Date : 08 Ekim  2013 Salı - 10:22, Category : WORLD

Malala, as we all know, is that special Pakistani girl who was shot by the Taliban on her way home from school in Swat, Pakistan last year on October 9, 2012. Already the world is enthusiastic to celebrate the anniversary of the fight that she put up against all odds of not only surviving bullet wounds to the head, but using her utmost will power in regaining her vocal skills and continuing to make her mark on the world.

There are those who are waiting for the launch of her book, I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban, marking the anniversary of her shooting; and there are also those who are hoping and praying that she will be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday October 11, 2013; if she does, this will make her the youngest ever winner of the award.

And then there are those, like Rob Crilly, who hope that Malala doesn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize.

Why, you wonder?

Simply because Rob Crilly believes that Malala has been through too much at the tender age of sixteen and she deserves to lead life like a normal teenager. He writes that she should be allowed to give her GCSEs and A-levels in peace, and pursue her dream to be a doctor.

If this was any other child, I would agree with Crilly.

However, this is Malala – the girl who blogged anonymously for BBC Urdu – chronicling life under the Taliban, the changing socio-political landscape in Swat and her hopes for education in Pakistan, especially for girls. This is Malala who appeared in Hamid Mir’s program broadcast from Swat in 2009, in which she spoke about the public right to education. This is Malala who was shot by grown men just for being a girl pursuing her education and this is Malala who not only survived, but went on to speak at the Youth Assembly just months after her shooting. This is Malala who was able to communicate in writing upon gaining consciousness, almost a week after the shooting; and her communication was in English – her third language. This is Malala, for whom hundreds of schoolchildren, especially girls, are praying that she wins the prestigious prize.