Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai Are Awarded Nobel Peace Prize

The New York Times wrote:
Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai Are Awarded Nobel Peace Prize

Reaching across gulfs of age, gender, faith, nationality and even international celebrity, the Norwegian Nobel Committee on Friday awarded the 2014 peace prize to Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan and Kailash Satyarthi of India, joining a teenage Pakistani known around the world with a 60-year-old Indian veteran of campaigns on behalf of children.

The awards, announced in Oslo by Thorbjorn Jagland, the committee’s chairman, were in acknowledgment of their work in helping to promote universal schooling and in protecting children worldwide from abuse and exploitation.

Pointedly, Mr. Jagland said, “The Nobel Committee regards it as an important point for a Hindu and a Muslim, an Indian and a Pakistani, to join in a common struggle for education and against extremism.” Ms. Yousafzai is 17 while Mr. Satyarthi is 60.

“Children must go to school and not be financially exploited,” Mr. Jagland said, adding: "It is a prerequisite for peaceful global development that the rights of children and young people be respected. In conflict-ridden areas in particular, the violation of children leads to the continuation of violence from generation to generation.”

“Showing great personal courage, Kailash Satyarthi, maintaining Gandhi’s tradition, has headed various forms of protests and demonstrations, all peaceful, focusing on the grave exploitation of children for financial gain,” Mr. Jagland said. “He has also contributed to the development of important international conventions on children’s rights.”

Despite his works, Mr. Satyarthi is not nearly so widely known as Ms. Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012 for her campaigning on behalf of girls’ education in the Swat Valley of Pakistan. She was 15 at the time. Since then she has become a global emblem of her struggle, celebrated on television and through her own memoir.

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Tommy Monk wrote:Children should have education!

....... now where's my Nobel peace prize...???

Ben_Reilly wrote:

Tommy Monk wrote:Children should have education!

....... now where's my Nobel peace prize...???

Go out and fight, have your life threatened, travel the world and stand up to some of the scariest people out there. I'm afraid nobody's going to award you anything besides an honorary beard for things you say on NewsFix ...

Fuzzy Zack wrote:Malala being groomed for Western puppetry. And loving it.

The Nobel prize (in any discipline but especially the peace prize) means nothing.  

Brasidas wrote:

Fuzzy Zack wrote:Malala being groomed for Western puppetry. And loving it.

The Nobel prize (in any discipline but especially the peace prize) means nothing.  

Yes it is terrible when people are happy in their lives I guess to you.
Western puppetry?
What is that?
Do you have problem with the western culture?
The one you were raised in?

Fuzzy Zack wrote:

Brasidas wrote:


Yes it is terrible when people are happy in their lives I guess to you.
Western puppetry?
What is that?
Do you have problem with the western culture?
The one you were raised in?

Now you're just being emotional and ranting again.

You know exactly how politicians in the West are manipulating her and her family.

Your last 2 questions are plain stupid and indicative of you recent decline towards idiocy. But since you insist on impersonating Smelly, I will answer.

I never mentioned CULTURE. D'uh (there goes you emotions again). I was raised in both cultures, eastern and western. Neither is better. But I suppose you think Western culture is superior bit that is just your arrogance.

Brasidas wrote:

Fuzzy Zack wrote:

Now you're just being emotional and ranting again.

You know exactly how politicians in the West are manipulating her and her family.

Your last 2 questions are plain stupid and indicative of you recent decline towards idiocy. But since you insist on impersonating Smelly, I will answer.

I never mentioned CULTURE. D'uh (there goes you emotions again). I was raised in both cultures, eastern and western. Neither is better. But I suppose you think Western culture is superior bit that is just your arrogance.

Debate conceded, as highlighted above.

Really please tell me how they are manipulating a young girl, shot by those wishing to deny her an education, of which she fought for her life, survived and now is calling upon western help to change poor view in some countries, where they badly discriminate against women?
By saying western, would mean culture, what other aspect could it be if political views are universal?
Well at present in the western culture, women actually have rights, not total equality but near to it, where on the other end of the scale in the Eastern culture, they are a tad behind the west who have progressed. That is the nicest way of putting it, as the reality is women in countless eastern cultures are treated appallingly and this worthy precipitant of this prize is a living proof of the massive uphill struggle it is to gain for women equal rights in the East. No one culture is superior to another, that is not being the claim, the fact is one is more advanced socially, than the other and the West wants to help people gain better rights.

Fuzzy Zack wrote:Debate conceded? Lol! What debate?

She's being lauded by the West and being groomed it's politicians. This is just obvious. But you are more than capable of looking that up.

Your last paragraph shows you are prejudice and a Western supremacist.

