The Nobel prize winner Malala Yousafzai has condemned Donald Trump’s views on Muslims as she attended a sombre ceremony to remember the 134 children killed in a Taliban attack on a Pakistani school a year ago.



“Well that’s really tragic that you hear these comments which are full of hatred, full of this ideology of being discriminative towards others,” said Malala, who lives in the UK, in response to recent comments by the US Republican presidential candidate.

Trump has been heavily criticised for calling for a ban on all Muslims entering the US after a Muslim husband and wife shot and killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California, in an incident classified as a terrorist act.

Speaking at the ceremony in Birmingham, Malala’s father Ziauddin Yousafzai also criticised Trump’s comments.

“It will be very unfair, very unjust that we associate 1.6 billion with a few terrorist organisations,” he said, referring to the number of Muslims worldwide.

The event was organised by peace prize winner Malala and her family. Malala was shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012 after she had publicly advocated education for girls.

On 16 December 2014 nine extremists scaled the walls of an army-run school in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, throwing grenades and opening fire on terrified children and teachers.



“There are these terrorist attacks happening, for example what happened in Paris or what happened in Peshawar a year ago,” Malala said, referring to last month’s Islamic State attack in Paris that killed 130 people.

“If we want to end terrorism we need to bring quality education so we defeat the mindset of the terrorism mentality and of hatred.”