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(CNN) -- A year ago Wednesday, Malala Yousafzai was riding the bus home from school when a Taliban gunman climbed aboard and shot her in the head. She nearly died.
Her public fight to get that education and for the right of girls to get one, too, is what put her at odds with the Pakistani Ta
liban.
They banned girls from schools in the Swat Valley in 2009. Malala anonymously blogged for the BBC in opposition to that order, drawing the Islamist militants' rage.
Malala turns the other cheek to the Taliban.
The Taliban renewed their death threat against her Monday.
Spokesman Shahidullah Shahid said the teenager was targeted because she was used
in propaganda against the Taliban.
"If there is any opportunity we can target, she would be on our hit list again."
In an interview with Malala on "The Daily Show" on Tuesday, Jon Stewart asked her
what she would do if a Taliban assassin came calling again.
"I'll tell him how important education is, and that I even want education for your children as well,"
she said Tuesday. And I would tell him, 'that's what I want to tell you, now do what you want.'"
Fighting the Taliban is important, but through peace, dialogue and education, she said.
But the Taliban often prefer to let their guns do the talking.
The gunman who climbed on board that school bus wounded Malala in the head and neck.
The driver hit the gas. The assailants got away.
Malala was left in critical condition.
Doctors fought to save her life, then her condition took a dip. They operated to remove
a bullet from her neck, and as brain swelling threatened her life, a surgical team cut out
a section of her skull to relieve the pressure. After surgery, she was unresponsive for
three days.
She was flown to the U.K. for intensive medical treatment and multiple surgeries to repair
the damage the bullets had done.
Doctors there covered the large hole in her skull with a titanium plate. Malala has kept the
piece of skull that had been removed as a souvenir of her fight.
She recovered and addressed the United Nations in New York on her 16th birthday, July 12.
"They thought that the bullets would silence us, but they failed," she said. "And then, out of that silence, came thousands of voices."
Her public fight to get that education and for the right of girls to get one, too, is what put her at odds with the Pakistani Ta
liban.
They banned girls from schools in the Swat Valley in 2009. Malala anonymously blogged for the BBC in opposition to that order, drawing the Islamist militants' rage.
Malala turns the other cheek to the Taliban.
The Taliban renewed their death threat against her Monday.
Spokesman Shahidullah Shahid said the teenager was targeted because she was used
in propaganda against the Taliban.
"If there is any opportunity we can target, she would be on our hit list again."
In an interview with Malala on "The Daily Show" on Tuesday, Jon Stewart asked her
what she would do if a Taliban assassin came calling again.
"I'll tell him how important education is, and that I even want education for your children as well,"
she said Tuesday. And I would tell him, 'that's what I want to tell you, now do what you want.'"
Fighting the Taliban is important, but through peace, dialogue and education, she said.
But the Taliban often prefer to let their guns do the talking.
The gunman who climbed on board that school bus wounded Malala in the head and neck.
The driver hit the gas. The assailants got away.
Malala was left in critical condition.
Doctors fought to save her life, then her condition took a dip. They operated to remove
a bullet from her neck, and as brain swelling threatened her life, a surgical team cut out
a section of her skull to relieve the pressure. After surgery, she was unresponsive for
three days.
She was flown to the U.K. for intensive medical treatment and multiple surgeries to repair
the damage the bullets had done.
Doctors there covered the large hole in her skull with a titanium plate. Malala has kept the
piece of skull that had been removed as a souvenir of her fight.
She recovered and addressed the United Nations in New York on her 16th birthday, July 12.
"They thought that the bullets would silence us, but they failed," she said. "And then, out of that silence, came thousands of voices."
