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When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education.

On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to survive.

Instead, Malala's miraculous recovery has taken her on an extraordinary journey from a remote valley in northern Pakistan to the halls of the United Nations in New York. At sixteen, she has become a global symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest nominee ever for the Nobel Peace Prize.

I AM MALALA is the remarkable tale of a family uprooted by global terrorism, of the fight for girls' education, of a father who, himself a school owner, championed and encouraged his daughter to write and attend school, and of brave parents who have a fierce love for their daughter in a society that prizes sons.

I AM MALALA will make you believe in the power of one person's voice to inspire change in the world.

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    • PresidentClinton on 27/04/2014 - 21:03
      +7

      Not a very nice thing to say about someone who is brain damaged.

    • Maestrok on 27/04/2014 - 21:57
      +4

      Was curious about this comment and just had a check over youtube. Saw a couple of clips and I have no idea what about her voice you are talking about? she sounds like a regular young girl.

      • King Tightarse on 27/04/2014 - 22:29
        -7

        Nothing to do with her message, but if you were being objective you would see her voice really is quite shrill and harsh.

        • Maestrok on 27/04/2014 - 22:43
          +12

          Can you link me to a video? I found her speech very very very mildly dysarthric but it likely is due to what seems like a very very mild left facial palsy from her injury. No functional impact as she articulates quite clearly. Did not really notice anything overtly out of the ordinary with her voice, seems in the normal range to me.

          PS> yes I am objectively listening to the voice, I work as a speech pathologist hence the curiosity.

        • Sage on 28/04/2014 - 01:44
          -6

          jeez calm down mate he was joking

        • King Tightarse on 28/04/2014 - 01:48
          -8

          Thanks Sage.
          Classic Ozbargain Stax-on for me.

    • Diji1 on 28/04/2014 - 10:20

      I just heard a 16 year old girl.

  • darpy01 on 27/04/2014 - 20:52

    Great find, thanks a lot

    • PresidentClinton on 27/04/2014 - 21:32
      +10

      Tell us about your story bro

    • Maestrok on 27/04/2014 - 21:51
      +6

      You forgot to add that she was also nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize promoting education for young girls

    • deal seeking missile on 28/04/2014 - 05:56
      +10

      sigh…. i don't know if this will get through to you but…

      She was a political activist advocating for the educational rights of girls when she was still in primary school. In Pakistan most schools are unisex and the Taliban was bombing hundreds of girls schools and demanding that girls stop going to school. She was one of their most vocal critics in her country which is why they targeted her in the first place. She wasn't just some random little girl, she was working for BBC before she even started high school. The fact that she survived a shot to the head but still continues to seek education reform is what made her a hero to kids around the world and that is the reason she was the youngest person ever to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

      • BeefBiryani on 28/04/2014 - 09:58
        -2

        And what might your source of information be? CNN? BBC?

        • Diji1 on 28/04/2014 - 10:25
          +3

          I have a feeling you are going to dismiss any sources in order to maintain your position but here's a broad range of sources:

          http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_am_malala#Citations

          Please do show us some that support your point.

        • daveted on 28/04/2014 - 13:53
          +1

          If any person in the world could/should be a super-hero, it's her.

          Awesome Girl.

          (But to be serious, I'm in awe of her bravery when she got shot…..at 15. She basically took a bullet to save her friends.)

    • Lucky13 on 28/04/2014 - 09:52
      +1

      Yeah she probably wrote a book in other languages as well.. its called getting it translated

  • Matt P on 27/04/2014 - 21:11

    Great, I had even meaning to read this.

  • giventofly on 27/04/2014 - 21:22

    An inspiration. Thanks OP

  • usman6062 on 27/04/2014 - 21:34

    I heard that Malala is not the author of this book?

    • thangcuoi on 27/04/2014 - 21:45
      +7

      Most books like these are written with the help of a professional writer, in this case it's Christina Lamb.

      http://www.goodreads.com/author/list/241896.Christina_Lamb

    • scrimshaw on 27/04/2014 - 21:59
      +3

      Product category: in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Biographies & Memoirs > Specific Groups > Women
      This book is a biography. Written by somebody else. If it was an autobiography then Malala would be the author.

    • phobaphobic on 28/04/2014 - 09:06

      Yeah, I doubt she would use terms like "global terrorism" - sounds more like someone is using her story to further their own agenda.

      • PresidentClinton on 28/04/2014 - 09:13

        While she can probably see through her own region's propaganda, its very unlikely she can see western propaganda..

