Who+is+Malala?

=Who is Malala? Should she have won the Nobel Peace Prize?=

Malala is the Pakistani girl who publicly campaigned in the SWAT valley for girls' education despite death threats from the Taliban. When they caught up with her, they shot her in the head. Now recovered after medical treatment in England, she is continuing her campaign.

The Nobel Peace Prize this year was given instead to the Organization for the Prevention of Chemicals which is just now beginning the process of securing and destroying Syria's chemical weapons as part of the UN agreement that postponed U.S. military intervention.

Here is a link to the editorial reprinted in Sunday's __Plain Dealer__ that compared the two... and advocated for the former.

Clearly, it's Malala who should have won the Nobel Peace prize.

Here is a link to the Nobel Organization with features on the history and purpose of the prize.

Nobel Peace Prize

What do you think? How important is education to you? How important is it for women in parts of the world where traditional societies discriminate against women? What difference does an Education make? What does it have to do with rights? What would you do for an education if all of a sudden schools were closed to you?

Oh, and here's Malala Yousafzai: