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“<\/span>Malala\u2019s message is true, it is profound<\/a>, it is something the world needs to take note of; education is a right of every child, but Malala has been used as a tool by the West.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
This Huffpost article<\/a>\u00a0examines\u00a0Malala’s rise to international recognition\u00a0as part of a history of the\u00a0institutionalized, racist narrative that has been used by journalists and politicians to quell the guilt of the white man and justify the West interfering in other countries. Part of this narrative is the demonization of the non-white Muslim man,<\/strong> who is\u00a0portrayed\u00a0as a savage without the capacity for\u00a0reasonable negotiation, \u00a0leaving\u00a0the West with no choice\u00a0but to resort\u00a0to violence, war, drone strikes, etc.<\/p>\n
Click here<\/a> to read the long form of the article.<\/p>\n
This article resonated with me because, while I admire Malala’s spirit and message, it always bothered me that she was getting immense amount of Western attention when there are hundreds of thousands\u00a0just like her who are overlooked.\u00a0Why was this one girl singled out? What about the others that have undergone\u00a0similar abuse, not only by those we mark as enemies and extremists, but by our own soldiers<\/a>? Why does we choose to focus only on the brutality of the Taliban, but not on our own nations’ contributions to the conditions by entering into war and destabilizing the regions and making them vulnerable to groups like the Taliban?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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