  • FourMills on 27/04/2014 - 22:01
    +2

    ****Spoiler Alert****

    She gets shot by Taliban

  • eurofoti on 27/04/2014 - 22:01
    +7

    Being Greek, I initially thought the book read I AM MALAKA

  • BuyIfNeed on 27/04/2014 - 22:02
    +3

    Here is a Ted Talk from her father http://www.ted.com/talks/ziauddin_yousafzai_my_daughter_mala…, if anybody interested

  • rambokid on 27/04/2014 - 22:18
    +1

    For those that may not appreciate the significance of Malala's story… You are talking about the Swat valley which is tribal dominated and one of the most dangerous places on earth.

    Honour killings and archaic tribal justice systems prevail here.

    • BeefBiryani on 28/04/2014 - 10:00

      What the hell are you talking about? Pakistan's swat valley is one of the major tourist attractions of that country.

    • CheapCoffee on 27/04/2014 - 22:40
      +2

      Not sure if this is a bad joke or just pure stupidity.

    • scrimshaw on 27/04/2014 - 22:46
      +1

      Christina Lamb is a British journalist, she's not American.

    • rambokid on 27/04/2014 - 22:53

      Eneloop, nothing can make the Taliban look worse. Either you are naive or misinformed.

      Unfortunately for a Malala, even her town people seem to be against her. See link provided by bogan below. Not surprising as this is the north west frontier province..

      • Frantic on 28/04/2014 - 04:02
        -3

        Naive, misinformed? No offence champ, that would be you if you've fallen hook line and sinker for the malala fairy tale. Just curious.. have you been to Pakistan or Afghanistan? Can you speak Pashtu, Dari, Urdu? As you're clearly so informed beyond CNN or Faux News (actually that's Al Jazeera now) or that Telegraph link 'bogan' enlightened us with

        • deal seeking missile on 28/04/2014 - 06:21
          +2

          So many trolls here i'm surprised i'm not on 4chan
          There are several interviews with her and her family a few years before she was shot, you should watch it for yourself before you judge her.

          She was a political activist advocating for the educational rights of girls when she was still in primary school. In Pakistan most schools are unisex and according to the Pakistan government the Taliban was bombing hundreds of girls schools and demanding that girls stop going to school. She was one of their most vocal critics in her country which is why they targeted her in the first place. She wasn't just some random little girl, she was working for BBC and talking about the challenges of education in her country before well before she was shot. The fact that she survived a shot to the head but still continues to seek education reform is what made her a hero to kids around the world and that is the reason she was the youngest person ever to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. If the Taliban didn't stupidly shoot her, few outside of Pakistan would have known her. She might have been a thorn in their side but she wouldn't have had must of an impact had they had not shot her. Another genius move from nut bags.

        • daveted on 28/04/2014 - 13:57

          "Another genius move from nut bags."

          Kind of what happened to Jesus.
          Terrorist - stirring up the mob - let's kill him.

    • [Deactivated] on 28/04/2014 - 00:07
      +1

      Go and live there eneloop

      • Diji1 on 28/04/2014 - 10:40

        Better yet go live there with your young daughter. She'd probably have more opportunities than if she lived here right guys. Right?

    • Frantic on 28/04/2014 - 04:03

      They did outlaw poppy cultivation.. which the US troops are now in charge of because its 'part of their culture' and god forbid they don't respect (and profit) it

    • daveted on 28/04/2014 - 13:55
      +1

      "This is a shit made up story to make the Taliban look even worse than they are. Just another American propaganda tactic"

      And the world is flat.
      And God is everywhere. All 150 of them.

  • bogan on 27/04/2014 - 22:32

    Old news, but an interesting read: Link

  • Kamsi on 27/04/2014 - 22:36

    We need more people like her.

    Cheers.

    • sandsay on 27/04/2014 - 22:54
      +1

      You're kidding? Stupid religions are likely to die out from the violence they subscribe too, and make a lot of enemies.

    • rambokid on 27/04/2014 - 22:59

      And thaal sinestro, after that we will see a lot of sectarian violence with the Shia killing the Sunni and vice versa and some of those killing the Bahai and Baluchis and all others, all in the hope of getting virgins in paradise!

      All this killing and violence for getting laid ?

    • BeefBiryani on 27/04/2014 - 23:16
      -3

      This. And then there are those idiot Catholics with their stupid witch hunts and the load of shit they consider a divine book. And not to mention the fantasy of the dude who walks on water and rises from the dead. It's like an episode from the walking dead with a lot of "begetting" going on.
      No wonder there are so many child molestation cases reported against Catholic priests. Their whole religion is based on p0rn.

