“Unlike Malala Yousafzai, Nabila Rehman did not receive a welcoming greeting in Washington DC. Both are Pakistani girls. This past week Nabila, her schoolteacher father, and her 12-year-old brother travelled to Washington DC to tell their story and to seek answers about the events of that day. However, despite overcoming incredible obstacles in order to travel from their remote village to the United States, Nabila and her family were roundly ignored. At the Congressional hearing where they gave testimony, only five out of 430 representatives showed up. In the words of Nabila’s father to those few who did attend: “My daughter does not have the face of a terrorist and neither did my mother. It just doesn’t make sense to me, why this happened… as a teacher, I wanted to educate Americans and let them know my children have been injured.” Western fawning over Malala has become less about her efforts to improve conditions for girls in Pakistan, or certainly about the struggles of millions of girls in Pakistan, and more about our own desire to make ourselves feel warm and fuzzy with a celebrity and an easy message. It’s a way of letting ourselves off the hook, convincing ourselves that it’s simple matter of good guys vs bad guys, that we’re on the right side and that everything is okay.”
Al contrario que Malala Yousafzai, Nabila Rehman no recibió una cálida bienvenida en Washington DC. Ambas son chicas pakistaníes. La semana pasada Nabila, su padre (profesor) y su hermano de 12 años viajaron hasta Washington DC para contar su historia y buscar respuestas a los eventos de ese día. Sin embargo, a pesar de superar importantes obstáculos para viajar de su remoto pueblo a los EEUU, Nabila y su familia fueron completamente ignorados. En la audiencia parlamentaria donde dieron testimonio, solo cinco de los 430 representantes hicieron acto de presencia. En palabras del padre de Nabila a los pocos que acudieron: “Mi hija no tiene la cara de una terrorista, así como mi madre tampoco la tenía. No tiene sentido para mí, por qué pasa esto…como profesor, quiero educar a los estadounidenses y hacerles ver que mis hijos han sido heridos.”
La adulación occidental a Malala no ha sido tanto sobre sus esfuerzos por mejorar las condiciones de las niñas en Pakistán, sino sobre nuestro deseo de hacernos sentir cálidos y contentos con una celebridad y un mensaje fácil. Es una forma de lavarnos las manos, convencernos de que es simplemente un tema de buenos vs malos, de que nosotros estamos en el lado bueno y de que todo está bien.
- Malala y Nabila, mundos aparte (traducción del artículo original de Al Jazeera)
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