Chapter 2: Not Like Me
Malala is a girl in Pakistan wants to and does stand up for girls' and women's rights in education. She speaks up for women's rights to encourage and inspire others that we have a voice, and that women and girls should be able to do the same things that men and boys can do (gender equality). In one on her speeches she had said in for her fellow classmates, she said, "This is not the Stone Age," I said. "But it feels as if we are going backward. Girls are getting more deprived of our rights." I spoke about how much I loved school. About how important it was to keep learning. "We are afraid of no one, and we will continue our education. This is our dream."
They put fear in the hearts of the Pakistani people so that they will do everything that the Taliban tell them to do. The Taliban is a group of men that are terrorists. They don't believe that women and girls should be able to go to school or be in public unless accompanied by a male. So they bomb schools and kill and hurt people and women/girls who don't follow their rules.
Malala and the Taliban are both Muslim, but their views on Islamic Law and what it means to be a Muslim are different. Malala and the Taliban are also similar because they both travel/have traveled to many places around the world. But, Malala traveled to give speeches on women's and school rights, and she also traveled for medical treatment after the Taliban shot her.
In contrast, the Taliban traveled around the world to mainly terrorize people, and to put fear in the hearts of many Islam/Muslim people (and even some other people in other countries who have heard about the Taliban). Another similarity is that Malala and the Taliban both believe strongly in what they believe in. But Mala is for women and girls, and their rights. And the Taliban is against women and girls in relation to the rights that they have or have had before the Taliban came along.
Works Cited
Yousafzai, Malala, et al. I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood up for Education and
Changed the World. Oshkosh, OSCI Braille Program, 2016.
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Malala's Report Card
No FicciónIf you have read about Malala Yousafzai in the book, "I Am Malala", or want to learn more about her or who she is..then this book is for you. Malala was/is a brave and courageous mulsim woman who had quite an adventurous life as a young girl. But by...
