Malala, The Powerful October 9, 2012, was an ordinary afternoon in the Seat Valley, and area of rugged mountains and sweeping green valleys in the north Pakistan. Malala Yousafzai, 15, was sitting on a school bus with her classmates waiting to go home when two bearded gunmen appeared. "Who is Malala?" One of the men demanded. A feeling of terror filled the bus and the unthinkable happened: The gunmen opened Fire. One bullet pierced Malala' s head near her left eye. Two of Malala' s friends were struck in their arms. Then the gunmen fled, leaving Malala to die. It might be difficult to understand why anyone would try to murder an innocent girl on her way home from school, but some people in Pakistan do not view Malala for what she is : a bright and generous teenager. They see her as a deadly threat to their way of life, a person who deserves to be killed. These people mainly young men from rural Pakistan and neighbouring Afghanistan-are members of a gr...
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