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Teen Pakistani Activist's Release Of Kidnapped Nigerian Schoolgirls

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Imagine one education taken away? Well, children in Pakistan are living with that. Children are having their basic rights taken away plus being threatened, killed, or kidnapped for fighting or trying to gain back those rights. In the article, “Teen Pakistani activist urges release of kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls,” Malala, a teen Pakistani, mentions that a lot basic human rights are being taken for girls in Pakistan. The country needs to take steps to improve this problem. To begin with,the Nigerian girls were abducted by Boko Harm for trying to get an education. In Boko Haram kidnapping of 200 Nigerian schoolgirls, a year later by Don Melvin, CNN states, “The Government Girls Secondary School had been closed for a month because of the danger posed by Boko Haram …show more content…

According to “Nigerian leader promises Malala missing girls will be home ‘soon’” by Saudi Gazette mentions “ Boko Haram, inspired by the Taliban, say they are fighting to establish an Islamic state in religiously mixed Nigeria. The group, whose name means “Western education is sinful,” has killed thousands and abducted hundreds since launching an uprising in 2009. – Reuters” Boko Haram is being inspired by Taliban encouraging that education is sinful making their action even more dangerous because they are messing and abducting children expecting that the government is going to allow and change the policy for their rebellion. They are hurting children to make a point not noticing that they have not even lived and they are making the children go through things that will haunt them for the rest of their life. That’s not all, “Boko Haram, now considered the main security threat to Nigeria…” according to VOA News in Malala Pledges to Help Free Kidnapped Nigerian Girl, .They are scaring Nigeria , not making them feel safe in their own home as they are a security

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Chapter 1 Malala (add picture) was shot in the head by the taliban (add definition and picture) because she stood up for her rights for girls education. I feel that all girls should be able to have an equal right for an education. (add quote) I feel that justice shall be served for all girls in all shapes and sizes they deserve the right to go to school and become more than just a housewife or a made or making rugs. When the taliban shot her in the head lots of people were shocked they figured out that the taliban was scared of strong women in pakistan. They might feel as if the women will take their jobs if they go to school they don't want girls to strive, (add definition) they are afraid of them they want them to make rugs and clean up after them and make children they want more men for thier army

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Knowing education and knowledge brought humanity from a life of stone-age to our modern world, one can see why the world thrives on providing necessary tutelage for society’s children to keep the globe growing. Despite that statement and the general agreemence based from it, many countries and cities around the world prevent this right for the children. In Pakistan, the Taliban destroyed more than four hundred schools and prevented all women from seeking out education. The means of their prevention included harassment, abduction, and very commonly simple murder. Malala Yousafzai fought for change for all of the girls who were kept from seeking an education.

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While women’s opportunities in the workforce have progressed throughout history, inequality in education is a prominent issue. In Pakistan, the Taliban believe that there is no need for women to be educated. However, Malala Yousafzai, a young girl living in Pakistan, strongly believed in the importance of girls’ education even though it was a risk to attend school. Death threats sent by the Taliban to Malala were put in place when she was shot on the way home from school. The attempt on Malala’s life sparked widespread media coverage across the world, which in turn garnered more support for her cause: girls having the right to pursue their education.

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One day Malala rode home from school after girls were banned from school, and “a masked gunman…shot me on the left side of my head. I woke up 10 days later.” After lots of recovery and time in the hospital, Malala moved to the UK with her family, and realized she “had a choice: [to] live a quiet life or…make the most of this new life I had been given. I determined to continue my fight until every girl could go to school.” Girls rights were taken away, so many people were too scared to take a stand because they did

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Malala Yousafzai, being a completely different person that any girl in her country demonstrates the gruesome and savage nature of the men and women in the country of Pakistan. She not only shows the unawareness driven by fright among the people there, but displays how horrid it truly was. Influences of a misinterpretation form of Islam yield the innocent under the hands of the miserable forces of the evil such as the Taliban. Subsequently, the country of Pakistan under Taliban rule has gone through continuous fear and discriminations that strip girls from their education. Malala Yousafzai, a young Pakistani woman who only wanted an education, was obligated to view her life at its worst and at the same time, view the desire and dreams of girls who fight for their education that they have been denied.

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He believed that lack of education was the root of all the Pakistan’s problems. Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be reelected. He believed schooling should be available for all, rich and poor, boys and girls” (41). Malala illustrates that government deprives people from education for a main reason; making their citizens ignorant. By being ignorant, governments are able to dictate what they want their citizens to believe.

