In the last pages of "I am Malala" she speaks of how quiet her country is about her book, and her message....and how they see her so incorrectly. Amazingly, the very people she is speaking out for, are not able to appreciate her journey.
She had an outpouring of support from around the world, except from her homeland...instead she receives misconstrued negative messages...or she would be welcome to come back, if she would stop spreading Western Ideas, that the people in power do not want.
If she were to get back in line, hide under the burka and give up on education and women's rights, she can go home. Or so they say.
Another part in her story is about her praying to be tall, for she is a very small girl, and after being shot by the Taliban...she feels that God made her so tall that the world can now see her. They wanted to destroy and make her disappear and the opposite has happened.
While there are many in her country that are not pleased with her, she is completely accepted by her family; who love and support her as she stands up for women's rights in a country where it has never been so. She, one little girl, is trying to free thousands of women to create a more civilized society...and doing so has put her own life in danger.
And, the men in power feel her power. Recognize that in empowering women they will lose their control...she is a threat to their uncivilized life styles.
I can relate to her.
I am not in a life threatening climate, but I am feeling that I am fighting for women who are not able to appreciate my efforts.
Malala has a bigger dream for the women in her country...a dream most can't wrap their minds around. They have lived and were born in a country where women are not seen...they are not recognized with any value.
My view of the women born into abusive homes...raised in religions where their freedoms are so limited...are on the spectrum of Malala's invisible women.
Invisible in Self.
Invisible...without value; unless they are serving the men or being victimized for the 'pleasure' of the abuser.
They are just instruments for power gain by the abuser.
The men in her country are powerful because they control women.
Doesn't that just seem insane?
More powerful to overcome the weaker among them.
But, isn't that what abuse is?
The ideology of abusive families are similar to an uncivilized country. Where the only power men have is to control those weaker than him. Power gained by intimidating and victimizing, verbally and physically those who have no power.
When one little girl who challenges their power....they try and shoot her, it shows them to be bullies. And, yet the people in her country blame her for speaking out.
Not the reasons why.
