Malala is in favor of the Islamic ideology enough to donate $50,000 to UN schools in Gaza that Hamas uses for its jihad against Israel, but that isn’t good enough for the All Pakistan Private Schools Federation. This story shows the cognitive dissonance between the non-Muslim West’s fantasy-based view of Islam and the reality on the ground. In the West, Malala is a hero — not despite of but no doubt in part because of her hatred for Israel. But in Pakistan, 150,000 schools across the country are expressing their opposition to her — 150,000 schools filled with Muslims whom the West assumes to be misunderstanders of Islam.
“Malala Yousafzai, Nobel Laureate, Is Assailed by Schools Group in Pakistan,” by Salman Masood, New York Times, November 10, 2014:
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A network of private schools on Monday unleashed a scathing public attack on Malala Yousafzai, the teenage Nobel laureate, in the most concerted assault yet on her reputation in her home country.
The All Pakistan Private Schools Federation, which claims to represent 150,000 schools across Pakistan, declared that Monday would be “I am not Malala” day and urged the government to ban her memoir, “I Am Malala,” because it offended Islam and the “ideology of Pakistan.”
“We are all for education and women’s empowerment,” said Mirza Kashif Ali, the organization’s president. “But the West has created this persona who is against the Constitution and Islamic ideology of Pakistan.”
The public denunciation of Ms. Yousafzai, 17, who has been hailed all over the world as a figure of courage, reflected how differently her celebrity has been received in some parts of Pakistani society — even after she jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize with the Indian child rights activist Kailash Satyarthi last month.
Abroad, Ms. Yousafzai is revered for continuing her impassioned advocacy of education and girls’ rights after being shot in the head by a Taliban gunman in 2012. She is currently studying in Britain, where she lives with her exiled family.
But in her homeland, Ms. Yousafzai divides opinion. While some Pakistanis have lionized her as a national hero, others portray her as a Western stooge who has maligned both country and religion.
Conservatives frequently cite from her memoir, written with Christina Lamb, a journalist, to bolster their case. During the news conference on Monday, Mr. Ali accused Ms. Yousafzai of defending the author Salman Rushdie, whose novel “The Satanic Verses” remains banned in Pakistan, in her book.
“It is clear that Malala has a nexus with Salman Rushdie and is aligned with his club,” he said.
In fact, the book notes only that Ms. Yousafzai’s father saw “The Satanic Verses” as “offensive to Islam,” and that he said that Muslims should first read the novel, then respond.
“Is Islam such a weak religion that it cannot tolerate a book written against it? Not my Islam!” the book quotes her father as saying….
tpellow says
BBC World Service provides a non-judgemental, euphemistic, superficial report on the Islamic indoctrination of boys in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
The programme, paid for by British licencepayers, is presented by Mobeen Azhar-
“Inside the Osama Bin Laden Imam School”
(28 minutes audio)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p029twmg
Jen says
But in Pakistan, 150,000 schools across the country are expressing their opposition to her — 150,000 schools filled with Muslims whom the West assumes to be misunderstanders of Islam.
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What a shitehole this county is. So many dogs infected with Islam rabies.
“Is Islam such a weak religion that it cannot tolerate a book written against it? Not my Islam!” the book quotes her father as saying….
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Well mate, your Islam is fantasy Islam because people are being butchered in the name of real Islam. This is why I thought the book was counterproductive to the anti-jihad cause. Because it doesn’t frame Islam in a realistic light. A girl being shot in the head is perfectly in keeping with Islam but the book made it seem like those aggressive Muslims weren’t representative of Islam as a whole because there were non-violent Muslims like Malala.
And when Malala speaks in public, this only ends up reinforcing the idea that there is a usefulness in making a distinction between ‘radical’ Islam and ‘moderate’ Islam. So people keep clinging onto hope that a figure like Malala will be able to help turn things around for Islam and all its problems with violence.
