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Malala Yusuf: A Victim of Two Monsters: Cold War Global Politics and “Religious” Extremism

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<p><&excl;-- BEGIN THEIA POST SLIDER --><&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad4" id&equals;"quads-ad4" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"7Yrl8rYV" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Who is Malala&quest;&&num;8221&semi; He &lpar;the Terrorist&rpar; demanded&period; No one said anything&comma; but all the girls looked at me&&num;8230&semi;&period; That&&num;8217&semi;s when he lifted a black pistol&comma; I later learned &lpar;after she regained consciousness&rpar; it was a Colt 45&comma; my friends said he fired three shorts&period; The first went through my left eye socket and out under my left shoulder&&num;8230&semi;&period; The other two bullets hit the two girls next to me &lpar; Shazia and Kainat Riaz&rpar;&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"Cs0evaSC" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>That&&num;8217&semi;s Malala Yusuf in her 2013 co-authored with <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;thriftbooks&period;com&sol;a&sol;christian-lamb&sol;1362606&sol;">Christian Lamb&comma; international best selling autobiography<&sol;a> &&num;8220&semi;I Am Malala Yusuf&&num;8221&semi; telling the world &lpar;or rather answering the terrorists&&num;8217&semi; question&rpar; who she is and how a sadist lunatic shot her in the head while driving back home from school in a bus after exams&comma; he shot her because she was campaigning for girl child education on the Swat valley in North Western Pakistan&comma; something they forbade&excl; She was in her mid teenage when she was shot by the a Taliban assassin&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; there is more to her story as I unearth than mere Taliban violence&period; Here&comma; I argue that she is a victim of religious extremism &lpar;just as our Chibok girls&rpar; and State&sol;established terrorism orchestrated by the US and USSR during the Cold War&period; Though not a feminist or activist&comma; I also argue that rather castigating her for what we deem as her &&num;8220&semi;mistakes&&num;8221&semi;&comma; it is the duo evils of militant extremism and the interest-driven global politics that we should castigate&period; Truth be told&comma; from Khawarij&comma; Juhayman Otaibi&comma; Alqaeeda&comma; ISIS&comma; Mai Tatsine&comma; Boko Haram to ISWAP&comma; the biggest threat Islam is facing is not some western conspiracy championed by America but fanatical extremism championed by barley literate fanatics and chauvinist divisionist&period; These two created more enemies to Islam&comma; weaken Islam and victimize Muslims than anything else&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Who is Malala&quest;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"9ON8HZRi" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block&semi; text-align&colon;center&semi;" &NewLine; data-ad-layout&equals;"in-article" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"fluid" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"6550225277"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>Malala Yusuf is born to a Muslim family in 1997 on the rural Swat valley of Pakistan&period; Her parents&comma; especially her father encourages children education by building a network of schools in a place where they had to cope with threats from the Taliban as they wouldn&&num;8217&semi;t tolerate the girl child education&period; Just like our sadist blood suckers here in the northeast&comma; they don&&num;8217&semi;t respect superior arguments but resort to violence&comma; intimidation and threats&semi; that was why they can&&num;8217&semi;t stand a 15 year old girl&comma; Malala&comma; when she started campaigning for girls child Education on the valley&comma; but rather shot her in the head&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad3" id&equals;"quads-ad3" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Yes&comma; a teen innocent rural girl was shot in head&comma; her crime&quest; She campaign for girls child education&period; As she said in her many interviews and her autobiography it never occurred to her that their sadism reach a stage where they would shoot a young girl of her age&period; However&comma; they did shot her and issued a fatwa on her&excl; A death penalty&period; Yet&comma; she proved more Muslim than them as she publicly forgive them&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;nigeriantracker&period;com&sol;2021&sol;11&sol;15&sol;g-o-c-one-division-appreciates-support-and-first-hand-information-from-kano-citizens&sol;">G&period;O&period;C One Division appreciates support and first hand information from Kano citizens<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Was she a Mukallafah &lpar;sane adult&semi; non minor in Islam&rpar;&quest; Were they in any position &lpar;read&colon; clerical