Malala Yousafzai’s Book Banned in Pakistani Private Schools
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Dan Kitwood/Getty Images(ISLAMABAD) — The book a teenage girl wrote to inspire others won’t be made available to many of her peers in her native country.
Malala Yousafzai has become well-known internationally after being shot and nearly killed by the Taliban in 2012 for espousing her belief that girls in Pakistan and elsewhere should be entitled to an education.
Since then, Yousafzai has written a memoir titled I Am Malala in the hope that others will be brave enough to speak out against oppression.
However, all the accolades Yousafzai has received have not impressed the president of Pakistan’s private schools’ association.
Adeeb Javedani says I Am Malala will not be offered in any the libraries of Pakistan’s 40,000 affiliated private schools because the teen has become “a tool in the hands of the Western powers.”
He added that the author also did not show enough respect for Islam as another reason for banning the book.
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