He Named Me Malala Page #2

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So this wouId have been

my future.

You wouId have seen MaIaIa

sitting with her two babies.

GUGGENHEIM:
You named her

after a girI who spoke out...

and was kiIIed

for speaking out.

It's aImost as if you said...

''She will be separate

from the worId,

''she will be

an activist abroad.

''She'II be different from

all the other women

''in Swat and Pakistan.''

You are right.

ZIAUDDIN:
lt was very early

in the morning...

when the night goes,

and the morning

and the day comes.

A girl, whose mother

was helping my wife

in the delivery of the child,

came to me.

She told me,

''A child has come

to your home. ''

lt was a kind of attachment

from the very first moment

l saw her.

A few days after, my cousin

brought the family tree.

lt traced back for 300 years.

No woman was mentioned.

Only men were there.

l took the pen, draw a line...

and wrote ''Malala. ''

(INDISTINCT CHATTER ON TABLET)

(MALALA LAUGHING)

(PHONE RINGING)

RADIO HOST:
Malala,

thank you for joining us.

Thank you so much.

The Taliban have said that

if you return to Pakistan,

they will kill you.

How do you feel

about such threats?

MALE NEWS ANCHOR:

On the one-year anniversary

of Malala 's attack...

the Taliban said

they would target her again.

FEMALE NEWS ANCHOR:

Malala has often said

she wants to return

to Pakistan...

in spite of the death threats.

DR. REYNOLDS:
The bullet

hit Malala 's forehead...

shattering her skull inwards.

Fragments of bone

were driven into her brain.

DR. ROSSER:
The bullet

destroyed both her eardrum

and the tiny bones

within the middle ear.

MALALA:
My father said,

''Have you forgiven them?''

GUGGENHEIM:
All this time,

you've never feIt angry?

No.

Not even as small as an atom,

or maybe a nucIeus

of an atom...

or maybe a proton,

or maybe a quark.

GUGGENHEIM:
Never angry?

Never.

lslam teaches us humanity...

equality, forgiveness.

It doesn't matter for me

if my Ieft side

of my face isn't working...

or if I cannot bIink

this eye properIy.

It doesn't matter for me

if I can't smiIe properIy.

It doesn't matter that

I'm not hearing in this ear.

I can't hear.

When the Taliban came to Swat,

everyone thought

that they are good people.

(MULLAH FAZLULLAH SPEAKING

OTHER LANGUAGE ON SPEAKERS )

Any objections will Ieave your mind.

And any questions will be answered, too.

ZIAUDDIN:

Mullah was very charming...

very popular in the area.

He was the talk of the town.

Everybody used to discuss him.

(FAZLULLAH CONTINUES SPEAKING

OTHER LANGUAGE ON SPEAKERS )

May God end your sadness and stress.

May God give honor and respect,

even to your chiIdren.

MALALA:
He was called

''Radio Mullah ''...

and he would give sermons

on the radio every day.

(SERMON CONTINUES )

MALALA:
His sermons could be

heard by everyone in the town.

The most popular part of

his show came every evening...

when he would read out

people's names.

People liked to hear which

of their neighbors was sinful.

(BOTH SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)

Mom, are you happy?

(TOOR CHUCKLES )

I Iike it here,

but it's not Iike home.

I miss Swat a Iot.

One day, I was standing by the

window Iooking at the moon,

and I cried a Iot.

I toId the moon, you're the

onIy thing that is the same,

but everything eIse here is different.

MALALA:
We lived

only 100 miles

from our capital, lslamabad...

but we were separated

by a great mountain pass.

And for a time,

our isolation meant

we lived in a paradise.

Life was normal,

life was happy.

l was able to go

to the streets

and play with my friends.

Play hide-and-seek

and running games.

l miss the dirty streets.

l miss the river.

l miss my friends.

ln this new school,

it's quite difficult.

To be really honest...

l don't feel comfortable

when people can see my legs.

So my skirt is longer

than most of the girls'.

And then, my Iife is quite

different than their Iife.

Most of them have boyfriends.

Most of them have broke up

with some of the boyfriends

and found new ones.

It's quite difficuIt

to tell girIs who really I am.

l don't know whether

they would like me,

or whether

they're interested in me.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

ln Kenya, there are so many

girls who cannot go to school.

(SINGING IN OTHER LANGUAGE)

(TEACHER SPEAKING)

This schooI starts from grade nine.

MALALA:
Grade nine?

Up to which grade?

Up to grade 12,

but, because we are still new, we onIy

have grade 9 and 10.

(SINGING CONTINUES )

I Iived in this country.

I was born in this country

called Pakistan...

I was born in Swat Valley.

There are more than

180 million peopIe.

Most of them are youth.

So, who wants to

become a doctor?

You want to.

The crops that you are growing?

The number one is wheat.

Number two is rice.

Number three is maize.

Who wants to study history?

That's great.

The Iargest mountain?

It's called K2.

The Iongest river?

It comes through these valleys

and goes down, down, down,

and through Sindh.

What do you want to be?

I'd Iike to become a Iawyer.

-On this side?

-Yeah.

The girIs whose mother

or father is educated,

they shouId raise up

their hands.

ZIAUDDIN:
l loved education.

l loved to be a teacher.

l started my own school...

just with $150.

We hired a small building.

l was the sweeper.

l was the manager.

l was the headmaster.

The very first day

of my school,

l stood and l recited

the national anthem.

There were three students,

and it started.

MALALA:
l used to be

in school all the day.

l loved the way

teacher was speaking.

And l loved the way

the students

were listening carefully

to the teacher...

being all around with

other girls and with teachers.

l put in my student

a kind of rebel

against traditions, customs...

and how to raise their voice.

MALALA:
l could not

even speak properly, but...

in my own language

l would try to give lectures

to the empty classrooms.

School was my home.

Moniba was here and then

I was sitting next to her.

Here was I.

And here was Shazia,

and here was Kainat.

The Talib came here...

and I was just

very near to him...

and then he asked,

''Who is MaIaIa?''

This is an easy one.

(ALL SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)

Remember the symboIs and numbers.

So you mean these signs

in the middIe here?

And then remember the number, too.

Okay, choose a card

in all these cards

and then remember it.

(SPEAKS OTHER LANGUAGE)

You have to take it out, okay?

Now see my tricks.

(SHUFFLES CARDS )

-This is your card.

-(LAUGHS )

(GASPS ) How do you do this?

MALALA:
The next two bullets

hit Shazia and Kainat.

GUGGENHEIM:

Where did the bullet hit you?

This right arm. Here.

SHAZIA:
This is the inside,

and this was outside.

MALALA:

Two bullets hit Shazia.

SHAZIA:
And was my shouIder.

MALALA:
The bullet

that hit her

in her Ieft shouIder

hit Kainat.

So one bullet

hit two of them...

and one bullet went through

the hand of Shazia.

(FAZLULLAH SPEAKING

OTHER LANGUAGE ON SPEAKERS )

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