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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat terrifies religious extremists like the Taliban are not American tanks or bombs or bullets
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,699 posts)Thanks for posting it.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)siligut
(12,272 posts)This article was posted on DU back in May, I think it needs an encore now.
You are powerful beyond words, because you threaten to unravel the control of corrupt men who abuse their authority.
---snip---
If you were not powerful, they would not take you so seriously and they take you very, very seriously. You should, too. You can set the world on fire.
---snip---
Your very existence makes them anxious. And their anxiety is particularly high because you have something no generation of girls has had before -- globally connected communities of men and women who support your equality and freedom.
Fuck the nasty old religious men.
MsPithy
(809 posts)These girls grow up to be women who fuck whoever they want. I suspect, nasty old religious men have about zero chance.
Turborama
(22,109 posts)Exact timing for an encore.
It's got me reading some other really interesting articles over there, too.
It's been ages since I've visited Alternet, so thanks for the reminder as well.
femrap
(13,418 posts)don't fuck the nasty old religious men....may they never have an erection again.
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)Dem2TheCore
(220 posts)Bombs and bullets create martyrs. Education and knowledge create freedom.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)hunter
(38,326 posts)And they hate the Islamic religious extremists for not being Christian extremists like themselves.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)They hate everyone who doesn't look like them, act like them, believe exactly what they believe, have the same the same genitals as them, speak the same language as them, live in the same country they do, and have the same sexual orientation as them (or at least what they claim to have).
daleanime
(17,796 posts)TahitiNut
(71,611 posts)... has become a national mantra as she is declared a national treasure. For myself, I see her as a world treasure and I could only dream of having her clear-eyed courage, indomitable spirit, and effortless grace.
I'm reminded of Rachel Corrie ... and pray that Malala survives, fully recovers, and continues to show us the way.
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)Martin Eden
(12,875 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,036 posts)Hubert Flottz
(37,726 posts)It's a sad world we all live in and Malala is one shining star.
Smilo
(1,944 posts)sadly this is happening in America on the religious right - just look at Texas SBOE and what they are trying to do away with in our text books.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)that the tale of original sin is about eating from the tree of knowledge.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,377 posts)redqueen
(115,103 posts)BlueToTheBone
(3,747 posts)Brave men fear women. In this case a young girl.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)they consider them equals.
duhneece
(4,118 posts)Until they understand that an empowered woman can give more to her community, her family, her man than a woman who is under any man's control and living in fear.
felix_numinous
(5,198 posts)clerics know that to control women is to (attempt to) control the future. It is that simple--and THIS is why fundamentalists are fixed upon women's issues.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)Controls the world
rollin74
(1,990 posts)Turborama
(22,109 posts):kick:
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)I so hope she recovers and goes on to do great things for her country.