Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi Are Awarded Nobel Peace Prize

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Reaching across gulfs of age, gender, faith, nationality and even international celebrity, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the 2014 peace prize on Friday to Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan and Kailash Satyarthi of India. The award joined a teenage Pakistani known around the world with an Indian veteran of campaigns to end child labor and free children from trafficking.

Ms. Yousafzai, 17, is the youngest recipient of the prize since it was created in 1901. Mr. Satyarthi is 60. The $1.1 million prize is to be divided equally between them.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/11/w...afzai-are-awarded-nobel-peace-prize.html?_r=0

good choices, IMO. that girl is one of the better people on the planet. i'm glad she lived through a violent asshole's attack. Kailash Satyarthi has done some great work, as well.

 

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Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi share Nobel Peace Prize

After numerous controversial recipients and recommendations, the Nobel Peace award goes to somebody I can absolutely get behind. Malala Yousafzai persevered after she was shot in the face and after continued, extraordinary threats because of her push for women's education in Afghanistan.

Spotlighting the struggle for children’s rights, the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Pakistani girls’ education activist Malala Yousafzai and Indian children’s rights activist Kailash Satyarthi, the Nobel committee announced Friday.

The committee said the pair will receive the award “for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.” The committee “regards it as an important point for a Hindu and a Muslim, an Indian and a Pakistani, to join in a common struggle for education and against extremism.”

If all Muslims shared her motives and her bravery the world would be a very different place. I was admittedly unfamiliar with Kailash Satyarthi, as it was Malala I've been following for the past year.

“They thought that the bullets would silence us. But they failed. And then, out of that silence came thousands of voices. The terrorists thought that they would change our aims and stop our ambitions but nothing changed in my life except this: Weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born. I am the same Malala. My ambitions are the same. My hopes are the same. My dreams are the same,” she said.

I also encourage everybody to watch Malala's extraordinary interview with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show, in which she highlights the abuses of the Taliban regime and its brutal rule, and their threats and attack on her personally.

Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi share Nobel Peace Prize - LA Times

 

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good choices, IMO. that girl is one of the better people on the planet. i'm glad she lived through a violent asshole's attack. Kailash Satyarthi has done some great work, as well.

Oh goddammit, you beat me while I was still in the process of starting my own thread.

 

[Jetboogieman]

Very deserving folk.

Malala especially is just an amazing human being.

I hope she goes on to do even better and bigger things, she deserves all the success in the world.

 

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Very deserving folk.

Malala especially is just an amazing human being.

I hope she goes on to do even better and bigger things, she deserves all the success in the world.

She does indeed jetboogie. I heard about this on Morning Joe's show and smiled. That young lady has a bright future in front of her, and she deserves the awards both recognition as well as monetary.

 

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[Jetboogieman]

She does indeed jetboogie. I heard about this on Morning Joe's show and smiled. That young lady has a bright future in front of her, and she deserves the awards both recognition as well as monetary.

I just worry about her safety, I feel one day she will return to Pakistan and go into politics in some form and I just really wouldn't want her to get hurt in the process, but I suppose nothing risked nothing gained.

But women like Benazir Bhutto found out the hard way how Pakistani politics is.

 

[tres borrachos]

I just worry about her safety, I feel one day she will return to Pakistan and go into politics in some form and I just really wouldn't want her to get hurt in the process, but I suppose nothing risked nothing gained.

But women like Benazir Bhutto found out the hard way how Pakistani politics is.

I wonder if Bhutto were still around would she feel that it was even worth it. She gave her life to try to make that country a better place.

 

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I just worry about her safety

Yeah, I think Malala's figured out that she may have some enemies.

I feel one day she will return to Pakistan and go into politics in some form and I just really wouldn't want her to get hurt in the process, but I suppose nothing risked nothing gained.

But women like Benazir Bhutto found out the hard way how Pakistani politics is.

Agreed, and providing she stays her course we need more people like her.

 

[OrphanSlug]

good choices, IMO. that girl is one of the better people on the planet. i'm glad she lived through a violent asshole's attack. Kailash Satyarthi has done some great work, as well.

