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Malala & Abeer Qasim

Hamza Al-JanabiBy: Orya Maqbool Jan, Pakistani Journalist (English

Translation)

Dated: 16, Oct., 2013

but in our era stories are

sold instead of being told

Up until the moment Malala was nixed for the

Nobel Peace Prize, the Pakistani media maintained

a frenzy We are proud and our heads are high

because Pakistan is getting honor through thischild's voice for womens' right to education and she

has brought pride back home. The whole world

appreciates her courage and her cause of making

education accessible to everybody is now receiving

investment. Such was the selection of words of the

so-called intellectuals.

I have always known that the Nobel Peace Prize,which is being promoted as a matter of honor, had

in the past been awarded to ruthless oppressors. One

of Malalas biggest advocates is Gordon Brown, the

unrepentant Iraqi war monger. Not only did the ex-

British chancellor snatch the right to education fromhundreds of thousands of Iraqis but he also took

away their right to breathe. These men; these self-

proclaimed champions of womens rights, are

actually those whose hands are soaked with the

blood of many innocent women. They have played

with the honor of many women across the world by

being complicit in their rape and then sweeping

their stories under the carpet. To them, a woman isjust a statistic, an object just like any other object

that they see in the world, an object for mere

pleasure which can be disposed of in the same waythat a used wrapper is discarded.

On the 12th March 2006, Abeer Qasim Hamza, a

girl who was of the same age as Malala was when

her alleged shooting occurred, was living in a small

village of Al Mahmudiyah. This is the story of

Abeer that I would narrate in the next part of this

article: what agony the poor child went through!

Please hold on to your hearts dear readers

(especially if you are weak at heart).Abeer's father Qasim Hamza Raheem and mother

Fakhriya Taha Mohsin were living with their twodaughters (Abeer and 6 year old Hadeel) and their

two their sons ( 9 year old Ahmed and 11 year old

Saleh Muhammad. Abeer's parents were forced to

restrict their daughter's movements outside the

house during a period when Gordon Brown's

democratic vote played trick in their

neighbourhood. At the time military checkpoints

were routinely set up by the occupying forces across

Iraq. This particular checkpoint was manned by six

soldiers: Paul Cortez, James Barker, JesseSpielman, Brain Howard, Steven Green and

Anthony Yribe. Whenever Abeer (the unfortunate

child,) would come out of the house these soldiers

would tease her with their dirty comments that

depicted their evil intentions. The poor girl struck

with fear would run back to her house. One day

these soldiers entered her house, searched it and

during that Steven Green ran his index finger down

Abeer's cheek, an action that terrified the entire

family. Whenever the girl would go out of the house

with her parents these soldiers would hurl dirty

signs at her out of their (evil) desire saying very

good, very good. On the morning of 12 March

2006, the soldiers had been consuming alcohol.Abeer, whos brothers had gone to school, had been

taken out of school her parents feared that these

soldiers would harm her. Later that morning, thesoldiers raided the house and locked Abeer's

parents and younger sister in one room, and forcibly

took Abeer into the other. Steven Green went on to

murder her parents and the younger sister, while the

other two soldiers raped the 14-year old Abeer in

the other room. Green emerged from the room

saying, I have killed them, all are dead after

which he joined the gang rape of the helpless Abeer.

After raping her they put a bullet into her head,which was fatal enough to put an end to her life. If

that was not enough, one solider used his lighter to,in a gruesome act, torch the lower part of Abeer's

body before leaving the house. The fire spread

eventually and the smoke alerted the neighbours

who witnessed the poor girl in a condition which I

prefer not to describe here. When I first read this

incident and saw her picture I could not sleep for

many nights and words just fail to describe the pain.

