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Pakistan: University can’t guarantee security of event honoring girl shot by Taliban, cancels event

Jan 28, 2014 9:11 pm By Robert Spencer

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Malala insists that what the Taliban do transgresses against the true teachings of Islam; yet those who adhere to what she regards as those true teachings do not have sufficient numbers or power to protect an event that was to be held in her honor at Peshawar University. Those whom she regards as Misunderstanders of Islam are ruling the day.

“Pakistani University Cancels Event Promoting Teenager’s Memoir,” by Ismail Khan and Salman Masoodjan for the New York Times, January 28 (thanks to Kenneth):

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Malala Yousafzai may be a global celebrity, but in her home province, she remains a focus of controversy.

On Tuesday, officials at Peshawar University said that ministers in the provincial government of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa had forced them to cancel a ceremony to promote Ms. Yousafzai’s memoir, “I Am Malala,” which relates her experiences as a schoolgirl advocating education for girls and surviving an attempted assassination by the Pakistani Taliban. The book, published last year, is a best seller in the West but is not widely available in Pakistan, especially in the conservative northwest.

Officials at the university’s Area Study Center, where the event was to be held, said they had come under pressure from the provincial government, including Shah Farman, the minister of information, to cancel the event, which was meant to formally introduce the book to the region. The government said it could not provide the necessary security for the event.

Ms. Yousafzai, 16, was not scheduled to appear in person. After she was shot in the head in 2012, she was flown to Britain for medical treatment, and she and her family have since settled there.

The cancellation drew widespread criticism. Even Imran Khan, the national leader of one of the political parties that governs the province, weighed in with dismay.

“I am at a loss 2 understand why Malala’s book launch stopped in Peshawar,” Mr. Khan wrote on Twitter. Using the initials for his party, the Pakistan Justice Party, he added, “PTI believes in freedom of speech/debate, not censorship of ideas.”

That makes the PTI a minority among the Islamic supremacists in Peshawar. Even American Leftists would have trouble agreeing with Imran Khan on this, so dedicated are they to shutting down their foes by force.

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  1. gravenimage says

    Jan 28, 2014 at 10:49 pm

    Pakistan: University can’t guarantee security of event honoring girl shot by Taliban, cancels event
    …………………………………..

    And why would this be, if she is really just threatened by a “tiny minority of extremists”?

    More

    Malala insists that what the Taliban do transgresses against the true teachings of Islam; yet those who adhere to what she regards as those true teachings do not have sufficient numbers or power to protect an event that was to be held in her honor at Peshawar University. Those whom she regards as Misunderstanders of Islam are ruling the day.
    …………………………………..

    As they do everywhere in Islam. Even the Muslim victims of Islam like Malala cannot bring themselves to acknowledge that Islam itself is the problem.

    In fact, a *lot* of Muslims feel hostile to Malala—could you imagine such a thing in the West?

    If you Google “Malala is”, the first thing that comes up is “Malala is fake”, and includes such stories as “Malala is a drama staged by the US”, and “Is Malala a Conspiracy?” and Iran TV claims that Malal is a Hungarian Christian named Jane…

    And then there’s “I hate Malala BITCH of Pakistan”, “We hate Malala Yousafzai – Bitch”, and “I hate Malala CIA agent. I love pakistan”, which includes the lines, “Malala is Anti islamic and anti Pakistani , American bitch”.

    This article pretty much sums it up:

    “Malala Yousafzai: Backlash against Pakistani teen activist spreads in her homeland”

    Days after 16-year-old Malala Yousafzai’s powerful speech at the UN, social media users at home in Pakistan have called her a western stooge, a CIA spy and a prostitute.

    http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2013/07/19/malala_yousafzai_backlash_against_pakistani_teen_activist_spreads_in_her_homeland.html

    The article includes this line, which gets to the disturbing heart of the matter:

    “But a growing backlash in Pakistan against Malala has raised fears that the Taliban’s extremist rhetoric may be uncomfortably close to mainstream thinking.”

    And we have the usual islamic cognitive dissonance, which holds both that the West (usually the US) staged the shooting, and that Malala at the same tine deserved to be shot.

