Malala Yousafzai, the 16-year-old Pakistani advocate for womens rights and access to education, appeared on the Daily Show last night, ahead of Friday's pending announcement for the 2013 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Her answer to one of Jon Stewart's questions left him speechless.
An outspoken critic of the Taliban's tactics in her native Swat Valley from a young age, Malala was the subject of an attempted assassination at the hands of a Taliban gunman because she was unafraid to speak out.
Then, at just 14 years old, a Talib fighter boarded her bus, pointed a pistol at her head, and pulled the trigger. But she survived, made a full recovery in England, and has become and transformative figure in human rights.
Now, she is poised to become the youngest Nobel Peace laureate ever.
In the key moment of the interview, Stewart asked her how she reacted when she learned that the Taliban wanted her dead. Her answer was absolutely remarkable:
I started thinking about that, and I used to think that the Talib would come, and he would just kill me. But then I said, '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 your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.' Then I said I will tell him how important education is and that 'I even want education for your children as well.' And I will tell him, 'That's what I want to tell you, now do what you want.'
"I said that the statement by a deputy minister was that to fire warning shots before the actual ones. 
Jaspal (left)
was responding to the remarks made by Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi
during an event in Malacca that suspected criminals should be 
Jaspal was also surprised that the home minister (right) could imply that crime victims were mostly Malays while the "villains" were Indians or Chinese. 
Speaking
in a press conference after visiting the MRT Cochrane underground
station, he said that the government must correct the mistakes
highlighted in the report, and should charge the people concerned “or
they will lose their jobs, including the ministers”.
Expressing regret over this development, MCA president Dr Chua Soi Lek (right) reminded Umno leaders that they represent all Malaysians and not just the Malay community.
Following the disclosure of Zahid’s outburst, Bersih co-chairperson Ambiga Sreenevasan (right) was among those who called on MCA and MIC to 
Former
de facto law minister Zaid Ibrahim said this is because the home
minister was effectively expressing a government policy and is therefore
not liable to legal action.
However,
PSM’s Sungai Siput MP Dr D Jeyakumar hypothesised, the nation's leader
Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra al-Haj did not do so as the Alliance wanted to
keep the CPM in the jungles, and away from electoral politics.
Jeyakumar (right)
told a PSM-organised forum on Chin Peng in Kuala Lumpur last night that
this is apparent as the 1989 Hatyai Peace Accord between Malaysia,
Thailand and the CPM contained all the demands the CPM made in 1955.
“This was a big insult to those who had fought against the Japanese and British imperialists,” Lee (right) said.
On Tuesday their representative - Gombak MP Azmin Ali (left)
- met the speaker Pandikar Amin Mulia and expressed concern with the
way the Bill was being rushed through, and was advised to approach Zahid
to try and defer the Bill.
In winding-up the debate, Zahid (right)
barely answered any concerns or arguments raised by the opposition,
swatting these away with one-sentence replies. All 10 of Pakatan’s
revisions were bluntly rejected.
Contacted
yesterday, Azmin agreed that Pakatan was "misled" to a certain extent,
but argued that the Executive had also misled the Dewan Rakyat.