Thursday, 18 July 2013

'Dear Malala, this is why we tried to kill you'-DAILY MAIL

Malala

Adnan Rasheed, a commander in the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan has written to Malala Yousafzai, justifying the organisation's attempt to kill her. He writes that the 16-year-old Pakistani schoolgirl had to be silenced because she was 'running a smearing campaign to malign their efforts to establish Islamic system in swat and your writings were provocative.'

She has recovered so well that she was able to give a speech at the UN in New York on her 16th birthday last week saying she has new courage to fight for the right of all children to have a free education.
The letter from Rasheed, who was freed in a mass jail break last year after he was arrested over a plot to murder Pakistan’s former president, falls short of offering a full apology.
But he wrote: ‘When you were attacked it was shocking for me. I wished it would never happened and I had advised you before.’ He explained she was shot not because she went to school, but because she had spoken out against the Taliban in Pakistan .
‘Taliban believe that you were intentionally writing against them and running a smearing campaign to malign their efforts to establish Islamic system in Swat and your writings were provocative,’ he wrote.
‘You have said in your [UN] speech yesterday that pen is mightier than sword, so they attacked you for your sword not for your books or school.’
He added that he was not against the principle of girls being educated, but was specifically against a western education – which he said followed a ‘satanic or secular curriculum’.
However, the tone soon changes, as Rasheed makes a bizarre attempt to defend the TTP’s assassination attempt.
Apologetic: Rasheed writes how he wished the attempt on Malala's life had not happen, and speaks of his 'brotherly' feelings for herNew tune: The letter soon becomes threatening in tone and insinuated that Malala had herself to blame for the attack by the Taliban organisationThe letter, in which he claims the Western nations are in ‘conspiracy with Jews and freemasons’ he also calls President Barack Obama a mass murderer and claims polio vaccinations are a sterilization programme.
He writes that although it is ‘amazing’ that she campaigns for education, Rasheed finishes his letter, dated on July 15th, that Malala should ‘come back home, adopt the Islamic and pushtoon culture, join any female Islamic madrassa near your home town’.
Whether this is the wish of Malala, it is an unlikely event as she is still under threat to her life should she return to her home in Swat.
Last week Malala spoke to the United Nation's youth assembly on her 16th birthday - declared Malala Day - saying that the assassin's bullet tried to silence her, but failed.
She said: 'Malala Day is not my day - today is the day of every woman, every boy and every girl who have raised their voice for their rights.
'There are hundreds of human rights activists and social workers who are not speaking for their rights but who are struggling to achieve their goal of peace, education and equality.


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