The Malala you won't hear about

Ben Norton describes how U.S. news outlets have selectively reported only the aspects of Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai they want you to see.

“Malala's Nobel victory can be appropriated by the U.S. political establishment to 'prove' that its invasion, occupation and destruction of Afghanistan has 'helped' its people. (As for the hundreds of thousands killed and injured in the process, well, those inconvenient exceptions aren't part of this narrative.)”

“As Michael Parenti points out, while most people who win the Nobel 'Peace' Prize do so for war-mongering and crimes against humanity (Henry Kissinger boasts one, for example, along with Barack Obomba himself), Malala actually deserves hers. This makes the exploitation even more grotesque.”

“Interestingly, many of the same people lauding the Nobel Peace Prize laureate for her advocacy of nonviolence also happily cheered on the violence of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Afghanistan. The utter hypocrisy does not strike them. After all, it has always been much more useful to advocate a philosophy of nonviolence for individuals and oppressed groups than hegemons and states.”

“As much as it highlights Malala's words on education and nonviolence, the U.S. corporate media never mentions the side of Malala that it doesn't like, the side of Malala that doesn't serve but rather challenges Western imperialist interests, the side of Malala that overtly opposes not just U.S. drone strikes but capitalism itself.”

“What went much less reported was that at this meeting, Malala warned that U.S. 'drone attacks are fueling terrorism. Innocent victims are killed in these acts, and they lead to resentment among the Pakistani people.' The White House, which, given its supposed investment in fighting terrorism, would presumably not be interested in spreading it further, left these comments out of its official statement. Just a few weeks after this meeting, another Pakistani girl visited Washington to testify before Congress, and received much less media attention. Nabila Rehman was 8 years old when she was out in a field picking okra and her grandmother was eviscerated before her eyes by a U.S. drone strike. Seven children were also wounded, including family members.”

“In his article Malala Yousafzai and the White Saviour Complex, journalist Assed Baig explored how this racist 'white man's burden' phenomenon is still alive and well, detailing the repugnant ways in which the West has exploited Malala Yousafzai's amazing strength and bravery to support its interests. Absent from many of these discussions, however, is that Malala herself is well aware of this manipulation. In a statement released on October 13, 2013, she defiantly declared that she is 'not a Western puppet.'”

“The attempt to deliberately silence Malala is not only evident in the way the U.S. corporate media ignores her criticism of U.S. drones; even more insidious is its complete disregard for the Nobel Peace Prize laureate's politics. In March 2013, Malala sent this message to the congress of Pakistani Marxists: [...] I am convinced Socialism is the only answer and I urge all comrades to take this struggle to a victorious conclusion. Only this will free us from the chains of bigotry and exploitation.”

“This is the Malala the Western corporate media doesn't like to quote. This is the Malala whose politics do not fit neatly into the neocolonialist, cookie-cutter frame of presentation. This is the Malala who recognizes that true liberation will take more than just education, that it will take the establishment of not just bourgeois political 'democracy,' but of economic democracy, of socialism.”

Full Article:

http://socialistworker.org/2014/10/15/the-malala-you-wont-hear-about

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