  • Miami Mall Alien on 27/04/2014 - 23:41
    +11

    I like how we can only help bygones in foreign countries through the prism of our pre-approved, politically correct and hopelessly idealistic socio-political ideologies like feminism, affirmative action, gender equality, non-violent grass-roots political activism and the mental prisons we call modern schooling.

    No consideration made for whether they actually need or can possibly integrate these abstract concepts into their incredibly disparate cultures that have far more basic and imminent worries to take care of; like not drinking liquid malaria each day or not having to step onto unexploded munitions on your way to the watering hole.

    Never mind the fact that most kids, boys or girls, don't attend school in Afghanistan or the tribal regions of Pakistan; or the more pressing issue of why in the name of all that is holy are we still there (producing more Malalas each day than you can shake a tear-jerking SBS hippy documentary at), but yes, let's focus specifically on the plight of young girls not being able to play hop-scotch in the categorically unsalvageable nation of Afghanistan (and the soon-to-be shared fate of Pakistan), because this will really leave a lasting legacy on the region once Western forces pull out and it caves in again.

    The Nobel Peace Prize has watered its way down to a primary school kid's gold star in the modern-era.
    Obama's black AND a President for 6 months? Hey, have a Nobel Peace Prize! Somebody took a pot-shot at you? In an actual war zone where people die on a daily basis? Unheard of! Have a Nobel Peace Prize!

    Got mugged at the train station and survived? Have a Nobel Peace Prize! Ate a curry with an Indian mate last night? Have a Nobel Peace Prize!

    Feel good moral relativism for the win! Changes channel

    • deal seeking missile on 28/04/2014 - 07:29
      +5

      Ya, the only problem with your argument is that education for women has been the norm in Islamic countries for centuries. Women-only madarasa's (AKA schools) have been around for several centuries in the region it isn't anything new, its not an "abstract concept". Not to mention there is a very large middle class in Pakistan who can afford to send their kids to school and kids in these countries know that school is the only way out of poverty, which is why they want to and need to go to school. You seem to think everyone in that country is automatically poor. You cant get a steady stream of doctors to cure the sick or engineers to build water treatment plants, roads, power stations etc. without the next generation going to school and getting an education, only a fool would believe professionals come out of thin air.
      If you look back in the history books, it was just one senator who started the American campaign to help the Afghans rebels (the Taliban) repel the USSR invasion before the end of the cold war. He slowly got the senate to increase their spending to billions of dollars in weapons support for the Afghans. He would later go on to receive America's highest civilian award but he always maintained that his greatest failure was that he couldn't convince the senate to approve the proposal to spend 400 million to rebuild schools/hospitals in Afghanistan after the war(a fraction of what they spent on the military aid). The massive damage to their country made recovery hard and the lack of access to education/heath care just perpetuated the condition. The fact that the Americans were getting oil from their country just caused deeper mistrust and antagonism until the the Taliban started seeing their former ally as the enemy. I'm sure you know the rest. Who knows how much trouble the world could have saved if the senate had taken a different route on that day, we will never know. But you would have to be a fool to not learn from history and make the same mistake over and over again.
      Oh and about the Nobel Peace Prize she didn't win it. It went to a guy who did several decades of good work. The main reason Obama was given the peace prize was because at that point the whole world was looking to him for hope, the hope that he would be somehow able resolve the conflict in the middle east and try to end the wars. In the end, he couldn't get it done fast enough and i'm not sure there was anything he could have done to resolve the conflict any faster. Did he deserve the prize in the end? Maybe, maybe not that's your own opinion. But at the time of receiving the prize he had just replaced George dumbass Bush (he guy who started the wars) and world was just relieved that there was someone who wanted peace leading the US.

      • Miami Mall Alien on 28/04/2014 - 20:29
        +3

        There's no need to give me a condensed history of Afghanistan as I never came close to saying Western interference in its affairs has ever had a positive influence nor am I advocating our continued presence there.

        What you said of education in Pakistan is only true of the cities, where the urban intelligentsia bunker down to find refuge from the failed state unfolding before their eyes.

        Malala is from the Swat Valley, which embodies a deeply conservative, fundamentalist mentality where the formal education of women is something that has not been practiced since time immemorial. Granted it wasn't always that bleak, during the 1960s and 1970s the Swat Valley was known as the "Switzerland of Pakistan" and attracted scores of tourists to its ski resorts in winter, much like neighbouring Afghanistan was a fairly normal nation in the 1960s under Mohammed Daud.

