The Malalas You Will Not Hear About by Wendy McElroy

The Malalas You Will Not Hear About by Wendy McElroy


Overnight, Malala has become an international symbol of women's fight against Islamic extremists and for the education of girls. At rallies around the world, demonstrators now hold signs reading “We are all Malala.”
I do not mention these reactions as an upside or a “positive” outcome, because there is no positive to a child being shot. And the outpouring is long overdue. If people in Pakistan and elsewhere had been unwilling to tolerate the brutalization of children for so many years, then Malala's shooting might not have occurred.
The other Malalas
The West still tolerates the wounding and murder of children when it is done by the United States in the name of the war on terror.