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Originally posted by freebitch26
I wonder what she thinks of LGBT |
We may see in the Taliban and Islamic State, on one hand, and Malala Yousafzai, on the other, two poles in the current state of the Muslim umma. While the radicals proclaim a simple, fundamentalist solution for all human problems, Malala Yousafzai is a complex person. She is not a “reformer of Islam” or an apostate, but has indicated her belief that the improvement of Muslim women’s lives may take place within a religious environment. For example, she began her July 12, 2013 speech to the United Nations with the Islamic blessing, “In the name of God, the most beneficent, the most merciful.” The atheist Richard Dawkins commented about her Muslim faith on twitter, after news of the Prize, “Yes she’s religious. For now.”
She is, furthermore, sympathetic to leftist politics, having, additionally in 2013, thanked a Marxist group in Pakistan for “introducing me to Marxism and Socialism” and declaring “Socialism is the only answer and I urge all comrades to take this struggle to a victorious conclusion. Only this will free us from the chains of bigotry and exploitation.” When she met with President Barack Obama in 2013, she blamed the use of American drones for increasing terrorism in her native country.
Likewise, she is critical of Western popular culture. She told the British newspaper The Guardian earlier this year, “What I get a bit angry about is the image of women. It gets quite difficult for me when I listen to pop music. I don’t often understand the words, but when someone translates them to me, I think, ‘What is this song representing? That women are just there to be treated like objects?’
Malala Yousafzai and the Future of Islam
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephe...ushpmg00000004
