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Permalink Reply by Chris Breman on October 11, 2012 at 1:10am

...let's thank the gods for their wonderful gifts!

Permalink Reply by Loren Miller on October 11, 2012 at 6:44am

I got a better idea: let's thank the docs and nurses and support staff who are working to keep her alive!  That kid has got guts most of us couldn't DREAM of.  She deserves the ability to continue to speak out!

Permalink Reply by Chris Breman on October 11, 2012 at 8:10am

I hope she survives and continues to speak out, but the thought that the attack on Malala will incite people to keep their daughters home makes me very bitter.

Permalink Reply by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on October 15, 2012 at 11:57pm

That kid has got guts most of us couldn't DREAM of.

Bravo to that!

Permalink Reply by Pat on October 11, 2012 at 8:27am

Hate to disagree, but when the Taliban government was thrown out of power in Afghanistan, we initially saw people rejoicing in the streets. So, if they hated them so much, how come those particular warlords haven't disappeared? In fact, Afghani soldiers, after being trained, seemed to be defecting and fighting for them. And, they seem to be gaining strength - both in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Yes, people have expressed their outrage over this. Just as they expressed outrage over a girl having her nose cut off, or another having acid thrown in her face, or stoning to death, all done by these degenerate SOBs. The problem is, outrage has no effect on them, or their behavior, whatsoever. 

Permalink Reply by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on October 13, 2012 at 1:10pm

It's my understanding that the main reason people in Afghanistan support the Taliban is that the government which we support is so horribly corrupt and useless.

Permalink Reply by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on October 13, 2012 at 1:08pm

I'm glad to hear the public is on her side.

Permalink Reply by James M. Martin on October 14, 2012 at 4:26pm

This may lead to the sort of Enlightenment all progressive people could hope for where martyrs are sometimes created by holy men saying God wants to hurt innocent people in the name of the prophet, slay them all and Allah will sort His own.  This child is that most precious thing born of man: as another prophet put it, willing to lay down her life for those of others.  Only when man understands the truth of Donne's meditations will we realize a quantum theoretical potentiality: infinite and vast connectedness on the subatomic level, not just spacially but in time.

Permalink Reply by Jim DePaulo on October 15, 2012 at 3:20pm

Since I posted this discussion 5 days ago, Malala's story has hit the "front page" in international news - as well it should. She has been transferred to a British hospital - which is the hospital where critical war injuries are sent. She will have world class treatment and , more importantly , she and her family will be free of reprisals from the “religious warriors for Allah” [may 10,000 Camel fleas infest their privates] . I don't think her condition has changed from critical.

My youngest grand daughter is Malala's age and, if she was in Malala's world, she would likely be very similar to Malala - that gives me a chill running up my back.

History has many incidences in which the acts and the fate of a single individual ignites the bomb, the bomb already present in the population but needs the spark.