I was deeply touched and moved hearing the speech of Malala Yousafzai at the United Nations headquarters last week. Shot to the head at point blank range, she has survived against all odds. Despite her ordeal, she is still the same remarkable Malala the world knew. Despite the atrocities inflicted on her, she forgives and loves her tormentors. The bullet failed to silence her. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5X70VyjU0g
Her voice amplifies the plight for women education to achieve brighter future, equality and freedom. Her voice is joined by a chorus of millions more to condemn violence and terrorism targeting women, to call upon world leaders and government to ensure girls’ education and women’ rights.
She sees education as the key to help women gain their dignity, rights and independence. It is also the best antidote for poverty, ignorance and terrorism. For that reason, she constantly struggles to pursue education despite the life threatening terrors she receives from the sickening bigots. Her speech to earmark her 16th birthday is part of her campaign to ensure free compulsory education for every child.
Reading the speech transcript later on, I still could feel a gore in my being. I still could feel the fire in her words, a tidal wave of exceptional passions to fight against injustice, prejudice, and ignorance inflicted on women, barring them to taste proper education. I could feel the presence of tremendous courage and bravery resonating within each word she said. http://www.punchng.com/news/the-full-text-of-malala-yousafzais-speech-at-the-united-nations/
Perhaps, I could never feel the terrible hardship Malala and the girls in her region had to endure. Perhaps, I am luckier than those girls to ever get my education easy and taking it for granted. The only barrier I had along with many in this nation is economic hurdles to enroll into schools.
Perhaps, I am even luckier not having extremists lurking around with guns pointed to my head and said “Education is not for a girl. Your job is only in kitchen and bed.” This is just so outrageously demeaning and degrading.
Even to my utmost liberal thinking, I still don’t see any justification why these extremists deny women an education. Why are they so terrified with a girl with a book? On what grounds, they could ever think that knowledge might sow seeds of evils in women?
Well….. The only craziest explanation popped in my head is that perhaps they are scared to death with girls going for school because these girls might rob them their jobs and brain. Or perhaps they are just having malnourished and poor soul that they put great efforts to hide them behind the mask of a religion.
What a bizarre ridiculous idea to believe that shooting innocent girls is much more noble than eradicating illiteracy among girls. There must something wrong with their heads. May be they have totally been brainwashed by evil chauvinistic aliens, lol.
What an idiotic way of thinking to believe any society, city, or nation can flourish and thrive by relying solely on the male counterparts and excluding the females or vice versa. If they can prove it otherwise, well, perhaps they can build their own empire of male extremists. Let’s see where such absurdity will lead!
A bird can never fly with only one wing. If the other wing is crippled, maimed, or amputated, it will directly plunge to the earth and die horribly. It is as simple as that. To survive, flourish and thrive men and women in any society should work hand in hand, as equal partners. There’ll never be a future without equality.
To deny women from education is simply an unspeakable crime and an act of mass suicide. It is as if you set the world to crumble on purpose. Imagining a girl without books is to imagine a world without thought, a world without feeling, compassion, history, or voice.
For that reason, let us pick up our books and pens as these are the most powerful weapons of all just like Malala said “One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world. Education is the only solution.”
Her voice amplifies the plight for women education to achieve brighter future, equality and freedom. Her voice is joined by a chorus of millions more to condemn violence and terrorism targeting women, to call upon world leaders and government to ensure girls’ education and women’ rights.
She sees education as the key to help women gain their dignity, rights and independence. It is also the best antidote for poverty, ignorance and terrorism. For that reason, she constantly struggles to pursue education despite the life threatening terrors she receives from the sickening bigots. Her speech to earmark her 16th birthday is part of her campaign to ensure free compulsory education for every child.
Reading the speech transcript later on, I still could feel a gore in my being. I still could feel the fire in her words, a tidal wave of exceptional passions to fight against injustice, prejudice, and ignorance inflicted on women, barring them to taste proper education. I could feel the presence of tremendous courage and bravery resonating within each word she said. http://www.punchng.com/news/the-full-text-of-malala-yousafzais-speech-at-the-united-nations/
Perhaps, I could never feel the terrible hardship Malala and the girls in her region had to endure. Perhaps, I am luckier than those girls to ever get my education easy and taking it for granted. The only barrier I had along with many in this nation is economic hurdles to enroll into schools.
Perhaps, I am even luckier not having extremists lurking around with guns pointed to my head and said “Education is not for a girl. Your job is only in kitchen and bed.” This is just so outrageously demeaning and degrading.
Even to my utmost liberal thinking, I still don’t see any justification why these extremists deny women an education. Why are they so terrified with a girl with a book? On what grounds, they could ever think that knowledge might sow seeds of evils in women?
Well….. The only craziest explanation popped in my head is that perhaps they are scared to death with girls going for school because these girls might rob them their jobs and brain. Or perhaps they are just having malnourished and poor soul that they put great efforts to hide them behind the mask of a religion.
What a bizarre ridiculous idea to believe that shooting innocent girls is much more noble than eradicating illiteracy among girls. There must something wrong with their heads. May be they have totally been brainwashed by evil chauvinistic aliens, lol.
What an idiotic way of thinking to believe any society, city, or nation can flourish and thrive by relying solely on the male counterparts and excluding the females or vice versa. If they can prove it otherwise, well, perhaps they can build their own empire of male extremists. Let’s see where such absurdity will lead!
A bird can never fly with only one wing. If the other wing is crippled, maimed, or amputated, it will directly plunge to the earth and die horribly. It is as simple as that. To survive, flourish and thrive men and women in any society should work hand in hand, as equal partners. There’ll never be a future without equality.
To deny women from education is simply an unspeakable crime and an act of mass suicide. It is as if you set the world to crumble on purpose. Imagining a girl without books is to imagine a world without thought, a world without feeling, compassion, history, or voice.
For that reason, let us pick up our books and pens as these are the most powerful weapons of all just like Malala said “One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world. Education is the only solution.”
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