Raising My Voice by Malalai Joya

The book I wash withstandvas is Raising my component by Malalai Joya. This is the exceeding story of the a struggled winning afghan woman who dares to speak let on. She was born in Western Afghanistaniistaniistaniistan. Three sidereal days after she was born, a soviet- digested coup repositiond her action for incessantly. indoors a year, Afghanistan was an occupied ground, and she says since then war is exclusively we Afghans buzz off kat oncen. (p. 7, 2009) Her childhood was fatigued in refugee camps in Iran and Pakistan. Her family were forced to relinquish Afghanistan to avoid the war. This was not a think experience.Afghans were seen as second-class humans by the Iranian govern ment. (p. 19, 2009) Her father who was a restore was forced to do difficult jobs for actually(prenominal) low w ages, simply be coiffure he was an Afghan and not Iranian. Her family spent four old age living in terrible conditions as dismisss in Iran. About 85,000 Afghans were sq ueezed into filthy, over-crowded camps. We were neglected and forgotten, w here(predicate) we sunbaked in the heat of the day and shivered at night. (p. 20, 2009) Malalais father entrustd so powerfully in the value of grooming, dismantle for girls, so to him, what was even worse than these living conditions were the feature that on that point were no schools in these camps.Afghan children were not allowed to attend Iranian schools and for this reason, her family contumacious to leave Iran and move to Pakistan. It was in Pakistan, that Malalai firstly attend a school. The school was the tho school that allowed Afghan female refugees to attend. Malalai rightfully enjoyed her classes and immediately valued the importance of breeding. In 1992, when Malalai was fourteen, her family moved back to Afghanistan. neertheless, it wasnt grand before she would move back to Pakistan because it was far-off too unsafe to live in Afghanistan. Young girls were macrocosm abducted, r oundd and killed by roaming gangs. (p. 30, 2009)At night, armed strifeers of criminal mujahedin groups would often walk right into slews homes. All the children were locked in a bedroom with the light off and told to stay put silent. We were terrified, barely we could not cry out as we listened to these men yelling and go things upside down most the dwelling house, pickings whatever they pleased. (p. 31, 2009) Malalai used to listen to the tunercommunication with her father. There were regular reports near the intifadah in Palestine, and how their children were bravely fighting against the antagonism of Israeli troops.She asked her father, why are we not from Palestine, where the children are so brave? He replied If thats the delegacy you feel, why acquiret you judge some comme il faut like a Palestinian in your own country? (p. 39, 2009) I think this was what do Malalai go into politics and fight for her country. This had a deep impact on me. I thought about wh at he said for days. I valued to pass water to end what was going on in Afghanistan, and perhaps my father was showing me the way. (p. 30, 2009) In 1998, Malalai joined the Organisation for Promoting Afghan Womens Capabilities (OPAWC) as a full-time affable activist.After living in exile for sixteen years, she withdrawed to Afghanistan for her job to teach girls in defiance of the Taliban. This job came with a risk. However Malalai accepted the risk involved and pick out the surname Joya to protect her familys identity. instruction at an infraground girls school was a dangerous job, but I never cut intoed giving it up. I felt it was a great in soundice that Afghan girls were being denied an training. The Taliban wanted to keep them in the dark, because all time a group is denied education it is harder for them to k immediately their rights and to fight for them. (p. 56, 2009)Upon Malalais return to Afghanistan, she had to learn to weaken the burqa as this was a requireme nt from the Taliban. I didnt like it. Not one bit. Its not notwith stand oppressive but its more difficult than you qualification think. You excite no peripheral stack because of the netting in front of your eyes. And its hot and suffocating under there. The dear now useful thing about those yearn blue robes was that they could be used to secrete school books and early(a) forbidden objects. (p. 44, 2009) work force had to grow thick beards as abundant as a clenched clenched fist. (p. 3, 2009) according to the rules of male grooming. Books early(a) than the al-Quran were forbidden.Television, movies, and recorded music were also illegal. The Taliban considered practising any other religion un-Islamic so they made it a crime. They would blow up or scrape off the faces of any other religious statues, paintings or photographs. In the summer of 2001, Malalai was named the director of OPAWC in Western Afghanistan so she had to move back to where she was born. We were just getting re-established when, on the night of September 11th, the radio broadcast about horrifying news. inwardly days everyone knew that there would be a war. (p. 57, 2009) America started dropping bombs on Afghanistan daily, cleanup position the lives of innocent lot. The Taliban was replaced by the Northern Alliance. In 2003, the OPAWC opened a health clinic which was movement by Malalai, again her safety was at risk as this was illegal. This health clinic shortly expanded into an orphanage. Throughout the history of Afghanistan, whenever the country faced important reforms or changes in government, tribal elders and other leaders drop assembled in a traditional accumulation adverted a Loya Jirga.In 2003, the United Nations was called in to oversee elections to a Loya Jirga. At the age of twenty-five, Malalai decided to get involved in the new political process in Afghanistan. I had come to know first-hand their ingrained suffering-especially that of women. I felt that o ur people undeniable their voices to be heard. (p. 71, 2009) I was determined to swear out put an end to the rule of the warlords and fundamentalists, and I knew the great majority of Afghan men and women shared this aim. I did not catch at the time how this decision would change my life forever. (p. 2, 2009) Malalai was the winner of this Loya Jirga.The second Loya Jirga Malalai attended she was shocked and appalled to see warlords and other well known war criminals there that had made Afghanistan the war ridden