Malala Yousafzai- talk of the world

Malala Yousafzai- a young Pakistani girl, who gained the attention of the whole world at the age of 15 for being shot in the head and nearly killed by the Taliban. What made her more “talk of the world” is that on Friday, October 10^th 2014, she was announced the Nobel Peace Prize Winner at the age of 17. This made her the youngest recipient in history to be awarded with the Nobel Peace Prize. As the global spokesperson for girls’ education, Malala has been continuously fighting on behalf of her cause, continuing to speak out even after increased Taliban threats. She even travelled all the way to the United States of America to meet President Obama in 2013. She has also co- founded the Malala fund which generally invests on early age girl’s educational initiatives or on small non- profitable organizations in countries like Pakistan, Nigeria, Kenya and Jordan.

Malala was only 15 years old when she was shot by the Taliban. She was on a bus on 9^th October 2012, campaigning for education of girls in Pakistan, when the Taliban hijacked the bus and singled her out, shooting her in the head and the neck.

In the year 2008-2009, BBC planned to start a blog by any girl from the Swat district of Pakistan. Malala was the one to write the blog by her father’s order and BBC’s supervision. She used to write those blogs at the age of 11 under the pseudonym of “Gul makai”. In 2012 she was introduced to the world by a journalist of New York Times. On 8^th October 2013, “I am Malala”, a book written by her was published. The co-writer of this book was a British journalist named Christina Lamb. "I am Malala" had been banned in her own country and to be far more precise, by the All Pakistan Private Schools Federation in its 152,000 member institutions, because of having speeches against the Islamic religion.

What seemed confusing to me- how can a girl of just 11 be so matured to write such blog on female education? More confusing was that, she used to write those blog and a journalist of BBC typed them. I do not know how authentic the blogs were at the end of the day. Moreover, whether it’s her blog or her book, someone from the western world is always there. I can’t be the only person having certain questions in mind here! There are so many people who have been working their whole life for peace in the world. I wonder where their names and prizes are!

Alfred Nobel, founder of Nobel peace prize has clearly stated that the prize should be awarded every year to those who have "done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the reduction or abolition of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.” Firstly, Malala was only 11 years old then and 17 years old now; hence she is too young to make any actual contribution to global education at all, other than making speeches mostly in the West, arranged by Western corporate and non profit organizations. And secondly, Malala's passion and effort for spreading education awareness has nothing to do with global disarmament on world peace as stipulated by Alfred Nobel in his will.
If the Norwegian Nobel Committee were really serious about promoting global education, maybe they should have created a Nobel "Education" Prize instead.

I love that someone is working for female education. Of course this is an important issue. I have nothing against Malala or her work. But considering her work and their results, getting a Nobel Peace Prize seemed obnoxious to me. Moreover, I felt everything she does is controlled by the western world. But in the end, everything comes down to perception. Mine might have flaws.

References:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malala_Yousafzai 

http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/23-10-2014/128882-nobel_peace_prize-0/