Nobel committee gets it right with peace prize this time (updated with strong dissent)

American Thinker ^ | 10/10/2014 | Rick Moran

[SeekAndFind]

The Nobel committee in charge of awarding the peace prize chose two non-controversial and politically correct recipients who have worked tirelessly for child rights around the world.

Indian children’s rights activist Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai, the 17 year old who was shot in the head by the Taliban for promoting the right of Pakistani girls to attend school, were named to receive the prestigious award.

Yousafzai is the youngest peace prize winner in history.

There were probably more deserving candidates, although the fact that peace in the world is decidedly lacking at the moment could have affected the choice. Nevertheless, picking a Hindu and Muslim, Indian and Pakistani, has a significance that the Nobel committee wanted to highlight.

Wall Street Journal:

Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan have fought three wars since gaining independence from Britain in 1947 after the partition of the South Asian subcontinent along religious lines.

Nobel committee chairman Thorbjørn Jagland said this year’s prize was unrelated to the current confrontation between the nuclear-armed rivals but, he said, “any contribution to resolving any conflict is of course good.”

By bestowing the prize on Mr. Satyarthi and Ms. Yousafzai, the Nobel committee sought to draw attention to violations of children’s rights and the persistence of child labor, especially in the developing world.

The incidence of underage work is declining, but remains widespread, with children toiling in brickyards, factories and as domestic servants. The United Nations says there were 168 million child workers in 2012—78 million fewer than in 2000.

“This is a great honor for those hundreds of millions of children denied their fundamental right to childhood, education and opportunity,” Mr. Satyarthi said Friday in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.

[bigdaddy45]

The Nobel Peace Prize jumped the shark when Obama got it, but these two seem like pretty worthy recipients. Kind of a thumb in the eye of the radical Muslims, but I don’t suspect they really care.

[Vigilanteman]

Is this the first time in the last decade or so that the prize was awarded to somebody who actually deserved it? New trend or blind squirrel thing?

[MrEdd]

No.

It jumped the shark when Arafat got it.

[Rockitz]

It all makes sense now. Obama acts as though he’s been shot in the head.

[freedumb2003]

>>It jumped the shark when Arafat got it.<<

It got EATEN by the shark when obozo got it.

[kennedy]

It jumped the shark when Arafat got it.

Exactly. By the time that Al Gore and then Obama got theirs it was already a joke.

[llevrok]

Obama’s daughter, Malia, won the Nobel? Who next??? The family dog Bo?