These people who award the Nobel Peace prize and

promote Malala are actually the ones who haveblood of many innocent girls on their hands and due

to whom many innocent girls fear stepping out of

their homes. It is due to these people that these girls

have stopped going to schools fearing the dirtiness

of their eyes, after all these innocent girls are a mere

statistic to them which is to be lost the books of

history. Abeer was not even writing a diary against

these civilized men which some powerful media

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of the world could broadcast because this piece is

not good for portraying the image that the West

wants. She did not even get a chance to call these

people oppressors. She did not even get a chance to

explain how her right to education was ruined by

these people and above all she did not get a chanceto explain who the murderer of humanity is. Her

father was neither a member at any NGO nor

someone near enough to an NGOs interests so thathe could motivate his daughter to write against

these soldiers sent by the West to their

neighbourhood. There was no freedom for her to do

anything but there was just one thing that

surrounded her and that was fear. Nobody

approached her father with the idea of writing a

diary under a pen name for narrating their story of

immense pain, but in our era stories are sold instead

of being told. Abeer lived every moment under fearuntil the moment she lived after Brown's democratic

right was exercised in her neighbourhood. Hersurviving brothers testified what they knew of those

soldiers, specially the incident of Green's index

finger when their father took Abeer out of school

due to the observable threat to his daughter. They

recalled how Abeer cried a lot that day, but there

was no other choice. Abeer liked taking care of the

vegetables outside her home but after that day she

could only see her plants through the window which

was a measure taken by the family to protect her.

There was no one in the international or local mediaof Pakistan who had the heart to speak for her, who

could find a daughter in Abeer, who could cry for

Abeer. Nobody stood for the rights of these children

and nobody proposed a Nobel award in the memory

of these slain children like Abeer. Nobody stood for

those who died because tanks ran were over them;

nobody found any mercy for the prisoners on whom

dogs were set free. Nobody shed a single tear for

those sisters and daughters who became a victim to

the desires of animals flown all the way from their

country into their victim's country. Abeer is not one

person but there are many Abeers who were forced

by these soldiers to leave their schools and confined

in their houses only which later proved to be unsafetoo.

But we are heartless!!! The glitter of a Nobel award

has taken away our moral awareness. How couldPakistans 180 million people digest Malala's claim

over the claims by western media that women live

in Pakistan like prisoners and they can't go to

markets. Is this the Pakistan we know from Karachi

to Peshawar and Gwadar to Gilgit which Malala has

pictured before the world? I have been in distant

areas of Baluchistan and I have been to Lahore, I

have seen Karachi, Peshawar and other smaller

districts where I could easily find women at everypublic place. Be it farms, offices, factories, markets,

or hotels, women are everywhere. Is this Malala'sprison? Does Malala seek a Nobel prize with this

horrible lie? Almost every news anchor, intellectual,

and analyst of Pakistan who is imposed on our

media sets a narrative of Malala's claim as a glad

tiding. "Look Pakistan is being promoted in the

world through Malala." But I think Malala was

correctly placed in the list of Nobel awardees

because in this list of laureates there exists three

murderers: Israeli Prime Ministers Begin, Yitzhak

Rabin and Shimon Peres. When these men took theNobel prize they had on their hands the blood of

many innocent Palestinians. In this list of Nobel

laureates is Barak Obama, a man who has a lot of

innocent blood on his neck. Obama is notorious for

the scores of innocent men, women and children

that he has murdered with his drone strikes. In this

list there is another name - that of Henry Kissinger,

who is one of the biggest enemies of the Muslim

World (Ummah). These issues are matters of honor

for nations which honored representatives tackle on

behalf of their people by rejecting so called awards.

Tho Lu Due , the Vietnamese Leader had engaged

in peace talks with Americans, when jointly

awarded the Nobel Peace prize with HenryKissinger simply rejected it. Jean-Paul Sartre was

awarded the Nobel prize for literature but he

declined it and said : I don't want such humiliationwith my name (i.e., my name being associated with

a Nobel prize).

One of Pakistans daughters is being exploited by

the West in their campaign to humiliate an entire

nation. Those who have supported Malalas bid for

the peace prize should know that those awarding it

have the blood of many thousands of girls like

Abeer on their hands; girls who out of fear of

western occupying forces left their schools andconfined themselves to their homes. Yet, in the end,

the homes of these pure innocent souls, offeredthem no sanctuary and no protection against brutal

monsters who destroyed their honour and cold

bloodedly murdered them.

Original article in Urdu

http://oryamaqbooljan.com/columns/malaala-aur-

abeer-qasim-hamza-al-janabi-orya-maqbool-jan

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