14 Year-Old Peace Activist Shot in Head by Taliban Is Flown to AFIC Hospital
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, October 11, 2012, 11:10 AM
14 year-old peace activist Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head this week when Taliban fighters boarded her school bus and asked for her by name. Today she was flown to the top military hospital in Pakistan after her surgery.
Business Recorder reported:
Malala Yousafzai was airlifted to the country’s top military hospital for specialist treatment on Thursday, still in a critical condition, officials said.
The shooting of 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai on a school bus in the Swat valley has been denounced worldwide and by the Pakistani authorities, who have offered a reward of more than $100,000 for the capture of her attackers.
Two of her school friends were also injured in the attack, carried out as retribution for Malala’s campaign for the right to an education during a two-year Taliban insurgency.
“Now she needs post surgery care. The doctors recommended that AFIC (Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology) has better facilities for post-surgery care,” military spokesman Major General Asim Saleem Bajwa told AFP.
Pakistani school girls pray for the recovery of gunshot victim, Malala Yousafzai, in Multan. (AFP / SS Mirza)
Laura Bush wrote a powerful piece about Yousafzai’s courage this week in The Washington Post.
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Multitude commented:
There are millions more like Malala in Afghanistan that are a product of our nation building experiment, being educated young women. Regardless of whether you’re a pro-Bush neoconservative that believes in that approach, or an anti-interventionist who believes we should stay out, the reality is that we’ve prepared a lot of young, educated women for slaughter as soon as we pull out of Afghanistan.
These are pro-Democracy, educated women who deserve not to be the coming Genocide, blood that will certainly be on both political parties hands (Bush for intervening in their society and educating them, Obama for leaving them to the coming Taliban slaughter).
If there’s one thing both parties can agree on, it’s that we provide them with a chance for a home somewhere that allows them to exist and live as free persons, not as targets for rape, murder and genocide.
Remco Kimber commented:
But
Don’t
Call
Them,
SAVAGES,
Patty commented:
Former First Lady Laura Bush has been the most outspoken advocate for women’s rights in Afghanistan.
We haven’t a clue what she has done for these women and we may never know. She has worked diligently and for that we thank her.
And I pray for Malala Yousafzai and that she will recover and some day see her goal fulfilled.
American Woman commented:
Obama has allowed the Taliban to increase its power during his time in office. Shame on him and our military leaders like General Petraeus, who allowed an Islamic Fascist sympathizer to dictate the direction of America’s defense policies without a fight. It is because of those policies that America’s brave military men and women have become sitting ducks in Afghanistan.
This is what happens when you allow Rolling Stone magazine to ruin the reputation of a strong military leader like General Stanley McChrystal, who protected the troops under him and understood the duplicity of our enemies. He also knew the Obama Administration was clueless.
Remember that story? Here is a refresher: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/22/mcchrystal-rolling-stone_n_620795.html#s103734&title=President_Obama
Here’s some more: http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/neighborhoods-city/former-general-mcchrystal-speaks-about-complex-world-656416/
MVH commented:
Thank you, Mr. Hoft. The general public wouldn’t be aware of what else is going on in our country as well as the rest of the world if it wasn’t for your and others efforts. We’d only be aware of what the government media and Islamist apologists would “allow” us to know.
So many atrocities at the hand of Islamist fanatics is censored in the US. It’s ironic that most of the world’s “free” press is Left-leaning or frankly Leftist, and yet they fund space on their newsboards to post stuff like this.
I first saw this brave little girl’s plight on Al-Jazeera of all places! Reuters covered it, too.And both did a thorough job! How ironic.
American Woman commented:
Patty, let’s be clear. There can be no human rights in Afghanistan while the Taliban is allowed any power there. Obama and his administration allowed the new Afghan government to have ties with the Taliban. It is what happens when you allow an Islamic Fascist sympathizer in the White House.
By the way have you seen this must-read story about Obama’s ring: http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/obamas-ring-there-is-no-god-but-allah/
bg commented:
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the story is getting out there… Anderson Cooper
reported on it today via his tv show this morning..
October 11, 2012
Muhammad Must Be Okay With This
[If Muhammad doesn’t sanction this behavior aren’t the Taliban the real traitors to Islam? Conversely, if the Taliban are not the traitors to Islam, then Muhammad must be as evil as the Taliban. In any case Muslims cannot have it both ways.
Once again we have another example of the Erebusic evil of the followers of Muhammad that are so quick to shout allahu akbar. The Taliban attempted to murder a 14 year-old little girl, while she was on a school bus, because she advocated the right for Pakistani women to be educated and she had blogged to the BBC pursuant to what real life was like under the Taliban.
Where are the malicious feminists and duplicitous women’s groups that protest women are being treated unfairly because certain private organizations are not open to women? Where are the feminist women’s groups that claim to care about the health of women worldwide?
What more concern of the health of women can there be under the sun than to end the Islamic practice of throwing acid in the face of women? What more concern for women’s health can there be than the Islamic practice of stoning women and beating them?
