Malala Yousafzai is awarded Nobel Prize: Did she deserve it? Are the Awards Cheapened?

The entire Western press and media are going ga ga over the Nobel Prize to Malala. I wonder how a prize can be given to a young girl for just getting shot by the Taliban. That is pecisely what happened . The Nobel Prize is for a lifetime of achievement and not for an incident. It must be seen in the background that Mahatma Gandhi was conspicuously ignored. The fact that he was nominated thrice in 1937, 39 and 48 is all the more galling. Add to this the Nobel peace prize to President Obama and you have a picture of grave inconsistency. Obama himself would admit that the peace prize awarded to him is an aberration.

The award of the Nobel peace prize to Malala,is an example of the Nobel committee being dictated more by Media hype than anything else. In fact it is the media that projected her and teh Nobel committee for reasons best known to it awarded her the peace prize. Malal talks of peace but what about the Sharia? What does she feel about things like triple Talaq, evidence of 2 women equal to one man or Muslim men allowed 4 wives. Will she fight for all this? Malala herself wears the hijab and is no way a liberated girl. The Nobel committee has greatly erred in this award. There are thousands of girls in Pakistan denied education and many are killed by Taliban. Malala is just lucky she survived, but the award for just getting shot makes a mockery of how the Nobel Prize is awarded.