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Nobel Peace Prize goes to Malala Yousafzay, Kailash Satyarthi (Excellent decision)
Hot Air.com ^ | October 10, 2014 | ED MORRISEY

Posted on 10/10/2014 8:50:58 AM PDT by Kaslin

In a nod to the efforts to protect children, the Nobel Prize committee awarded its Peace Prize to two activists focused on the defense of children’s rights — Malala Yousefzai of Pakistan and Kailash Satyarthi of India. The committee had reportedly had considered Pope Francis, Edward Snowden, and a handful of others as the most prominent of this year’s record 278 nominees:

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2014 is to be awarded to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzay for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education. Children must go to school and not be financially exploited. In the poor countries of the world, 60% of the present population is under 25 years of age. It is a prerequisite for peaceful global development that the rights of children and young people be respected. In conflict-ridden areas in particular, the violation of children leads to the continuation of violence from generation to generation.

Showing great personal courage, Kailash Satyarthi, maintaining Gandhi’s tradition, has headed various forms of protests and demonstrations, all peaceful, focusing on the grave exploitation of children for financial gain. He has also contributed to the development of important international conventions on children’s rights.

Despite her youth, Malala Yousafzay has already fought for several years for the right of girls to education, and has shown by example that children and young people, too, can contribute to improving their own situations. This she has done under the most dangerous circumstances. Through her heroic struggle she has become a leading spokesperson for girls’ rights to education.

The pairing of a Muslim and a Hindu was no coincidence, either, but a message to extremists in both camps. The committee made that explicit in their announcement:

The Nobel Committee regards it as an important point for a Hindu and a Muslim, an Indian and a Pakistani, to join in a common struggle for education and against extremism. Many other individuals and institutions in the international community have also contributed. It has been calculated that there are 168 million child labourers around the world today. In 2000 the figure was 78 million higher. The world has come closer to the goal of eliminating child labour.

What makes this interesting is that the Nobel committee had the opportunity last year to consider Malala. They turned her down in favor of the still-obscure Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which had been tasked with finding and destroying Syria’s chemical weapons. Like their award in 2009 to Barack Obama, the decision was aspirational, since the work had just begun, and it was as big a failure for the Nobel committee in the end, too. Malala had been working to oppose Taliban oppression of education for women before the Syrian chemical weapons issue arose in the summer of 2013, and had survived a bullet in the face and continued in defiance of the threat to her life. Why the committee waited for a year, and then paired her up with a Hindu to score their own points, will likely be a question posed to the Norwegians on the panel.

That’s not to say that Satyarthi is unworthy, though. He has campaigned against child labor and child abuse in India for decades, some of which amounts to de facto slavery. A PBS profile of Satyarthi reports that he is credited with saving tens of thousands of children from “bonded labor” in India, and helped rehabilitate them back to self-sufficiency. That profile dates back to 2005, though, which again raises the question of why the Nobel committee overlooked him while giving awards to Obama and Jimmy Carter, among others.

Here at the Vatican, the reporters in the press office had waited with some anticipation for this decision. Most here felt that getting a public acknowledgment of runner-up status would be as close as Pope Francis would get, given the committee’s politics regarding contraception and marriage, among other issues. A few speculated that the questionable string of recipients over the last few years, including OPCW and Obama, might incentivize the Nobel committee to attempt to piggyback on the pontiff’s global popularity. Most of us thought such an award was unlikely; one reporter joked in English, “I’ll bet every woman in the room a kiss that Pope Francis doesn’t win the Nobel Prize,” which so far he has not attempted to collect, although I did congratulate him on his strategy. “It’s all I’ve got,” he responded with a laugh.

This time, the Nobel committee got it right, even though it was tardy in doing so for both of its recipients. Maybe the embarrassments of the last several years has begun to convince the Nobel committee to stick to actual peace efforts rather than attempting to play global politics.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: malalayousafzai; nobelpeaceprize; popefrancis

1 posted on 10/10/2014 8:50:58 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

It all makes sense now. Obama acts as though he’s been shot in the head.


2 posted on 10/10/2014 8:54:04 AM PDT by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: Kaslin

Yep,
The same group that gave it to obammy for being a negro.


