Malala Yousafzai Tells Jon Stewart About Death Threats

16-year-old Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai explains her initial all-too-human response when learning that the Taliban was posing a threat to her life, and explains why she changed her mind.

An education activist, Malala is one of the nominees favored to win the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, October 11, in Oslo.

It all began back in 2009, when Malala wrote a blog under a pseudonym for the BBC sharing details of life under Taliban rule and her viewpoint on education for girls. A New York Times documentary was later filmed about her life and she became the target of Taliban death threats. Taliban gunmen did attempt to murder the teenager last year while she was going home on a school bus. She was shot in the head and neck and remained in critical condition for 10 days, after which she was sent to Birmingham, England for intensive rehabilitation, and has since received numerous awards and recognition for her work and her bravery.

As the entire Pakistani nation prays for Malala to win the Nobel Peace Prize, the TPP (Pakistani Taliban) thinks otherwise: “She has done nothing. The enemies of Islam are awarding her because she has left Islam and has become secular,” TTP spokesman Shahidullah Shahid told the Pakistani news bureau, adding that they still intend to kill the child.