This is the face of courage, bearing witness against a brutal world
Malala Yousafzai is slowly recovering.
This also the face of hope – for Muslim girls and women.
She is not out of danger. Medically she has a long journey ahead.
Her enemies remain incensed by their own lethal hatreds.
She was shot because she wanted to go to school.
If ever there was a time to uphold the value and human significance of education in our own culture, and across the world
If ever there was a person who embodies the human passion for learning
If ever there was a personality and character more worthy of our admiration than any amount of "celebrity personalities"
If ever there was reason to hope for a better human future for children across the world
If ever there was a time to contradict and subvert prejudice and religious hatred
If ever there was a demonstration of how one person's actions can make a difference for others,
Then Malala Yusafzai is such a person, and the time is now.
And,
If ever there was a young woman entitled to immediate nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize
it is this young teenager
whose blog was answered by bullets,
whose love of learning is threatened by lethal force,
whose young life has been spent in an environement of fear, repression, violence and religiously fuelled hatred,
and who only wants to go to school, in peace, to learn.
May the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob, protect and bless her.
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