Malala Yousafzai | Maryam Namazie

This is how it’s done

Posted by Maryam Namazie
On October 11, 2012
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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. […]

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 […]

This is how it’s done

No-one is safe, not even 14 year olds