Remarks by U.S. Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Muslims were "tragic" and "full of hatred," Nobel Peace Prize winner and girl's education rights campaigner Malala Yousafzai told media on Tuesday. Trump has called for a complete ban of all Muslims entering United States.
"That's really tragic that you hear these comments which are full of hatred, full of this ideology of being discriminative towards others," Yousafzai told AFP news agency. She also said such anti-Muslim remarks would only "radicalize more terrorists."
"If your intention is to stop terrorism, do not try to blame the whole population of Muslims for it, because it cannot stop terrorism. It will radicalize more terrorists. If we want to end terrorism, we need to bring quality education so we defeat the mindset of terrorism mentality and of hatred," Yousafzai told Channel 4, according to rferl.
The 18-year-old Pakistan-born global icon also advised politicians to be very careful when they speak against all Muslims. "I can just highlight one thing. The more you speak about Islam and against all Muslims, the more terrorists we create. So it's important that whatever politicians say, whatever the media say, they should be really, really careful about it," Yousafzai advised.
Yousafzai, who turned 18 in July this year, was shot by a Taliban militant in Pakistan in 2012. She won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize along with Indian child rights campaigner Kailash Satyarthi, according to BBC. Yousafzai, the youngest Nobel Peace prize winner, is now engaged in promoting girls' education rights worldwide.
