One Very Brave Girl Gets Nobel Peace Pruize

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-30411049

I can't think of a better recipient for this award. Well done Malala for standing up to bigotry and intolerance !

[jourdain2]

Couldn't agree more.

[Retrochic]

I hope that one day she will fulfill her dream to be Prime Minister of Pakistan

[rockyracoon]

What Jourdain said

[FrogNog]

A good choice

[mikey4444]

Who wants to bet there is someone on here that disagrees Jourdain, Retro, and Rocky !

[rockyracoon]

She is a beacon of hope for oppressed women in Pakistan, let's hope she can change their futures for the better

[Tilly2]

She will go far. An amazing young lady.

[-Talbot-]

I would have gone for Vlad.

[DTCwordfan]

Betting on going to Oxford Uni.....?

[mikey4444]

Malala, like Salman Rushie, will have to look over her shoulder, for the rest of her live, which makes her even braver than at first I thought.

[jourdain2]

Very possibly DTC - a lucid young lady.

[Psybbo]

I agree, Mikey

[carrust]

The Taliban are so brave to be scared of a 14yr old girl!

[mikey4444]

I think that the Taliban, like all organisations stuffed full of bigotry, are scared of the truth.

[BlackadderV]

I think it was the brilliant American satirist, Tom Lehrer, who announced his retirement when hearing the news that Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State under Richard Nixon, had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on the grounds that such an award made satire redundant.

[jourdain2]

Blackadder - couldn't believe it when Obama got it

[Gromit]

She has done tremendous work in advancing Education for Women and girls in Pakistan. But I cannot figure out what she has done to advance 'Peace'?

The Peace Prize is usually a politically motivated award. Unfortunately, more so this year.

[sp1814]

I doff my cap to her.

A very worthy recipient.

Hoping this thread remains positive...

[naomi24]

Gromit,// I cannot figure out what she has done to advance 'Peace'? //

According to the Nobel Prize website:

//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.//

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2014/press.html

[DTCwordfan]

good to see you back, naomi, hope things have sorted themselves out.