Over the last few years I have been astounded at the Nobel Committee's unflinching and shameful pandering to political pressure and inability to nominate a peace-prize winner who truly makes a difference.
The nomination of Barak Obama, despite my admiration for the man as an intelligent force for progress in a country that needs progress more than most, was a weak and sorry excuse that made no mark on the world.
To ignore Malala Yousafzai in favour of a Qwango is worse than their refusal to award Mahatma Gandhi for his efforts. A girl who's life might so easily have been destroyed by religious extremism and who escaped that fate by such a slim margin to make a cause for the rights of simple respect and education for female children shouldn't be ignored. Peace is about people.
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