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This is how it’s done

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On October 11, 2012
  • 24 Comments
  • Islamist, Malala Yousafzai
When news spread that 14 year old Malala Yousafzai had been shot on her way home from school by the Taliban for being an advocate of  girls’ education, huge numbers of people showed up at the hospital to see if they could give blood or help in any way and held protests in her defence. […]
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No-one is safe, not even 14 year olds

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On October 10, 2012
  • 2 Comments
  • blasphemy, free expression, Malala Yousafzai
Yesterday, the Taliban critically wounded Malala Yousafzai, the lovely and brave 14 year old Pakistani girl, on her way home from school. Ihsanullah Ihsan, chief spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban, said they targeted Yousafzai because she generated ‘negative propaganda’ and was the ‘symbol of the infidels and obscenity’. If she survived, Ihsan said, the Taliban would […]
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