Reuters had a great piece on Malala yousufzai
of course she's the brave young Pakistani girl I think sixteen-years-old
a and she's absolutely crusading for women's rights
and access to education
equally and I mean she doing she was doing it in
for an area that was ruled by Sharia
me so I mean you wanna talk about Brady this is courageous as you can possibly
get
and of course you a shot by the Taliban and she managed to survive
and I'll white Reuters data they went directly to her hometown
ultra-conservative Swat Valley Pakistan
and they asked the people there what they thought about her
and the answers may surprise you i mean they had me floored
quote for many of her compatriots Malala yousufzai
is a stooge on the United States and a CIA
agent a symbol of the West's evil
and a global conspiracy to bring down her native Pakistan
that's how the article started it only got worse from there with a specific
quotes
Muhammad Rezwan who's a shop owner in her hometown of Mingora
said quote Malo are is spoiling Pakistan's name
around the world we can mean a lot to come
and show us how important education is
where do I begin with the absurdity
I'll that statement she's spoiling Pakistan's main around the world so when
you had Sharia implemented
and women had and still have absolutely no rights
they can speak unless spoken to that you know they go to school they took they
risk their lives because some Taliban jack as my now I can kill them right
the Taliban doesn't ruin Pakistan's getting
mo Lawal ruinous but Pakistan's good name
and all you don't need her to tell you the value education
really so you have universal education there and although boys and all the
girls
in a in a an environment where they're together right they're not separate
everybody learns together
everybody has equal access that was going on
all that's right it's not it's the opposite of that but no you don't mean a
lot to tell you about education more from the same person quote here in Swat
we have seen the hell that is Taliban rule and yet some people still say
they would much rather side with the Taliban
then law stay classy a
shy into law Shahid a Taliban spokesmen
I love the thought that they have spokespeople I mean it's
I'm going into quote she says she does not want to live
like an illiterate person you know walled compound and deliver children
her mother and grandmother used to live in a walled compound in deliver children
so she saying that she didn't even spare
but her mother okay
I don't think you're getting this because
she wants to give opportunities to
women and give them freedom of choice so they're not
relegated to just outlined above just to women
between four walls and popping out babies right that means that she's
anti-woman no
that we're arguing but that's what he's arguing
she's against her mother and she's against her grandmother because
she wants women to be free so
%uh the question is why do people in the region hater
well or they were taken over by the Taliban and put under
strict Sharia in 2007 and since then
the the Pakistani army has taken the area back
and the Taliban has been there there control has been lessened
but I mean what's happened is that you have a lot of fundamentalist attitude
remain
and it's almost like Stockholm Syndrome in a way
right it's like they began to love their
the people who capture them and who were there
slave masters if you will because they owe me what what was the alternative
if you speak out against al when you get shot in the head like
what happened to my lower so they would rather embrace their
a their captors and say on all these guys are great anybody who steps up
against them as bad
and why are they doing that I mean for the same reason why a dictatorship in
north korea you see everybody worship the dear leader right make
for democrat when he died ya ya to because
they fear what would happen if they don't do that you know
the that this is the way that dictatorships work this is the way that
authoritarian regimes work
and unfortunately sometimes they lose their grip on reality
and they forget whether or not they were pretending originally to
believe that the Taliban is right or whether or not they actually believe it
and the things kinda mesh together and then you get this perverse system where
an absolute hero is bad-mouth and his hated
when she should be be logged in the world over and she will go down in
history
as a one of the most courageous people that has ever lived