MALALA YOUSAFZAI BADLY DAMAGED BY BRITAIN AND AMERICA,BEING USED BY THE WEST TO CRITICIZE ISLAM, SAYS LEADING WOMEN'S RIGHTS CAMPAIGNER FROM PAKISTAN

Hmaira Awais Shadid, a leading campaigner for women’s rights in Pakistan, argues that Malala Yousafzai is being used by the West to criticize Islam.

One of Pakistan’s leading women’s rights campaigners says Malala Yousafzai is a victim of the West.



Humaira Awais Shahid, a former politician, Harvard fellow, and newspaper editor, said the schoolgirl has been badly damaged by Britain and America, who are taking advantage of her survival story. Malala is now a hate-figure in certain quarters in Pakistan while some secular Westerners have used her traumatic experience in the Swat Valley as an avenue to criticize Islam.



“The myth that the West projects as her savior is something that hurt Malala’s case; it took away from the story and damaged the victim,” Shahid told The Daily Beast.



As she rose to prominence, many in Pakistan portrayed Malala as an American stooge who was interfering in domestic politics and criticizing conservative Islamic traditions. “Malala has been accused of being more loyal to the West,” Shahid said. “Stuck in this war of what Pakistan is, and what the West wants to project of Pakistan, Malala suffers … The way the West projects it, it damages the victim.”



The former Punjabi legislator said Malala was a devout Muslim with no interest in promoting a secular democracy in Pakistan. “The West wants to gain from Malala’s real story, an agenda that suits them or the policies they want,” she said. “It’s like a mass media frenzy—and then you see the whole question of secularization. This is not the issue of Pakistan—our constitution starts with the name of almighty, Allah, talks about in accordance with the scriptures and the principles of Islam—so what are you talking about?”



THIS COMING FROM A WOMAN THAT LIVES IN THE COUNTRY WHERE THANKS TO ISLAM WOMEN'S RIGHTS EXIST ONLY ON PAPER.



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