was born.//
So her critics object to her defending free speech, failing to refer to the prophet in the prescribed manner - and most bizarrely of all, knowing something of history!
She begins her book by saying, // When I was born, people in our village commiserated with my mother and nobody congratulated my father. I was a girl in a land where rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away behind a curtain, their role in life simply to prepare food and give birth to children……...//
The attitude towards women clearly isn’t restricted to the Taliban – it’s endemic in the population as a whole. That is the reality.
Incidentally, she also says that she was the only girl aboard that school bus with her face uncovered.
So her critics object to her defending free speech, failing to refer to the prophet in the prescribed manner - and most bizarrely of all, knowing something of history!
She begins her book by saying, // When I was born, people in our village commiserated with my mother and nobody congratulated my father. I was a girl in a land where rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away behind a curtain, their role in life simply to prepare food and give birth to children……...//
The attitude towards women clearly isn’t restricted to the Taliban – it’s endemic in the population as a whole. That is the reality.
Incidentally, she also says that she was the only girl aboard that school bus with her face uncovered.
“...Pakistan is the third largest english speaking nation..." They know the value of education !
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Tamborine, //They know the value of education !//
They do indeed know the value of education which is precisely why these people are so afraid, and why they have have banned this book.
From your link:
//Despite these statistics, Pakistan still has one of the highest illiteracy rates in the world and the second largest out of school population (5.1 million children) after Nigeria.//
This is a backward, misogynistic, culture and the powers that be are determined that it will remain so.
They do indeed know the value of education which is precisely why these people are so afraid, and why they have have banned this book.
From your link:
//Despite these statistics, Pakistan still has one of the highest illiteracy rates in the world and the second largest out of school population (5.1 million children) after Nigeria.//
This is a backward, misogynistic, culture and the powers that be are determined that it will remain so.
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