(Image source: Wikimedia Commons / The Daily
Beast)
BY CLIFF JUDY
Shot nearly a year ago simply for saying girls
have a right to education, a Pakistani teenager's
book out Tuesday recounts the violence.
"It's called 'I am Malala.'
The girl who stood up for education and was
shot by the Taliban."
(Via WNBC)
Wednesday marks one year since that shooting
when a Taliban gunman boarded Malala Yousafzai's
school bus, asked, "Who is Malala?" and opened
fire.
In the new book, written by a British journalist,
the girl who began speaking about education
rights at age 11 says before that, she had
always thought, "Even the Taliban don't kill
children."
(Via CBS)
Malala is now 16 and living in the UK.
She tells the BBC in an exclusive interview
she doesn't remember much about the shooting,
only waking up in the hospital wondering where
her family was.
"And I was very happy that I am alive at the
time and ... I saw death.
That's why I was not worried about these small
things like pain and having no one."
But a spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban
recently told CNN — if given the chance
— the group would target Yousafzai again.
That spokesman denied it was her work promoting
girls' education that drew the group's ire
— but rather her general opposition to the
Taliban.
Malala continues to call for girls' rights
in Pakistan telling the BBC, "we know that
terrorists are afraid of the power of education."
She is up for the Nobel Peace Prize later
this week.
