Friday, October 19, 2012

CAN A LITTLE GIRL DESTROY THE TALIBAN?



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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