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"I Am Malala" by Malala Yousafzai, shows the hard struggle for something so simple; a woman's right to education.  

What the girl couldn't understand, was why her being knowledgeable was something that threatened Armies and bad men. All she wanted was to go to school.  And, not only did they ban girls from going to school, they bombed the schools.  

She does give the background climate and the beliefs and religious and various clans and tribes; the perfect backdrop for this to take place.

This simple concept of no longer educating girls…then flows into other liberties being taken away.  Little by little they lost their rights…one right at a time….out of fear of what would happen if they refused.

It isn't so much WHAT is taken away, but that they allow it.  Allow it by going along or believing in the religious leaders.  More often the Koran was misinterpreted in order to gain control over the people.

There seems to be a common thread in what is going on her country and what I feel/sense/see in the strict religions.  The lack of personal freedom…given up out of fear.

Imagine this young girl being the voice of women in her country….saying it is not okay, that I want to be educated. 

Imagine using women as pawns to manipulate in order to gain control and power? Who else does this?

And, who is speaking for the rights of women and girls?

Her father carried this poem around in his wallet.

First they came for the communists,

and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

Then they came for the socialists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak for me.  by Martin-Niemöller

At one point in her story, she says…that her whole country appears to have gone mad, for no one is complaining or striking against their rights being taken away…how they silently give up.

There is a societal madness that seems to permeate and is spread by silence…upheld by fear.  Fear of NOT going along.

Where is the fear of losing power or the control of their lives….and the lives of the women and children?

In her country, male domination is completely in focus.

And, I see that in the FALC, it is similar…women are being used, just differently.

Malala said, "it is like they are trying to wipe out all evidence of women in our country" when they had to start hiding behind the burkas…

The elder women in her country have been taught to disappear, unless they are serving men.

Their lives are not their lives.

They are but a parasite living upon the backs of men.

I know that she lives on the extreme end of the scale, but there are religions where women have no voice in matters that matter.

She has no freedom to say No.

No freedom to her own body.

I see from her story the loud display of control over women.

The FALC is a quieter show…yet its visual is displayed in the large families and the downtrodden women.

Malala was lucky to be born unto her father, who treated her like a son, from the moment she was born…she was never seen as less…due to her gender.  He encouraged her to speak out and supported her…while he himself spoke out for women's rights and value.  Most important he lived it…by seeing her as an equal.