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    Quote Originally Posted by Captain Obvious View Post
    There is a lot of Islamofacist sympathy in Pakistan.

    Just ask the guy who made that Mohammad film.



    Good one! Rare from you, but real good.


    Three points
    "Islamofacist"


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    Quote Originally Posted by Fearandloathing View Post
    Good one! Rare from you, but real good.


    Three points
    "Islamofacist"
    I can't really take credit for that, it's a Michael Savage term.

    I can't stand that guy much, bitter old man - but I do adopt this term and another one, his self described political affiliation - Independent Conservative.
    my junk is ugly

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    Makes sense, after all she was standing up for children's education...

    Malala for Nobel Peace Prize: Why not?
    October 21, 2012 Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe — HG Wells.
    Sick and tired of the supposedly ‘negative propaganda’ being pedalled against hardline Muslims by a 14-year-old girl, members of the Pakistani Taliban decided to do something about it. They shot her in the head. Malala Yousufzai’s ‘crime’ was to advocate girls’ education. That, and her admiration for US President Barack Obama, led the Taliban’s chief spokesman to describe her as “a symbol of the infidels and of obscenity”. His organisation has in the past busied itself blowing up dozens of girls’ schools and beheading ideological opponents, presumably in the cause of piety and decency.

    The attack on Malala, who has now been flown to Britain for emergency treatment, has galvanised moderate opinion in Pakistan. Mass rallies have been held to pray for her recovery and many of Pakistan’s leading religious groups have joined in condemning the attack. The outpouring is reminiscent of the national shock that greeted images of Taliban flogging women in the Swat valley three years ago and support for a subsequent military assault against extremists.

    Before she was flown to the UK, General Ashfaq Parvaiz Kayani, Chief of the Army Staff, visited Malala in the Peshawar hospital where she was being treated. General Kayani, who called the attack “a heinous act of terrorism”, said: “Islam guarantees each individual — male or female — equal and inalienable rights to life, property and human dignity.” Given the circumstances, he would have done well to add “education”.

    It has taken the bravery and eloquence of a 14-year-old girl to highlight a crucial development issue: Female education. A 2004 study on girls’ education, titled A Scorecard on Gender Equality and Girls’ Education in Asia 1990-2000, found that Pakistan ranked at the bottom among 17 Asian countries. The study measured four criteria, including girls’ enrolment and five-year “survival” rates at primary school. Of a possible rating of 100, achieved by Japan, South Korea and Singapore, Pakistan scored just 20. That put it below Laos, at 26, and Myanmar, at 34.

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    Young hero to get a hero's reception...

    "Hero's reception" awaits Pakistani teen back home
    October 20, 2012 - Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani 15-year-old shot by the Taliban for advocating education for females, has come out of her coma and was able to stand Friday, in her hospital room in England.
    She was described as looking bright and alert. Word of that set off celebrations in Pakistan. The daughter of the late Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto tweeted, "Miracles of today! Malala able to stand." Malala's story "really has galvanized both that country and the world," says Gayle Lemmon, deputy director of the Women and Policy program of the Council on Foreign Relations and author of the best-seller on life under the Taliban, "The Dressmaker of Khair Khana." "She's a symbol of so many other young girls you never meet who brave danger, acid attacks, the threat of poisoning every day just for the simple act of going into a classroom and sitting and learning," Lemmon continued. "You may able to shoot a 15-year-old girl but you can't kill an idea, and I think she has become only more powerful, a symbol of the fight to go to school every day."

    Lemmon told "CBS This Morning: Saturday" co-hosts she doesn't expect Malala to cower in the face of Taliban threats to kill her. "Look," Lemmon said, "if they threatened her and she didn't give up before they shot her, you can imagine that, after they shot her, she's not going to be quiet. She said in 2009 that 'they cannot stop me.' And I cannot imagine now, that the word has actually been forced to pay attention to the fight of these brave young girls, who have really been armed only with backpacks in their struggle to go to school, that shoe' going to back down now."

    When Malala returns home, after a long recovery and rehabilitation in England, "I think she will be greeted with a hero's reception because, really, there are so many young women who have the same story," Lemmon said. "You know, they fight all the time -- with the support of their fathers, just as Mala did. And yet, almost no one pays attention to their struggle until something this extreme and this awful really forces the world to pay attention to these homegrown role models. "I have spent years interviewing women who braved real personal danger to set up living room classrooms and girls who braved their familys' security just to sit there. And a lot of times I'm asked, 'Is this a Western import or a foreign import?' The truth is, even when the world forgets these girls, they fight themselves for the right to go to stool. And I think what Mala's story has done is made it impossible to look away and impossible to forget about these girls' struggle."

    But there has been progress, Lemmon says, at least in one nation in that part of the world. "You know, in Afghanistan particularly, you really see a lot. In 2001, less than one percent of the country's girls were in school, and now close to 3 million are. And every day, they go out and battle all kinds of threats just to sit and learn. Their battle is really everyone's fight because, if you look at the world, 40 million of the 70 million children who aren't in school are in countries that are struggling against war, and there is no better correlation to predicting violence than education levels."

    http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-33816_16...een-back-home/

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    As world helps shot Pakistani girl, Afghans ask "what about us?"
    Sun Oct 21, 2012 - The global attention bestowed on a Pakistani schoolgirl shot by the Taliban has sparked outcry amongst many Afghans dismayed by what they say is the unequal response to the plight of their women and children.
    Malala Yousufzai, shot by Taliban gunmen for advocating girls' education, was flown from Pakistan to Britain to receive treatment after the attack this month which drew widespread condemnation and an international outpouring of support. "Every day an Afghan girl is abused, raped, has acid thrown on her face and mutilated. Yet no one remembers or acknowledges these girls," Elay Ershad, who represents the nomadic Kuchi people in Afghan parliament, told Reuters.

    Echoing concerns of other prominent Afghan women, Ershad said the government took no real interest in women's rights, instead using the issue for political gain and currying favor with Western backers, a claim Kabul has dismissed as untrue. President Hamid Karzai has repeatedly condemned Yousufzai's shooting, even using it to address women's rights in his country: "The people of Afghanistan ... see this attempt not only against (Yousufzai) but also against all Afghan girls," he said last week.

    The closest Karzai has come this year to condemning violence against women in Afghanistan, as seen on the scale he has done with Yousufzai, was in July when gunmen publicly executed a 22-year-old woman, named Najiba, for alleged adultery, which prompted an international outcry. "If the president does not care about Afghan women in general, why does he suddenly care about Malala?" Ershad asked. "No one (here) ever seeks justice once the television cameras are turned off."

    The United Arab Emirates provided the plane taking Yousufzai to Britain, while British officials said the Pakistani government was footing the bill for her lengthy treatment in Birmingham. Karzai has told Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari that the attack was proof the two needed to tackle a common enemy, a move widely seen as an attempt to soothe ties between the neighbors amid bickering over Pakistani shelling across the countries' lawless border.

    "WE BETTER UNDERSTAND MALALA'S SITUATION"

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    Of course they wonder why - `cause they're a buncha ignorant, irreligious pigs...

    Al Qaeda wonders why world cares about Malala, teen shot by Taliban
    October 22, 2012 - Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Pakistan seem to have been caught off guard by the outpouring of support for Malala.
    Al Qaeda doesn’t get why the civilized world is rallying behind Malala, the 15-year-old girl shot in the head by Taliban thugs for fighting to help get Pakistani girls an education. Al Qaeda’s Pakistani spokesman, Ustad Ahmad Farooq, has issued a statement on the assassination attempt, wondering why people in Pakistan and around the world have made the girl a heroine.

    An excerpt from the letter, titled "Why Mourn Malala so Much?" and addressed to"[my] beloved Pakistani brothers and sisters," was translated by the SITE Intelligence Group. The letter claims that the West has done far worse to Muslim women. Specifically, Farooq asks why the media and the public are silent about women who die due to poverty and women killed during military operations in Swat and Waziristan.

    “Nobody spoke up for thousands of such Malalas who became victims of military operations, and nobody protested for them on the roads,” Farooq wrote. “But these circles made so much noise when we targeted this girl who made fun of jihad, the veil and other Islamic values on behest of the British Broadcasting Corporation. This attack created shockwaves in the ruling circles around the world. They issued a number of statements condemning the attack on Malala. I may ask why? Why is Malala's blood more important than those killed by the army?"

    Malala Yousufzai is recuperating in a United Kingdom hospital, where she was taken one week ago after doctors in her homeland removed the bullet from her shoulder. She stood for the first time since her shooting and is "communicating very freely," according to a hospital official. The brave girl still cannot talk because she has a tracheotomy tube inserted to protect her airway, which was swollen after the shooting, but she is writing messages, according to Dave Rosser, director of University Hospitals Birmingham.

    Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/10...#ixzz2A9w1npCd

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    Will Malala be just another lost opportunity to deal with militants?...

