School Group Criticizes Malala Yousafzai For Being 'Anti-Pakistani'

Pakistani teenager and Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai is receiving criticism from her home country of Pakistan for her alleged anti-Islam views.

A network of private schools in Pakistan, known as the All Pakistan Private School Federation, launched a critical campaign against Yousafzai this week, naming November 10 "I Am Not Malala Day," serving as a contradiction to the teen's memoir "I Am Malala."

As part of the named day, the private school federation encouraged the Pakistani government to stop allowing the sale of Malala's memoir, arguing that it is critical of the teachings of Islam and shows the teen's "Westernization."

School federation officials have also vowed to hold the "I Am Not Malala" day every year, during which they will teach seminars that explain to students what it means to be a "true Pakistani."

"She has criticized Pakistan's ideology, its religion, and its constitution," Federation President Mirza Kashif Ali told NBC News in a recent interview.

Ali added that the annual observance day will take place until the teenage education activist "apologizes and disowns whatever anti-Pakistan and anti-Islam rubbish she wrote."

As Ali added to NBC News, the federation also criticized Yousafzai for regarding President Barack Obama "as her ideal, even though he is responsible for thousands of deaths in Pakistan with his drones."

"We are all for education and women's empowerment," Ali added to the New York Times. "But the West has created this persona who is against the Constitution and Islamic ideology of Pakistan."