Malala Yousafzai, the teenager activist shot by a
Taliban gunman last year, appeared on the Daily Show this week ahead of the
pending announcement for the 2013 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Discussing her new book 'I Am Malala' the
16-year-old's profound response to one of Jon Stewart's questions left him in
awe.
Stewart asked her what she thought when she first
heard of Taliban threats to her life.
"I started thinking about that the Talib
would come and he would just kill me," she said.
"But then I thought, ‘If he comes, what
would you do Malala? Then I would reply to myself, ‘Malala, just take a shoe
and hit him."
"But then I said, ‘If you hit a Talib with a
shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib," she
continued.
"You must not treat others with cruelty and
that harshly, you must fight others through peace and through dialogue and
education. Then I said, ‘I'll tell him how important education is and that I
even want education for your children, as well.
"And I would tell him, ‘That's what I want
to tell you, now do what you want.'"
Later in the interview Stewart asks if he can
adopt Malala.
One year since the Taliban tried to silence
Malala's demand for girls' education rights, the teenager could become the world's
youngest recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize.
- Gary
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