{"id":109472,"date":"2013-10-09T21:40:12","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T16:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=109472"},"modified":"2013-10-13T00:41:41","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T19:11:41","slug":"malala-was-shot-for-attacking-islam-rather-than-for-supporting-girls-education-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/malala-was-shot-for-attacking-islam-rather-than-for-supporting-girls-education-in-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Malala Was Shot For \u2018Attacking Islam\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Still smarting over their failure to kill <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Malala+Yousafzai&amp;x=8&amp;y=6\">Malala Yousafzai<\/a><\/span>, a Taliban leader in Pakistan told\u00a0<em>ABC News<\/em>\u00a0that, given the opportunity,\u00a0they would have another go at assassinating her.<\/p>\n<p>Taliban spokesman Shahidullah Shahid said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>We targeted Malala Yousafzai because she attacked Islam and make a jokes on Islam, if we found her again then we would definitely try to kill her and will feel proud on her death. We didn\u2019t target her for spreading education in her area, we targeted her for making jokes of Islam, and that was enough reason for attacking her.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/freethinker.co.uk\/2013\/10\/07\/malala-was-shot-because-for-attacking-islam-rather-than-for-supporting-girls-education-in-pakistan\/\">more<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_109473\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/malala-was-shot-for-attacking-islam-rather-than-for-supporting-girls-education-in-pakistan\/taliban\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-109473\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109473\" class=\"size-full wp-image-109473\" title=\"Taliban\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Taliban.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Taliban.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Taliban-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-109473\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pakistani Taliban spokesman Shahidullah Shahid, center, flanked by his bodyguards, talks to reporters at an undisclosed location in Pakistani tribal area of Waziristan along Afghanistan border on October 5. 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