Showing posts with label Taliban. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Taliban. Show all posts

Saturday, October 20, 2012

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.