Malala Yousafzai shares Nobel Peace Prize!

[Wrabbit2000]

Malala Yousafzai is a girl I first wrote about shortly after she nearly became a martyr to the cause of free speech, religion and basic human rights for women. This is the little girl who had the nerve to suggest little girls ought to have the right to an education. The Taliban decided their freedom of expression trumped hers, and expressed themselves with a bullet to her head (You would never know it, to look at the picture in the story!).

She was again a topic in the news when she was released from Hospital in the UK, following a recovery that really was against the odds in many ways. Not bitter or broken by nearly being executed for an ideal, I'd written a few things back then too, about her resilience and determination to go on.

The Nobel Peace Prize has become something of a joke and object of ridicule in recent times, because it's been given out openly as political graft or hope of favor. It's almost absurd on its face to say otherwise, and enough situations now show it to not even require pointing to a specific one to open a can of worms here.

This example, and a couple others mixed in with the rotten apples of late really make the thing worth it. She earned it in the best way one could......never wanting it, and never even thinking in the directions that would achieve it. Talk about a role model our kids ought to look toward, over the heads of the pop culture pop tarts.

Appropriately, Malala was at school Friday in the central English city of Birmingham when the Nobel was announced and remained with her classmates at the Edgbaston High School for girls. She was expected to make a statement later in the day.

Her father, Ziauddin Yousufzai, said the decision will further the rights of girls.

"(The Nobel will) boost the courage of Malala and enhance her capability to work for the cause of girls' education," he told the AP.

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This is an example where I think intentions will be followed on and she'll likely go on to do a lot in an area of crisis (equal education) that needs all the help it can get.

[WarToad]

I enjoy that secondarily, this will really chaff the Islamo-hardcore-nutjobs where it hurts the most.  Giving recognition and enouragement to young women, whereas they're goal is to keep them uneducated, married off young, and subservient.

[Wrabbit2000]

This JUST crossed one of the wires I have up to watch and thought it would make a nice update to this story. This girl has real class, I have to say.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai donating World's Children's Prize money to UNRWA to help rebuild a school in Gaza recently damaged by fighting

There isn't more than that yet. Just a blurb over the wire. However, I'd guess more will follow fairly soon. That's a very selfless thing for her to do with her money.