3 posted on 10/10/2014 8:58:01 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Obammy lied and lied and lied.)
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To: Kaslin

The “right to education” = globalist state schools (long ago) subjecting the sheeple’s children to state-run globalist indoctrination.

Wake up sheeple.


4 posted on 10/10/2014 9:00:03 AM PDT by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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To: Kaslin

I don’t care how “good” this decision was — after the awarding to obozo just for being black, the nobel prize became less relevant and important than the Razzies.


5 posted on 10/10/2014 9:01:21 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (Zimmerman, Brown, Fast & Furious, IRS harassment, Philly ignorance: holdering in 1st degree)
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To: PieterCasparzen

While it is a good thing that abusive child labor is stopped, one doesn’t consider the alternatives involved here.

If we’re talking an area which is truly dirt poor (like much of India still), if the kids don’t work, they don’t eat. Sure we can educate them and watch them and their families starve I suppose.


6 posted on 10/10/2014 9:16:41 AM PDT by drbuzzard (All animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others.)
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To: freedumb2003; Joe Boucher; PieterCasparzen

While I understand your sarcasm one thing has to be considered. Maybe the committee has finally woken up. We will see next your. In the mean time I think we should praise the decision


7 posted on 10/10/2014 9:31:37 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin

Meaningless recognition.

The Peace Prize was made meaningless when Arafat received it.

It was made null and void of any ounce of credibility when the Kenyan Fuehrer was preemptively awarded the prize for doing absolutely nothing.

Why would anyone care about it anymore?


8 posted on 10/10/2014 9:31:59 AM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: Kaslin; Joe Boucher; PieterCasparzen

>>While I understand your sarcasm one thing has to be considered. Maybe the committee has finally woken up.<<

Not sarcasm, cynicism.

Some decisions can’t be undone.


9 posted on 10/10/2014 9:35:03 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (Zimmerman, Brown, Fast & Furious, IRS harassment, Philly ignorance: holdering in 1st degree)
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To: drbuzzard

It’s globalism that loves child labor and slavery.

They’ve been dealing in slaves, drugs and gold for centuries and they continue as the leaders in those fields to this day. Present-day China is nothing more than a big factory producing goods for globalist businesses. Globalism is and has always been fixated to the point of being fascinated by lowering their labor costs to as close to nothing as possible. They would prefer that all their “sheeple” work simply for three hots and a cot.

(read more about it, if interested by researching the British East India Company).

Now they take what they have created, “third world” nations and child labor, and use that (!) as an argument for globalist state-run education.

They don’t say globalist state-run education, but it’s certainly implied - because when poor folks children are given school educations, it’s in public schools.

In America, the grabbing at control of educational cirriculum via school funding goes back as far as George Peabody, American front man for UK financial elites. He donated large amounts of his assets (including some agriculteral debt securities which later wound up defaulting - kind of has a familiar ring to it) to primary school education. It’s the INVOLVEMENT that elites are purchasing when they operate through their “foundations”; that involvement, by the early 1900’s, was so influential that they essentially controlled what was taught in American primary schools, since those mostly take their cues from the university system, where the financial elites are involved to the point that they essentially “belong to” the elites. One convenience this affords the elites is the history cirriculum, which they ensure is sanitized of their devestating influence on world affairs. Instead of an accurate portrayal of themselves as evil traders in slaves and drugs, operating traitorous espionage networks, instigators of famines and wars, etc., they make sure that “history” (as told by their minions) depicts them as simple benevolent bankers and businessmen. Since the sheeple are fed this tripe from an early age, they mostly sop it up and believe it in pathetically sappy fashion.

The key part of globalist state-run education is that it removes the Biblical foundation of the sheeple’s education; this has been an essential step in “new world order”, or the global elite financiers’ goal of stomping out true Biblical Christianity. The globalists are very happy to keep corrupted Christian churches in their employ, and very happy to deal with any sort of false religion, i.e., pagan or heathen. It’s the true Biblical belief that they see as the biggest threat to themselves.


10 posted on 10/10/2014 9:46:37 AM PDT by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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To: freedumb2003

Growing up i thought this prize was special.
The comittee besmirched the award and cheapened it.
Little more than an award given by the crew of Saturday Night Live.


11 posted on 10/10/2014 5:10:53 PM PDT by Joe Boucher (Obammy lied and lied and lied.)
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