Agreed, I was pleasantly surprised at this year's selections.

 

[Meadowlark]

Congratulations to Malala Yousafzai, she is a wonderful choice. The battles she faced and pulled through are nothing short of amazing, wishing her all the best as she continues on with her life.

 

[Reformedfindlay]

I just worry about her safety, I feel one day she will return to Pakistan and go into politics in some form and I just really wouldn't want her to get hurt in the process, but I suppose nothing risked nothing gained.

But women like Benazir Bhutto found out the hard way how Pakistani politics is.

Pakistan isn't known for being stable. Pretty scary that it has nukes.

 

[Jetboogieman]

Pakistan isn't known for being stable. Pretty scary that it has nukes.

I just hope there's a plan in the Pentagon somewhere to deploy a rapid reaction force and secure and remove all Nukes from Pakistan if it goes failed state.

I reckon there is.

 

[cpwill]

good choices, IMO. that girl is one of the better people on the planet. i'm glad she lived through a violent asshole's attack. Kailash Satyarthi has done some great work, as well.

I wonder how many of those who rush to (rightfully) laud Malala will also then rush to abandon all other Afghan girls to their fate .

 

[cpwill]

I just hope there's a plan in the Pentagon somewhere to deploy a rapid reaction force and secure and remove all Nukes from Pakistan if it goes failed state.

I reckon there is.

Check out the terrain, and the likelihood of immediate overwhelming response.

That would be a pretty..... um..... difficult mission.

 

[OrphanSlug]

I just worry about her safety, I feel one day she will return to Pakistan and go into politics in some form and I just really wouldn't want her to get hurt in the process, but I suppose nothing risked nothing gained.

But women like Benazir Bhutto found out the hard way how Pakistani politics is.

We all should be worried about her safety. Everything I have read about her suggests and eventual return to face those of an ideology that refuse to accept the change she stands for. At the same time it is a fight she seem passionate enough about to put her self in danger over. We should all wish her well, she will need it.

 

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I just hope there's a plan in the Pentagon somewhere to deploy a rapid reaction force and secure and remove all Nukes from Pakistan if it goes failed state.

I reckon there is.

Pakistan issues 'nuclear warning' to India : Pakistan, News - India Today

 

[Reformedfindlay]

I just hope there's a plan in the Pentagon somewhere to deploy a rapid reaction force and secure and remove all Nukes from Pakistan if it goes failed state.

I reckon there is.

India would love us if we did that.

Although unstable Pakistan scares China, which I also like.

A trade-off.

 

[Jetboogieman]

Pakistan issues 'nuclear warning' to India : Pakistan, News - India Today

This happens every so often.

 

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This happens every so often.

I know, but it makes you wonder if our decision to give the Paki's nukes really stabilized the situation? I doubt we foresaw their gov't becoming so radicalized?

 

[Jetboogieman]

Check out the terrain, and the likelihood of immediate overwhelming response.

That would be a pretty..... um..... difficult mission.

It's a pretty tiered operation.

But I mean by failed state we're talking like, Syria levels of failed state in which no one force could co-ordinate an effective response to an invading force.

but I suppose someone holding the keys and would fire off a few at US.

Perhaps I should drink more coffee and stop talking nonsense.

 

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I know, but it makes you wonder if our decision to give the Paki's nukes really stabilized the situation? I doubt we foresaw their gov't becoming so radicalized?

Our decision to give Pakistan nukes?

 

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Our decision to give Pakistan nukes?

Do you think they could've developed them if we didn't allow it?

 

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Do you think they could've developed them if we didn't allow it?

Do you have anything more specific than some vague notion of allowing them to develop it?

 

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Do you have anything more specific than some vague notion of allowing them to develop it?

What's your point, beyond playing 'gotcha'?

If Iran gets nuclear technology it's because we allowed it. Wrong? That's not any different than giving it to them, unless you're insistent that it's not literal enough?

India had them and the Pakistani's were insisting they needed a deterrent, I'm sure some US President agreed to let it happen.