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Nathalie Bardou / AP
Participants of a vigil for Malala Yousufzai hold a poster of the shooting victim on Oct. 11 in Islamabad, Pakistan.
Updated at 5:30 p.m. ET: The family of Malala Yousufzai, the 15-year-old Pakistani girl shot by the Taliban for speaking out for the right to an education, arrived at a hospital in Britain Thursday to be reunited with her, NBC News has learned.
Meanwhile, Pakistan's interior minister Rehman Malik announced that Yousufzai was able to speak and had talked to her parents by telephone, The Associated Press reported.
On Oct. 15, Yousufzai was transferred to a hospital in the English city of Birmingham to receive specialized treatment for the injuries she suffered earlier in the month.
Her father, mother and two younger brothers were making the trip to Britain, Pakistani and British sources told NBC News.
Pakistan's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Wajid Shamsul Hasan, accompanied them.
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In a statement recorded for Pakistani state television, her father, Ziauddin Yousufzai, said his daughter would return home after her medical treatment, the AP reported. It was the first time he had spoken publicly since the Oct. 9 shooting in northwest Pakistan.
The teenage girl from Pakistan, Malala Yousafzai, who was injured by the Taliban in an attack, continues her recovery in a British hospital. NBC's Amna Nawaz has the latest.
In the statement, Ziauddin Yousufzai dismissed rumors that his family would seek asylum overseas in light of continuing threats by the Taliban.
"I have seen doomsday and survived, you might say. Malala has been honored by the nation, by the world, by people of all classes of all creeds of all colors. I am grateful for that," Britain's Daily Telegraph quoted Ziauddin Yousufzai as saying in an interview before he left Pakistan.
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A spokeswoman for the University Hospitals Birmingham said Yousufzai was still comfortable and responding well to treatment at the city’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
Tributes and words of support from around the world continue to pour in to a special message board on the hospital’s website.
Malala Yousufzai remains in stable condition at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham where she is receiving gifts, flowers and positive messages from around the world. Her family is expected to arrive in the UK in the next few days. NBC's Amna Nawaz reports.
Yousufzai began standing up to the Taliban when she was 11, when the Islamabad government had effectively ceded control of the Swat Valley, where she lives, to the militants.
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The attack on Yousufzai and two other girls as they left school was the culmination of years of campaigning that had pitted her against one of Pakistan's most ruthless Taliban commanders, Maulana Fazlullah.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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This family should get out of Pakistan when they are reunited. They will never be safe. It would be an even bigger tragedy for this to happen all over again, or worse even, to this poor defenseless little girl and her family.
Heads up ALL. This is what the Taliban and these Islamist-extremist groups have in store for the world. This is their vision for all of you who think we should not be snuffing them out where ever they be in the world.
The Taliban are a sick organization....probably from all the inbreeding.
"Pakistani girl shot by Taliban to be reunited with family"
--------- For once I would like to see a headline that says something along the lines of "Talibani shot by girl....". That would indeed make my day.
Returning to Pakistan is the best way to end organizations like the Taliban now, where they are, and without further bloodshed. Malala has united and contiues to unite her nation against them, but if she just runs away then the ideal is diminished. She is the world's greatest hope to fight extremism right now, more than a hundred drones or SEAL teams. Malala Yousufzai is this century's Mohandas Gandhi.
"Returning to Pakistan is the best way to end organizations like the Taliban now, where they are, and without further bloodshed."
That train of thought is all good for an adult who can aquire the resources to protect themselves. What is this girl going to do? Is she going to carry an AK-47 around and wear body armor. If these people are capable of running a school bus full of children down to shoot a 10 year old child they have little respect for life of any kind except their own inbred selves. Anita says it well in comment 3. These people should be hunted down to the end of the earth and irraticated in a like manner.
I agree with you in part...the best way is to fight on...but a defenseless 10 year old child has little chance of fighting on with weapons of war. She must be protected so she can fight on with the pen and her voice!
Isn't there any irony of killing a young virgin girl to get young virgin girls?? How sick that death will bring so much life in death to them?? Where is the proof of all these virgins anyway?? It would seem to again contradict that anyone could come down from the gods and tell them this is the truth??
The truth is you kill the only god given gift given to us you will LIVE WITH SATAN.
**THERE WILL BE NO LIGHT ONLY DARKNESS** THERE WILL BE NO VIRGINS ONLY OTHER FAT DISGUSTING MEN WHO HAVE KILLED INNOCENTS WITH HAIRY BACKS THAT HAVENT BEEN SODOMIZED THOSE ARE 'YOUR' VIRGINS...SATANISTS!!
I'm telling you dude.....it's the inbreeding in those tribal hills. Seriously. The gene pool is so limited that the Taliban organization is literally made up of brothers and sisters....and not from a philisophical viewpoint. Literally the same family inbreeding over and over again. We all know what the outcome of that is in the free world but they probably don't. Most of the Taliban likely can barely count the number of bullets in their guns.
