This should be highlighted more:

Her father ran one of the last schools to defy Taliban orders to end female education.

I don't think you understand just how important it is to God that women not learn anything.  

It's not quite important enough for Him to step in Himself and make them incapable of learning any of the forbidden items, but it is important enough to send enforcers.

There ain't no good guy. There ain't no bad guy. There's only you and me and we just disagree - Jim Krueger

She just had the misfortune to live in it.

I am shitfitter; hear me roar.

To be fair, I can easily think of situations where a 14 year old girl is a valid military target.  (A 14 year old suicide bomber, for instance.)  Of course this particular one wasn't attacked for that.

Taliban jumped the shark? Howzabout Code Pink?

Neither of the ways I read that reflects well on the question. If the query intends to imply that the Taliban care about Western social opprobrium, it's simply incorrect. There's ample evidence that they don't.

Alternately, if it intends to speculate on declining popularity of the Taliban among Western advocates, it's misguided. Regardless of actual harm and human rights abuses all the way over there, the people most publicly concerned about such have political opponents here who must be undermined, bludgeoned into submission, and silenced. The education and well-being of 14-year-old girls in Afghanistan is only important if they can be used as a through line in the "War on Women" to secure the much more important goal of other people paying for things rich American women want. Otherwise, they will be ignored in favor of calling Taliban opponents "racists".

Malala Yousafzai may not only have survived this attack, most of Pakistan was angry at her attackers, and $100,000 in reward money was offered for information leading authorities to them.

Maybe these Taliban assholes really have gone too far for their clients in Pakistan. Maybe Pakistan will think twice about putting them in power in Afghanistan again. If so, they would have lost more by shooting Malala than they could ever have hoped to gain.

Indeed, maybe they "jumped the shark".

Islamic religious fanatics seem worse than American uber-Christian religious fanatics or Jewish settler religious fanatics mainly because they operate in more backward countries, with fewer westernised people. Of late, though, both uber-Christians and Jewish settlers have been trying to avoid contact as much as possible with westernised/ modernist people precisely because they want to become more extreme and their contacts with modernists inhibit them.

Koch-funded uber-Christians running for state legislature in Arkansas have been showing up in news stories lately for their kind words about slavery ("why didn't Jesus oppose it?"), putting rebellious children to death (uber-Christians love Old Testament law until it prohibits eating pork and shellfish), and expelling Americans who practice Islam (maybe they could send black Muslims back to Africa). If they had more power, they would be America's very own Taliban.

Meanwhile, over in Israel, ultras want women and men to walk on different sides of streets, and seem every bit as desperate to keep their women in boxes as Muslim extremists do. Ask them about educating women.

Too bad we can't convince ultras of all stripes that using Western technology will result in their going to Hell, but no matter how much they hate technology, ultras always seem to embrace advances in weaponry. Violence always appeals to people trying to enforce God's will on Earth, as it does to other barbarians whose main interest remains  becoming and staying top predators.

The Taliban are claiming that the media reports are biased.  Because if people just understood that they shot her because she was being un-Islamic, they would see that it is ok.

(I don't want to live on this planet any more)