Taliban Issues Death Threat To Malala

The Taliban attacked Malala Yousafzai because she “attacked Islam,” and the group would try to kill her again if they could, the official spokesman for the Pakistan Taliban has told ABC News.

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Malala was only 11 years old when she took a stand against the Taliban, who had issued an edict that all girls’ schools should be closed.

Her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, ran a girls’ school in the SWAT Valley, and had been targeted for death by the Taliban, with Malala’s increasing visibility putting her at risk as well.

“I wasn’t scared, but I had started making sure the gate was locked at night and asking God what happens when you die,” Malala wrote in her autobiography “I Am Malala,” excerpted in Sunday’s Parade magazine.

When the Taliban struck, on the morning of Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012, Malala was on a school bus in the northwest Pakistani district of Swat.

A gunman got on, asked for the girl by name and then shot her three times.

The bullet narrowly missed Malala’s brain, who was taken to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, England, six days after the attack. She spent nearly three months in the hospital and underwent numerous surgeries.

Now Malala and her family are living in Birmingham and she is back at school. However the Taliban’s bullets did nothing to dim her commitment to campaigning for the rights of girls to receive an education.

She spent her 16th birthday giving a speech at the United Nations and has become the youngest person to ever be nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize