Malala Yousafzai speaks out against Donald Trump's 'discriminative' comments

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published 16 December 2015

Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai is urging politicians like Donald Trump to be mindful of the words they choose.

Trump made waves last week when he said he would ban Muslims from entering the United States, and Yousafzai told Channel 4 News that the more people "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. 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."

Yousafzai organized an event in England on Wednesday to remember the 134 children killed by the Taliban in Pakistan during a massacre last year, and told Agence France-Presse at the ceremony it's "really tragic that you hear these comments, which are full of hatred, full of this ideology of being discriminative towards others." To end terrorism, she said, "we need to bring quality education so we defeat the mindset of terrorism mentality and of hatred."

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.