Thread: 'Putin’s Syria role deserving of Nobel Peace Prize' - RT

I highly recommend watching Malala's extended interview with Jon Stewart. In addition to her awe-inspiring courage and wisdom, which is far beyond her age (she is only sixteen), she speaks English articulately and fluently. She is an amazing, gifted child with a pure spirit.

There are three parts to the interview and they will start up automatically if you play the first one.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tu...nterview-pt--1

Well, she was flown to the UK after she was shot, and has lived here since. She attends a very school in Birmingham. No doubt they made an exception to let her in -- schools like that have very tough entrance criteria and her English would not normally have cut it. (still, there are many born and bred in the UK with worse vocabularies than her). Likewise somebody must have given her a scholarship, apparently it's a fee-paying school.

She is no doubt a very lovely person, intelligent and principled. But to give her the Nobel peace prize would be silly. If she hadn't been shot, nobody out of her region would have heard of her.

I understand she said she misses Pakistan and wants to return. She doesn't enjoy being the centre of attention.

My personal view is that all the PR around her (she's in UK media almost daily) as a sort of hype and cheap propaganda "look how great we are for taking care of poor Malala, and supporting the education of girls in rural Pakistan".

She's a very convenient and charming distraction from the real stories relating to Britain taking place in Pakistan. It's also interesting to consider who might be paying for Malala's family to stay comfortably in the UK and now also a flight to the US to attend this talk show. Lately, the immigration restrictions wrt Pakistan are very strict and there is no way a regular Pakistani family could fund a year of staying in the UK, assuming they qualify for a visa in the first place, which most wouldn't.

While Malala didn't actually die, well over 100 children in Eastern Pakistan where she comes from have died from attacks by British-made drones supplied to the US military. And that's excluding all the kids who have been orphaned, crippled or made fatherless in the same attacks. The people that attacked Malala were her own countrymen. The drone victims were killed by foreigners in a war that Pakistan is not even part of.

Taking a wild guess, I'd say that these 15-year old orphaned or crippled girls would be lucky to become the third wife of some old codger and have a roof over her head. As opposed to, for instance being sent to the UK to attend an elite school and being housed in a comfy semi detached with all mod cons. That's what happened to Malala who was shot by the "bad" guys with a rifle, as opposed to the "good" guys playing computer games for real, with drones.

I really like Malala, but don't let's be taken in by the cheap propaganda trick that she is being exploited for.

What a totally cheesy program host, and format of the show, by the way. She's talking about serious matters, but the host is dumbing it down and the audience is hollering and whistling like it was a football game or a talent show. The whole thing was so embarrassing I didn't finish watching.

Somebody should do a serious, in-depth interview with her, regarding her politics and what she cares to share about her personal life. I thought this was totally tacky.

Kudos to her for sticking with tradition and culture and wearing Pakistani clothes. Thank goodness we haven't seen any articles yet about "Malala's shopping spree for designer clothes" or "Malala's secret boyfriend" yet.

The Pakistanis should sort out their own cultural and religious matters, it's got nothing to do with any other nation. 150 years ago in Europe over half of the people could not read or write. 300 years ago we were burning innocent women at the stake in the name of our faith. Nobody invaded our countries and told us how to behave; we changed gradually, at our own pace, and for the most part retaining our dignity. It's each nation's right and prerogative to develop at its' own pace without foreign countries forcing its values on it. And it's not like the West is some kind of paragon of ethical and moral superiority when it comes to the situation for women!

The presence of Western troops nearby is exactly what's spurring the crazy takfiris/wahabis/taliban on, and making them a lot worse than they would otherwise be. Islam per se is not at all against education for women.

Below, a drone victim, who, like Malala, survived the unrighteous attack against her. Sans 1 leg.

She too, should be invited to an American talk show.... don't you think?