Sometimes you see something in the news that you know will
change the world as we know it.
That news item was the shooting of 14 year old Malala
Yousufzai in Pakistan
by the Taliban there. They shot her in the head as a lesson to others that the
Taliban dictates how people should behave and anyone defying their rules will
be killed.
The Taliban forbid females from going to school and getting
an education. We have seen what happens to females that defy them but Malala
went ahead and defied them and urged others to join her and she paid the price
as many hundreds of women have in the past but something was different this
time…
The Pakistan
people in her area and throughout the country rallied behind her and against
the Taliban saying enough is enough!
I don’t think I have seen this before where women and MEN
rallied to her cause and against the Taliban. Even the Pakistani government and
military stepped into the fray WITH the people.
The girl has been flown to London for specialized treatment and
protection from the Taliban who threatened to finish the job.
Why are the Taliban so against educating women? It is a
known and proven fact that once you educate a woman, her whole family becomes
educated and the more women that become educated, whole villages will become
educated and with education comes enlightenment and enlightenment exposes the
Taliban and their way of life as Dark Age, ignorant religious superstition that
should have ended centuries ago.
The Taliban have managed to keep their backward way of life
alive by sheer terror which they enforced with unbelievable cruelty.
Did it take the bravery of one 14 year-old girl to bring the
Taliban down? We shall see…
But the fact that the Pakistani population rallied around
her is, I think, a very important sign that things may actually change and it’s
about time.
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