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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Rude Pundit: Photos That Give the Rude Pundit a Little Bit of Hope To Get Through the Week
You see that? That's tens of thousands of people in the streets of Karachi, Pakistan. They are not being assholes about a dumb video. They are not protesting anything about the United States, not even our drone war. There are no burning stars and stripes, no Obama effigies.
It is a protest against the Taliban for the shooting of 14 year-old Malala Yousafazi because she was an activist for the right of girls to get an education. It is a protest that contains Muslims, Christians, and Hindus. We can say that it's pretty obviously a sign that the Pakistanis are sick of this shit and are not gonna take it anymore.
The question is who is going to take advantage of this and how. Will it be reformers who want to stop the radical elements from taking over the nation? Will it be the majority party politicians, who see this as a distraction from protesting the U.S. and NATO (and let's be clear: we deserve the protests when it comes to the violence we have brought to that nation)? Pakistan's foreign minister offered that Malala "has put it as a black and white question. She has put it as either you are with the future that she represents or the future they (Taliban) are trying to impose."
Yes, this is a clarifying kind of moment, on many levels. Muslim clerics across the country have declared the shooting "un-Islamic" and have issued, yes, a fatwa against those responsible for it. And the protests, which started small, have only grown.
Meanwhile, Malala has been taken to the UK for medical attention. She has been on and off a ventilator, the bullet having been removed from her neck at a military hospital. There is hope, yes, however slim, for her life and the life of her nation.
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The Rude Pundit: Photos That Give the Rude Pundit a Little Bit of Hope To Get Through the Week (Original Post)
meegbear
Oct 2012
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WillyT
(72,631 posts)1. K & R !!!
Dem2TheCore
(220 posts)2. One little girl!
One little girl has done more to defeat the Taliban than any army.
daleanime
(17,796 posts)4. +1,000,000,000
Hopefully her future is as brilliant as the one she's offering to her nation.
Raster
(20,998 posts)3. One has to wonder: when will Americans rise up to defeat OUR Taliban....
...whose war on women, gays and people of color is just as despicable?
That said: BRAVO for the Pakistani People! BRAVO!