I Am Malala

What are the six changes that the Taliban wanted

Chapter 7

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Chapter 7 tells the story of the mufti (Islamic scholar) who tried to close their school. He came to the school and insisted to the woman who owned the building that the school was shameful because it taught girls, who should be in purdah (i.e. kept out of sight of men). The owner and her son warned Malala's father that the mufti was trying to close them down. Malala talks about how she was proud of her country being founded as a Muslim homeland by their founder Jinnah; then she explains the difference between Sunni and Shia Muslims, groups that disagreed over who was the right person to lead the religion when the Prophet Muhammad died. Most Pakistanis are Sunnis. The mufti continued to try to shut the school down, bringing in a delegation of influential people to tell Malala's father that schooling girls is blasphemous because the Quran does not mention any women by name. The mufti’s efforts were ultimately unsuccessful, but Malala and her family knew there were others who believed like he did.