Malala Yousafzai Nobel Peace Prize Winner and Education Activist

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The Taliban The majority of Pakistan’s people are Muslim Muslim people follow the religion of Islam The Taliban is a small group of Muslim people who believe in an extreme interpretation of the Islamic system of laws called Sharia The Taliban are extraordinarily conservative believing that women and girls should not work go to school or even drive cars 6 young men standing in the road The men waved at the bus to stop it and one of them approached the driver The other man came around to the back of the truck One of Malala’s friends suggested they might be journalists Perhaps they were there to talk to Malala Ever since it had been revealed that Malala was the author of a popular blog she had been interviewed by many journalists On her blog Malala had spoken up about the right of all girls to have an education The Swat Valley had been controlled by a group called the Taliban as recently as three years earlier The Taliban did not believe in educating girls They believed that girls and women belonged