The point of "Malala Day" is not Girl's Education. It is not to get Malala a Nobel Prize. It is nothing that makes you feel warm and gushy.
The point of Malala Day is to focus like a laser on what happened to her and why.
She was shot because she wanted an education.
The Taliban wanted her dead because she threatened them.
She questioned their version of "Islam."
She challenged their right to deny her an education.
She was the most dangerous person to their world: a thinking, feeling, lively, super cute Muslim.
Why are the Taliban hung up on their dank murderous version of religion?
It helps hide what they do for a living: run drugs.
They run $60 billion worth of opium and heroin out of Afghanistan.
The freak-show part of the Taliban doesn't see that money of course.
Their bosses, a handful of Haqqanis, a couple of Mullahs, and the big shots of the ISI and the Pakistani government get about two percent of the total take.
The rest seeps away into HSBC accounts, "tax havens" like the Cayman Islands and Mauritius, and millions of "shell companies."
After fast-as-light laundering the black money emerges free of the blood of many Malalas.
It flows into hedge funds that keep the price of oil above $100 a barrel amidst what economists are calling The Great Recession.
It flows into the secret kitties of the lords and ladies of Britain.
In countries around the world it keeps politicians cooperative, bankers purring at their bonuses and journalists silent (alive and dead).
On this Malala Day and on every day that follows remember what the occasion is meant to commemorate: a brave girl and the great corruption that tried to shut her up.
The point of Malala Day is to focus like a laser on what happened to her and why.
She was shot because she wanted an education.
The Taliban wanted her dead because she threatened them.
She questioned their version of "Islam."
She challenged their right to deny her an education.
She was the most dangerous person to their world: a thinking, feeling, lively, super cute Muslim.
Why are the Taliban hung up on their dank murderous version of religion?
It helps hide what they do for a living: run drugs.
They run $60 billion worth of opium and heroin out of Afghanistan.
The freak-show part of the Taliban doesn't see that money of course.
Their bosses, a handful of Haqqanis, a couple of Mullahs, and the big shots of the ISI and the Pakistani government get about two percent of the total take.
The rest seeps away into HSBC accounts, "tax havens" like the Cayman Islands and Mauritius, and millions of "shell companies."
After fast-as-light laundering the black money emerges free of the blood of many Malalas.
It flows into hedge funds that keep the price of oil above $100 a barrel amidst what economists are calling The Great Recession.
It flows into the secret kitties of the lords and ladies of Britain.
In countries around the world it keeps politicians cooperative, bankers purring at their bonuses and journalists silent (alive and dead).
On this Malala Day and on every day that follows remember what the occasion is meant to commemorate: a brave girl and the great corruption that tried to shut her up.
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