A Brief Comment from Niagara At Large publisher Doug Draper
The accompanying image is one an NAL reader circulated as “something to be thankful for” this Canadian Thanksgiving.
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Indeed, this courageous teenager from Pakistan, known around the world as Malala, was my personal pick for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the organization that will be awarded the 2013 prize, is certainly a worthy recipient for its efforts to rid the world of these horrible weapons which, as recently as a few months ago, caused the agonizing deaths of hundreds of men, women and children in Syria.
But Malala, who was shot and nearly killed by Talaban zealots a year ago this October for standing up for the right for women in oppressed countries to get any education, is struggling for the kind of thing that gets at the root cause of poverty and conflict in the world. Here is hoping she will be a recipient of the prize in the near future.
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I think she has a very important role to play regarding education for and liberation of many women in backward, misogynistic nations and she WILL receive the Nobel in the future if there is any justice in the world. She is well spoken and inspirational. That is why grown men (with tiny brains and insecure egos) are so afraid of her that they tried to kill her. God forbid women should actually come out from their body bags and contribute.
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