The rueful liberal feminist groups are quick to protest that women are not treated the same pursuant to education and the lack of equal pay bromide, but wouldn’t the sane among us think the mistreatment of women by crazed Muslims would be a cause celebre for them? Where’s Madonna, Gaga and Hollywood? Wouldn’t a live concert/telethon to raise awareness and bring an end to such a primitive evil be a great step toward ending same?]
more at link..
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bg commented:
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like i keep telling you..
look a tad closer to home, it’s here, right under out noses, in plain
sight, we hear about it every day, yet we are apparently deaf dumb
and blind when is comes to Islam in our own back yard (government
& governmental institutions).. have Obama and his IslaMarxist thugs
instilled that much fear and intimidation in US?? our resounding silence
speaks volumes..
[A large majority of America’s Muslims, women and girls, are
living under sharia laws. Stripped of their human dignity.]
bit more of much more here & here, in connecting linsk, and threads..
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ponderon commented:
http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/october-surprise-obama-secret-iran-deal-cut/……
bg commented:
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re: ponderon #10 – page 1 October 11, 2012 at 1:18 pm
yes i know i’ve posted the following
ad nauseum, yet here i go again..
[Islamist-allied operatives appointed by Obama are undermining U.S. security policy – explains counter-Intelligence expert, Prof. Clare Lopez. Aimed at co-opting Americas foreign policy in the Middle East, a network including well-known American diplomats, congressional representatives, figures from academia and the think tank world – with ties to the clerical regime in Tehran – is directing the Obama Administration’s policy towards the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Middle East.l
as most regulars here know, that is but a drop in the proverbial bucket
that is IslaMarxism taking over the world inch by foot by yard by mile..
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bg commented:
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Watts Up With That?
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bg commented:
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oops re: #12 October 11, 2012 at 1:49 pm bg
wrong thread, sorry..
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bg commented:
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October 11, 2012
America needs to hear a clear strategy
for the Middle East at VP debate
[“The American Islamic Forum for Democracy is calling for the two
presidential campaigns to step away from partisan politics and use
tonight’s Vice Presidential debate as an opportunity to present their
foreign policy vision for the Middle East.
To date the United States has squandered the opportunity presented by the
“Arab Spring” to define a path towards liberty. The people of the region are
looking for true leadership from the west and an advocate for their freedom.
It is in the best interest of the United States to play an active role in redefining this region. The attacks of September 11, 2012 clearly demonstrate that the threat is stronger than ever. Our lack of resolve and determination only feeds the Islamist agenda on the ground. While America remains on the sidelines rest assured Iran, the rest of the OIC countries, Russia and China will play an active role in shaping the region
This presidential election is significant for many reasons, not the least of which is the generational shift that is occurring in the Middle East. If we ever hope to have true national security, we need to elect a President that understands the stakes and the motivations of the actors in the region.
The American people deserve a real discussion of the issues shaping U.S.
foreign policy and a clear demonstration of each campaign’s vision for the
future of the Middle East.”]
Amen..
tommy mc donnell commented:
this must be part of the republican party’s “war on women.” its funny though, it you look at the politicans that NOW supports, they are bringing these people here to america. at the head of that list of politicans is one barack obama.
bg commented:
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August 1, 2001
Journalist Sairi Shah: Life in Afghanistan under the Taliban
[So, the hospitals are filthy, and there is little personnel for women. Male doctors are not allowed to treat women, so there was insufficient medical attention. Another distressing things was young girls being taught in secret schools, and the level of risk they were taking of punishment or imprisonment. Also, the number of women beggars on the streets. There are about 40,000 widows because of the conflict. Many have no menfolk to support them, and they are not able to have jobs under Taliban law. So the laws that the Taliban believe will protect women have actually driven them into the streets to beg.
[..]
SHAH: Yes, there is. I assume you’re talking about the gory images in the film, and those are not the ones that stay with me. The thing I keep remembering from real life is three little girls we met in the village, whose mother has been shot. The Taliban came and tried to take over their house, and the husband had already been detained, and she was alone with her children. They shot the mother, and left her body in the courtyard. The girls were traumatized and shy, but it emerged that the Taliban stayed in the house with them alone for two days, which is unthinkable in that culture. The 15-year-old was wrapped in a shawl, rocking and crying. That was very upsetting. They were upsetting.
[..]
SHAH: That’s two questions, really, isn’t it? The Taliban’s fundamental religious beliefs are hard to pin down, because they’re not a homogenous organizations. Many Muslims say, and I agree, that many of the Taliban don’t know much about Islam. Many are uneducated. Some are very educated. It’s a diverse group. For example, we met a woman who said that she was walking with her friend, and a group of Taliban came and beat her friend up because she was wearing white shoes, saying she’d dishonored their white flag. That’s not Islam. Many things imposed by Taliban are against Islam.
[..]
The other thing is that we talk of the developing world, and when I go back, I see that Afghanistan has regressed. Particularly in the cities, I see the mass trauma, I don’t know how to describe it. People are traumatized there. Everyone has someone in their family that has died. Everyone has suffered, has seen violence. Whole generations have seen nothing but war, and the effect is very dreadful on the culture as a whole, and I find it very hard to watch.]
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∅ commented:
This must be the bad Taliban, right? [rolls eyes]
bg commented:
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so worth listening to..
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