Discussion: Malala Yousafzai, Kailash Satyarthi Win Nobel Peace Prize

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This should help with her college applications but of course the main factor will remain her standardized test scores.

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An incredibly brave woman.

Someone should actually listen to what she is saying. Statements which condemn our drone strikes as counter-productive.

Sixteen-Year-Old Malala Yousafzai Warns Obama: ‘Drone Attacks Are Fueling Terrorism’

The White House invited sixteen-year-old Pakistani women’s rights activist Malala Yousafzai to meet the President, First Lady, and their daughter Malia on Friday. The youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize contender made the most of the photo opportunity, warning Obama that U.S. drone strikes were fueling terrorist attacks.

“I thanked President Obama for the United States’ work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees,” she said in the statement. “I also expressed my concerns that drone attacks are fueling terrorism. Innocent victims are killed in these acts, and they lead to resentment among the Pakistani people. If we refocus efforts on education it will make a big impact.”
The official White House statement about the meeting did not mention this comment, instead declaring that the U.S. “joins with the Pakistani people and so many around the world to celebrate Malala’s courage and her determination to promote the right of all girls to attend school and realize their dreams.”

Oh that’s right. We don’t talk about such things.

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The Nobel committee done good with this one. Very good.

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Can we say : “Finally” ?

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Defending “our children” is always a good political sell, especially when the celebrants are a victimized child and a follower of Ghandi, i.e., pacifism. They are certainly a whole lot more palatable to the imperialist powers, if one of their own leaders is not chosen, than picking someone who’s unleashed the largest exposure of spying on citizens by those powers in history.

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Another weak-ass feel-good nothing burger.

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The founder of the Nobel Prizes, Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, said the prize committee should give the prize to “the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.”

So when is Barack Obama going to give back his, having done the worst work for the abolition of standing armies and the most to promote new wars?

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Malala Yousafzai took a bullet to the head for her beliefs, fighting for women’s education, when she was only 3 months past her 15th birthday. And instead of giving up, or deciding that it was too risky, as most people would have, Yousafzai went back to school and continued to speak out on the issue.

So fuck you. Malala Yousafzai deserves that award.

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