{"id":498,"date":"2013-11-11T11:29:11","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T11:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=498"},"modified":"2013-11-11T11:29:11","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T11:29:11","slug":"pakistani-private-schools-ban-malalas-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/pakistani-private-schools-ban-malalas-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani private schools ban Malala\u2019s book"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Malala\"<\/a>Pakistani education officials said Sunday that they have banned teenage activist Malala Yousafzai\u2019s book from private schools across the country, claiming it doesn\u2019t show enough respect for Islam and calling her a tool of the West.
\nMalala has become a hero to many across the world for opposing the Taleban and standing up for girls\u2019 education, conspiracy theories have flourished in Pakistan that her shooting was staged to create a hero for the West to embrace.
\nAdeeb Javedani, president of the All Pakistan Private Schools Management Association, said his group banned Malala\u2019s book from the libraries of its 40,000 affiliated schools and called on the government to bar it from school curriculums.
\n\u201cEverything about Malala is now becoming clear,\u201d Javedani said. \u201cTo me, she is representing the West, not us.\u201d
\nKashif Mirza, the chairman of the All Pakistan Private Schools Federation, said his group also has banned Malala\u2019s book in its affiliated schools.
\nMalala \u201cwas a role model for children, but this book has made her controversial,\u201d Mirza said. \u201cThrough this book, she became a tool in the hands of the Western powers.\u201d He said the book did not show enough respect for Islam because it mentioned Prophet Muhammad\u2019s name without using the abbreviation (Pbuh) \u2014 \u201cpeace be upon him\u201d.
\nHe also said it spoke favorably of author Salman Rushdie, who angered many Muslims with his blasphemous book \u201cThe Satanic Verses,\u201d and Ahmadis, members of a minority sect that have been declared non-Muslims under Pakistani law.
\nMalala mentioned in the book that Pakistan\u2019s population of 180 million people includes more than 2 million Ahmadis, \u201cwho say they are Muslim though our government says they are not.\u201d \u201cSadly those minority communities are often attacked,\u201d the book said, referring also to Pakistan\u2019s 2 million Christians.<\/p>\n

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