Malala would be able to do more for girls’ education if she could tell everyone that Islam is the problem. Then more people would stop wanting to tackle the symptoms and actually attack the root cause.
mortimer says
Thanks, Jen.
Ben Affleck is a perfect example of a Westerner who assumes he understands Islam, but he is actually clueless about real Islam and real Muslims who have successfully concealed their true beliefs from him.
Mirren10 says
Serves her right, as far as I’m concerned.
She has refused to reject islam, despite what the Taliban did to her. She also exhibited her islamic induced Jew hatred by donating her Nobel Prize money to the Jew hating organisation, Hamas.
Now the Islamic jackals are circling her. I have no sympathy.
Jen says
Well yes, it is self-inflicted. But the sheer number of people wanting her dead shows that her idea of peaceful fantasy Islam is a lie. Or that is a ‘tiny minority’ who are a problem. That country is filled with diseased people.
mortimer says
Please, don’t blame Malala. She’s suffered enough. She just wants to help GIRLS and I’m all for her.
Jen says
Donating the money was her choice though. Was there another reason behind her choice? She isn’t helping girls by saying Islam isn’t the problem when it is. It is distracting to people who will look at the problem in the wrong light. That part on its own, may not be intentional, but that is the outcome of doing that.
As for so many wanting to kill her, that just shows how mad they all are and how mad Islam is.
Jen says
Malala has suffered at the hands of other Muslims but I do think there is a reason why Gaza was chosen and not some other cause somewhere else. I think it would be due to her Muslim background and the attitudes she would have developed through this.
Sanjulcle says
Oh really Mortimer! What a load of crap. She is another Jew hater, but in a soft disguise.
Judi says
Mirren – my thoughts exactly.
Andrew GB says
A pie of her own baking.
Interesting that St Malala and her tribe have settled in the oppressive west and not a peaceful country such as an Islamic one. To be honest, not a shit could be given about her, its a putty she didn’t use her money to support her family and not sponge off the uk tax payer.
mortimer says
Let’s help girls get an education.
Jen says
Yes but what is the outcome of girls in Islam getting an education? It won’t ensure that they leave Islam. And if they don’t, they could give birth to children who decide to follow violent Islam, and then it just gets out of hand again. There are female doctors over in IS at the moment and instead of saving lives, they are taking them. The one I’m thinking of is even pregnant! What a fine young boy/girl, this child will be…A father who is a beheader and a mother who says that their deaths will be ‘the death of martyrs.’ They will probably teach their kid to play football with a severed head.
Jaladhi says
This is true Islam being followed by regular Muslims and yet the Western media routinely describes them as part of their fantasy Islam that is all peaceful. I hope there are more demonstrations like this against Malala’s book in Islamic countries so that the West can open its eyes and see the truth about real Islam and stop fantasizing about “peaceful” Islam and Muslims.
There is no peaceful Islam and no peaceful Muslims, no matter how much one dreams about them!! truthfully the West is now totally delusional about Islam and Muslims!
Jacksonl03 says
“We are all for education and women’s empowerment,” said Mirza Kashif Ali, the organization’s president. “But the West has created this persona who is against the Constitution and Islamic ideology of Pakistan.”
When I read or hear crap and outright lying like this I come near weeping: Many in the West actually believe it. How on earth can one be ” . . . all for . . . women’s empowerment.” and at the same time be Muslim, believe in the Quran and Islamic law which clearly and frequently call for female subjugation?
Mirza Kashif Ali is either a complete dunce or a deliberate propagandist.
MAHENDRA SINGH says
Frankly, I am getting a little tired of this brat. She cannot do anything
for girls’ education in Pakistan sitting in the comfort of UK at their expense.
The money she donated to Islamic terrorists was a gift of the western
culture.
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Wtf? says
Ha Ha
Now let’s be frank here. Malala regardless of her book and Nobel Prize really represents male Islamic failure in the grandest sense. Four raghead morons sent to kill her from the famed (sic) Taliban could not kill her from point blank range inside a bus. Ha! What a bunch of dickheads! The Taliban are a failure and Pakistan as a nation has shown itself time and time again to be dishonest, brutal and backward amongst all it’s layers of society. Arguably a true representative of a Muslim Country.
Jacksonl03 says
I can’t but wonder where your idiotic thought process thinks Malala ought to be: Back it the land where they would murder her? If you’re not a Muslim, you should join up: You’ve got the mind set for it.
Mahendra Singh says
Then how is she going to spread her message among Pakistanis? After all,
she seeks to see that Paki children get sound secular education which ultimately will liberate them from ignorance and poverty. How come India
would welcome any advocate of education, but Pakistanis would seek to kill them? There must be some deep- rooted flaw in her Islam, but she is not willing to acknowledge it.
Incidentally, her own government has not acknowledged her impact.
They are just silent about her shooting. She has gone unappreciated in her own native country.
Wtf? says
Why?
She is female with no rights in that death cult and all the other millions of girls and mothers in Paki land are scared shitless what will happen to them if they support her. Every day she lives and is courted by the Western world is a seeping wound to the failed male muslim domination of that crap country.
She will come to understand Islam a lot better from a Western perspective and will form her own opinions. As for calling her a brat you must know her very well to pass that judgement. Or is is a comment repeatedly used by your local insane Mullah and his band of mysoginists?
JIMJFOX says
She is very young, naive, idealistic; with increasing maturity and Pakistani hostility she must realise, one day that Islam is the issue. I hope so.
Mahendra Singh says
All she has to declare that she is renouncing Islam, and want to live as
a human being. She will have no dearth of supporters.
Islam will eventually disintegrate because of two reasons:
(1) There are too many contradictions within Islam
(2) Muslims’ morals, deeds, polity and ethics are derived from the
book called Koran, which is 1400 years old, has never been revised and is totally irrelevan to present times
Change Watch says
As long as she covers her head and supports HAMAS then what’s her real message. She is part of the problem not the answer. Pakistan should, for all our sakes, be nuked off the planet.
dumbledoresarmy says
She’s studying in the West; in the UK.
I hope and pray that she’s not in some all-Muslim institution but, rather, at a secular institution…in classes that include *Christian* girls her own age, who will quietly and prayerfully and persistently encourage her to *read the gospels*.
My prayer is for her *apostasy* from Islam. But that will only happen through a *miracle* from the true and living God.
voegelinian says
“Malala is in favor of the Islamic ideology enough to donate $50,000 to UN schools in Gaza that Hamas uses for its jihad against Israel, but that isn’t good enough for the All Pakistan Private Schools Federation”
This is something like Reason (and Datum) #937,058 indicating that when Muslims oppose each other, this does not mean the Muslims being opposed by other Muslims are somehow more moderate. But no matter how high this mountain of data gets, the Counter-Jihad Softies keep hope alive; the Great Brown Hope that some critical mass of Muslims can and will save us from the problem their own Islam is causing the world.
Seabeesrule! says
To give this girl a Nobel peace prize is almost as disgusting as when they gave it to Arafat ! This girl is a muslim first and foremost a Jew hater and now she is sponging off Britain along w her whole family… Yeah she was shot for being opinionated in that hell hole of a muslim shit stain of a country but instead of denouncing Islam the very ideology which got her shot she embraces it by giving Jew hating Hamas her prize money! How abt paying back the UK for the free housing, schooling, welfare benefits (cmon she’s got to go too school and poppa muzzratt certainly can’t work!)and let’s not forget all the free surgeries she’s had on the British tax payer!!! Nope I’m not buying the poor girl just wants other oppressed girls to have schooling routine.. She just like all the other benefit grubbing muzzrats who flock to UK… Only more clever..if she was sincere she would denounce Islam from the highest hill top take off the head scarf and come into the 21st century! Hypocrite!