FYI - talking about Western politics doesn't not mean Western culture, you muppet. Lol! Nice try  

Your #MuslimahPride movement against #Femen was a slap on the collective face of Western imperialists who believe that Muslim women can’t fight for a cause. It was also a resounding reminder for the rest of the world that you have what it takes to spark a revolution. What the ignorant world does not realise is that once you have the permission of your husbands, fathers, brothers, uncles, the approval of your neighbours, in-laws, their relatives and the consent of your spiritual guardians, their God and their scriptures, you can be quite the rebels.
It takes volumes of bravery and valour to bow down to the status quo, and toe the lines that have been forced upon you. It takes unbelievable amounts of gallantry to act out a script that someone else has written for you.
Who on earth are those damn Europeans to try to steal your voice? Who are those unabashed infidels to protest on your behalf? Do they not realise that you are not allowed to express, let alone clamour in favour of, anything that contradicts the ostensibly divine scriptures? Who are those shameless activists to try and liberate you? Do they not realise that you can’t be liberated without the permission of your mehrams? [Male relatives-NoCrossNoCrescent]

Fuzzy Zack wrote:

Brasidas wrote:


Debate conceded, as highlighted above.

Really please tell me how they are manipulating a young girl, shot by those wishing to deny her an education, of which she fought for her life, survived and now is calling upon western help to change poor view in some countries, where they badly discriminate against women?
By saying western, would mean culture, what other aspect could it be if political views are universal?
Well at present in the western culture, women actually have rights, not total equality but near to it, where on the other end of the scale in the Eastern culture, they are a tad behind the west who have progressed. That is the nicest way of putting it, as the reality is women in countless eastern cultures are treated appallingly and this worthy precipitant of this prize is a living proof of the massive uphill struggle it is to gain for women equal rights in the East. No one culture is superior to another, that is not being the claim, the fact is one is more advanced socially, than the other and the West wants to help people gain better rights.

Pure prejudice and bigotry.

The same extremist, supremacist excuse (white mans burden) the West have used to colonise the world.

Ben_Reilly wrote:

Tommy Monk wrote:
Children should have education!

....... now where's my Nobel peace prize...???

Go out and fight, have your life threatened, travel the world and stand up to some of the scariest people out there. I'm afraid nobody's going to award you anything besides an honorary beard for things you say on NewsFix ...

Tommy Monk wrote:That Malala gets about a bit..... all paid for by the British tax payer....

Tommy Monk wrote:It's interesting how many people you think the British taxpayer should be paying for.....



She and her family should be returned to their home nation and let them pay for them!

Tommy Monk wrote:More waffle....


You're on a roll today dodge!!!


Maybe it's getting near time for your monthly injection.....

Fuzzy Zack wrote:Malala being groomed for Western puppetry. And loving it.

The Nobel prize (in any discipline but especially the peace prize) means nothing.

Brasidas wrote:Yep, why not, all should pay for everyone, as why should it be selective on race or wealth? Many already do not pay into this which your whole reason to be okay with this is where they are born, showing how absurd that is.

Cass wrote:

Fuzzy Zack wrote:Malala being groomed for Western puppetry. And loving it.

The Nobel prize (in any discipline but especially the peace prize) means nothing.  

disagree to no. 1 - shes doing this for herself and for others like her. if anything I wouldn't blame her one little bit for using the spotlight to help further her cause. takes real courage to continue how she has after what happened.

as to No. 2? I will slightly agree but some categories still have a lot of respect and cachets and can help....leave, medicine, science.

I will confess to never having completely read a book nominated for a NPP all the way through......I just cant.....too much

Tommy Monk wrote:"I joke with my Pakistani friends that she will be the new Aung Sang 'Pa Ki'."

Fuzzy Zack wrote:

Cass wrote:
disagree to no. 1 - shes doing this for herself and for others like her. if anything I wouldn't blame her one little bit for using the spotlight to help further her cause. takes real courage to continue how she has after what happened.
as to No. 2? I will slightly agree but some categories still have a lot of respect and cachets and can help....leave, medicine, science.
I will confess to never having completely read a book nominated for a NPP all the way through......I just cant.....too much

I don't object to what she's doing. I object to how others are using her. To that extent, she is being politically groomed, perhaps as a peace envoy or a future leader of some sort. One the West can do business with. I joke with my Pakistani friends that she will be the new Aung Sang 'Pa Ki'.
As for the Nobel Peace Prize - kind of agree with you. The peace prize is kind of pointless though.

Brasidas wrote:

Tommy Monk wrote:
That Malala gets about a bit..... all paid for by the British tax payer....

So she should be, she wishes to further women in her cause as they face much discrimination, that deserves every penny of the tax payers money, a world without discrimination to women?
There is no argument against that, again equality.