All 50 Uses of "Taliban" in "I Am Malala" - Curated

Two years have passed since my book came out, and three years since the October morning when I was shot by the Taliban on a school bus on my way home from class.

p. xiii.1

Taliban = fundamentalist Islamic political and military organization

Sadly, Maulana Fazlullah, the man who was the head of the Swat Taliban who shot me, is now the head of the whole Pakistan Taliban.

p. xv.8

Sadly, Maulana Fazlullah, the man who was the head of the Swat Taliban who shot me, is now the head of the whole Pakistan Taliban.

p. xv.8

I was shot by a Taliban bullet and was flown out of Pakistan unconscious.

p. 3.2

Since the time of the Taliban our school has had no sign and the ornamented brass door in a white wall across from the woodcutter's yard gives no hint of what lies beyond.

p. 4.6

Yet, outside the door to the school lay not only the noise and craziness of Mingora, the main city of Swat, but also those like the Taliban who think girls should not go to school.

p. 5.3

My mother was worried about me, but the Taliban had never come for a girl and I was more concerned they would target my father, as he was always speaking out against them.

p. 6.6

The Taliban have never come for a small girl.

p. 7.6

Since I'd started speaking at events with my father to campaign for girls' education and against those like the Taliban who want to hide us away, journalists often came, even foreigners, though not like this in the road.

p. 8.9

Before the Taliban

p. 11.1

Little did we know that years later the same maulana's organization would become the Swat Taliban.

p. 33.7

The year before I was born a group called the Taliban led by a mullah had taken over the country and was burning girls' schools.

p. 67.6

He said that the Taliban had even banned women from laughing out loud or wearing white shoes, as white was "a color that belonged to men."

p. 67.8

But the Taliban were right around the corner and were Pashtuns like us.

p. 68.2

Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda, had been living in Kandahar when the attack on the World Trade Center happened, and the Americans had sent thousands of troops to Afghanistan to catch him and overthrow the Taliban regime which had protected him.

p. 85.8

Our own intelligence service ISI had virtually created the Taliban.

p. 86.1

The ISI's Colonel Imam boasted he had trained 90,000 Taliban fighters and even became Pakistan's consul general in Herat during the Taliban regime.

p. 86.2

The ISI's Colonel Imam boasted he had trained 90,000 Taliban fighters and even became Pakistan's consul general in Herat during the Taliban regime.

p. 86.2

We were not fans of the Taliban, as we had heard they destroyed girls' schools and blew up giant Buddha statues—we had many Buddhas of our own that we were proud of.

p. 86.3

But many Pashtuns did not like the bombing of Afghanistan or the way Pakistan was helping the Americans, even if it was only by allowing them to cross our airspace and stopping weapon supplies to the Taliban.

p. 86.4

But we weren't exactly cooperating, as the ISI was still arming Taliban fighters and giving their leaders sanctuary in.

p. 87.1

The ISI chief asked the Americans to hold off their attack on Afghanistan until he had gone to Kandahar to ask the Taliban leader Mullah Omar to hand over bin Laden; instead he offered the Taliban help.

p. 87.3

The ISI chief asked the Americans to hold off their attack on Afghanistan until he had gone to Kandahar to ask the Taliban leader Mullah Omar to hand over bin Laden; instead he offered the Taliban help.

p. 87.3

Some 12,000 young men from Swat went to help the Taliban.

p. 87.5

"I am representing the Ulema and Tablighian and Taliban," Mullah Ghulamullah said, referring to not just one but two organizations of Muslim scholars to give himself gravitas.

p. 94.1

The Muttahida Majlis e-Amal (MMA) alliance was a group of five religious parties including the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI), which ran the madrasas where the Taliban were trained.

p. 96.7

But some people supported them because the very religious Pashtuns were angry at the American invasion of Afghanistan and the removal of the Taliban from power there.

p. 96.8

The MMA government banned CD and DVD shops and wanted to create a morality police like the Afghan Taliban had set up.

p. 97.4

Even your sweetest tunes are best kept silent The Taliban on the edge of the village have stilled all lips.

p. 109.7

I was ten when the Taliban came to our valley.

p. 111.1

It seemed to us that the Taliban arrived in the night just like vampires.

p. 111.2

They didn't call themselves Taliban to start with and didn't look like the Afghan Taliban we'd seen in pictures with their turbans and black-rimmed eyes.

p. 111.3

They didn't call themselves Taliban to start with and didn't look like the Afghan Taliban we'd seen in pictures with their turbans and black-rimmed eyes.

p. 111.4

Hundreds of CD and DVD shops closed voluntarily and their owners were paid compensation by the Taliban.

p. 113.9

The Taliban were known to listen at people's doors then force their way in, take the TVs and smash them to pieces on the street.

p. 114.1

Only the radio was allowed, and all music except for Taliban songs was declared haram.

p. 114.2

My father was against "khanism," but he said the Taliban were worse.

p. 115.3

In the first year of the Taliban I had two operations, one to take out my appendix and the other to remove my tonsils.

p. 116.9

My father, who has only a moustache, insisted he would not grow a beard for the Taliban.

p. 118.8

The Taliban told women not to go to the bazaar.

p. 118.8

The women would not be attacked if they went to the markets, but the Taliban would shout at them and threaten them until they stayed at home.

p. 119.2

Fazlullah's men patrolled the streets looking for offenders against his decrees just like the Taliban morality police we had heard about in Afghanistan.

p. 120.2

Just the day before, to please the Taliban, the barber had told a journalist that he wanted sharia law.

p. 120.6

It was the first targeted killing in Swat, and people said it was because he had helped the army find Taliban hideouts.

p. 121.4

But Fazlullah's headquarters were just a few miles away, and even though the Taliban were not near our house they were in the markets, in the streets and in the hills.

p. 121.6

I was in my cousin's car, and as we drove through a river where the road had been washed away we had to stop at a Taliban checkpoint.

p. 121.8

The Taliban were dressed in black and carried Kalashnikovs.

p. 121.8

You can stay there accepting everything from the Taliban or you can make a stand against them.

p. 122.5

First the Taliban took our music, then our Buddhas, then our history.

p. 123.1

The Taliban destroyed the Buddhist statues and stupas where we played, which had been there for thousands of years and were a part of our history from the time of the Kushan kings.

p. 123.7

Taliban in I Am Malala (Edited)

Taliban
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I Am Malala
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