Malala Yousafrai appears on the Jon Stewart chat show
Stephen Cook: 16-year-old Malala may also find she’s the winner when the Nobel Peace Prize is announced later today. Nevertheless, there are some within the Islamic world who believe this youngster has only achieved such global notoriety and is winning global awards because she is actively working against Islam. She’s certainly had mass coverage in Western mainstream media. I trust she’s not a pawn in an ongoing last-ditch cabal-managed religious-based campaign.
Note from Wes: Does it bother anybody else that the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is openly admitting to fresh desires/plans to take Malala’s life “even in the US or UK”?. These people need to be jailed right now!
It’s disturbing to me that any organization would openly admit to the world that they want to murder a teenage girl, no matter what she’s done. Where’s the incarceration? Shame on Shahidullah Shahid and the TTP, you will all fall!!
From Al-Jazeera – October 11, 2013
Pakistan’s teenage activist Malala Yousafzai, shot by the Taliban for fighting for girls’ rights to education, was awarded the European Parliament’s prestigious Sakharov human rights prize.
“Today, we decided to let the world know that our hope for a better future stands in young people like Malala Yousafzai,” said the chairman of the conservative European People’s Party (EPP), Joseph Daul on Thursday.
Malala Yousafzai who has become an emblem of the fight against the most radical forms of Islamism has also been nominated for the Nobel peace prize.
The 16 year old, was attacked in northwestern Pakistan by a group of gunmen who fired on her school bus.
The teenager, who has written a book about her ordeal, is still living in Britain a year after the attack as she remains threatened by the Taliban who say they will kill her should she return to Pakistan.
The principal at her old school says that as Malala’s fame has grown, so has fear in her classrooms.
The Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought is given by the European Parliament each year since 1988 to commemorate Soviet scientist and dissident Andrei Sakharov.
Its past winners include Nelson Mandela and Burmese activist Aung San Suu Kyi.
Edward Snowden had been nominated by the Green group in the parliament for what it said was his “enormous service” to human rights and European citizens when he disclosed secret United States surveillance programmes.
Yousafzai was chosen as the winner after a vote among the heads of all the political groups in the 750-member parliament.
Meanwhile, in Pakistan, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) this week vowed to make a fresh attempt on her life “even in America or the UK.”
“She has done nothing,” TTP spokesman Shahidullah Shahid said. “She is getting awards because she is working against Islam.”
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