Reuters had a great piece on Malala
yousufzai
of course she's the brave young
Pakistani girl I think sixteen-years-old
a and she's absolutely crusading for
women's rights
and access to education
equally and I mean she doing she was
doing it in
for an area that was ruled by Sharia
me so I mean you wanna talk about Brady
this is courageous as you can possibly
get
and of course you a shot by the Taliban
and she managed to survive
and I'll white Reuters data they went
directly to her hometown
ultra-conservative Swat Valley Pakistan
and they asked the people there what
they thought about her
and the answers may surprise you i mean
they had me floored
quote for many of her compatriots Malala
yousufzai
is a stooge on the United States and a
CIA
agent a symbol of the West's evil
and a global conspiracy to bring down
her native Pakistan
that's how the article started it only
got worse from there with a specific
quotes
Muhammad Rezwan who's a shop owner in
her hometown of Mingora
said quote Malo are is spoiling
Pakistan's name
around the world we can mean a lot to
come
and show us how important education is
where do I begin with the absurdity
I'll that statement she's spoiling
Pakistan's main around the world so when
you had Sharia implemented
and women had and still have absolutely
no rights
they can speak unless spoken to that you
know they go to school they took they
risk their lives because some Taliban
jack as my now I can kill them right
the Taliban doesn't ruin Pakistan's
getting
mo Lawal ruinous but Pakistan's good
name
and all you don't need her to tell you
the value education
really so you have universal education
there and although boys and all the
girls
in a in a an environment where they're
together right they're not separate
everybody learns together
everybody has equal access that was
going on
all that's right it's not it's the
opposite of that but no you don't mean a
lot to tell you about education more
from the same person quote here in Swat
we have seen the hell that is Taliban
rule and yet some people still say
they would much rather side with the
Taliban
then law stay classy a
shy into law Shahid a Taliban spokesmen
I love the thought that they have
spokespeople I mean it's
I'm going into quote she says she does
not want to live
like an illiterate person you know
walled compound and deliver children
her mother and grandmother used to live
in a walled compound in deliver children
so she saying that she didn't even spare
but her mother okay
I don't think you're getting this
because
she wants to give opportunities to
women and give them freedom of choice so
they're not
relegated to just outlined above just to
women
between four walls and popping out
babies right that means that she's
anti-woman no
that we're arguing but that's what he's
arguing
she's against her mother and she's
against her grandmother because
she wants women to be free so
%uh the question is why do people in the
region hater
well or they were taken over by the
Taliban and put under
strict Sharia in 2007 and since then
the the Pakistani army has taken the
area back
and the Taliban has been there there
control has been lessened
but I mean what's happened is that you
have a lot of fundamentalist attitude
remain
and it's almost like Stockholm Syndrome
in a way
right it's like they began to love their
the people who capture them and who were
there
slave masters if you will because they
owe me what what was the alternative
if you speak out against al when you get
shot in the head like
what happened to my lower so they would
rather embrace their
a their captors and say on all these
guys are great anybody who steps up
against them as bad
and why are they doing that I mean for
the same reason why a dictatorship in
north korea you see everybody worship
the dear leader right make
for democrat when he died ya ya to
because
they fear what would happen if they
don't do that you know
the that this is the way that
dictatorships work this is the way that
authoritarian regimes work
and unfortunately sometimes they lose
their grip on reality
and they forget whether or not they were
pretending originally to
believe that the Taliban is right or
whether or not they actually believe it
and the things kinda mesh together and
then you get this perverse system where
an absolute hero is bad-mouth and his
hated
when she should be be logged in the
world over and she will go down in
history
as a one of the most courageous people
that has ever lived
