Friday 12 October 2012

Brave Malala

We Aussies have a saying for those who pick on the weaker, younger or smaller. We call them flat track bullies. It's a term derived from the sporting field - much like Americans might say someone "hit it out of the park", or went "the whole nine yards".

The term applies to teams or players who confidentally beat weaker, lower ranked teams, yet are exposed and easily beaten by superior, or even teams with an equal standing.

Real world example of flat track bullies:

 The Taliban: shoot a 14 year old girl, wounding, but thankfully not killing her - run to the mountains and hide when faced with the US army.
 Threaten to kill same 14 year old girl - cower in caves from the Australian army.

Malala Yousufzai, is a brave young girl; an activist fighting a worthy cause: education for all women.

While we in the West get upset if the government introduces a new tax, or the banks raise interest rates, the Taliban get really irate if women start learning.

Malala is courageous and... I'm not going to keep adding superlatives. None of them could ever do justice to the resolve of a 14 year old who gets shot twice - in the head and neck - but survives and keeps fighting.

The only thing better than seeing the Taliban brought down and destroyed, is seeing their victims get up and survive.        

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