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The Courage and Preciousness of Malala Yousafzai

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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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24 responses to “The Courage and Preciousness of Malala Yousafzai”

  1. angalmond avatar
    angalmond

    I notice that your blog gives a ‘reblog’ option- so I hope it will be ok to do so with this post. It sums up my feelings so well. Thank you.

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  2. angalmond avatar
    angalmond

    I notice that your blog gives a ‘reblog’ option- so I hope it will be ok to do so with this post. It sums up my feelings so well. Thank you.

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  3. angalmond avatar
    angalmond

    I notice that your blog gives a ‘reblog’ option- so I hope it will be ok to do so with this post. It sums up my feelings so well. Thank you.

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  4. Jim Gordon avatar
    Jim Gordon

    Absolutely OK Angela. Did you read the earlier post a week or two ago when Masala was first wounded? It was picked up by ethicsdaily.com and published on their features website. Hope you and Bob are well, and flourishing.

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  5. Jim Gordon avatar
    Jim Gordon

    Absolutely OK Angela. Did you read the earlier post a week or two ago when Masala was first wounded? It was picked up by ethicsdaily.com and published on their features website. Hope you and Bob are well, and flourishing.

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  6. Jim Gordon avatar
    Jim Gordon

    Absolutely OK Angela. Did you read the earlier post a week or two ago when Masala was first wounded? It was picked up by ethicsdaily.com and published on their features website. Hope you and Bob are well, and flourishing.

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  7. Nana GoGo avatar
    Nana GoGo

    I ‘followed’ you here from Angela’s. I totally agree with everything you’ve said about this courageous young lady and am appalled that people purporting to act in the name of religion can carry out such atrocities,especially on innocent children. I wish this young woman a full recovery and I think her name will be one to watch in the future.
    ps I’m not a religious person – the only thing me and you have in common is our surname!

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  8. Nana GoGo avatar
    Nana GoGo

    I ‘followed’ you here from Angela’s. I totally agree with everything you’ve said about this courageous young lady and am appalled that people purporting to act in the name of religion can carry out such atrocities,especially on innocent children. I wish this young woman a full recovery and I think her name will be one to watch in the future.
    ps I’m not a religious person – the only thing me and you have in common is our surname!

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  9. Nana GoGo avatar
    Nana GoGo

    I ‘followed’ you here from Angela’s. I totally agree with everything you’ve said about this courageous young lady and am appalled that people purporting to act in the name of religion can carry out such atrocities,especially on innocent children. I wish this young woman a full recovery and I think her name will be one to watch in the future.
    ps I’m not a religious person – the only thing me and you have in common is our surname!

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  10. angalmond avatar
    angalmond

    Thanks Jim – we are both well, and ‘flourishing’ – and looking forward to a few days half-term break!

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  11. angalmond avatar
    angalmond

    Thanks Jim – we are both well, and ‘flourishing’ – and looking forward to a few days half-term break!

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  12. angalmond avatar
    angalmond

    Thanks Jim – we are both well, and ‘flourishing’ – and looking forward to a few days half-term break!

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  13. Jim Gordon avatar
    Jim Gordon

    Hello Nana GoGo. Good to hear from you. I think we might have more in common than the name. Our view of the world and children and violence for a start. But I can’t think that one person’s religious commitment and another person’s inability to make such a commitment needs to get in the way of human beings sharing much that enriches, enhances and enchants this so full life. Anyway – like you I wish Malala recovered health, renewed strength and a good future.

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  14. Jim Gordon avatar
    Jim Gordon

    Hello Nana GoGo. Good to hear from you. I think we might have more in common than the name. Our view of the world and children and violence for a start. But I can’t think that one person’s religious commitment and another person’s inability to make such a commitment needs to get in the way of human beings sharing much that enriches, enhances and enchants this so full life. Anyway – like you I wish Malala recovered health, renewed strength and a good future.

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  15. Jim Gordon avatar
    Jim Gordon

    Hello Nana GoGo. Good to hear from you. I think we might have more in common than the name. Our view of the world and children and violence for a start. But I can’t think that one person’s religious commitment and another person’s inability to make such a commitment needs to get in the way of human beings sharing much that enriches, enhances and enchants this so full life. Anyway – like you I wish Malala recovered health, renewed strength and a good future.

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  16. Nana GoGo avatar
    Nana GoGo

    Oooh, I have been judged by a learned man!It’s not that I’m unable to make a religious commitment, I just choose not to, just as you choose to make that commitment, in which case I would not dream of judging you!Your call. 🙂

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  17. Nana GoGo avatar
    Nana GoGo

    Oooh, I have been judged by a learned man!It’s not that I’m unable to make a religious commitment, I just choose not to, just as you choose to make that commitment, in which case I would not dream of judging you!Your call. 🙂

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  18. Nana GoGo avatar
    Nana GoGo

    Oooh, I have been judged by a learned man!It’s not that I’m unable to make a religious commitment, I just choose not to, just as you choose to make that commitment, in which case I would not dream of judging you!Your call. 🙂

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  19. Jim Gordon avatar
    Jim Gordon

    Fair point Nana GoGo. I did not mean unable in the sense of ‘could do no other’. I meant precisely those who, consciously and freely choose, for whatever reasons, not to make a religious commitment.
    However I am sorry you feel judged! Far from judging you, which was furthest from my thoughts anyway, I was trying to indicate that your comment “the only thing me and you have in common is our surname”, might, just conceivably, be a little exaggerated 🙂 After all such a statement could itself be taken as a rather judgmental one of someone you have just met in a one off email exchange. But I choose not to take it that way:)

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  20. Jim Gordon avatar
    Jim Gordon

    Fair point Nana GoGo. I did not mean unable in the sense of ‘could do no other’. I meant precisely those who, consciously and freely choose, for whatever reasons, not to make a religious commitment.
    However I am sorry you feel judged! Far from judging you, which was furthest from my thoughts anyway, I was trying to indicate that your comment “the only thing me and you have in common is our surname”, might, just conceivably, be a little exaggerated 🙂 After all such a statement could itself be taken as a rather judgmental one of someone you have just met in a one off email exchange. But I choose not to take it that way:)

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  21. Jim Gordon avatar
    Jim Gordon

    Fair point Nana GoGo. I did not mean unable in the sense of ‘could do no other’. I meant precisely those who, consciously and freely choose, for whatever reasons, not to make a religious commitment.
    However I am sorry you feel judged! Far from judging you, which was furthest from my thoughts anyway, I was trying to indicate that your comment “the only thing me and you have in common is our surname”, might, just conceivably, be a little exaggerated 🙂 After all such a statement could itself be taken as a rather judgmental one of someone you have just met in a one off email exchange. But I choose not to take it that way:)

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  22. Nana GoGo avatar
    Nana GoGo

    Ha Ha! Touche!Have a Good Sunday, My Learned Friend.:)

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  23. Nana GoGo avatar
    Nana GoGo

    Ha Ha! Touche!Have a Good Sunday, My Learned Friend.:)

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  24. Nana GoGo avatar
    Nana GoGo

    Ha Ha! Touche!Have a Good Sunday, My Learned Friend.:)

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