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Steve

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14-Year-Old Taliban Shooting Victim Malala Yousafzai

Malala and her father, Ziauddin, both of whom were on the Taliban hit-list as a result of their battle to ensure girls' education

Taliban says it shot Pakistani teen for advocating girls’ rights

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A 14-year-old Pakistani student who won international acclaim for speaking out for girls barred from school by the Taliban was critically wounded Tuesday by a gunman who boarded her school bus, asked for her by name, aimed his pistol at her head and fired, officials said.

The Pakistani Taliban asserted responsibility for the attack on ninth-grader Malala Yousafzai

While the Taliban boldly claimed responsibility for the attack on Malala and warned of another if she survives, religious apologists either stayed silent or issued face-saving statements.

Hardly two days before the attack on Malala, cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan led a rally of his party workers and activists toward Waziristan to drum up sentiment against drone strikes targeting Al-Qaeda and Taliban targets and demanded an end to military operations. There, at the periphery of Waziristan in the district of Tank, Khan called for talks with the Taliban.

Yousafzai was flown by helicopter to a military hospital in Peshawar, where doctors on Wednesday said they removed a bullet lodged near her spine. The girl’s condition was improving, but officials said she had not yet regained consciousness.

who is Malala Yousafzai?

and why is no one in our country not outraged?

ninth-grader Malala Yousafzai, who gained notice in early 2009 when she wrote a diary about Taliban atrocities under a pen name for the BBC’s Urdu service. Yousafzai lives in Mingora, a city in the scenic northwestern Swat Valley, where Taliban insurgents imposed harsh Islamic law for two years before being routed by a major military operation in May 2009.

Many Pakistanis view Yousafzai, who also promoted literacy and peace, as a symbol of hope in a country long beset by violence and despair. In 2011, the Pakistani government awarded her a national peace prize and 1 million rupees ($10,500).

She also was a finalist last year for the International Children’s Peace Prize, awarded by a Dutch organization that lauded her bravery in standing up for girls’ education rights amid rising fundamentalism when few others in Pakistan would do so.

finally some one steps up
On Wednesday morning, Pakistan’s top military official, Chief of Army Staff Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani,, became was the first national leader to visit the victim.

Kayani, arguably Pakistan’s most powerful man, quoted the words of the Prophet Muhammad: “The one who is not kind to children, is not amongst us,” the statement said.

a few days of her life,.. ,.. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7834402.stm

when a person asks why we should be involved in fighting the taliban and other radical islamic groups.. I often put up a list of their terror attacks.

but is that enough?

as a Christian, retired military, father,.. I could not stand by while a child was shot for going to school... not here,.. and not there..

Hillery Clinton so famously said "It takes a village to raise a child"..

yet is silent today...

How can we raise a child if the child is near death? brutally shot on a school bus?

how can the democrats turn away again in silence?
 
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