News Response 18-7-2013

Title: Senior Pakistani Taliban leader 'shocked' by Malala attack
Date: 18th July, 2013
Source: BBC news

Feedback: This is about a letter written by the leader of  Taliban, a terrorist organization, expressing his shock to Malala attack. Adnan Rasheed who is the Pakistani Taliban leader has sent a letter to Malala Yousafzai, and in his letter, he stops short of apologizing but says he hoped the attack 'had never happened'. He also said he felt 'brotherly' emotions towards Malala as they belong to the same tribe but he rejects to condemn the attack, saying the judgement on whether it is right or not should be left to God. Besides, he claims Malala was attacked because she campaigned to 'malign efforts to establish the Islamic system but not because his group is against education of any men or women or girls. At the end of his letter, he asked Malala to come back and adopt Islamic and Pashtun culture, join any female Islamic school in order to use her pen to reveal the conspiracy of the elite who want to enslave the whole of humanity.

  After I read this news, my heart is full of anger. It is because I think it is so ironic that the leader of Taliban saying he is shocked by Malala attack which the attack was caused by his group. And it is unacceptable that the judgement on whether the attack is correct or not should be left to God, because it is obviously wrong that an organization which is equipped with arms shot a bare-handed girl who only fights for the right of women on education. We all know that Taliban is against the rights of women as there are many news about the women were executed by shooting of the Taliban members or raped by them, for instance in 1999, a woman was executed by shooting of a Taliban member publicly in Kashmir. Therefore it is so weird that the leader of Taliban saying his group is not against education of any men or women or girls. 
  
  Now is 21st century already, I think Pakistan should progress quickly, she should realize the statuses of women and men are the same and the rights of women should not be suppressed as they maybe talented so as to help the whole country to have a fast development and be as strong as other Western or Asian countries. I really can not understand why women must be suppressed or controlled by men, why women must not be respected. Is it because women are physically weaker then men? But there are some women who are as strong as men like female weight lifters. Is it because women are not as brilliant as men? However there are lots of women who are as smart as or even smarter than men like Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer. With lots of historical facts, they all prove that women are talented and even more capable than men so why there are countries suppressing the women, especially in Asia? I really hope one day the rights of women can be respected and they can enjoy the same rights of men have as women and men are the same, both of them are humans and live in the same planet, Earth, all people belong to the same family.