I am of course just trying to be insulting of these sick people but it is just because I hate them like I hate any racist or religious extremist group who justify murdering innocent people.
You are right though...bit of irony there for sure. Sick people with small ____— (fill in the blank, don't want to get banned again)..lol.
Tell me again, how many Pakistani imams have pronounced a fatwah on Maulana Fazlullah?
ZyzyxZ, This is coming to America Romney OR Obama, they both are New World Order puppets. And the New World Order is all that this and the many created crises all over the world are. They are working to get the sheeple to accept eventually a world savior like leader, the Bible calls this the Antichrist. (It means in the place of Christ). He will seem Christlike and perform miracles and speak great things, and there are two beasts and first will bow to the second as Christ, and he will go into the temple and call himself God.
The mark of the beast was approved by the FDA in 2004 and the economic collapse is the crisis designed to make the people of the world eventually accept the mark. Don't take the mark!
It is hard for most Americans to understand what this girl had to live with. The Taliban, which exists in Northern Pakistan in the mountains, first invaded Afghanistan and then were mostly driven out by the U.S. The Pakistan government would not allow U.S. troops to enter Pakistan, which is mostly what has kept us in this stand-still for over 11 years. The Pakistan government didn't want to lose the Taliban because they always thought of them as some secret weapon they could unleash on India. So anyhow, the Taliban began to "trickle down" or ooze down deeper into Pakistan taking over the local governments in those areas and the Pakistan government did nothing to stop them. They changed the education system for boys, teaching them "only" how to recite the Qur'an in Arabic, but not actually teaching them Arabic, so these boys only learned how to spout out a bunch of meaningless words and had to believe the Taliban on what the words meant. For girls, no education. In a way to look at this, imagine living in an area of the USA and a group like the KKK or Black Panthers took over, or how about any of the Nazi organizations and imagine the US government doing nothing about it, just allowing that group to make up their own rules and laws. I think you can imagine what would happen to the group of people who didn't fit in or look the same as the ruling class or who didn't agree with their policies of hate and ignorance.
ZyzyxZ, Obama is more for woman's rights than Willard duh!!!!!
Come on, Miss Lydia, give Romney a chance. He just wants to do away with abortion, birth control and sex education and get women back to where they belong - in the kitchen!
This is what ALL fundamentalists want for the world.
This isnt political. Both political parties are against this type of thing. And to compare either party to the taliban shows you only can prove a point through hyperbole, which means you have no point.
KhahKubla,
Reading your post above i thought you were a reasoning intelligent person...then I scroll down and see this...shame. Ignorance on both sides of the issues these days.
This girl needs to be protected from her own family. Her own father may finish her off, under threat from the taliban. When I heard that her father was going to bring her back to Pakistan it made me think of the seal story. After an oil spill the "green" people saved this seal spent in the neighborhood of 80,000 dollars nursing it back to health. They had a big celebration to release the seal back into the wild. They released the seal and as it swam out into the bay a killer whale came up and ate the seal right before their eyes. What a horrible outcome. I don't think this girl should go back. It would be impossible to keep her safe.
Absolutely CRAZY that this little girl was attacked, shot for what ?
because of some lunatics beliefs ?
because she spoke out, she expressed herself ?
Comon people, wake up to the facts. This is a prime example of how these people do things, that they will do ANYTHING to protect their beliefs or whatever they want to call it. Any people or system that does this is not civilized or modern in any way. This is barbaric and completely INSANE.
Short memories on here. The US train and armed Mujaheddin AKA Taliban to kill Russians. The first time we left Afghanistan/Pakistan we left Warlords in charge. This was and is the policies of the US. Because there is no way Americans would support all out war to get the job done. What that means is the other side gives up unconditionally or they die.
While the safest thing for this brave girl and her family is to seek asylum in the UK or US, I can also understand her father wanting them to go back. She will be a stronger force among the women in Pakistan if she goes back, even if those devil's decipiles succeed. The women of Pakistan need to stand up to them and demand that they get an education, even if it is the same anti-western brainwashing given to to males. (I hope not, but I am being a realist.) The Pakistani government itself needs to "grow a pair" and hunt out these murderous vermin that would attack a child.
While I am very pleased with the outcome of this debacle (the young lady appears to be on the road to a fairly complete recovery) it points out a fundamental flaw in the Taliban. They're so incompetent that even shooting someone at point blank (actually probably contact) range is something they are incapable of doing successfully. All they know is where the bullets go and where the little lever thingy is that makes it go "Bang!". Hence the bombs. Reminds me of the fable (probably not true) about how the Chinese would burn down a barn to roast the pig inside -- it worked but what a waste.
sfox,
This girls family a christian family. Not sure if a christian father would consider that offing his daughter is an option but who knows.
I don't think the christian religion supports killing your own family members. I'd go as far as to say that only certain Islamic groups do either.
Yes, yes Bob we ALL know the history. Simply stated though, that was a different time and different enemy.
