Malala Biography
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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Malala: Early Life
Islamic leader for women's right activist, Malala Yousafzai, was born in Mingora, Pakistan on July 12th 1997. She was born to Tor Perkai Yousafzai and Ziauddin Yousafzai. Her home was a largely visited tourist attraction until October 25 2007 when the radical terrorist group, The Taliban, took control of the area known as Swat Valley.
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Her family ran a chain of schools for children in the area in 2009. In the same year, Malala wrote a column under a pseudonym, Gul Makai, for a BBC news paper about women's right and the situations that were present in Pakistan at the ages of 11-12.
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In addition to her works in the papers, Malala spoke out against the Taliban at local press club, Peshawar. "Education is the power terrorist fear most." Malala delivered this powerful quote at the astonishingly young age of 10.
"Which one of you is Malala? Speak up, or I will shoot you all." These were the words of the radical taliban member right before the moment that would change Malala's fate forever. There, on that school bus in the Palastani school district of Swat Valley, Malala remained silent, however, one if her friends glanced in her direction. This caught the attention of the Taliban Member. Shortley after, Malala was shot. The bullet entered the side of her head and traveled down the side of her neck and into her lower shoulder blade. She was airlifted to a hospital in Britain where she was treated for her critical condition. Thankfully, she recovered.
"I don't know why people have divided the whole world into two groups, west and east. Education is neither eastern nor western. Education is education and it's the right of every human being."
Choices and Actions
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Malala Yousafzai founded the Malala Fund. Malala established this fund in order to makes sure that not only do her words reach out towards education, but tangible results are reached to right for the access to education. Malala convinced the UN to recommit to Millennium Development Goal 2. The Millennium Developmental Goal is a foundation to achieve universal primary education.
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Malala taught us about forgiveness. One of the most moving moments of her speech was when she said, "I do not even hate the Talib who shot me. Even if there is a gun in my hand and he stands in front of me. I would not shoot him." When Malala was 11, she wrote a diary under the name Gul Makai in which she discusses education and the taliban attacking. If she would have been found, there would have been very bad consequences but yet, she continued to write.
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Malala originally wanted to be a doctor. Malala's father encouraged her to be a politician, noticing she was a leader. Malala originally refused, but upon realizing that her voice could be used to right for women's education, she decided she would persue it. After the military and Taliban had a war, dead bodies were all around her school and most of the school is trashed. Malala cleaned up her school and arranged a protest to banning girls from school.
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Malala won the 2011 International Children's Peace prize and the first ever Pakistani National Peace Prize, but she didn't let the public attention get to her head, she continued her efforts to fight against the Taliban.
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"The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born."
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"I think life is always dangerous. Some people get afraid of it. Some people don't go forward. But some people, if they want to achieve their goal, they have to go. They have to move... We have seen the barbaric situation of the 21st century in Swat. So why should I be afraid now?"
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