Iqbal Masih Analysis

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People who treated unequally were inhibited to get their rights fight for themselves and people like them, alone or support from their family. The essay “ The Story of Iqbal Masih “ by David L. Parker, and the biography “ Malala Yousafzai “ by Yousafzai, experiencing how they fight for their rights. Both activists struggles for human rights are opposed by other people, however, Malala’s family supports her, while Iqbal’ s family did not.
To begin with, both Iqbal and Malala strive against people who do not want them to get their deserved rights of education. In the text “Malala Yousafzai “, Malala continues to speak out about the right of all women, to an education although her life is threatened. For example,after she wrote an autobiography, the Taliban “still considers Yousafzai a target. Despite the Taliban’s threats, Yousafzai remains a staunch advocate for the power of education” (Yousafzai,12). This quote demonstrates that the Taliban deny girls an education, and attack girls who go to school. Malala has been fired by a Taliban gunman when she was riding a bus on her way home from school. She does not have been overthrown, during her recovery, she writes an autobiography. However, the Taliban solely do …show more content…

In “Malala Yousafzai” Malala was forbidden to go to school by Taliban, she still speaks out right if education. In “The story of Iqbal Masih” Iqbal also be prohibited to get freedom and receive education by the carpet factory owner. However, Malala has a family who try them best to preserve the right of receiving education of Malala, even they get death threaten. Otherwise, Iqbal’ s parents betrayed their son for money, and let Iqbal who was merely a children work in the factory, regarding as a salve. Thus, the plight they faced, the supporters whether are they family, significantly shapes their experience as human rights