or established court authority&rpar; to issue a fatwa or execute one&quest; Is it crime to campaign for education Islamically&quest; If yes&comma; does that warrant death penalty&quest; Can a non established authority pronounce a legal sentence&quest; Those questions can better be left to Islamic scholars&period; But what I know is that what they did is a transgression and a jungle justice that has no justification in Islam for Islam does not condemn those calling for girl child education to death&period; What ever evil Malala may become in our context&comma; then those reckless jihadists are more sinister than her&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>And Here is why&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I read Malala&&num;8217&semi;s autobiography &&num;8220&semi;I am Malala Yusuf&&num;8221&semi; and watch her many interviews&period; My conclusion&colon; those reckless &&num;8220&semi;Jihadist&&num;8221&semi; &lpar;or better lunatics&rpar; that shot her on the Swat Valley while she was advocating for girls child education did more harm to the Umma of Islam than her&comma; if what she is doing is harmful&period; If she was really advocating for girls child education they had no right to shot her for girls child education is Islamic&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>If she was doing something sinful&comma; then they were not also judges to execute her&period; In the field of &&num;8220&semi;enjoying the right and forbidding the wrong&&num;8221&semi;&comma; they were jurisprudentially wrong&semi; for whatever wrong they thought she was doing was lesser compare to what she is doing now&period; They made her a celebrity and widen her audience&period; Think of it&comma; a teenage girl shot and flew out to the UK having her medical bills and education taken care of&comma; how vulnerable could she be to their values&quest; There is lesser and greater evil&comma; and if one knows in the course of preventing the lesser evil&comma; the culprit would graduate to greater evil&comma; then he should back up&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She was wrong for her childish advocacy against marriage&period; Alahmdulillah she outgrew it&period; I wish her happy marriage life&period; We should thank Allah that she is a live and Muslim&period; More Muslim than her shooters&period; We all outgrow our childishness&period; We may be a shame to share some of our previous stands on issues&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>One should consider how many Malalas from Africa&comma; Europe and Middle East were sent to early graves&comma; how many Malalas were driven out of the religion by violent extremists&quest; We should blame the people that made her popular&comma; the ones that sent her to the West for hospitalization and &&num;8220&semi;corrupt&&num;8217&semi; indoctrination&comma; the ones that made her popularize her cause&comma; I mean the terrorists&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Cold War Politics<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Here&comma; I also argue that Malala Yusuf is one of the thousands victims of the Cold War&&num;8217&semi;s proxy wars and state terrorism by the US and USSR enabled by pseudo Islamic Pakistani regimes&comma; just as the Kashmiri&&num;8217&semi;s calamity is the handiwork of British divided and rule and Syria suffering from the remnants of the Cold War&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The US sponsored the Mujahidin during the Afghan War with training&comma; tactics&comma; weapons and funds&period; The Frankenstein out of it is Alqaeeda&period; The frustrated Afghan students &lpar;Daliban&rpar; by under the Soviet Afghan client state founded the Taliban especially if we looking at the frustration-aggresion theory&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Both the Alqaeda and Taliban were creation of the Afghan War&comma; a proxy of the Cold War&period; Malala was shot by an up shoot of these monsters created by the Cold War politics wrapped in religious extremism&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Thank God Malala miraculously survive and went on to study B&period;A Philosophy&comma; Politics and Economics at Oxford University&semi; emerged as a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Price Award &lpar;at 17&comma; the youngest Laurent ever in 2014&rpar;&semi; gained international recognition&semi; addressed the Canadian Parliament&period; May Allah continue to forgive our short comings and guide us to the straight path&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Anas lawal<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;-- END THEIA POST SLIDER -->&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad4" id&equals;"quads-ad4" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"autorelaxed" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"1004305389"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; 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