Ship of Fools: Malala at the UN

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Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :

Live feed now. This is the speech of a brilliant woman. It deserves to go down with speeches of Martin Luther King, with Mandela, with Gandhi. She is stunning.

Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :

BBC report

ITV report

[ 12. July 2013, 14:18: Message edited by: Penny S ]

Posted by Honest Ron Bacardi (# 38) on :

I agree Penny S. She is a truly extraordinary and inspiring young woman.

Posted by Gamaliel (# 812) on :

More power to her elbow.

Posted by Kaplan Corday (# 16119) on :

Footage of lessons in the crowded class-rooms of girls' schools in places such as Afghanistan and Pakistan are amongst the most moving images on the news these days.

Posted by argona (# 14037) on :

Courage and grace... takes your breath away. As for the rest of us stumbling, compromised humanity, we need to act. Seriously, what do we do?

Posted by Golden Key (# 1468) on :

Molala is awesome! I do still worry about her safety.
[Votive]

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Posted by Lietuvos Sv. Kazimieras (# 11274) on :

God grant her many years!

Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :

I did have a worrying thought, about the time when she cited Martin Luther King and Gandhi.

Apparently a lot of internet postings in Pakistan, following her speech, were along the lines of her being unIslamic, and descending to identifying her as a prostitute.

Unfortunately, there are those who won't see that if she is killed now, she will become even more powerful in the global mind.

Posted by Golden Key (# 1468) on :

They've been calling her those things for a long time, AIUI.

And yes, once you martyr someone, you're stuck with them forever. You can't kill them twice.

Hopefully, people will get that through their heads.

Posted by luvanddaisies (# 5761) on :

Her parents must be so ridiculously inexpressibly proud of her - she's just had her sixteenth birthday, and yet she puts most adults to shame with her articulacy, her bravery and the way she's worked for the cause of girls' education. Incredible girl. I hope she has good friends her own age to spend time with, and a that a strong team of people have been assembled around her, long-term, for her protection. It seems there are a lot of people frightened of a young educated girl and willing to do anything to damage her. I hope she gets time to continue her own education, to go to university in a couple of years and so on, while she campaigns. One of the world's inspiring people.

Posted by Adeodatus (# 4992) on :

The word "awesome" is one of the most grossly overused words in the English language.

This was truly awesome.

Posted by Timothy the Obscure (# 292) on :

Is it too soon to be talking about her Nobel Peace Prize?

Posted by balaam (# 4543) on :

No.

Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :

Saw in the paper that she had already been nominated last year.

Posted by Jigsaw (# 11433) on :

So sad that apparently it was not broadcast in Pakistan.

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