Malala Yousafzai

Chuck Norris Column: Thomas Jefferson vs. Islamists (Part 1)
By Chuck Norris | July 15, 2013 | 4:58 PM EDT

If only every 16-year-old had the courage and grit of Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl who was shot in the head by the Taliban last year for advocating girls' and women's education. Last Friday, she spoke to the United Nations and said education could change the world, Reuters reported.

I would add that it is an absolutely essential ingredient to establish and maintain any free people and society. Thomas Jefferson put it this way: "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."

MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Actually Notes a Real Casualty In a Real War on Women: Pakistani Girl Shot by Taliban
By Ken Shepherd | October 9, 2012 | 4:31 PM EDT

Islamist radicals affiliated with the Taliban shot and critically wounded Malala Yousafzai yesterday. The Financial Times notes that Yousafzai is "a 14-year-old Pakistani activist who won international acclaim for speaking out for girls denied education under the Taliban." Yousafzai was wounded in the leg from a shot fired at her as she left school on Tuesday.

Yousafzai's shooting was the third item in a news brief aired 10 minutes before the close of Andrea Mitchell's 1 p.m. Eastern program: