If you watch Malala, you will see she has a frozen smile, as if one side of her face is frozen. This is normally caused by brain damage, such as a stroke, but could equally be the result of a gunshot wound to the head. I don't know why they didn't kill her outright. Maybe it was not the Taliban who shot her? - they can't be the only people in Pakistan who felt a teenage girl's outspokenness was inappropriate, although she said that she was grateful to the Taliban for writing to her later and confessing to the crime. She herself suggested that Allah was protecting her, and her survival was a miracle. I don't think miracles are forbidden in Islam.
One thing that is not a legend is that she is a gift from the heavens for the British Foreign Secretary, who has been looking for an attractive and eloquent figurehead to promote the cause of Western democracy in Muslim lands over the alternative offered up by the Taliban. Well worth putting her life at risk by making her an inpatient in a British hospital.
Does it matter whether she was actually shot, or whether it is an elaborate myth created for political reasons? Either way, she intends to be a pretty effective political campaigner in Pakistan, promoting the cause of compulsory education for all, and good luck to her. This is her personal jihad - to honour the hadith that everyone without exception is commanded to be educated.
Edit - http://www.josierussell.com/ This normal, healthy and beautiful artist, naturalised in Wales, actually had her skull broken open with a hammer when she was 10. Her mother and sister were killed in the same attack. She would rather be remembered for her beautiful landscapes of the land that gave her and her heartbroken widowed father refuge and a new life, rather than being The Girl Who Survived The Hammer Attack.
You shouldn't get dragged into any conspiracy theories about this story. This young girl was already a campaigner for her education rights before the dreadful attack, and afterwards whilst her life was in the balance, she was fortunate enough to receive advanced western medical care in a new hospital in Birmingham, UK. Our news coverage here showed that her recovery took a long time, and even now, when she is on the media, you can see that she will probably have some effects of those injuries for a long time.
We can only hope that as she continues her education (again in Birmingham), she gets all the opportunities to learn and develop that she was campaigning for, and that the now wider campaign bearing her name doesn't create any undue pressures or expectations of her, which might otherwise undermine her own schooling opportunities.
Hopefully in due course she'll then go on to learn about global education provision and the management of appropriate funding organisations, so that she can continue to assist or direct The Malala Fund in its work to help resolve some of the related issues.
Kind regards
A hopeful global citizen
What's so confusing? She was targeted for death by the Taliban. What, you think the Taliban is nothing but a group of intelligent, efficient killers who never mess up? Hardly.
Nonetheless, she was shot in the head, but did not immediately die. Such things have happened before, but it's rather rare. She eventually received medical treatment in England and underwent extensive rehabilitation as well. Nonetheless, she will bear the effects of the attack for the rest of her life.
And as her reward, the Taliban has announced they will try to kill her again for "making jokes about Islam."
It is impossible not to sympathize with Malala, a young girl with large beautiful hazel eyes peering from her innocent face, and her naturally distraught parents. It is shocking that a young girl would be targeted for simply wanting to go to school to acquire education, which is her birthright as it is of millions of other young girls in Pakistan as indeed elsewhere in the world. What kind of beasts would want to harm a young girl doing no more than acquiring education?
But who exactly is Malala Yousufzai to attract so much international attention? What about the two other girls that were injured in the same attack? Even their names are not widely known, much less information about their parents. Apart from the fact that they are out of danger, there is little that we know about their plight. Are they not worthy of attention and sympathy?
Malala is a tiny piece in this jigsaw puzzle.
Her face is not partially frozen because of gunshot wound but is delibrately made to look like this using botox or similar cosmatic surgical techniques. Why was her head not shaven while her "terribly fractured skull"was being treated. She deserves one award though. Best child actress 2012/13.
Excuse me , but her story is neither confusing nor annoying. Rather it is inspiring. An attempt was made on her life and she survived. Who made the attempt and why the attempt was not professionally executed are questions not as important as relevance of her views and need for her wellbeing and long life. The world is happy that she is alive.
bcoz story has been spiced but not porperly . primitive society with developed society can cause such problems
its all fraud...malala is a fraud
I mean, they say she was shot by taliban, but i LIVE in Pakistan, n i know how talibans kill people. They never hold a third class pistol with extremely untrained shooter. Even last week HUNDREDS of innocent people were killed by just 3 bombs in Peshawar. Because taliban dont care how many people die, and why they should kill people. Then how come they used the stupidest way for killing malala? And even she was shot in the head, she survived and now she's perfectly fine. Without any side effects of the injury. Isnt it all so confusing?