country that it is. So in her speech she spoke of this. My reflection of all my compatriots is why you are allowing the legitimacy and legality of this Loya Jirga to come into question delinquent to the presence of those criminals who count through brought our country to this state. Why would you allow criminals to be present here? They are responsible for our situation now (p. 3, 2009) During her speech, she was asked to stop and she was escorted out of the Loya Jirga. That night, men came to a place where they thought Malalai would be staying to rape and kill her.Luckily, she was not there. Even though Malalai did not return to the second day at the Loya Jirga, her name was making headlines around the world. In 2005, at the age of twenty-seven, she was the youngest psyche to be elected to the new Parliament. Since then, she survived numerous assassination attempts and continued to press the cause of those who elected her. Whenever Malalai spoke in Parliament, her mike would be cut off.My days in Parliament were always stressful and alone(p) because I was constantly being attacked and insulted. sometimes I would raise the red badger on my desk in protest, or even walk out in disgust. (p. 153, 2009) In 2007, in a television interview, Malalai criticised the criminals and warlords in Parliament, If the Afghan Parliament continued on its current path, people would soon call it a zoo or a stable. (p. 170, 2009) However, Malalai specified that this comment was intended for the criminals and warlords and were not intended for the MPs who were real representatives.This musical composition of her statement was left out when it was airy on television and it made her get going like she was criticising the all told Parliament which in turn is the nation because the Parliament is the house of the nation. This programme ended up defaming me in the eyes of the Afghan people magic spell giving my enemies in Parliament ammo to use against me. (p. 171, 2009) Malalai was suspended from Parliament for imperious the institution of Parliament. Protests and rallies were held worldwide to get Malalai back into Paliament. The support Malalai received was astonishing. Even some of my fellow parliamentarians encounter approached me to discreetly demonstrate me that they support me, but they undersurfacenot do so publicly. (p. 178, 2009)However, Malalais banishment from Parliament has meant her cognitive content has been l ibrary paste worldwide. Although I am no greater able to stand up in Parliament and raise my voice for justice, my enemies spend a penny accidently given me a gift. Because now my message is being carried further than ever before, and the cause of my people is heard all over the world. (p. 188, 2009) The war is still inveterate in Afghanistan to this day. She is not confident about this changing since Obama has been elected. He and his foreign insurance advisors do not appear to break learned from the past seven years-the movement they are pursuing will only push the region into a wider war and more end. (p. 249, 2009) Today we live under the shadow of the gun, and with the most mist and unpopular government in the world. (p. 253, 2009)Malalai has done a lot for her country and people and has no regrets. I would never want to take back any of the speeches I have made, nor any of the statements I have issued denouncing the corrupt and violent men and women who use and shame their power to keep Afghanistan in their grip. (p. 267, 2009) I truly believe Malalai has made an unforgettable mark in her country and she believes this also. You sens kill me, but you can never kill my spirit. (p. 270, 2009) I think Malalai diagnoses what is unconventional with the strategic decisions being made by fraternity throughout her life very accurately and very bravely. All her life, she has deceased against what the rulings of Afghanistan have suggested is correct in put up to fight for what she personally believes is correct. Malalai leads the reader to consider new strategic directions not just for the individual but also for society as a whole.The majority of the people in Afghanistan especially women are just followers, even if they do not accept with something. Malalai was brave enough to go against this from a very young age. She was fortunate to be part of a family who treated boys and girls the said(prenominal) and luckily her father knew the value of ed ucation so made sure she went to school. Without education she would not have the knowledge or power to be the woman she is today. She wanted to give this opportunity to other Afghan girls, so she went against the Taliban to do this through her tenet with the OPAWC.She also went against the Taliban by opening a health clinic and an orphanage. This showed what a genuinely warmth person Malalai was and that she was willing to risk her life to help strangers. Malalai is the first person not to mention first woman to stand up in the Loya Jirga and speak about the warlords and criminals the way she did. In her 2007 television interview, I think she is very brave for verbalism the things she said, hitherto, I feel that maybe the talking to she used were not correct.She maybe should have been more professional as she should have remembered her role as a parliamentarian however I think she spoke that way because she was so passionate about this plain and I do not believe these comment s should have led her to be banished from Parliament, if anything she should have just been suspended. Through reading the whole book, speaking the way she did may have been the best route to take as all her other efforts seem to be unnoticed and although it resulted in her being banished from Parliament, she gained world-wide recognition so that she can spread her views further than just Afghanistan.I do find Malalais arguments and story convincing, because I think Afghanistan is a much loaded country and a sexist country. I agree that the way the warlords have run the country have led it to destruction and war. It is wrong that women are forced to wear the burqa. Nobody should be denied of an education and anyone who can justify raping and killing young girls should not be ruling a country. In my own personal schema in life, I believe in standing up for what I believe is right. You can achieve your goals if you have the right knowledge, strategy and will power to do so-as long as you know you are right.