During supper one October evening while listening to
the news on the radio, I suddenly put down my fork and gripped my
10-year-old son's arm. We listened intently to the broadcast. A Taliban
gunman had shot 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai in the head while she was sitting with her classmates on a bus in Mingora, Pakistan. The Guardian reported
that a Taliban spokesman characterized Malala's advocacy work for
girls' education as an "obscenity" that had to be stopped. Malala and
her family had been targeted because of the blog
she had written for the BBC while she was in seventh grade chronicling
the effects of Taliban repression in her region, including the burning
of girls' schools.
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