Her "Crime" Was Loving Schools
is the title of this New York Times column by Nicholas Kristof. Like the current recommended diary Never loved Lawrence O'Donnell as much as today ... it is about Malala Yousafzai, the 14-year-old Pakistan girl who is an advocate for the education of girls and who was shot by the Pakistani Taliban because she would not cease.
The issue of girls and women is a passion for Kristof. The book he co-wrote with his wife and the video based on it, "Half The Sky," demonstrates his long-term commitment.
I am not going to go through the column point by point. Please read it. Kristof points out that the shooting of Malala was not isolated, telling us about a girl in Indonesia who was repeatedly raped for her advocacy of female education, then publicly expelled in from her school - in front of her classmates - because she had been raped!
Let me offer just a few selections from this superb column to encourage you to read it and pass it on.
The issue of girls and women is a passion for Kristof. The book he co-wrote with his wife and the video based on it, "Half The Sky," demonstrates his long-term commitment.
I am not going to go through the column point by point. Please read it. Kristof points out that the shooting of Malala was not isolated, telling us about a girl in Indonesia who was repeatedly raped for her advocacy of female education, then publicly expelled in from her school - in front of her classmates - because she had been raped!
Let me offer just a few selections from this superb column to encourage you to read it and pass it on.
These events coincide with the first international Day of the Girl on Thursday, and they remind us that the global struggle for gender equality is the paramount moral struggle of this century, equivalent to the campaigns against slavery in the 19th century and against totalitarianism in the 20th century.Please continue below the squiggle . .