{"id":32309,"date":"2012-10-09T10:12:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T14:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32309"},"modified":"2012-10-09T10:12:24","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T14:12:24","slug":"taliban-shoot-14-year-old-peace-activist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32309","title":{"rendered":"Taliban shoot 14-year-old peace activist"},"content":{"rendered":"

CH sends us a link to an NBC News story<\/a> about the Taliban’s attempt to assassinate a 14-year-old Pakistani girl who was critical of them for threatening her and her classmates for attending school;<\/p>\n

Malala was nominated for the International Children’s Peace Prize in 2011 for a blog she wrote under a pseudonym for the BBC. She also won the National Peace Prize in Pakistan, was honored with a school named after her, and quickly became an outspoken critic of the Taliban in Pakistan and public advocate for peace.<\/p>\n

In the blog, she chronicled life in the Swat Valley under the brutal and oppressive rule of the local faction of the Pakistani Taliban, who carried out public floggings, hung dead bodies in the streets, and banned education for girls.<\/p>\n

In early 2011, the militants had added Malala to their hit list. “We wanted to kill her as she was pro-West, she was speaking against Taliban and more important she was calling President Obama as her ideal. She was young but was promoting a Western culture in the Pakhtun populated areas,” Ihsanullah Ihsan, the spokesman of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan or TTP said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Good for them, attempting to murder a young unarmed girl in the street in front of her school and her classmates. You guys just exude machismo. Anything else you want to do to draw the world closer to your side, like eating live kittens or something? How insecure are they that they consider a teen-age girl a threat and spend a year planning her murder?<\/p>\n

So I’m sitting here holding my breath waiting for Code Pink to condemn this barbaric act. OK, maybe not holding my breath, but I’m still waiting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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