Who will win the Nobel Peace Prize 2014?

[JerryArkansas]

I am now satisfied that the person who I wanted to receive it did.  She really deserved it.

[eric82oslo]

I am now satisfied that the person who I wanted to receive it did.  She really deserved it.

And the winners are Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi. A Hindu and a Muslim. A Pakstani and an Indian. Malala is the youngest winner ever of course, at age 17. Yet she was first brought to fame back in 2008, only 11 years old.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kailash_Satyarthi
Kailash Satyarthi (born 11 January 1954) is an Indian children's rights activist. He has been active in the Indian movement against child labour since the 1990s. So far his organization, Bachpan Bachao Andolan, has freed over 80,000 children from various forms of servitude and helped in successful re-integration, rehabilitation and education.

 


http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/malala-kailash-satyarthi-win-nobel-peace-prize/2014/10/10/f6bd3d3a-505c-11e4-877c-335b53ffe736_story.html?hpid=z1

[JerryArkansas]

I am now satisfied that the person who I wanted to receive it did.  She really deserved it.

And the winners are Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi. A Hindu and a Muslim. A Pakstani and an Indian.

A great show of unity for the world.  They both rightly received it. 

[Citizen (The) Doctor]

The right people got it.

[Middle-aged Europe]

Finally someone who deserves the Peace Prize, unlike previous joke laureates like the OPCW, Tawakkul Karman, or Liu Xiaobo.

[GMantis]

Another year, another peace prize. We're already reaching the end of the nobel Nobel Week and tomorrow, Friday, the final one of them, and some say most prestigious, the Nobel Peace Prize, will be announced. So who will win it? A record 278 candidates have been nominated, and up above in my poll you can find 38 of the most frequently mentioned names, by bookmakers and media outlets. You can vote for up to 7 candidates who'd you think would be most likely to receive the prize this year.

This is a dire insult to the five prices that are actually worth something

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Two fine choices.

[TDAS04]

The right people got it.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

An important victory for hick Marxism.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Wait, Malala's a Marxist now? I have frankly found her to be somewhat annoying for reasons I could never understand (I just assumed I was being a douche), and now I figured it out: she's a teenaged socialist .

[eric82oslo]

The CEO of the biggest private school association in Pakistan, which includes some 40,000 schools in Pakistan, has publically distanced themselves from Malala and has banned her book I Am Malala - The Girl Who Stood Up For Education And Was Shot By The Taliban from all of their more than 40,000 school properties throughout Pakistan.*

And people actually claim that this Nobel Peace Prize is anything but CONTROVERSIAL - well lol!



*Sounds like the American religious right btw.

[Deus Naturae]

How exactly is this decision controversial? The Taliban disliking the recipient doesn't really make it controversial.

[eric82oslo]

How exactly is this decision controversial? The Taliban disliking the recipient doesn't really make it controversial.

As far as I know, Pakstani educational leaders aren't recruited by Taliban. There was even this TV sequence from the Oslo University of Norway (on national broadcaster NRK in prime time nightly news)  where one of the female Pakistani students said that she didn't think that Malala was a worthy recipient of the award and that some other Pakistani should have received it instead. When hate of basic womens' rights goes that far to infiltrate even highly educated Pakistani women in one of the world's most liberal countries, Norway - some call us even a God-less country - then that says pretty much it.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Wait, Malala's a Marxist now?

You've never come across Pashtun hick Marxism before?

[morgieb]

Well earned.

[Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas]

Very good choices. I'm also glad that Malala's deserved celebrity didn't stop the Nobel Committee from acknowledging an extremely worthy choice in Mr. Satyarthi as well .

[StateBoiler]

It doesn't matter because any moral authority the prize might once have had has long since been lost.

Okey mister Smartass.

Well, he's right.