Q&A: "Karzai Assigned a Rabbit to Take Care of the Carrot"
Chris Arsenault interviews MALALAI JOYA, author and Afghan parliamentarian
IPS-Inter Press Service, November 20, 2009
VANCOUVER, Canada - In the aftermath of national elections widely condemned as fraudulent, the United States and its allies are wondering what to do about Afghanistan.
Malalai Joya, an Afghan parliamentarian deemed "the bravest women in Afghanistan" by the BBC, has some unsolicited advice for Gen. Stanley McChrystal and other U.S. commanders. "They must leave my country today, it is much better than tomorrow," she said.
Malalai Joya in The Current program of CBC Radio
The Current (CBC Radio), November 19, 2009
Malalai Joya
Hamid Karzai was sworn in for another term as Afghanistan's President this morning. This against the backdrop of explosive news here in Canada that in 2006 and 2007, senior government officials including the prime minister's office and the defense ministry were told Afghan detainees taken by Canadian troops and handed to Afghan officials were subject to beatings and electric shocks.
The bravest woman in Afghanistan
From the sky, these occupation forces bombing civilians, from the ground, Taliban warlords.
Sonia Verma, Globe and Mail, Nov. 19, 2009

Afghan politician Malalai Joya defies warlords and death threats to speak out against Canadian troops in her country (Photo: Charla Jones/Globe and Mail)
Malalai Joya, was the youngest person elected to the new Afghan parliament in 2005, but she was suspended two years later for condemning top government officials as warlords. Now 31, she argues Western-led efforts to bring democracy to Afghanistan are futile and is calling on foreign military forces to pull out.
'Liberation was just a big lie'
Outspoken Afghan MP says Canadian mission is a big waste of time
By Olivia Ward, Toronto Star, Nov. 19, 2009

Malalai Joya, who was in Toronto to promote her book, A Woman Among Warlords, says Canada and the United States should pull their troops out of Afghanistan as soon as possible. (Nov. 18, 2009) (CARLOS OSORIO/TORONTO STAR)
She sleeps in safe houses, with a rotating squad of bodyguards securing the doors. She goes out only in a billowing burqa. Even her wedding was held in secret.
Elected the youngest member of the Afghan parliament – and suspended for her outspoken criticism of the country's top officials – Malalai Joya has been labelled the bravest woman in Afghanistan.
Interview with Malalai Joya, author of 'A Woman Among Warlords'
Soldiers' blood wasted in Afghanistan, author says
"Today's situation is as catastrophic as it was under the domination of the Taliban in most provinces of Afghanistan," Joya said
CTV.ca, Nov. 18 2009

