MALALA

Shades of the american woman cometh to mind.  Not until twenty years into the 20th century did she win the battle to vote.  She won it after years of risking her life -- as a human and an American citizen -- protesting against being denied equal rights with male citizens.  She won it after years of being beaten bloody and stoned in her protest marches, some being burned alive in buildings set afire where she dared raise her voice not only against her mistreatment but against the institution of slavery and other injustices in society.  She won it while those "holier-than-thou" prayed against her on waking each day, prayed against her at breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and prayed against her before crawling into bed at night.

Will those "holier-than-thou" enemies of Malala admit to the evil of their persecution of women or will they go on being the scum representing the ignorance of the Dark Ages by savagely cutting off women's noses, lashing women with whips, and burying them up to their necks and stoning them to death and shooting them in the head -- as they did the innocent 14-year-old Malala -- for wanting the right to be educated in the 21st century?