See this:
A group of 50 Islamic clerics in Pakistan have issued a fatwa against the Taliban gunmen who tried to kill a 14-year-old girl, famous for campaigning for the right of young females to an education.
The Islamic scholars from the Sunni Ittehad Council publicly denounced attempts by the Pakistani Taliban to mount religious justifications for the shooting of Malala Yousafzai and two of her classmates as they sat inside a school bus on Tuesday.
A Taliban spokesman issued a statement on Wednesday claiming it was obligatory to kill anyone "leading a campaign" against Islamic law. The movement has also said they would attempt to kill Yousafzai again if she recovers from her injuries.
Hamid Saeed Kazmi, a former religious affairs minister, replied that Islam "holds the killing of one innocent person as killing the entirety of humanity".
You're nuts.
That's absolutely the LAST thing that will happen here.
Malala's father runs the school she attends. When some reporters asked for someone to write about what life was like, he suggested his own daughter--that's how her blog got started. he's reportedly told her she was special, and has allowed her to stay up and discuss religion and politics while he sent her brothers to bed. Throughout all of this he has supported her in everything, allowing her to keep schoolbooks hidden in the house and helping her study during the time when the Taliban were in power and there was no school. When the Pakistani military ran the majority of the Taliban forces out of the region her father was one of the first to reopen schools for girls.
'Offing' his own daughter is NOT going to happen.
Amanda, what are you doing using information rather than ignorant assumptions? That's not how it works on here.
Glad the little girl is doing OK and her family will see her soon.
But its common sense why Pakistan sent her to Britain..and it wasn't for medical reasons..she was up and walking and taking in two days only in Britain. Pakistan just wanted to stop all those protests about her that were getting bigger everyday..so they ship her out of the country as an medical excuse.
Hope she never goes back to that idiotic country!
Malala's family is Muslim. She wears a headscarf, there's your first clue.
But they are representative of the growing majority of Muslims in the middle east, the ones who are tired of fighting, of war, of conflict. The ones who read the Qu'ran and know that nowhere does it say that education is forbidden women, who advocate for peace understanding, an end to war and killing and bloodshed. The younger generation who in many cases have more education than the ones before, who are more aware of the world and global events and can see what is possible in other cultures, religions and races and want to become part of that world instead of being stuck in the seventh century.
People like these are the new voice, the new face, of the middle East and they are the ones who will inherit their countries when the last of the old guard, who knew nothing but what their religious leaders told them, finally hands over the reigns. And when that happens, Middle East conflict will end.
Amanda,
My mistake. I got a couple of articles miked up. Oops. I agree with you on all your points. Some of these people are literally blinded by harted for Islam on here for sure...oh yeah, also what Adam said....How dare you use information instead of ignorrant assumptions..lol.
Read Richard's posts. Poster child for ignorant assumptions. I am laughing at myself for even engaging him in a debate.
Troy:
No problem, we're all human and we all make mistakes. I've done that too.
Yes, there are many people here who are blinded by hatred for Muslims. They swallow the rhetoric but don't really understand it, nor have they tried ever sitting down with a Muslim and taking to them.they are no different than us--we are all human, and some of their beliefs don't differ all that much from that of any other religion ever created by man.
'There are none so blind as those who refuse to see.'
The whole point to mankind evolving a cerebral cortex was to use it to reason, to think logically, and try to understand the world around us. So instead of sinking to their level, try to bring them up to ours; to urge others to use sense, reason, logic.That is the only way to combat radicalists and fundamentalists of any belief system; to shine the light of reason on the darkness of ignorance.
poor defenseless little girl
A gun in the hand could change all that Stand your ground or you will never be free
Troy1101,
Kaaaaaaaaaahn!!!!!
Was just joking. His second post was all in fun just playing up stereotypes thats all. Relax go to his Newsvine web page and read his other stuff :)
myspellcheckerisbroken,
Well said and I agree with your statement 1000%.
I thought that last statement a bit polarized to the first. Hard to tell when someone is joking on these posts. Some of them are so outragous. I can't possibly imagine people are that ignorant of worldly topics...except Richard. He most certainly is "off". I have no doubt.
Amanda,
Someone stated above exactly what the Taliban has been doing in Pakistan. It's the same with nearly every fundamentalist organization, either they completely misrepresent the actual word of the text or they corrupt it with off the wall enterpretations. Take David Koresh for example, he lorded it over his people, collected impressionable, ignorant young women and taught them he was Jesus. Jim Jones did the same thing. That is how you create a Cult. The Taliban was largely ignored in northern Pakistan for a generation, pushing their influence into a disorganized country like Afghanistan, where there was no one, really, to oppose them, and watched their numbers grow.
As we have seen over the last decade there are plenty of people, even here in the US, who have that psychological need to subjugate women, and use the ignorance of the populace to recruit and influence in the name of a religion that most can't even read about, since they, until we invaded in 2001 had little educational resources available.
