Malala, The Girl Who Fought for Girls’ Rights for Education

Whoever are reading this, you are in a lucky circumstances where you can learn and receive the education that are important to your life. There are about 70 million children who doesn’t get education. In fact, there are about 170 million children who does not attend to school and have proper education and about 70% of these children are girls. In Pakistan, 50% of the people above 15 are illiterate and only 34% of the woman aren’t. Although the educations are highly needed for the children and the girls in Pakistan, the Taliban has banned the rights for the girls to have education many school have been forced to close down. luckily, there is a family who knows how important it is for the girls to get education. It is Malala’s family who has also been forced to close shut down the school. At the age of 11, Malala finds out how important it is for her and girls to get education and their rights for it. Malala has fought for her ambition by giving speeches, and going against and being an upstander towards the taliban.

Malala is an one ambitious girl who later on wants to be a doctor. She fights for the rights of the educations and her future. She tries to persuade others to go fight for their rights instead of being intimidated. Although she is just like any girl of her age, scared and terrified, she sees her ambitions and think optimistically about her future she thinks if everyone helps, her and pakistans’ future will be bright. “Today, the Illylic valley of peace is burning.” “Why is our future is targeted?” (The New York Times) Malala has courageously spoke up towards the ruthless Talibans. She knew how important the education is and have stood against the wills of Talibans trying to stop the girls from educations and closing the schools down. She knew girls did deserved for education and told people about it. “In the world, the girls are going to school freely. And there is no fear, but in swat, we are very afraid of the Talibans” (Youtube.) She tried to make a spark, trying to set fire in people and burn the Talibans off. By this young lady’s speech, people around the world doesn’t matter where they were from, have been inspired. They felt what Malala was feeling and trying to do for her country. “She has become a symbol of Western culture in the area; she was openly propagating it,”Mr. Ehsan  (The New York Times) Malala is trying to have her and swat’s voice out of the noise of the guns and sound of destructions. People started to see Malala as a symbol for hope and a strong will

Malala, by fighting for her dream and her future, is being a model to other kids in the same situation. Many girls in Pakistan think that their dreams will never come true but Malala is unlike them and is encouraging others by demonstrating how to fight back and look for a brighter future. “As turbaned fighters swept through her town in northwestern Pakistan in 2009, the tiny schoolgirl spoke out about her passion for education — she wanted to become a doctor, she said — and became a symbol of defiance against Taliban subjugation.”(The New York Times). Malala, unlike other girls at her age, even though she was forcefully stopped to go to school, knows that education is essential for her future and and her present. Therefore, she never lets go of her dream despite her environment. Although her living conditions didn’t allow her to study or read, she didn’t give up. She wants to achieve her goals to be a doctor and show the world and other girls that when you try and fight for your dream and the right idea, you can always achieve your dream. Malala alone couldn’t have fought the fight. Her father, who stopped to teach, was a big supporter. “I want to be a doctor. It is my own dream. but, my father told me that you have
to become politician.” (Youtube.) Her father wants Malala to do something greater. He wants his daughter to be a politician. Malala disagrees and still wants to be doctor. She wants to save people when she grows up. But she realizes that becoming a politician and fighting for the people and people’s rights, she could save more lives. So she chooses to be a politician afterwards. Her father sees more potential in his daughter, so he encourages and pushes his daughter forward. Both Malala and her father see the need and right for girls to get educated. They fight for their country, home, and education. They are convincing other girls and people that they all have the right to education and potential to reach their dreams.

“She knew her voice was important, so she spoke up for the rights of children. Even adults didn’t have a vision like hers.”(The New York Times) She knows that her voice can be heard. She knows speaking out for help is working. Knowing how the other girls are feeling, she is trying to stand up for them. She has became a target for the Taliban “On Tuesday, masked Taliban gunmen answered Ms. Yousafzai’s courage with bullets”(The New York Times) The Talibans thought of the girls as a house worker or a low lifed people and spending their time studying was a waste of time. Some people might have disagreed to them but, no one had powers to stop them. Taliban is a strong group of terrorists who has almost nothing to fear but, shooting Malala was a sign that they saw Malala as a threat. The Talibans thought that they had to get rid of Malala. They were afraid of the outcome that Malala might bring to them. Malala wasn’t trying to make others fight  for Pakistan, she was just saying what was right and what should happen. To talibans, it was an act of ‘promoting secularism’ Malala was never promoting secularism but Talibans targeted her for promoting it. Secularism means political or social philosophy that rejects all forms of religious faith and worship. Malala was never making it related to religion she was just fighting for education. All other girls were too afraid to speak up and fight for what was right and Malala was the only courageous girl who was fighting risking her life. She knows she will get hurt but she is more worried to achieve her goal her goal that one day, people over the world knows what is going on in Taliban and help. As a summary, Malala has risked her life to give girls and herself education they deserved.

A courageous girl in Swat valley, had been a spark that caused others to be motivated. Although she was seen as a promoter of secularism, she was fighting for what was right and believing one day she would get an education she deserved and persuade the Pakistan people and the Talibans’ view of girls of how girls are should be. Malala also never gave up her dreams. She when the schools were to shut down, continued studying. “I will get my education at school or in my room, or anywhere I can get it from” (Youtube.) Malala wasn’t afraid of the risks that she had to take when she stood up against the Taliban. She knew she would get hurt and she did. Although she had been shot by two taliban members, she have made a big step towards a girls’ rights for education,