The Importance Of Silence Is Oppression

What is silence? Silence is oppression. By nature, humans are social animals, it is our nature to reach out and communicate, and it is our nature to wish to combat injustice. In numerous societies where rights are not met, silence is artificial, and by authority’s oppression it is created. A young girl, an artist, and a computer professional is an unlikely trio, differing in background, culture and purpose, but they are bound through their common outreach in breaking the silence, challenging authority, facing oppression and its concomitant consequences, still ultimately speaking out against power that humans should be treated as humans. Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani girl who has been active against the Taliban as a BBC blogger since she was 11, the youngest laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize at age 17, wanted to be a student. When the Taliban forbade girls to go to school, while most girls submitted in fear of their authority, she stood bold and adamant in her belief that it was her right to receive education. She continued to attend school, until the Taliban sent men to stop her school bus and shot her in the head. The Taliban is a fundamentalist Islamic society active mainly in Afghanistan, recruiting poorly educated youths from refugee camps and religious schools as members. They are known for their abuse and oppression of women, robbing them of their rights to medical care, general employment, and education, submitting them to virtual house arrest. The significance