Scholastic Book Sensation, Malala Yousafzai, a True Activist

Only three out of every five girls in Pakistan between the ages of 15 and 24-years-old are able to read and write. 

"How dare the Taliban take away my basic right to education?" Malala Yousafzai said when she was 10-years-old in September, 2008.

Yousafzai was shot in the head on a school bus in front of other school children when she was 14-years-old by members of the Taliban, a terrorist group our former Fascist in Chief wanted to invite to the White House when he was still president. Two other girls were also wounded on that bus. 

In January of 2009, the Taliban began enforcing their rules of shutting down 'all girls' schools, and in some cases, bombing those various educational facilities. 

This school in Pakistan school was bombed by the Taliban for teaching girls

On January 3, 2009, Yousafzai started blogging about the insane and nefarious rule of the Taliban, and living amidst their horrid regime rule. Malala and her father Ziauddin sent the blogs to the British Broadcasting Corporation which is why we know about the atrocities Malala has endured and survived. 

"Malala Yousafzai," a 48 page Scholastic book I acquired from the Rohnert Park Sonoma County library was a fantastic read, and I learned Pakistan became a nation in 1947 when it separated from India.

The Taliban allows girls in Pakistan to go to school now, if they stop going after the age of 10-years-old! 

Mark Izzy Schurr