Book
Review
“I
Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the
Taliban” by Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb, Christina Lamb, 327 pages, Published
October 8th, 2013 by Little, Brown, and Company
Throughout the globe, thousands of people
especially Muslims were shot dead without any reason. Being a Pakistani, Malala, made effort for a very basic right to
education. “Acquiring education is a religious obligation for both men and
women in Islam”. Quran teaches us to think
upon the blueness of the sky, the vastness of the worlds, why the stars are
twinkling and oceans are deep. But a specific sect known as the Taliban could never want to let Muslims
especially girls could read and write. They may take the pens or book but how
can they took the school of thoughts from which the Muslims belong. Malala was
not amongst those who kept silent just being a girl. She was much dependent on
her intelligence too. Being a human being she considered women from each race
should compete in every field of life and work with the men equally without any
type of discrimination either is gender base or racism.
Malala said: “she used to live in a place
where the people make celebrations on the birth of son while hid the birth of
the girls. The people of her tribe considered woman as “birth machine” and her
duty is only to prepare food. But, Malala
thinks on the other side of society. She
openly opposed gender discrimination. She also thought girls should go to
school as the boys go. When the Taliban take control of her native area, it was not
possible to carry out her activities openly but she did. Taliban started
destroying the schools of her area and forbade the girls to go to school.
Malala’s father was a school teacher and encouraged the steps taken by her daughter. She was not more than 15 at
that time. It was a day in October 2012, when she was returning from her
school, Taliban attacked her school van
and shot Malala in her head.
Luckily, Malala gets recovered from a serious injury and shifted to England with
her family. Malala expresses her regret that she is not her country. She misses
her homeland and wishes to back to her country as soon as possible. She also wished
to see her friends, who were also in the van at that time, when she got
injured. She never wished to take revenge on her enemies but she wished to
see the day when there is peace in Pakistan. She considered the Taliban as
Muslims and said why the Muslims are fighting with each other. However, the
facts are quite opposite to her perceptions. Although the attack Muslim
mosques and their gatherings, there is a wave of terrorism in Pakistan, and not
a single day passed without a martyred or in
the name of Target Killing, Honor killing, and much more. The non-availability of electricity has no link
to the terrorist.
She wrote an effective story on the circumstances
of Pakistan and tell the true face of Pashtuns. While reading Malala’s
book, I come to know all this not only
happened in Pakistan but the other parts of the Globe too like Afghanistan, India, Iran, Palestine, Kashmir, Syria, and
other countries. It was a new thing for me. She added up my information. I
recommended everybody read her book at least
once. Especially to the one who is highly interested in women’s rights, current
events, history, or inspirational stories? As a Muslim, I enthralled and
confess the bravery shown by a little Malala. Her steps for striving for quality
education in her country are appreciatable enough.
To know the importance of education, one
should read this book once. Acquiring an education is a great blessing for those who know the worth of
education. I am a lucky one who lives in
a country like Pakistan where the majority of the population is Muslims. The women are independent in getting the education from
their home side. Nobody from her home forced him to serve the men. Malala is
really appreciatable on focusing world sight towards this dilemma.
This girl really faced the difficulty from
which a sensible man cannot deny. History revealed that except few, no
Pakistani politicians remained sincere with their country. The girls in an
Islamic country has many horror stories.
Even Malala and her father told very crying stories of politicians, neighbors, and the Taliban. Only the
interested ones can read those stories and
this book feels like it was truly surged, which is a genuine disgrace. Somebody
this overcomes and fascinating merits a superior book. Malala Yousafzai is a
colossally overcome young woman of immaculate character. Possibly, you should
coordinate your incredulity somewhere else. By perusing this book, I get a yearning for regular day-to-day existence including Freedom of discourse. The freedom of religion. It is considered a risk
to go to the store without a male escort. In addition, the capacity to get an
instruction, paying little heed to
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