Saudi Arabia has the same problem, they have schools in their country that don't teach anything but the enterpretation of the Q'aran. They teach children to regurgitate their geo-political rhetoric and tag us as the "Great Satan". Making the Muslim religion little more than a huge Cult designed to recruit for organizations like Al Qaida. Even though the Saudis have more money than they could ever spend, they do little to reform these schools, and now they can't because too many of their population have never known anything else and would see it as an attack on their "Religion".
I would like to see Malala and her family seek asylum someplace where they will be safe. Stay away from Pakistan until she has become the doctor she wants to be and then return. Hopefully, by then, the Taliban will be gone and she can help her fellow Pakistani.
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And Obama wants this type of life for America??.
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...and this came out of your butt, it certainly didn't come out of your brain, you obviously don't have one, you are truly a great spokesman for the GOP/TP.
Did the pm of paki@!$%# condemn this action by the taliban? I think not. Pretty sick of these muslim extremists. their shariah law needs to stay in their countries and not brought here.
The left will try to tell you there is a war against women in the US. They belittle women who truly struggle for their basic human rights not to mention their civil rights.
Taliban are only brave to kill women and little girls in close range, even then they missed. Jihad for taliban and muslim extremis is chasing and killing women or shooting man from the back. When was there a taliban or muslim extremist brave enough to fight a man face to face. Just a group of imbecile, uneducated, illiterate, brainless, coward, pathetic, barbarian killing innocent citizen. Taliban and muslim extremist feels threathened by educated females, since they only know rote memorization of an ancient spec book aka satanic verses that can never adapt to modern society, The spec book is 7th century thinking not beyond the barbaric stage.
1.3 deleted, ZyzyxZ launching a terrible election derail. Post on-topic.
You're suspended for a day for violating #4 of the Code of Honor.
Hah! In your face taliban cowards!
Can you imagine the high-level of cowardice it takes to hurt a little girl who threatens your philosophy of life? The Taliban have truly sunk lower than cock-roaches.
The Taliban are not moved by massive amounts of support for this girl or massive condemnation directed toward them. Life is cheap in their view and outrage lasts only a short while. I have no doubt that if this family returns to Pakistan, they will all be assassinated and that will not change anything in Pakistan.
Anita - agree. however, there is a fine line between bravery and stupidity, this one calls for bravery. i would return to Pakistan and continue the fight. if i do not return, the Taliban has won. if you believe there is no way to win this fight, stay away. if you believe, in your heart, this is a fight worth fighting, no matter what the outcome, return wiser, stronger and lead the way.
You are an adult who has the capacity to aquire the resources to survive when people are hunting you down to kill you DWR.....she is not. And will get little protection where she is now. They WILL get to her and her whole family unless we can get her over here to continue the fight with her voice. And we should place our guns behind every blade of grass in her yard to protect her.
Maybe the better idea is to annex enough territory in Pakistan to allow them to live there free instead of thinking of bringing them here.
lol. I think the Pakistanis would disapprove of that but we have seized groud in the past for sure bob. I agree with you there. It is not good policy though. It usually creates more enemies doesn't it? Though I suppose arming rebels creates future enemies as well as you reminded some of us in the comment above.
Some people care about ideals more than their own lives.
Troy you seem to think that it's stupid for them to return to Pakistan yet you trumpet military might and the use of force. It seems you would stand for nothing without first considering your own safety. It's shameful that a young girl is more courageous than you are.
DoWhatsRight - I wish I could double, triple thumbs up your comment. It's very well stated and the most pragmatic approach to this terrible situation.
Exactly. And we would not be here to say that if not for a small group of men in the mid 1700's hadn't though the same thing.
Our Founding Fathers knew that the moment word of the Declaration of Independence reached Britain, they would, one and all, be condemned as traitors and hung if captured.
They knew that if the revolution failed, they were all of them dead men.
Yet their ideals, of a free country where everyone was equal and no one was better or worse than any other person, the idea that government did not have to be religiously based, the idea that such a thing as separation of church and State was possible, were what inspired them to try , and while the practice may have fallen short of the idea (there is still inequality in certain sectors of American society) we are constantly writing an revising our laws to try and make that idea a reality.
The same things worth living for are also worth dying for. If you are not wiling to die for the ideas by which you live, then your ideas truly aren't worth the sacrifice.
Ouch adam!
Where did I trumpet military might? I said we should let the family come here and protect them and at a point responded to a post from bob but I didn't think I was trumpeting military might....use of force?.....are you mixing me up or did I post something arrogant and narrow minded and forget about it. Please direct me to my comments you are interpreting as such.
I don't think I used the word stupid either but maybe I did. I think it is dangerous for them to return to a place where people run down school buses to kill children...I did say that.
I am hardly a coward either youngster....I'm just betting you are.
Adam & DWR,
I'm have to assume as well that you don't have a 10 year old daughter. I'd bet you a years salary you don't have any children or your "triple thumbs up" about sending this child right back to the very hornets nest where this tragedy occured.
