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听力文本
From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report.
Private schools in Pakistan have banned a book written by Malala Yousafzai from school libraries. The school's officials say parts of the book dishonour Islam, and they accuse the young education activist of acting as what they call a "propaganda tool of the West" to insult her country of birth.
Malala Yousafzai shared her memories in the book "I Am Malala". "I Am Malala" is one of the best selling books in the world. But some groups in Pakistan have criticized it. Private schools in the country have decided to prevent their students from reading it.
Adeeb Javedani is president of the All Pakistan Private Schools Management Association, the group represents more than 40,000 institutions across the country. He defends the decision to ban the book.
Mr Javedani says it is unimaginable that a girl of Malala's age could write parts of the book. For example, he says she wrote that Ahmadis, a religious minority, have been declared infidels - unbelievers in Pakistan.
Mr Javedani says these is no such movement taking place. The Ahmadi community was declared non-Muslims in the early 1970s. The book notes that Ahmadis say they are Muslims, but Pakistani laws prevent them from publicly stating that.
Mr Javedani says someone representing Europe, a common term for the west, had written the book under the name of Malala Yousafzai. He also says Pakistani education officials have told his group that they do not plan to use the book in government and private schools.
Professor Pervez Hoodbhoy works at Quaid-e-Azam University in Islamabad. He and other rights activists defend Malala. They say pro-Taliban elements within the society are purposely misrepresenting the book.
"She does not in her book say that Ahmadis are Muslims. She simply says that these are people who are being persecuted, and that is a fact of life. Nobody can dispute that Ahmadis today are the most persecuted of minorities, all of which are persecuted in Pakistan today," said Hoodboy.
The Professor also says that Malala is being wrongly accused of defending British writer Salman Rushdie, his book "The Satanic Verses" made many Muslims angry.
Professor Hoodbhoy says the fact that Salman Rushdie is an unwelcome man in Pakistan shows the extreme lack of tolerance that has come to characterize Pakistani culture.
Malala campaigned against Taliban attempts to blow up schools for girls in 2009 in the Swat district which she was born. A military offensive later chased the Islamists from the district.
And that's the VOA Learning English Education Report. I'm June Simms.
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词汇解释
1.propaganda n. 宣传；传道总会
They muted the propaganda campaign later.
后来，他们降低了宣传运动的调子。
2.infidel n. 异教徒；无信仰者 adj. 异教徒的；无宗教信仰的
He promised to continue the fight against infidel forces.
他答应继续对抗异教势力。
3.persecute vt. 迫害；困扰；同…捣乱
They began by brutally persecuting the Catholic Church.
他们以残酷迫害天主教会作为开始。
4.dispute vt. 辩论；怀疑；阻止；抗拒 vi. 争论 n. 辩论；争吵
Nobody disputed that Davey was clever.
没有人反驳戴维是聪明的。
内容解析
1.Malala campaigned against Taliban attempts to blow up schools for girls in 2009 in the Swat district which she was born.
blow up 爆发，爆炸；放大；使充气
He was jailed for 45 years for trying to blow up a plane.
他因图谋炸飞机而被监禁了45年。
Other than blowing up a tyre I hadn't done any car maintenance.
除了给一个轮胎充气外，我没有做过任何汽车保养。
A storm blew up over the mountains.
山上狂风大作。
I'm sorry I blew up at you.
对不起，我冲你发脾气了。
The media may be blowing it up out of proportion.
媒体可能对此事很大程度地夸大其词。
参考译文
这里是美国之音慢速英语教育报道。
巴基斯坦私立学校禁止马拉拉·尤萨夫扎伊的书出现在学校图书馆，学校官员称这本书部分内容有辱伊斯兰，他们指责这位年轻的教育活动人士是“西方的宣传工具”，是来侮辱她的祖国的。
马拉拉·尤萨夫扎伊在《我是马拉拉》一书中分享了自己的回忆，这本书是全世界的畅销书之一。但巴基斯坦一些组织禁止该书，该国的私立学校决定禁止学生读这本书。
贾瓦丹尼是巴基斯坦所有私立学校管理协会主席，该组织代表该国4万多所学校，他为禁止该书的决定辩护。
贾瓦丹尼说不能相信马拉拉这样年龄的女孩能写出书中部分内容，比如，他说马拉拉写道一个宗教少数派阿玛迪派在巴基斯坦被宣布为异教徒。
贾瓦丹尼说根本就没有这样的运动，阿玛迪社区是20世纪70年代被宣布为非穆斯林的。这本书指出阿玛迪派自称是穆斯林，但巴基斯坦法律禁止他们公开如此声称。
贾瓦丹尼说有人代表欧洲也就是西方国家以马拉拉之名写了这本书，他还说巴基斯坦教育官员已告诉该组织，他们不准备在公立和私立学校中用这本书。
帕坞·胡德堡教授就职于伊斯兰堡艾德-阿赞姆大学，他和其他权利人士为马拉拉辩护。他们说亲塔利班分子故意扭曲了该书。
“她并没有在书中说阿玛迪派是穆斯林，她只是说有的人被迫害，这是事实。没有人能怀疑今天的阿玛迪派是最受迫害的少数民族，如今所有的阿玛迪派在巴基斯坦都是被迫害的。”
这位教授还说，马拉拉被错误地指责为替英国作家萨尔曼·拉什迪的书辩护，他的书《撒旦诗篇》令许多穆斯林愤怒。
胡德堡教授说，萨尔曼·拉什迪在巴基斯坦不受欢迎这件事说明极端缺乏容忍已经成为巴基斯坦文化的一个特点。
马拉拉发起运动反对2009年塔利班试图袭击她的出生地斯瓦特地区女孩学校的企图，后来一场军事进攻将伊斯兰分子从该地区赶走。
这里是美国之音慢速英语教育报道，我是琼·西姆斯。
