The West’s favourite poster girl Malala Yousafzai is all set to have a biopic of her life titled ‘Gul Makai’ which is slated to hit the screens on January 31, 2020. Actor Reem Shaikh will essay the role of Malala in the film which is directed by HE Amjad Khan, produced by Sanjay Singla and presented by Jayantilal Gada and Tekno Films. The film also stars Divya Dutta, Pankaj Tripathi, Atul Kulkarni and Mukesh Rishi in important roles. While Malala’s supposed heroic rise is well documented and amply covered by the Western Media, Malala’s hypocrisy and selective activism have been consistently ignored by the mainstream media in order to top fit the narrative.
Thus it is paramount that Malala’s biopic should depict all the real facets of her hypocritical, selective activism, and should not end up being a hagiography.
In October 2012, a Taliban-backed militant had shot Malala in the head, leaving her to die. She survived, went to the United Kingdom, got treated, settled, and made it to the list of Times’ influential people for three consecutive years. She was the co-recipient of the Noble Peace Prize with India’s Kailash Satyarthi, and within half-a-decade, became a global voice for a number of issues, most of them pertaining to child and women rights. While Malala likes to proclaim herself as a Human Rights activist, her hypocrisy stands exposed when she refused to condemn atrocities against Pakistani Hindu girls. While Malala was shedding tears over the shootings in New Zealand, a Twitter user asked her to stand up for two Hindu girls in Pakistan who were kidnapped from their home, molested, and forcefully converted to Islam by the notorious Mian Mithu. A simple retweet by Malala could have forced the Pakistan government to act against the perpetrators of this heinous act but Malala showed her true colours as she moved to block the Twitter user. She was made a hero so that she could stand up for what was wrong in Pakistan, instead she conveniently chooses not to comment on such elements.
Malala, a closet Islamist, again displayed her true intentions when she decided to give her two cents on India’s move to abrogate Article 370 by completely ignoring the plight of Kashmiri Hindus. The selective activist claimed that, “The people in Kashmir, like people everywhere, deserve their fundamental human rights… They should live free of fear and repression,” Malala said. “I call on the United Nations, the international community and India and Pakistan to work together with utmost urgency to right these wrongs, providing the people of Kashmir with the dignity, respect and freedom they deserve,” Dawn quoted her as saying. Malala said that due to the weeks-long curfew imposed in Kashmir “many schools have been closed… keeping children away from their classrooms.”“I stand with the people of Kashmir. My 14 million Kashmiri sisters and brothers have always been close to my heart,” she said.
Malala is a prime example of why Nobel prizes for sciences are credible, but that for economics and peace are nothing but a political tool. Nobel prize for peace or economics is nothing but a medium to forward a set agenda, plant a personality to serve the West and the international community have found a very nice figure in her to advertise their holier than thou image and tokenism that masquerades as a solution. Ironically, in her Nobel acceptance speech, she cited “Shaheed” Benazir Bhutto, the person who hoarsely shouted jihadi rhetoric just like her father and who was killed by one of the bombs she distributed to be used across the border. Irony is a very small word to describe this.
In retrospect, she is just a pawn of the West. There have been numerous claims in the past, questioning the authenticity of the attack on Malala Yousafzai, but none of them have been as open as the one by Tehreek-e-Insaf’s MNA Musarrat Ahmad Zeb – a member of Swat’s royal family who happens to be the member of the party chaired by former cricketer Imran Khan. In a series of tweets, she claimed that the attack on Malala was staged by activists and sympathizers of the West in order to justify their interests and pursuits. Back in 2009, Malala Yousafzai, just 12, starting blogging for BBC Urdu. According to her Wikipedia page, she used to scribble the notes, have them scanned, and then mailed them to the editor. For a region infected with the virus of Taliban, one can’t help but be sceptical as to how she survived writing for BBC Urdu for 2-years, without being threatened by the Taliban, given she was blogging about the harshness of life under Taliban. If Ahmad Zeb is to be believed, Malala Yousafzai did not even know how to read and write during the years she supposedly blogged for BBC Urdu. Indicating that the forensics and other medical examinations were all ploys of the government in a much larger plot, she claims that there were other students too apart from Malala who chose to carry on with their studies. Addressing the ‘Drawing Room Warriors’ in her tweet, she claimed that Zarmina Wazir, who had secured the first rank in the Central Superior Services (CSS) Exam from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) this year was no Malala Yousafzai, and shouldn’t be used to further the interests of the elites.
Malala continues to live in London, hogging the limelight and now as per reports, is paid upwards of USD 1000000 for appearing on any show, telling the audiences of how bullets can be silenced by books (one child, one teacher, one book can change the world), speaking about “women empowerment” (but never once mentioning 300 plus schoolgirls captured by Boko Haram as sex slaves or how women are second class citizens in Saudi Arabia, not allowed to even walk in public alone, and caned for driving) and so on. The West will keep funding her and stroking her ego while funding wars and the same Islamic groups that have made the world a bad place at the same time.
Malala’s wealthy father has established ‘The Malala Foundation’ and collected millions in the form of funds from organizations and celebrities, including actress Angelina Jolie. Reports suggest that in June last year, Malala’s organization started school for Syrian migrant children in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley.She has won several awards, rewards, appreciation, Nobel Peace Prize, medals, etc till date. She has been traveling across various countries, giving lectures, television interviews, criticizing Donald Trump, collecting funds, and so on. Surprisingly, she or her father has never criticized ISIS for brutally raping and killing non-Muslim women in Syria and Iraq. She never urged the UN to take immediate action in order to save Yazidi girls from clutches of Islamic State. However, the Nobel Peace Prize winner has urged people to not blame Muslims for terrorism.
One hopes that the biography also shows Malala’s deplorable side to the world and not end up becoming just another hagiography.