(Pakistani) Schools ban Malala Yousafzai’s ‘anti-Pakistan’ book

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/10/schools-ban-malala-yousafzais-anti-pakistan-book/



Schools ban Malala Yousafzai’s ‘anti-Pakistan’ book
By Agence France-Presse
Sunday, November 10, 2013 15:06 EST

Pakistani private schools have been barred from buying a book written by global education icon Malala Yousafzai due to its “anti-Pakistan and anti-Islam content”, a top official said Sunday.

“Yes we have banned Malala’s book (‘I am Malala’) because it carries the content which is against our country’s ideology and Islamic values,” Kashif Mirza, chief of All Pakistan Private Schools Federation, told AFP.

“We are not against Malala. She is our daughter and she is herself confused about her book and her father has asked the publisher to remove the paragraphs about Salman Rushdie and write Peace Be Upon Him after the name of our Holy Prophet (Mohammad),” Mirza said.

British novelist Rushdie became the target of an Iranian fatwa, or religious edict, calling for his murder for allegedly blaspheming Islam and the Prophet Mohammed in his book “The Satanic Verses”.



unhappycamper comment: I picked her book up yesterday at Costco and look forward to reading it. (Voting with my $$$.)