Girl Shot By Taliban Signs £2 Million Book Deal

[ChillDoubt]

Would it be spiteful of me to say that it would be nice to see some of that ploughed back into the NHS that saved her life and safeguarded her future?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21968034

[factor-fiction]

She'll probably pay quite a lot of tax so I suppose the NHS will get a fair chunk indirectly.

[Mick-Talbot]

It's not the first thing that would have entered my head .....good luck to her.

[ChillDoubt]

It's not the first thing that would have entered my head
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Poor choice of phrase there Mick!

I just wondered because the book deal is in $'s, plus her and her family are now safely ensconced in the UK. Must be the cynic in me.

Forget I asked.....

[society]

I'm sure those who coaxed her into writing this book would be profiting too. By the time she's finish paying everyone involved she won't have much left for herself.

[modeller]

I believe we aren't paying , the Afghans are. However this is one case when I wouldn't mind picking up the bill.

[boxtops]

No, the Pakistani government (not Afghan) have paid for her treatment and her school fees. I bet she'll keep back some of the money to promote the cause of women's education in her native country. Good for her.

[New Judge]

Sorry, but I don't share everybody's apparent joy on this one.

[society]

NJ, so what do you think then?

[Noth43]

At risk of being labelled this that or whatever, I was wondering why she and her family were all here from the start of this, so at this point I'm cautiously with Chilldoubt and New judge. Educate me.

[sandyRoe]

She and her family would all be in danger back in Pakistan. There is medical treatment available here that wouldn't be on offer in her homeland.
As for her book, I doubt if she's been paid £2 million to write it. If it sells very well she might make that amount. But I doubt it will.

[FredPuli43]

NJ, you sound the very embodiment of Christian charity1 I believe that it does extend to Muslims. Why don't you share the "apparent joy" ?

[trt]

Do the Pakistan Gov pay for her and her family's accommodation, or are we paying for it?

[LazyGun]

I am honestly quite surprised that anyone would begrudge this girls treatment here - especially since the Pakistan government paid for it.

[ChillDoubt]

I'm not begrudging her any treatment whatsoever but as she has benefited greatly from the NHS, (regardless of who pays for it) and she is now being educated here at a rather plush school and her family are now resident in the UK I'm just asking that maybe a small portion of any monies she gains as a result of her misfortune may go towards the health, housing and education costs.

[birdie1971]

Sandy - “... She and her family would all be in danger back in Pakistan...”

There was another girl shot on the same bus that day. Try as I might, I can't find her name anywhere so I have no idea whether she lived or died. I find that odd. Since Malala wasn't the only girl shot on that day, why is her family and her specific circumstances being used to justify permanent residency in the UK?

Surely every schoolgirl who attends a (mainstream) school in the Swat district are in constant danger from the Taliban seeing as they want to violently oppress any non-religious education of the female sex. Apart from the grievous injuries sustained by Malala, she is no different from the thousands of other girls living under the threat of murderous Islamic lunacy yet we are treating her very differently.

[Answerprancer]

"Sorry, but I don't share everybody's apparent joy on this one" - then why comment?

[Noth43]

^Is he not allowed then?

[Answerprancer]

Of course he is, I was just wondering why the public mention of "apparent joy" when that wasn't in the OP.
None of my posts suggest non-allowance of anything - that's for the fascists of AB.

[emmie]

there are no fascists on AB, and i wish you would stop saying it, it's an opinion expressed by NJ, one of which i am sure some share. I am glad she has recovered sufficiently, but had hoped that one day she would be able to return to Pakistan, that of course may be unlikely.