    Malala Yousafzai: Has Pakistan missed the chance to move on militancy?
    26 October 2012 - The attempted murder of Malala Yousafzai horrified most Pakistanis and created a brief national consensus against militancy
    The shooting of Malala Yousafzai by the Taliban shocked the world and sparked rare public outrage against Islamist militants in Pakistan. So why has Pakistan's leadership been unable to seize the opportunity to take decisive action against Taliban sanctuaries? BBC World Service South Asia Editor Shahzeb Jillani explains.

    For a while, the wave of revulsion seemed like a turning point for a country whose state institutions appear ambivalent towards rising extremism. Leading commentators urged the Pakistani leadership that this was the time to move decisively against the militants. But within days, the country's hardline Islamists staged a determined fight back.

    Day-to-day bickering

    The religious right accused its critics of "hijacking" the Malala incident to further their western, secular objectives - declaring it a ploy to justify a possible army offensive in the Taliban-controlled tribal region of North Waziristan. At the same time, the Taliban turned their guns on the Pakistani and foreign media.

    Leading journalists were threatened for their extensive coverage of the wounded schoolgirl. Warnings were issued to news organisations that they would be attacked if they did not change their editorial stance. Soon afterwards, Malala was flown to Britain for specialised hospital treatment and her story started slipping down the news agenda of Pakistani news channels.

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    Granny says, "Bet dey don't name no colleges after any Taliban...

    In rebuke to Taliban, Pakistan college named for Malala
    Fri October 26, 2012 - Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head for speaking out; "She sacrificed her life for us, for education," says an admirer; "Without an education, girls and boys are nothing," says another; Taliban claimed responsibility for shooting Malala, who remains hospitalized
    In a message of defiance to the Taliban, authorities in Swat have decided to rename a government college after Malala Yousafzai, the 15-year-old girl who was shot in the head after demanding education for girls. The college offers high school and undergraduate education for 2,000 girls and young women. The female students here were reluctant to appear on camera -- afraid they, too, may be targeted. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the October 9 shooting, which left Malala wounded.

    The students told CNN they were also afraid to attend the school, but were doing so anyway -- inspired by Malala and their right to seek an education. "I myself think that education is important because women have no right in this society so, due to education, they can get their right in this Pakhtun society especially," said Gulalai, an 18-year-old undergraduate student studying statistics and economics. "I think she's a very brave girl," said Mehreen, 17, who is studying chemistry, botany and zoology. "She sacrificed her life for us, for education, that girls should take education for their bright future. For women it's very important in this society."

    They are attending the Swat Valley's first degree college to be named after a woman. "We always want to send a message across the world, that here we want to develop the female gender and we also want females to come forward in society," said Kamran Rehman Khan, a local government official. Asked if he was trying to send a message to the Taliban, too, he said, "Yes for sure ... We just want to tell them we will not be deterred by their actions."

    More http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/25/world/...ollege-malala/

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    Teen recovers; $1M bounty offered...

    As teen recovers from Taliban hit, Pakistanis demand answers
    October 16, 2012 -- Interior Minister offers $1 million bounty for Pakistani Taliban spokesman; Teen blogger arrives in Britain for treatment; Malala Yousufzai has galvanized worldwide support for girls' education; Malala was shot by Taliban gunmen who were enraged that she wanted an education
    A Pakistani teenage activist shot in the head by the Taliban for demanding an education has left her beloved country for specialized medical treatment in Britain. The Taliban's attempted assassination last week of Malala Yousufzai, 14, has sparked outrage inside Pakistan and around the world, transforming the young blogger into an international symbol of defiance against the radical Islamist group that continues to wield influence in parts of Pakistan.

    After Tuesday's attack, Malala was treated immediately by Pakistani doctors who later removed a bullet lodged in her neck. She was airlifted Monday to a hospital in Birmingham, England, that treats the country's war casualties. There she will be treated by neurosurgery specialists. Her recovery could take months, doctors said. Authorities in Pakistan said they are moving forward with their investigation into the attack. The country's interior minister, Rehman Malik, offered a $1 million bounty Monday for Pakistani Taliban spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan.

    Most Pakistanis consider the Taliban murderous ideologues, and the young girl's willingness to risk her life to attend school -- despite the Taliban's opposition to education for girls-- has struck a nerve. One of the largest rallies supporting Malala took place Sunday in Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, where men, women and their children held signs that said, "Shame on you, Taliban." Others held signs condemning terrorism.

    Massive posters and billboards said, "Malala, our prayers are with you." At another rally in the capital of Islamabad, protesters held candles and prayed for the girl's recovery. Malala began gaining international attention in 2009 as the Taliban gained a foothold in her home region of Swat, a Taliban-heavy valley in northwest Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan. Malala's father operated one of the few schools that defied the Taliban by keeping its doors open to girls.

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    What a brave bunch of cowards.

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