    More:

    PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Malala Yousafzai may be a global celebrity, but in her home province, she remains a focus of controversy.
    …………………………………..

    “Focus of controversy”—now, *that’s* a civilized way to put it. Unfortunately, there is nothing civilized about her being called a “prostitute” and threatened with death.

    And not just her—the threat is against anyone who might have been present at her book launch.

    At least she and her family have the sense to stay in Dar-al-Harb. But given the extent to which Britain has been infiltrated by homicidal Mohammedans, they may not be safe there, either…

    • fair_dinkum says

      Jan 29, 2014 at 12:51 am

      “And we have the usual islamic cognitive dissonance, which holds both that the West (usually the US) staged the shooting, and that Malala at the same tine deserved to be shot.”

      true. and shout rabid, incomprehensible reasons until they are filmed burning a flag or effigy. the “child tantrum” tactic.

      England is no guarantee of safety. i hope she does remain safe and speaks loudly.

  2. mortimer says

    Jan 28, 2014 at 11:03 pm

    Dear Malala! Such a fine young person! So unaware of the misogyny Islam teaches. Not what she wants Islam to teach. Pakistan is one of the darkest places on earth, dragged backwards 1400 years into the harsh cruelty of the dry Arabian desert. The Arabs have beauty contests for camels and goats, but not for women!

    • Defcon 4 says

      Jan 29, 2014 at 4:11 pm

      Malala wrote a steaming piece of Taqiyya that the Ayatollah of Iran would approve of. An apologia for islam that made it seem to be a tolerant ideology of light and goodness that’s being hijacked by evil, blue meanies.

  3. Tradewinds says

    Jan 29, 2014 at 8:15 am

    “Malala insists that what the Taliban do transgresses against the true teachings of Islam”

    And that’s the problem with Malala. I’ve seen that BS in every article I’ve read about her. It takes away from her achievement of surviving and supporting education for girls in islamic countries.

  4. Gamaliel says

    Jan 29, 2014 at 10:47 am

    I just finished reading Malala’s book. She is a devout Muslim and so are members of her family. Her father is the unsung hero here fighting to educate Muslim children and facing tremendous danger in doing so. The Taliban murdered men whose dress didn’t meet their approval and these were fully clothed men. No where in the Koran does it say to do that. The Taliban are extremist monsters. Malala’s family are good people.

    • Defcon 4 says

      Jan 29, 2014 at 4:15 pm

      “Devout muslim” and “good people” don’t belong in the same sentence. I wonder if she agrees w/how the holey books of islam portray Jews and Judaism? I wonder is she agrees w/the “authentic” islamic ahadith that call for a genocide of Jews?

      • Gamaliel says

        Jan 29, 2014 at 6:39 pm

        I read the book, she prayed for the welfare of everyone not just Muslims.

        • Defcon 4 says

          Jan 30, 2014 at 3:27 am

          Oh, how nice of her, did she renounce or repudiate the antisemitic vomit found in all the holy books of islam? What about the three, authentic ahadith that call for a genocide of Jews? Dr. Bill Warner did a statistic survey of the incidence of antisemitic commentary in the holy books of islam, he found the incidence to be higher than that found in Mein Kampf.

  5. Gamaliel says

    Jan 29, 2014 at 6:41 pm

    Malala represents a threat to those in power in Pakistan. She could be the new Benazir Bhutto and get them voted out of office. Those in the government have a lot of incentive to smear her. On the otherhand they did pay for her medical treatment in England. It’s clear from her book that the army and the ISI is very infiltrated with Muslim crazies.

    • Defcon 4 says

      Jan 30, 2014 at 3:29 am

      Benazir Bhutto had a very generous islamic retirement package as well. I wonder how she’s enjoying her islamic heavenly reward(s) in Moe’s bordello in the sky?

  6. jimmi says

    Jan 30, 2014 at 10:12 am

    Malala insists that what the Taliban do transgresses against the true teachings of Islam. Prove it.

    It is sad when you see these brainwashed children speaking.

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