Amelie Koury answers “If she was a Muslim (real one) and she was...”

Mahmoud asked this question about I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban:

If she was a Muslim (real one) and she was shot by American solider for defending her religion and her land would she have half the fame she is having right now?

Amelie Koury First, why do you think she's not a "real" Muslim?
Second, she was shot for defending education.
Third, she was famous before getting shot. A documentar…moreFirst, why do you think she's not a "real" Muslim?
Second, she was shot for defending education.
Third, she was famous before getting shot. A documentary had already been made about her fight for education when she was 11 years old.
She was being interviewed by media, from all over the world, regularly.
She had worked with a journalist on a "diary" about her daily experience of trying to get an education while under the Taliban rule.

The fact that you believe she's not a "real" Muslim (which makes me wonder if you consider those who oppress and use violence as real Muslims) and are ignorant to what happened, to the politics of it makes you the exact person she was and is fighting for and helping. She's helping people (although often specifically girls) have access to knowledge, to books, to education.

You obviously have access to the internet, so maybe google her, find the hundreds of articles, interviews, and speaking engagements she did BEFORE she got shot to understand her "fame".
Educate yourself. (less)

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