He Named Me Malala Page #3

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women. The Surah An-Nisaa ...

... is compIeteIy dedicated to women.

A mother has her rights, a sister has her

rights, a daughter has her rights.

ZIAUDDIN:
Mullah Fazlullah

might be

the first person

in our history...

to talk directly

to women in Swat.

He was a Pashto speaker...

and he talked to people

in their own language.

MALALA:
Sometimes

he would say,

''Men, go outside now.

l'm talking to the women. ''

(TOOR SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)

At first, he wouId say good things on the radio.

There wouId be IsIam in our country,

and everything wouId be done

according to the Qur'an.

We were pretty happy about that.

(FAZLULLAH SPEAKING

ON SPEAKERS )

The book of God AImighty

is unIike any other book.

ZIAUDDIN:
He took them

into confidence.

He used to taIk to women

about their issues directIy.

(FAZLULLAH SPEAKING

OTHER LANGUAGE ON SPEAKERS )

Dear sisters, don't be fooIed by superstitions.

ZIAUDDIN:
You see,

our women are illiterate...

ignorant from all other kind

of information.

When all other windows

are closed...

and the onIy window

that is open to their mind

that is FazIullah's window...

uItimateIy that man

will have an effect on them.

MALALA:
Like many women

from Swat,

my mother used to cover

her face.

Not for religion,

but for tradition.

Now in the U.K.,

she does not cover her face.

She only covers her hair.

Is my hair covered?

Yes, it's covered.

MALALA:
Sometimes she says,

''Don't shake hand with men.

''Look down. Don't look at men.

lt's a shame. ''

And l said,

''lf men can look at me,

''why can't l look at them?''

She told me many times...

''Cover your face because

''people would think

you are not a nice girl. ''

(CONVERSING IN OTHER LANGUAGE)

MALALA:
But covering my face

was something that...

made me feel like l was just

hiding my identity, who l was.

(TOOR SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)

So, which way is the house?

I don't know. All the houses

are the same over here.

MALALA:
l think she's not

independent or free...

because she's not educated.

GUGGENHEIM:
What are

those yellow Post-its?

MALALA:
I want to

increase my vocabuIary...

because now I'm Iiving

in an EngIish society...

and I want to have

good vocabuIary.

GUGGENHEIM:

I see ''cat burgIar.''

Why do you care about

the word ''cat burgIar''?

MALALA:
Because

I know what's a cat,

but I didn't know

what's a burgIar.

So I have written...

''CAT BURGIAR:
a thief

who enters a buiIding...

''by cIimbing to

an upper story.'' (LAUGHS )

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

School is quite complicated.

It's really hard to find way.

So there are blue stairs,

red stairs, green stairs.

lt's good

that they colored it,

otherwise I wouId have been

Iost in my schooI.

ATAL:
She does all

of her homework all the day.

From 5:
00 untiI 1 1 :00 or 1 :00,

she does all her homework.

GUGGENHEIM:
Why?

I don't know.

EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY OFFICIAL:

I award you

the honorary degree

of Master of Arts.

I think she's addicted

to books. That's all I know.

(AUDIENCE CHEERING)

GUGGENHEIM:

lt's a terrible problem.

Yeah. (LAUGHING)

No, not really.

(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)

MALALA:
ln Swat,

l was considered to be

the top girl in the class.

Getting high marks,

good behavior.

Nice to teachers,

intelligent...

Here, it's hard.

lt's really difficult.

(MALALA SPEAKING

OTHER LANGUAGE)

I'm telling you it's different here.

Here I'm not smart at all.

JUDE KELLY:
She's not going to

take questions this morning.

AIthough she is a profoundIy

infIuentiaI worId Ieader...

-she's aIso doing her GCSEs.

-(AUDIENCE LAUGHS )

Some peopIe think, ''MaIaIa

is Iucky, she's now with...

''Hillary Clinton,

she's with Bono,

''she's with rock stars. ''

But on the other side,

I get homework as well.

GUGGENHEIM:
Rock stars

don't need to do homework.

(LAUGHS )

I think rock stars are Iucky.

When l told my school

l wouldn't be at school

for one week...

the teachers gave me

extra homework.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

Shall I show you my tests

and how much marks do I get?

GUGGENHEIM:
Yeah, show me.

MALALA:

It's really embarrassing.

This is the bioIogy test.

I got 73%.

I'm good

in the first questions,

which is all about hormones.

(LAUGHS )

(ALL SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)

My name's MaIaIa.

NORAH O'DONNELL:
ls it true

that when you spoke

with President Obama...

you talked about your concern

that drone attacks

are fuelling terrorism?

Yes, of course.

Because I missed that Iesson,

I got onIy 1% in this question

out of four.

(CHILDREN SPEAKING

OTHER LANGUAGE)

MALALA:

This is unfortunateIy Physics.

GUGGENHEIM:
What did you get?

MALALA:
In Physics,

I got 61%. (GASPS )

GUGGENHEIM:

So what do the girls do

if they don't go to schooI?

They cIean dishes...

They buy things

for other peopIe.

I don't really know.

They cIean dishes

and they do their stuff.

What's so wrong with that?

I don't really know,

but it's bad.

MALALA:
My mother,

she was very beautiful.

Green eyes, maroon color hair,

fair skin.

When she was five,

she was admitted to school

by my grandfather.

She was the only girl

in her class.

She realized

that all her female cousins

were not going to school.

They were playing

in the fields.

At that time,

when you sold something,

in return

you would either get food...

you would either

get corn and flour.

She got candies.

Nobody asked her,

''Where are your books?

''Why are you not

going to school?''

That was the end

of her education.

(FAZLULLAH SPEAKING

OTHER LANGUAGE ON SPEAKERS )

We have directed the music

and video stores

not to sell vuIgar

photos, music, and CDs.

ZIAUDDIN:
They used to go

from town to town...

and they used to make a heap

of all the computers,

TVs, CDs...

and burned them on fire.

(CROWD CHANTING)

(FAZLULLAH SPEAKING

OTHER LANGUAGE ON SPEAKERS )

We are not against advancement,

we are against shameIessness and vuIgarity.

ZIAUDDIN:
The smoke

used to reach to the clouds.

MALALA:
They did not want us

to watch the television.

And if they heard it, ever,

they wouId come

into your house by force...

they would take your TV

and they would burn

your television.

PIease can you put the banana

on the pIate.

On the pIate?

Yes.

PIease pick up number 10.

GUGGENHEIM:
ls your mother

happy here?

I think she is not that happy

because she doesn't

have friends.

She don't know

the Ianguage well.

But I think

she will get used to it.

My mother is like,

the best mom, l think, ever.

Maybe you have a speciaI

connection to your mother.

Yeah, she Ioves me.

I'm the favorite one.

Yeah, I'm her favorite one.

Not MaIaIa?

Quarter past...

-Seven.

-Yes. (LAUGHS )

ZIAUDDIN:
The first time

l saw her, she was 14.

l was dark in color...

so my physical appearance

was not good in my eyes.

And l thought

that l'm not a handsome boy.

l had not beauty,

she had not education.

She saw her compIetion in me

and I saw

my compIetion in her.

GUGGENHEIM:
ls it unusual

to have a marriage of love?

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