        But there is literally a snowball's chance in hell of either region regressing back to those times.

        I'm not sure why you're confounding the "Islamic World" with Pakistan, since Central Asian and particularly Afghani/tribal Pakistani cultural ideals are vastly different to the Arab world's and secondly, Madrasas are diametrically opposed to what anyone would consider a classical education. Quranic study and the repetition of Surahs until you pass out does not in any way, shape or form constitute a stable foundation for training a new generation of skilled labourers ready to pull Pakistan out of the dark ages.

        You are being hopelessly naive.

        You seem to think everyone in that country is automatically poor

        Please… stop sugar-coating.

        Human Development Index: 146th (on par with the African state of Angola)
        Democracy Index: 79th (just in front of Papua New Guinea)
        Press Freedom Index: 158th (similiar overall score to Saudi Arabia)
        Corruption Perceptions Index: 127th
        WHO Healthcare Ranking: 122nd

        My point which you missed because you were too busy being offended and standing up for a nation and people you have no legitimate attachment to is:

        This entire story of Malala's Rosa Parks-esque struggle for her noble ideals in the face of violent oppression is a TOTAL red herring distracting everyone from the continual thorn that is the West's never-ending saga in Afghanistan and how on earth to finally close this sad chapter of recent history.

        A discussion that is not permitted to be had because we need to extract every last ounce of mineral wealth from the nation, ship every last tonne of heroin out of there and loan them IMF/World Bank grants until the next 25 generations of Afghanis are in debt; before the "Mission is Accomplished".

        We are not there for humanitarian reasons and nothing humanitarian has been accomplished, nor ever will be. It is the epitome rearranging the deck chairs of the Titanic.

        The main reason Obama was given the peace prize was because at that point the whole world was looking to him for hope,

        So he got a Nobel Prize for "Attempted Peace"?

        Makes sense. Idealism is fine if you're under 20 like Winston Churchill said, but if you've still got your rose-tinted spectacles on by 30, then you have no brain.

        In the end, he couldn't get it done fast enough and i'm not sure there was anything he could have done to resolve the conflict any faster. Did he deserve the prize in the end? Maybe, maybe not that's your own opinion. But at the time of receiving the prize he had just replaced George dumbass Bush (he guy who started the wars)

        Obama also started THREE new theaters of conflict (Yemen, Libya and Uganda), bolstered the American presence in Afghanistan with his vaunted "troop surge" (contradictory to his bullsh*t promises), massively increased cover operations/drone strikes in Pakistan and is now staring down the barrel of a very likely 4th intervention in Syria.

        Meet the new boss, same as the old.

        and world was just relieved that there was someone who wanted peace leading the US.

        Aggressively interventionist foreign policy that has killed hundreds of thousands of people (conservative estimate) since Obama's inauguration is a bizarre way of going about achieving peace.

        You really are an ostrich choking in the sand, my hopelessly deluded friend.

    • rawm on 28/04/2014 - 08:10
      +3

      In best Yoda voice "The pessimism in this one is strong."

      • Miami Mall Alien on 28/04/2014 - 20:36
        +1

        You're right, what am I thinking, I forgot all the good news that has come out of Afghanistan and Pakistan in the last 10 years… like… uhh… hang on… they're not hacking off people's limbs like they did in Rwanda?

        I guess that is pretty good news.

        Some of those drone missiles missed their targets too. Chalk that up as a "positive"?

        I don't know what fairy liquid you guys intravenously hallucinate with, but pass it on down because it sure seems to be doing the trick.

    • Diji1 on 28/04/2014 - 10:45
      +1

      I wasn't aware Malala came from the West. Oh wait she didn't. What was the point of your long post again?

      • Miami Mall Alien on 28/04/2014 - 20:30

        See above reply to deal seeking missile.

  • willdog123 on 27/04/2014 - 23:47
    -8

    if she had of obeyed the laws in her country, maybe she wouldn't have been shot.

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    • Maxxjet on 27/04/2014 - 23:56
      +2

      I wish you all the best in her country

      • [Deactivated] on 27/04/2014 - 23:57

        He probably is

  • [Deactivated] on 27/04/2014 - 23:54
    +1

    Stupid comment. So you agree with the subjugation of women?