You act like this 10 year old little girl is an adult and fully capable of defending herself against people like this. I am simply saying let's get the ten year old girl that the Taliban is trying to kill out of there and to a safe environment where her gift can be nurtured and she can return one day as an adult BY CHOICE and fight on.
Troy, I allowed internet anonymity and passion to get a hold of me and wrote things I should not have. Sorry.
no problem friend. Sorry if you misinterpreted my post to bob negatively. I was making a counter point to him that military involvement and annexing countries land does not work out so well. I did agree with him on his historical reference regarding US contributions to the birth of the Taliban in the late 80's but I in no terms believe the US should ever go into a country without the supoort of the majority of that countries citizens. We have a couple wars to reflect on where that didn't work out so well.
I do agree with you that some people are more interested in their life than ideology though I have to say in a time of danger fight or flight is always a natural instinct. It is much easier to say you will do the honorable thing in a situation where your life will be taken than to actually do the honorable thing.
Troy i have two daughters - no sons. they were taught to stand strong for what is right. i do not condemn your thoughts or your concerns about this young woman and her family. i agree - as i stated to Anita. i think her 15 yrs is a much older 15 yrs than you and i could ever imagine. her standing up in plain site - public view - started when she was 11. she knows only that what the Taliban is doing is wrong - in the most simplistic way - she knows they are wrong and she has decided to take a stand. we just differ in the way to do it. now i will take your years salary for betting i do not have any children - they are hardly children anymore - 21 and 25 years old and i have a grand daughter that i hope one day sees a better world - would i want her in harms way - i think you know the answer to that. that being said the world is ready and is in need of heroes, this young lady in Pakistan could just be one of them. either way Adam and Troy - i think we all hope for a better world. i wish you a wonderful, peaceful, day, sirs.
I owe you a years salary DWR! Can it wait until I am rich?
I just have small children of my own and as a dad I honestly wonder if I could take my child back to a place like that once I got out.....good day to you too!
Troy, i wish you all the riches you could ever want. you already are rich beyond words with your children that i know you love dearly. keep your passion and pass it on. maybe your children can be our future leaders and they will have a loving dad to thank. Peace to you and yours.
Pakistan hid UBL for about 10 years right under the worlds nose. Are you telling me that they can't keep this girl safe if she wanted to return??!
Just my opinion, but there's a reason we don't let children make adult decisions. Because they don't understand the consequences. I have no doubt that this little girl is one of the bravest, most amazing kids any of us would ever meet.. BUT if she goes back she is eventually going to be killed. Martyrs should never be little kids..
Our founding fathers fought and died for freedom.. we didn't leave it up to our children.
Troy: I don't make lengthy posts. I only mention facts long forgotten in this instance. Germany & Japan are two places we took control of and delegated power. Both I might add seemed to prosper and develop demockracy. One other point to take notice of is we didn't differentiate between civilian or military targets on a whole. The objective was to win, and end the war.
Do whats right: Discretion is the better part of valor. Besides scum will travel hundreds of miles and commit suicide to kill a flower of democracy and humanity. Especially if they are female; to intimidating for them to deal with.
I wish they would seek asylum, but that's their decision to make. I wish them well and pray for their safety.
I'm so hoping the comments about returning to Pakistan, that the father made while he was still there, were a ruse!
It's very possible that the young woman got her pride and determanation from her father. He knows that if they don't go home, his daughter's sacrifice will have been in vain, because the ground she gained will be lost.
You don't have to use military might to fight back, and you will be guaranteed there will be reprecusions if anything happens to them when they go back. The Taliban cut themselves off at the ankles when they shot her. They have lost more in the last 3 months than they gained in the last 20 years.
Security in Britain will be unusually tight for this meeting, since several unidentified people of Arab descent have already showed up at the military hospital claiming to be 'family'. Of course, they didn't get inside, but the security officers did 'talk to them' and then let them go. I would imagine that the Taliban and Al-Qaida will go to great lengths to finish this attempted assassination since it has caused them great embarrassment and disdain from all over the world. There is nothing more dangerous than a Talibani assassin who missed his mark on the first try, then got away to Afghanistan.
Citation please.
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nothing better than god shining brightly on the deserving, nothing better than doctors with big hearts who can do the work of god, nothing better than peeps who care for others. they reap the biggest harvest in life, save your bad comments nothing can hurt my heart knowing god does exist and jesus was his son, and all who believe in 1 god believes in the same god world wide,
and stop using gods name to put an ok on murdering others , that has to be one of the biggest cop outs ever for a human idiocy
Keith thanks for your wonderful attitude! But one more thing to remember, the best revenge is to pray for the Taliban attackers- Praise God for ALL things, maybe especially the bad things, because it frees God to do His justice- remember what happened to the Christian killer Saul who stood by and held the coats of the ones who stoned Stephen? Stephen prayed his forgiveness and Saul became Paul the Apostle. We need that to happen with these men. Pray their forgiveness and tell Him to bless them mightily.