Malalai Joya, author of 'A Woman Among Warlords,' speaks on CTV's Canada AM, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009.
The thousands of NATO forces currently fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan will never bring democracy to the war-torn country, says the youngest person ever elected to the Afghan parliament, who is calling on Canada to withdraw its troops and step up humanitarian aid to the region.
Malalai Joya in Toronto: Report
Hearing Joya was such an intense experience that I am struggling to articulate it
Laura K., We Move to Canada Blog, November 19, 2009
Hearing Malalai Joya speak last night was electrifying, inspiring, humbling, maddening and profoundly moving.
Electrifying because she fairly crackles with the energy and life-force of the people united, changing the world.
Inspiring because she is a consummate leader, and doer, and organizer.
Humbling because I was, frankly, in awe of her. She has struggled against unfathomable odds (four assassination attempts?!) and has only gotten stronger. She says, "I am not afraid of death, I am only afraid of silence." She lives for The Struggle, and she is an example to each of us whose hearts live there, too.
زنی در بین جنگ سالاران: ملالی جویا در واشنگتن
دشمنان ما میتوانند گل ها را بچینند، اما هرگز نمیتوانند آمدن بهار را متوقف نمایند
ملالی موسی نظام، افغان جرمن آنلاین، ۱۸ نوامبر ۲۰۰۹
به سلسلۀ مبارزات ملی و گستردۀ ملالی جویا در برابر آنانیكه ازعرصۀ بیشتر از سه دهه بربادی و انهدام بنیادی افغانستان و مظالم غیر بشری برمردم آن، اعم از جنگ سالاران، مجرمین جنگی، طالبان قسی القلب، وابستگان به همسایگان طماع و قوای خارجی در افغانستان، انواع ظلم و تعدی رواداشته اند، این دختر متهور و شجاع، اخیراً كتاب ارزشمندی را به همین مناسبت به نشر سپرده است.
این كتاب كه بنام «زنی در بین جنگ سالاران» مسمی میباشد، در حقیقت به ۱۴ لسان ارزشمند جهان ترجمه گردیده و در دسترس همگان از طریق انترنت و كتابخانه ها قرار گرفته است.
MoJo Interview: Malalai Joya
The outspoken former Afghan parliament member on warlords, women's rights, and failed US policy in her homeland.
By Sonja Sharp, Mother Jones, November 17, 2009
Malalai Joya has often been called the bravest woman in Afghanistan. Just 27 when she was elected in 2005, Joya has quickly become one of her country's fiercest critics. In print and in public, she decries widespread government corruption, brutal violence, and appalling conditions for women that persist eight years after the NATO invasion. Since she was thrown out of office in 2007 for a speech comparing parliament to a zoo, Joya has been in hiding, traveling disguised in a burka with the protection of several body guards. Now she's in the US, promoting her new book, Raising My Voice: The Extraordinary Story of the Afghan Woman Who Dares to Speak Out. Joya stopped by MoJo headquarters to discuss rumors of more troops, Hamid Karzai’s reelection, and the ongoing struggle for women's rights in Afghanistan.
Malalai Joya packs the house in Winnipeg
Malalai Joya spoke to packed halls in Victoria (300 people), Vancouver (1000) and Winnipeg (300)
Peace Alliance Winnipeg, November 17, 2009

Malalai Joya speaking at Convocation Hall, University of Winnipeg, Nov. 16, 2009. Photo: Glenn Michalchuk
Malalai Joya spoke to a pack house of in Winnipeg last night at the University of Winnipeg. Three hundred people jammed into Convocation Hall to hear the Afghan MP’s passionate denunciation of the occupation of her country by NATO forces. Her contempt for the Taliban, the Karzai government and the warlords who back it was equally fierce.
Malalai Joya: 'A Woman among Warlords'
Afghan author and firebrand Malalai Joya on Canada's mission, Obama's Nobel, dodging assassination, and more.
By Blake Sifton, The Tyee, November 16, 2009

Malalai Joya: Joya was booted from parliament for opposing both the Taliban and Karzai's warlord allies.
Malalai Joya is the epitome of who Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan are supposed to be fighting to protect. She is an educated and empowered young woman who shed her burqa, spoke out against fundamentalism and rose to prominence when the Taliban were ousted in 2001. Yet while she detests the Taliban and the Afghan warlords, she is also a vocal opponent of the U.S. and NATO occupation of Afghanistan.
While her father fought in the mountains with the mujihadeen against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the early 1980s, Joya fled with her mother and siblings to refugee camps in Iran and Pakistan. When the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in 1996, Joya did the unthinkable -- she returned to her country and set up a clandestine school for girls under the noses of the Islamists. Along with her underground activities came the ever-present risk of arrest and execution.
ملالی جویا، زن شجاع افغان سخن میگوید
من همچو خبرنگاری، بار اول مهمان افغانی را دیدم که با نهایت عظمت و نظم خاص پذیرایی میشود
گزارش ارسالی امان معاشر، خبرنگار آزاد، ۱۵ نوامبر ۲۰۰۹

خانم جویا از دست هوادارنش در ونکوور دسته گل دریافت نمودند
عنوان فوق صدائی است، که از دو هفته بدین سو، در اجتماع های امریکا و کانادا ورد زبان هـواداران خانم جوان افغان، ملالی جویا، گردیده است. روز سیزدهم نوامبر سالجاری، به دعوت یکی از دوستانم، به یکی از دیدارهای خانم ملالی جویا، با هوادارانش در یکی از رستورانت های مجلل شهر ونکـوور رفتم. اطراف رستوران، ورقـه های تبلیغاتی خانم ملالی جویا دیـده میشد. مجلات و روزنامه های ایکه مطالب داغ خود را به ملالی جویا، اختصاص داده بودند؛ به دسترس قرار میگرفت. تکت دخولی در آن رستوران، بیست دالر بود. هـوادارانیکه به دیـدار خانم جویا آمده بودند، بیشتر از گنجایش رستوران بود؛ عـدهای بپا ایستاده منتظر دیدار و صحبت با خانم جویا بودند. در یک طرف رستورانت، عده ای در صف ایستاده و کتاب خانم جویا را فی جلد ۳۳ دالر خریده و از خانم جویا، امضای یادگاری میگرفتند. اطراف خانم جویا را هوادارانش با تحفه ها بدست، به وی تقدیم میکردند؛ احاطه نموده بودند. بعضی ها از خوشحالی، اشک می ریختند.
دو پرسش خنده آور
ملالی جویا در میان آتش و خون و در میان پای برهنه های محروم زندگی میکند.
فریدون (آلمان ــ فرانگفورت)، افغان موج، ۱۵ نوامبر ۲۰۰۹
اخیرا در سایت کابل پرس نوشتۀ از یک مستعار نویس بروز کرده که به گمان اغلب مربوط آقای خلیل الله معروفی گرداننده سایت افغانستان آزاد! و یا یکی از اعضای خانوادۀ ایشان است؛ او از روشنفکران پرسیده است که چرا خانم ملالی جویا مدال شجاعت، دفاع از حقوق بشر و حقوق زن در افغانستان را از ممالک غربی نصیب خود ساخته در حالیکه این ممالک وطن اش را اشغال کرده اند و چگونه میتوانیم به حیث آزادیخواهان با خانم جویا همکاری کنیم. این آقا و یا خانم در لابلای فرموده هایش سخنان کلیشه ای بعضی از وطنپرستان آماتور را با تصویر ارنستو چهگوارا و در لفافۀ دیموکراسی، دوست، دشمن، انقلابی، چپ و راست آنقدر ناشیانه پیچسده است که استفراق آور است.
ملالی جویا، زبان خروشان مردم ماست!
نوم چامسکی ملالی جویا را شایسته ترین کاندید برای جایزه صلح نوبل خواند
انیسه طاهری، افغان جرمن آنلاین، ۱۵ نوامبر ۲۰۰۹
از چندی بدینسو حملات پیاپی بر ملالی جویا، دختر مبارز و شجاع وطن اسیر خود را از جانب کسانی شاهدیم که ظاهرا از بستر "چپ" و ضد تجاوز بر او میتازند، او را در حد پایین تر از زنان زینت المجلس چون فوزیه کوفی، شهلا عطا، وژمه فروغ، قدریه یزدان پرست، مسعوده جلال و غیره قرار میدهند و بعد هرچه از ذهن حقیر شان تراوش میکند به این زن از جان گذشته و میهنپرست اتهام میبینند، و به این هم اکتفا نکرده مدافعان برحق جویا را نیز رد و بد میگویند و به شلاق میکوبند.
مصاحبه آرش کمانگر از "راه کارگر" با ملالی جویا
اوضاع افغانستان و ادامه مبارزه
تلویزیون برابری، ۱۴ نوامبر ۲۰۰۹
مصاحبه آرش کمانگر از تلویزیون "برابری" مربوط سازمان کارگران انقلابی ایران (راه کارگر) با ملالی جویا، رهبر شجاع و مبارز مدافع حقوق بشر و دموکراسی در افغانستان.
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