Malala Yousafzai released

[yakherder]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-20908439

Glad to see her up and moving and recovering well. Assuming she continues her activism, she'll now be exponentially more influential than before, thanks to the Taliban for expanding her audience to the entire world. At least that's my attempt at seeing the positive side of it

The Pakistani schoolgirl activist shot in the head by the Taliban has been discharged from a Birmingham hospital as an inpatient.

Malala Yousafzai, 15, was being treated at Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEHB) after being transferred following the attack in October.
She will continue rehabilitation at her family's temporary West Midlands home.
The Taliban said it shot Malala, a campaigner for girls' education, for "promoting secularism".
The shooting, in a school bus, sparked domestic and international outrage.

 

[mlp]

In some ways, 2012 was the year of women, due in large part to Malala, the young woman so brutally beaten and raped in India, and others who have focused attention on the daily plight of women in so many parts of the world.

Here in the U.S.. the spotlight on women was cast inadvertantly by certain older white male politicians.

 

[yakherder]

Here in the U.S.. the spotlight on women was cast inadvertantly by certain older white male politicians.

There's been more than a few statements made this year that could easily compete with Bush's worst quotes, that's for sure.

Also, check out this article that just popped up this morning. Baffling.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lan...involving-sleeping-woman-called-bizarre-.html