Besides the gratuitous addition of religious elements, isn't this one cold, hard side of the truth? That even when you send in much needed education, those in power seek to destroy it before it reaches those who are in the greatest need of it?
Let's face it: fundamentalism stems from fear masked as faith. And it's this fear which puts it on the offensive: think of the bullets, the online vitriol. Any shade of fundamentalism, like it or not, would never want to have its armour pierced. And this is why certain facets of education the more extreme flavours of homeschooling, I won't deny that are meant solely to oppress rather than enlighten, for fear of a losing fight. Note that most posts on FSTDT, barring the misinformed, usually put down the adversary and generally take an aggressive stance if anything that it becomes more important to win than to be right: "I'm right" is rarely mentioned as much as "You're wrong".
Before this next remark, I would refrain from using Malala as a Christ figure of all things. Noting that OP mentions self-sacrifice and recognizing and rejecting sin these are equally traits of Malala's crusade, aren't they? If this be Gigcycle's response (or reaction!) to a fight against fundamentalism, they're still the same bottom line. A fight against acquiring any remote shred of knowledge beyond imposed boundaries.
Literature, for all its treatment as sacred, has equally been used precisely to create ignorance think propagandic literature and distorted history textbooks. Yet send in the right books, with the right strokes of the pen, headed by the right teachers, and we're going to get somewhere. And this is the faith the trust, for a better term that we have. Education as liberator, not suppressor.
For the record I do think that Malala, her supporters and <i>even</i> whatever sockpuppets echo her are precisely what splits the fundamentalist armour here.