  • SydStrand on 28/04/2014 - 00:09
    +3

    You'd think educating girls would be one of those uncontroversial things that everyone would get behind but nope. Internet scumbags strike again, even in a relatively harmless community like Ozbargain.

    • Miami Mall Alien on 28/04/2014 - 20:41

      I don't think anyone here is opposed to educating women. That's nothing more than modern, liberal feminism and political-correctness talking, aimed at stifling meaningful debate with silly name-calling and emotive, heart-string pulling sideshows.

      The undue weight and overblown publicisation of this rather trivial story is what people take issue with because it detracts from the actual tragedy of the nation of Afghanistan being raped as everyone speaks praise for a woman who was puppeteered by the West to paint a flattering image of newly rekindled humanitarian efforts in Afghanistan/Pakistan; the very nations that are systematically tearing Afghanistan apart.

      Malala's near-death experience is the direct result of Washington's decision to invade in 2001. She owes having a permanently disfigured face to the resurgence of radical whackjobs in the tribal regions of Pakistan, catalysed by the last 10 years of horrific war crimes perpetuated in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Western forces, which have left a generation of unemployed, uneducated, orphaned and angry teens nothing to do but to turn to extremism.

      That's her welcoming present from the good ol' U, S and A which is now parading her around like a caged animal.

      Malala can thank the CIA's covert drone program for being a 100% successful recruiting tool bar none for terrorist groups; as one Taliban chief put it, "I could campaign for 2 months throughout the villages and gain the support of maybe 50 people; one drone strike will win the dying loyalty of thousands."
      This vicious cycle will undercut any of her grass-roots peaceful protests and political gestures by a factor of 1,000; akin to trying to smother a fire with gasoline-soaked rag.

      Look up: Red Herring.

    • PresidentClinton on 28/04/2014 - 00:29

      Yes, where private businesses can enforce their own standards.

    • Tal_Shiar on 28/04/2014 - 02:10
      +3

      By suppressing my vote, YOU are no different than the Taliban suppressing Malala for wanting education for women.

      When negative votes are revoked:

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      • A moderator deems your vote to be invalid as it doesn't conform to voting guidelines.
      • If too many negative votes are revoked for a user, then this will result in the loss of negative voting abilities for 90 days.

      https://www.ozbargain.com.au/wiki/help:voting_guidelines

    • Magic Mirror on 28/04/2014 - 08:27
      +6

      If OzBargain was run by the Taliban, they would have removed your vote by shooting you in the head.

  • Tal_Shiar on 28/04/2014 - 00:39
    +4

    Used up my daily allotment of negs in this thread…

  • greengrocer35 on 28/04/2014 - 02:54

    Thank you for this. I remember her appearance on Jon Stewart: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/09/malala-jon-stewart_…

  • Frantic on 28/04/2014 - 03:55
    +2

    How do you spell, cia asset?

    • PresidentClinton on 28/04/2014 - 08:14
      +2

      We in the West call it soft diplomacy.

  • imranauz on 28/04/2014 - 04:34

    majority of people her do not know anything about pakistan even about malala. most of their discussion is based on media information. an extremely weak and confusing source of evidence.

    • Diji1 on 28/04/2014 - 10:55
      +1

      Do tell where you got your own information from. I'd be very surprised if it wasn't the media.

      In all likelihood it was biased and skewed to point of view on the world just like anywhere else. Mainly because media without a bias or point of view is boring so most people (I'm in the camp of most people) won't consume it.

  • rambokid on 28/04/2014 - 07:03
    -7

    Imran, don't be presumptuous.

    Most people here know a lot about the failed states of Pakistan and Afghanistan. And a lot more about their "culture" as well.

    Do not assume we are fools who haven't seen beyond footy and BBQ . We are well travelled and well informed.

    Amar86, you are partly right but the mental prisons of modern schooling is what has made this country and the likes of US UK and Europe so liveable and desirable that the likes of you and Imran have come here to settle after So many efforts, and what causes so many so-called refugees from Muslim countries to cheat the immigration system and try to settle here.

    So let's remember the facts as they are. If Pakistan and other such countries had any decent "culture" we would see them safe and prosperous and maybe the whites trying to get "refuge" there .

    • BeefBiryani on 28/04/2014 - 10:08

      Actually these countries were safe and some of the world's richest for that before the"whites" brought democracy to them. Go read about pre British India and other countries that the whites colonized and whose culture they literally destroyed. Just like native cultures of America abd Australia.

