The New Muslim Generation - Clifford May

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National Review:

A month ago, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki was asked whether the Taliban is a terrorist organization. The question appeared to stump her. “Well, I’m not sure how they are defined at this particular moment,” she told reporters.

So how refreshing was it to hear Malala Yousafzai, a 16-year-old Pakistani girl, speaking from a U.N. podium last week, unequivocally and forthrightly denouncing the Taliban as terrorist and, for good measure, calling into question the courage and intelligence of its members? “They are afraid of women,” she said. “And I remember that there was a boy in our school who was asked by a journalist, why are the Taliban against education? He answered very simply by pointing to his book, he said, ‘A Talib doesn’t know what is written inside this book.’”

It was a Talib, you’ll recall, who last year shot Yousafzai in the head at point-blank range as she was riding a bus home from school in northwest Pakistan. She barely survived, then endured months of hospitalization and reconstructive surgery. A Taliban spokesman called the attack “a warning to all youngsters in the area that they would be targeted if they followed her example.”