At just age 17, she was the youngest recipient ever of the Nobel Peace Prize and came to our attention in the most horrific of circumstances, shot in the head aged only 15 while on a bus home after taking an exam by the religious zealots of the Pakistani Taliban who had banned girls from attending school, her crime blogging that she wanted to go to school to educate herself.
After four days in a military hospital, doctors transferred her to an Intensive Care Unit in Birmingham, England after the chief spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban called her a symbol of the infidels and an obscenity and added that if she survived, the group would target her again and after multiple skull construction surgeries and weeks of rehabilitative therapy later, Malala began attending school in Birmingham.
On her 16th birthday, she traveled to New York and spoke at the United Nations and received the United Nations Human Rights Prize and The Liberty Medal and in 2013, TIME Magazine declared Malala one of the world’s most influential people and a year later, was handed the Nobel Peace Prize where she made an inspiring speech where she said that she was not against anyone and was not after personal revenge against the Taliban or any other terrorist group, she just wanted to speak up for the right of education for every child, including the sons and daughters of the Taliban and all terrorists and extremists.
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