Malala yousafzai - modern hero

[amateur51]

Well unless I'm about to be hauled before the forum's Marxist-Feminist Central Committee for a mandatory ruling on the issue, I guess that I am still permitted to speak for myself and be free to declare that I think I might just be a teeny-weeny bit wiser than I was in my youth ... ?

Cripes a self-confessed juvenile thicko?!

[french frank]

The West is of course very happy to provide a platform for Malala Yousafzai to speak out about education and the antediluvian attitudes she and many others are struggling against.

She is not so often quoted in the "free world" on subjects like this (in a statement following her meeting with Barack Obama): I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees," she said in the statement. "I also expressed my concerns that drone attacks are fueling terrorism. Innocent victims are killed in these acts, and they lead to resentment among the Pakistani people.

But education is her chief concern: the sentence which follows immediately on from the piece you quote here is "If we refocus efforts on education it will make a big impact".

If she is 'not so often' quoted in the "free world" on subjects like drone attacks and innocent victims being killed, is it because she doesn't so often speak out on them? The comments were reported in the Washington Post, for example, and by CNN. And published in the Associated Press. One can imagine places not in the "free world" where they would not have been reported at all..

[MrGongGong]

Well unless I'm about to be hauled before the forum's Marxist-Feminist Central Committee for a mandatory ruling on the issue, I guess that I am still permitted to speak for myself and be free to declare that I think I might just be a teeny-weeny bit wiser than I was in my youth ... ?

Can one be the judge of ones own wisdom ?

[P. G. Tipps]

Can one be the judge of ones own wisdom ?

Who is better informed and more qualified to judge than oneself, MrGG ... the one and only proud member of the Arbroath Anarchist Activists, I presume?

[P. G. Tipps]

Cripes a self-confessed juvenile thicko?!

No, just the usual excessive and wholly unconvincing self-deprecating modesty, amateur51 ...