Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai said late Tuesday that Donald Trump is “full of hatred” for proposing a ban on Muslims entering the U.S.
“Well, that’s really tragic that you hear these comments which are full of hatred, full of this ideology of being discriminative towards others,” she said of the GOP presidential front-runner, according to AFP.
{mosads}“It will be very unfair, very unjust that we associate 1.6 billion with a few terrorist organizations,” Yousafzai added.
The women’s rights activist was in Birmingham, England, for a ceremony honoring the 134 children killed during a Taliban attack on a Pakistani school last year. Yousafzai, 18, said that improving the world’s schools could help counter radical Islamic ideology.
“If we want to end terrorism we need to bring quality education so we defeat the mindset of [the] terrorism mentality and of hatred,” she said. “It’s not just needed in Pakistan but across the world.”
Malala Yousafzai said in a separate interview that negative rhetoric toward Muslims will only further expand the ranks of jihadists.
“If your intention is to stop terrorism, do not try to blame the whole population of Muslims for it because it cannot stop terrorism,” Yousafzai told the U.K.’s Channel 4 News.
“It will radicalize more terrorists. So it’s important that whatever politicians say, whatever the media says, they should be really, really careful about it.”
Yousafzai, who in 2012 was shot by Taliban gunmen in her native Pakistan, became the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2014 for her work promoting women’s rights and children’s education worldwide.
Trump sparked global debate earlier this month by proposing a temporary halt on Muslims entering America’s borders.
He argued during Tuesday night’s fifth GOP presidential debate the policy is one of national safety rather than discrimination.
“We are not talking about isolation, we are talking about security,” he said during the contest in Las Vegas. “We’re not talking about religion, we are talking about security.”