Paul and Silas praised God with hymns in prison and chains and bloody with beatings, and the chains fell off and all the prison doors opened. And the prison keeper got saved. Let's use that. Praise and thanks to God for all things Eph 5:20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
Blessings to this courageous child and her family.
I believe this girl's God will bless her with a good life soon. I have asked my God to do the same. Perhaps it takes an occurrence like this to awaken the good in this world... "And, a child shall lead the way."
Believe it or not, both Gods are the same.
Believe it or not, there is no God. It's all fairy tales.
wow dude, "...this girl's God will bless her with a good life soon. I have asked my God to do the same."
Yeah, MrBurns, is right. God is one and the same. You may call Him God. They call Him Allah. It's like saying whats the spanish word for door? It is la puerta. Same thing but different language.
........and a little child shall lead them.
Hey zyzy what do you mean that this life is what Obama wants for America? Obama does not want anyone to be shot in the name of Religion especially innocent Children, where do you get this information from Fox News or Rush Limberger Cheese Belly? This girl is braver and showing more courage than all the Taliban and Al Quiada put together and I can only hope that she is a catalyst in showing the world what cowards these animals are.
HarleMan:
You just had to get a shot in to Fox News, didn't you? Wake up and smell the stench coming from the Oval Office and it's supporters.
This stinky slime will disappear when Romney slides into that seat behind the desk. Watch the smelly fur fly in January 2013.
America has a brighter future coming up pretty quickly with Romney and Ryan. Then America will smile again and the world will smile with her!!
Sorry Ol ed, Romney is New World Order too. Obama was chosen by the Bilderbergers in 2008, and Romney was their guest this year. He will just continue the program.
We go from one slime to another type of slime, just as rank and smelly as the last...they are both liars and cheats. Our country is going down the tubes and the only people left will be the wealthy...
Romney would have us into an even greater war if, IF, he gets into office.. He knows nothing of foreign affairs and he would pull a knee jerk action that none of us want. He jumps at the first thing he hears without benefit of gaining all the information. What do you really think someone like that will do?
These devil worshippers are what greed and power is all about.
This is not about our President or his challengers. It's about life as we know it!
Instead of yelling at each-other denounce this killers as the arm of Satan and move forward with a positive response to the recovery of the people in this region.
To much bigiotry and hate in the blogs! Allot of talk and no spine!
I'm an American what are you!
Right now, this young girl is one of the most powerful people on the planet. She has the respect and admiration of people from every class, creed and religion. She stood up against the bogie man, was shot in the head and survived it.
Whomever is elected this year, will have to deal with the results of the last 15 years of foreign policy blunders and the arrogance of George W., none of this will be a quick fix. Unless we can stop being led by big business and a bunch of Lawyers, we will never return to being the country we have always been.
Although far from perfect, the US is still the becon of civilization. We are the only ones who can fix what's broken. We the people. If that means we have to be more like this young girl and stand up to money and greed, that's what we will need to do. Congress has become the monster many believed it to be. Greed and apathy have taken hold there, too many are elected to office and never do anything else. They are paid rediculous amounts of money, to do what? Show up four times a year for accountability? We used to be the example others looked to, now they just feel sorry for us.
One young Pakistani girl has more pride and social responsibility than most of us do. She was shot for her beliefs, what are we expecting to have happen to us?
The U.S. gave $20.7 billion in military and economic development aid to Pakistan from fiscal 2002 through fiscal 2011 - THIS is what they care about. As long as the US keeps supporting them financially, they don't care if we like their civil rights violations or not - just keep the money flowing, that's all they care about.
This is true- doesn't matter what party is in the white house, it is all the same program. Look up the New world order folks- this was how my journey started many years ago.
zyzy - is that hoe they spell a**hole in the trailer park?
So there is a young girl in a faraway place who has already spent a good portion of her tender years to stand up to a widespread group of extremely violent, religiously demented, murderous men. Here we have 2 men publicly bickering back and forth over a job that is overpowered by a group of men in suits who don't seem to know what doing the "right" thing means for anyone but themselves. Astounding. Malala is the one with the balls.
Oh and ZyzyxZ? You're an interesting character, aren't you? *sigh*
And she didn't use any guns. Imagine that.
The pen really is mightier.
And an idea, and those brave enough to speak for it, can change the future of a world.
You GO GIRL!! Malala is the TURNING POINT! The Taliban is DONE! ALL MUSLIMS are turning against this cruel group of terrorists!!!!!!!
Are you being sarcastic? If not, I want to have what you're having.
Actually, BobbyT is right.
50 Pakistani clerics issued a fatwa against the attempted assassins of this girl.
In Benghazi, after Ambassador Stevens' death, the ordinary people rose up, stormed the compound where the militants responsible for the deed were hiding, and drove them out of the city. Thirty people died doing that, but strangely, there was little military interference with the uprisers.
In Somalia, a coalition of African nations combined military forces stormed a beach on which sat an old fortress being used by al-Quaeda. They were ultimately successful in driving them out of the fortress, in what is becoming known as 'Al-Quaeda's D-Day.'