      • rambokid on 28/04/2014 - 13:58
        -1

        Sure .. which is why you are living here, isnt it? Why dont you go and live in that your 'safe' country

      • MakingBacon on 28/04/2014 - 16:53

        I am sorry I fail to see where he mention India as a failed state? Nice straw man bro…

        • rambokid on 28/04/2014 - 20:41

          India is not a failed state, man.. never was.. i was referring to NWFP ..

        • MakingBacon on 28/04/2014 - 21:07

          And if you read my comment I was replying to saaron.

  • pikapika on 28/04/2014 - 07:23

    This appears to be only free on AU Amazon and not the US site (unless it expired)?

    • Yarkin on 28/04/2014 - 07:49
      +15

      I'm sorry, but you're not allowed to discuss the actual deal here.
      This page is for political rants only.

      • pikapika on 28/04/2014 - 11:48

        Hahaha..My bad, my bad!

  • rambokid on 28/04/2014 - 07:56
    -1

    Guys, can those who agree with me please + vote me. Let's see if there are any balanced people out there ?

    • Maxxjet on 28/04/2014 - 10:09
      +3

      I upvoted for you mate..at least you spelt out the rationale behind your comments regardless if they are valid in whoever concerned's eyes…for those disagreed, you may do the same , tell us why you don't agree , not just shouting slogans

  • tdw on 28/04/2014 - 08:35
    +5

    whoa. wasn't expecting such an outpouring of ignorant ranting and asinine derp in a post for a free ebook about a 16 year old girl.

    the hell is wrong with you people?

    • scrimshaw on 28/04/2014 - 12:54
      +3

      Politically sensitive subject + internets + anonymity = assholery all around.

    • Miami Mall Alien on 28/04/2014 - 21:07
      +2

      Maybe some of us don't see life as one big, cliched Disney movie where appearances are never deceiving and where everything can simply be taken at face value; some kind of utopia in which hidden agendas, ulterior motives and wolves in sheep's clothing don't exist.

      Nor do we cognitively disassociate ourselves from having to think, with mind-numbing slogans like, "Won't somebody please think of the children!"

      If anyone here seriously thinks it's beyond the capabilities or ethics of the US Government to plant and misappropriate useful idiots who can throw the spotlight off of their heinous crimes, be they 16-year old girls or 60-year old senators, then they need a serious history lesson.

      My quarrel is not with the damn book, but the way people are perceiving its message and inferring larger opinions about the conflict in Afghanistan or Pakistan.

      Unfortunately, and for Australians especially, who are politically-challenged enough as it is, things are never as simple as, "This poor girl got hurt for standing up for what she believed in. Read her book so you can learn about how Afghanistan will have a fairy tale ending if we continue to stay and build more schools. Just don't ask how much money goes into those schools versus the munitions and ordnance that knocks them down months later."

  • giggles on 28/04/2014 - 09:38
    +2

    I am MAKING PROFITS FOR WESTERN PUBLISHERS.

  • Lucky13 on 28/04/2014 - 10:12

    Thanks should be an interesting read :)

  • giggles on 28/04/2014 - 10:37
    +1

    I am APPEARING ON TOUR with ONE DIRECTION.

    I am a MARKETERS DREAM COME TRUE.

    I am MAKING PROFITS FOR WESTERN CAPITALIST PIGS.

    I am ultimately VALIDATING THE TALIBANS SENTIMENTS ABOUT RICH, SOUL-LESS NATIONS

    • scrimshaw on 28/04/2014 - 14:00

      I am GETTING A CUT OF THE PUBLISHER's PROFITS, SO AT LEAST I HAVE THAT GOING FOR ME, WHICH IS NICE.

      • giggles on 28/04/2014 - 14:10

        You give me a really interesting story that I can cash in on, and I'll give you back 1c in the dollar.

        Sound nice?

    • Lucky13 on 28/04/2014 - 14:38

      In amongst all this bs I think youre missing the point being gender related discrimination/persecution in certain countries which should be addressed imo

  • dddp on 28/04/2014 - 10:45

    Saw the TV show with her story on a few months ago, such a brave girl - and also a brave family - i'm looking forward to reading this story about her. Thanks for posting the deal OP.

  • duneknight on 28/04/2014 - 21:37
    +2

    came for the freeby, stayed for the politics.

  • PresidentClinton on 28/04/2014 - 21:44
    +1

    Looking forward to the US version "I was watering the garden then bombed by an American UAV"

  • Nobel on 28/04/2014 - 22:05
    -1

    Missed it :(

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