Calling GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s recent proposal to ban Muslims tragic, the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner and an education activist Malala Yousafzai warned America that Trump might radicalize more terrorists and asked politicians to exercise caution before speaking.
“Well, 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 at a ceremony to mark the first anniversary of a deadly Taliban attack on a Pakistani school in December 2014 that left 145 dead, including 134 young students.
In a separate interview with the UK’s Channel 4, she blasted Trump for his dangerous comments:
“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. 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.”
In addressing the nation after the terror attacks in San Bernardino, US President Barack Obama too stressed that blaming all Muslims for terrorism actually helps ISIS by upping its recruitment.
“We cannot turn against one another by letting this fight be defined as a war between America and Islam. That, too, is what groups like ISIS want. ISIS does not speak for Islam. They are thugs and killers, part of a cult of death. And they account for a tiny fraction of a more than a billion Muslims around the world, including millions of patriotic Muslim-Americans who reject their hateful ideology. Moreover, the vast majority of terrorist victims around the world are Muslim. If we’re to succeed in defeating terrorism, we must enlist Muslim communities as some of our strongest allies, rather than push them away through suspicion and hate.”
Observing that anti-Muslim prejudice promoted by the media has grown and that’s what Islamic State wants, British author and political activist Owen Jones wrote for The Guardian:
“When ISIS executes its attacks, it has a script. It knows that Muslims will be blamed en masse in the aftermath. One of its key aims, after all, is to separate western societies and their Muslim communities: If Muslims are left feeling rejected, besieged and hated, ISIS believes, then the recruitment potential will only multiply.”
.@MalalaFund is right: we cannot tolerate Trump’s hateful speech against Muslims. pic.twitter.com/NaMyY7Vo7L
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) December 16, 2015
In a campaign statement on December 7, Trump had called for a “complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on”. The proposal came after a Muslim couple with ties to radical Islam murdered 14 people in San Bernardino. His comments drew rapid rebuke from President Obama and many other 2016 presidential candidates in the Republican party.
It’s not just Trump. Islamophobia in the US goes well beyond him, and many of Malala’s criticisms could apply to other Republicans as well. Both Jeb Bush and Ted Cruz had, weeks earlier, called for accepting refugees from Syria only if they are Christian — thus effectively banning Syrian refugees who are Muslim.
What can end terrorism? Malala has a valid solution:
“There are these terrorist attacks happening, for example what happened in Paris or what happened in Peshawar a year ago…It’s not just needed in Pakistan but across the world. If we want to end terrorism we need to bring quality education so we defeat the mindset of terrorism mentality and of hatred.”
Feminist & Muslim Malala Yousafzai gives wise advice about how terrorists are created. https://t.co/OVvqwjrXUc Trump may be our worst enemy!
— Lili Ann Fuller (@zeitgeistbabe) December 17, 2015
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hate propaganda from islam !!!
You can’t radicalise anyone who doesn’t want to be radicalised. If that can be a reason for radicalisation then poverty or being a minority should be good reasons as well.
Really tired of this Islam BS propaganda.