Malala Yousafzai has condemned a call by US presidential hopeful Donald Trump to ban Muslims from entering the US.
The Nobel Prize winner said his comments were "full of hatred" and blaming Muslims for terrorism would only "radicalise more terrorists".
She was speaking at an event to mark one year since a Taliban attack on a school in Peshawar, Pakistan left more than 150 dead, most of them children.
In 2012, Malala was herself shot in the head by the Taliban.
Schools and colleges across Pakistan are closed on Wednesday to mark the one-year anniversary.
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Speaking at the event in Birmingham on Tuesday, Malala told AFP news agency: "Well, that's really tragic that you hear these comments which are full of hatred, full of this ideology of being discriminative towards others."
The 18-year-old Pakistani activist was also quoted by the Press Association as saying that such comments could "radicalise more terrorists" and urged politicians and the media to exercise more caution.
"If your intention is to stop terrorism, do not try to blame the whole population of Muslims for it because it cannot stop terrorists," she said.
Malala also reiterated her call for quality education around the world to "defeat the mindset of terrorism mentality and of hatred" that led to events such as the Peshawar attack.
Bless her heart, I can't deal with the fact that she's only 18 years old.
When you go through hell, you grow up much faster because there arent any fairytales that can distract you from the cruelty thats happening everywhere around you on daily basis.
