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Malala faces backlash at home, accused of spreading Western values
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Being a Nobel laureate and an education campaigner who is based in the West appear to have earned Malala Yousafzai...a Pashtun blogger and advocate for girls' education from Mingora, in Swat. She started blogging at age 11-12. She was 15 when a Talib boarded her school bus and shot her in the head in 2012. She was evacuated to a hospital in Britain and the Pak Taliban vowed to kill her and her father. Among other awards, she received the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, which she deserved more than Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, Yasser Arafat, or Rigoberta Menchu... some backlash at home in Paks. An association of Pak schools held an "I am Not Malala" day and organized walks, seminars and pressers to condemn the renowned activist they see being used to spread Western values in the conservative Moslem Pakistain. The All Pakistain Private Schools Federation (APPSF), a group that claims to represent 150,000 schools across Pakistain, has called for banning Malala's memoir because it "offends Islam" and the "ideology of Pakistain," the Huffington Post reported. Mirza Kashif Ali, the organization's president, denounced Malala's book as offensive. "We are all for education and women's empowerment," Kashif Ali told New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... . "But the West has created this persona who is against the Constitution and Islamic ideology of Pakistain." The group claimed that the memoir supports the controversial British Indian novelist Salman Rushdie who angered the Moslem World in 1988 with his novel "The Satanic Verses. The group reportedly accused the young activist as a member of "Rushdie's Ideological Club." Posted by: Fred 2014-11-15 |
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