The Olympics this summer was the first time in which every country there had both men and women competing for their county. Prior to this summer there had only been one holdout--Afghanistan,who would not allow a woman to compete even if she qualified per the IOC. This summer, an Afghani woman marched in the opening ceremonies with her countrymen, competed for the honor and glory of her country, and was not required to wear a burka while doing it--she wore a headscarf out of choice.
Change is coming. Slowly, but it is coming. Open your eyes and truly SEE.
even she is hoping oboma is out. even she knows he is a liar.
very sad that this happened. shows you how nuts obomas, osomas etc are.
Can you please find a way to keep politics to the side for now, and after 4 years you still can't spell the Presidents name correctly? Hopefully by the end of his 2nd term you will be able to spell YOUR Presidents name.
Harleman:
Sorry, sonny... it just ain't gonna happen. Now, go to you room and cry to your heart's content and then promise yourself you will look at America with an open mind ... something like our forefathers did way back around 1776.
As a Black man I never had much respect for our (Slave) owning forefathers, forgive my prejudice in that manner but I'm being for real, but as for Obama I always will have an open mind and heart, Romney is a liar and doesn't care about working class people like Obama does.
what the hell is wrong with you and hanging on the slave trade crap. Yes it was a bad time for blacks but It has ended, you were never apart of it, and probably none of your living relatives were either. Sure, they probably went through some discrimination, but thanks to people like Martin Luther King, Jr, and Rosa Parks, and others in the civil rights movements, that has been subdued (not as much as we would hope, but it has). So anyone still hanging on to the slave trade crap is just using an excuse to be racist...
Ole-Ed, please, political Dogma is ripping the very fabric of our Country. You are entitled to your opinion, but then again so is everyone else, the rest of us have the decorum not to force it into every single solitary discussion. Please stop posting anything until after November 7th,.... okay hun. thanks
ArchThor, tell that to the Jews whose relatives were wiped out by the Nazis. Just because HarleMan did not experience slavery, does not mean he has to forget what happened. None of us should forget slavery or the holocast, least we repeat the same mistakes.
There are still slaves all over the world. It hasn't ended. Look up the stats on human trafficking.
We gonna talk about the Indians, Irish, and Chinese now? Indians missing some tribes now genocide, Irish and Chinese indentured servants when brought over, sometimes for their whole life. Since beginning of American colonies including up til today where there are still captive people. Who are the oppressor's now?
The US killed and disabled several million in their endless war in the middle east. Maybe we should fly the millions of children that we disabled in our endless wars to the US for medical care. There would be no room in any hospital in the US to take care of these disfigured and disabled children. What's sad is we did it all in the name of democracy. No wonder the nations of the world don't want democracy it requires the citizens of the democracies to kill and disfigure the citizens of the third world countries, god we love to go to war. We have a democracy that is more like communism, we have a judicial system that is bought and sold and the supreme is the worst offender. How much justice can you afford today, how many children do you want our military to disfigure and disable today.
Gary:
What a completely illogical , hateful and distorted view of America you have. Gary Hanson seems to be an American name.. what are you doing with it? I don't think you are an American and I don't think you are in the USA. If you are.. get the hell out!! You are a traitor if you are any part American. You are apparently a patriot and supporter of the Taliban. Crawl back into your slime pit of lies and hate. America is NOT the place for you.
Part of that is because we are NOT a Democracy at all. Read the Founders writings on this. They are free online- federalist and antifederalist papers. also the Constitution is online and says we are a Republic, not that the Republicans know what that means today. Then look up Ten Planks of the Communist Manifesto on the Libertarian site and they show how we are now fulfilling all these planks NOW. Then compare those planks with the Constitution and Bill or Rights, they are very different. And you will be amazed that the US has become what it has become.
@Gary:
You wrote this:
It is a dismal record, but I think we can do a lot better!
If the best we can do is to cripple or kill a few million Muslim cockroaches every 5 to 10 years, then it will take 15 centuries or longer to achieve payback for the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 . . .
We have the resources, weapons, and technologies to do this every month, and if we get on the program, then I think we can do it every week, really . . .
Really! :-D
most of you should be ashaimed of yourselves. Gary was talking about the people who live everyday lives like most of us here in the USA... They do not represent the Talaban or the alQuida. They are women and children just trying to survive. What you and everyone else wants to help rid them of is the Talaban, so maybe you need to check your hate filled comments.
Sadly, I agree. Our actions in Iraq ensured we will have people that hate us for generations. The terrorists in the next generations will be the children that were put to bed hearing our bombs in this generation. 10 years of bombing will result in hard feelings for many generations.
Had we put them on reservations instead, like I suggested we wouldn't be discussing this right now. The indigenous people would have had to solve their internal conflicts confined in a controlled area. Someone enlighten me, what is the difference between occupation and strategic deployment? That is just a big word for police action.
