She Became Known to the World as Malala Yousufzai . . .

Malala Yousufzai at her PC. (TV Screenshot/R.Bergeron)

. . . and for the misfortune of being born as a female in Pakistan, this 14-year-old schoolgirl was shot in the head by radical Islamist members of the Taliban because, as they framed it, she was “promoting Western Culture.”
 
The killers intercepted and boarded a school bus, asked the other children to identify her, drove a bullet into her brain, and injured two other students.
  
Malala’s only crime is that she is a young activist who held that the education of girls and women in Pakistan is a birthright and was active in promoting that cause.  However, that is a very dangerous point of view in Pakistan – particularly in the Swat Valley which was her home and in which the Taliban is active.

Pakistani women in support of Malala. (TV Screenshot/R. Bergeron)

 
Although the assassination attempt failed, the Taliban, persistent in its pursuit of evil, pledged to make a second attempt to terminate the life of Malala. 
 
In the face of this serious threat and, after the hospital in Pakistan where she was being treated could do no more for her recovery, Malala was airlifted to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, England. 
 
It is a trauma center which has cared for returning wounded military personnel suffering from major brain injury and other severe battle shock.
 

Malala shown studying. (TV Screenshot/R.Bergeron)

This attack upon a mere schoolchild is a disgusting, revolting deed which any rational mind imprinted with the stamp of civilization recognizes for what it is – an act of barbarism.
 
To begin understanding the intensity of worldwide concern for this young girl’s fate, Google her full name.  When I did, over 78,200,000 results popped up.
 
Malala is now recovering in the UK and her condition was recently reported as improving, although the quality of her eventual prognosis is unclear.
 
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