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They allow schools for boys, but they mostly only allow them to learn how they view Islam. Girls however, are denied education completely, and often shut down schools when moving into a new area. An example of this that received huge attention from the media, is when 14 year old Malala Yousafzi was wounded by Taliban gunmen on her way to school in October 2012. She survived, and went on to speak out publicly about life under the Taliban and about the importance of education for all people, and have a book written

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Her future "husband" was carrying a gun, and Fati's parents had already spent a precious 8,000 naira (roughly $40) to smuggle her two older brothers to safety. There was nothing they could do. She says she has met girls younger than her in Boko Haram's stronghold kidnapped from their homes to be married off, imprisoned and abused by their self-proclaimed "husbands." "There were so many kidnapped girls there, I couldn't count," Fati says.

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Boko Haram is a Nigerian terrorist organization, meaning western education is forbidden; however, they refer to themselves as “Jama’atu Ahl as-Sunnah li-Da’awati wal-Jihad.” The organization is primarily known as a domestic terrorist organization, but it has gained an international spotlight with its allegiance to Al Qaeda and the Islamic State, as well as the kidnapping of over 200 schoolgirls in Borno State (national counterterrorism center). It is important to understand the individual and psychological aspects of terrorism because it brings us to the core of the terrorist organization, especially in regards to recruitment. The US Institute of Peace conducted a study in 2013 and found that youth are more vulnerable to recruitment and radicalization,

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In April 2014, Boko Haram drew international headlines when they abducted more than 276 girls from their school in Chibok, a town in Borno state. Following this cruel act, the group sent out a statement saying it would treat the abducted girls as slaves, rape them and marry them off. This statement is a reference to an ancient Islamic belief that women captured in conflict are considered war reward. The abduction of these girls led to the global campaign that has come to be known by the hash tag #BringBackOurGirls. This movement is still prevailing today because not all of the abducted girls have been found and reunited with their families.

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Malala Yousafzai is 19 years old, the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner, feminist, a supporter for girl’s education, and she has been through traumatizing activity in Pakistan. Women all around the world are treated in different ways, but have always been put below men. The United States is one of the best places for women, and Pakistan is one of the worst. They have shocking differences such as rights and the way they are treated.

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As another example, in early 2013, gunmen from Boko Haram kidnapped a family of seven French tourists on vacation in Cameroon. Two months later, the kidnappers released the hostages along with 16 others in exchange for a ransom of $3.15 million (International business Times, 2014). Their everyday operation depends on robbery, kidnapping and extortion. Kidnapping is targeting wealthy Nigerian and foreign visitors. If we wonder how Boko Haram get his equipment; they have captured weapons from fleeing soldiers, which keeps the group constantly well-supplied (BBC report; November 12, 2014).

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The only seventeen-year-old Malala Yousafzai is very known for her bravery and her fight for the right of expression in her home country Pakistan, where human rights mostly are suppressed. She is concerned about equality, human rights, peace and the right for education and knowledge in her country but also all over the world. She started running a blog about suppression of human rights, violent attacks by the Taliban and how the Taliban are against education for women in 2009. Many people were able to read it because it has been broadcasted on a web side of BBC. Freedom of speech is a quite difficult topic in Pakistan and soon she became a target for the Taliban.

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This psychological damage stays with them for the rest of their lives as they have seen terrible things and have been forced into doing many unimaginable things. A lot of these children have missed out on school for many years and without an education they will go back to the rebel groups, just so that they can get food. These children need to be reunited with their families to try and get some stability back into their lives. Unfortunately, many girls who get raped by these rebels do not get accepted back into their families and their communities as they are seen to have shamed their families. Females are used to being raped and being a single mum and it is vital that these girls get given the education and counseling to help them get back into society.

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It has repeatedly targeted educational institutions in deadly attacks to highlight its fundamental philosophy against education. It is estimated that 10,000 children have been forced out of state schooling as a result of Boko Haram’s hit-and-run attacks. In April 2014, Boko Haram abducted over 200 schoolgirls from Chibok town in Borno state in Nigeria. Majority of those abducted were Christians. It is reported that these schoolgirls will be enslaved and married off, in line with ancient Islamic ideology that captive women are regarded as war booty.

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