My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family, Malala! And I do hope that the Taliban's murder attempt on Malala will continue to blow up in the Taliban's face!
I too think this family will be killed if they return home. She can continue her fight in safety so I do hope they will seek asylum somewhere else. My hope is to see her get the education she so badly desires and continue to be an inspiration to girls everywhere.
One incredible brave girl has united the world in thoughts and prayers; yet the world still remains divided in their resolve through inaction. Only a united world front will rid the world of this kind of scum. Countries like China, Russia and often france block the progress of civilization and the right / correct action required to squelch injustices in the world.
USAF RET:
You got it right on the head, Sir (or Sergeant). They taught you right in the Air Force.
(Me too, E9, 26 Yrs. Ret. 1974)
A United World Front? That doesn't sound good to me. That sounds like the New world Order and that is bad, very baaaad. Start with free online None Dare Call It Conspiracy by Gary Allen. Then find None Dare Call It Treason by John Stormer- he can be found on Youtube as well. Also, Dr. John Coleman on Youtube.
So no banned/united entity should have halted Germany and its world aggression? Since the elements of evil are in too many countries for one government to take action on the answer has to be a world united front to combat the injustice that is perpetually portrayed by evil "do'ers" of the world; or should Syria and a like be allowed to continue?
I like you USAF...i have family retired from navy and marines...I like you, and you are absolutely correct.
With young girls and men in Pakistan being beaten, shot and killed by a bunch of Religious nut cases you wouold think at some point the people would have had enough and clean the mess up by whatever means. Round these Religious morons up and hang them from any possible high point and leave their bodies to rot to show the rest of these miserable POS's what will happen if they show their ugly faces.
Then the reality is Religion being what it is in any country has it's zealots that pervert and use it to control the people their lives and their families. This is were religion is lost. This is were the controversy begins with people becasue of the destruction the nut cases bring in the nmae of God.
Their bodies are not at fault so why punish them, It's their minds that are corrupt.
Changing their mind is something they must be willing to allow.
Much easier to lead a horse to water than drag it.
Jerry:
"Then the reality is Religion being what it is in any country has it's zealots that pervert and use it to control the people their lives and their families" <<<< I would agree with your statement if it were change just a little to read >>>>> Then the reality is Religion has it's zealots that pervert and use it to control the people their lives and their families. This indicates the zealots, NOT the religion itself, is at fault.
I don't think we have that right, under the Constitution.
Jerry - "Then the reality is Religion being what it is in any country has it's zealots that pervert and use it to control the people their lives and their families." This is the truth of the situation.
Pakistan's society is controlled by Neanderthals filled with hate and ignorance. Their government is corrupt and warlike. Women are considered chattel and allowed to live only to gratify their husbands' needs. It's been that way for thousands of years and nobody can change it. It's only a matter of time before Pakistan and India blow each other up with swords in their hands. In the meantime, let's concentrate on improving OUR country. Good luck to this young woman.
I'm happy to hear the girl is doing better.
Thanks to all the people that have come to her aid.
MALALA is a star in our banner, she is rasala of umat e rasul, la e la is her rule, she took pen against guns, her enemies are fools, let the world get up, and stand along her for fighting huffs, they shoot and run in mountains, they are the mischievrs, hitting the schools and girls, curs on them by God, MALALA IS INDEED OUR STAR, LONG LIVE Malala
I'm glad she is recovering and thinking of going home.Now what she needs is someone to put a price on the head of Maulana fazlullah and the heads of all the taliban commanders, so she won't have to looking over her back for the rest of her life. I wonder if thier government would put bounties on all these persons ,so little girls don't have to fear getting killed for wanting to get an education.Since the Pakistan government gets 2 billion a year from US.Nah just wishful thinking.
I think the government there is in compliance with the Taliban. Otherwise, there wouldn't be such a difficult time having girls' schools.
Don't mistake what these rabid animals seek for any type of religion, false or otherwise. Here's one simple truth: Throughout history, whether Christianity, Islam or what ever religion, there have been those who claim it's mantle yet, oddly enough, prove (once they have enough followers) that the only thing they're really after is self gratification through power over others. Terrorists get their thrills by creating fear. Oh sure, some of those higher up in those terror cells get their kicks in finding people stupid enough to strap a bomb to their tails and walk into a shopping mall or something. Here's the thing, BARBARISM has forever been with the human race. The Romans controlled it with (yes) brutal public executions, The Britishdid so as well, the American west had public hangings. While I do know these methods came to be abused and mis-used, none the less, they are the only effective way to deal with barbarism. Knowing a swift, brutal death is on the other side of their actions goes a long way to making a barbarian behave in a civilized manner. Forget offering these criminals an opportunity to lay down their arms and become part of the nation, they had all of that once and decided to overthrow the government! You'd be foolish to give them a second chance to build up a power base to do it a second time. Afghanistan's answer: hunt them down and exterminate them... period.
That doesn't explain the Crusades or the Inquisition or Salem Massachussetts ..........