After Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump proposed a plan to ban Muslims from entering the U.S. for a while just about everyone, from all walks of life, have weighed in with an opinion. Now, Nobel Prize winner and activist Malala Yousafzai is expressing how she feels about the proposal.
Newsweek reported that during an event in England to remember the lives of 134 schoolchildren killed by the Taliban in Pakistan last year, Yousafzai condemned Trump’s plan.
“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.
Yousafzai added that such a plan could “radicalize more terrorists.”
Her father also slammed any proposed ban saying, “It will be very unfair, very unjust that we associate 1.6 billion with a few terrorist organizations.”
Last week, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick posted a quote on his Instagram account denouncing Trump’s proposal. And one day earlier, boxing legend Muhammad Ali released a statement directed toward the GOP candidate about the religion of Islam.
Trump, meanwhile, defended his plan while on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and said that he has Muslim friends who support it. He also said that he does not buy into the argument that such a ban may be used as a recruitment tool for ISIS or any other terrorist organization.