Hollywood star Angelina Jolie is the latest star to lash out at US presidential candidate Donald Trump for his anti-Muslim comments.
When the actress and human rights activist was asked on her views about the Republican candidate's attitude towards Muslims, she simply closed her eyes and shook her head in disapproval.
"To me, America is built on people from around the world coming together for freedoms, especially freedom of religion. So it's hard to hear this is coming from someone who is pressing to be an American president," she said.
Trump sent waves of anger in Muslim communities when he suggested that Muslims should be temporarily banned from entering the US until "we know what exactly is happening."
Trump's suggestion came as "Syrians fled their war-torn homeland in the tens of thousands, with President Barack Obama pledging to take in 10,000 of them," reported CNN.
Jolie made her comments during a BBC event in London, where she attended as the special UN High Commissioner for Refugees and pleaded for the world to unite in a coordinated response to the refugee crisis.
In her plea, Jolie compared the current refugee situation to World War II, saying it was "that once-in-a-generation moment when nations have to pull together," warning against "fear of migration."
Jolie was concerned that efforts to aid refugees were "drastically underfunded."
This is "not because the model is flawed or because refugees are behaving differently, but because the number of conflicts and scale of displacements have grown so large," Jolie said, echoing recent comments made by UN agencies that the aid system is crumbling under the weight of conflicts.
According to CNN, "Jolie's visit comes as Europe goes to extraordinary measures to deal with a massive influx of refugees, the biggest it has seen since World War II, with more than one million people crossing into the continent to seek asylum last year.
"According to the United Nations, more than 180,000 refugees and migrants have tried to reach Europe by sea this year. More than 1,300 of whom have either lost their lives or been reported missing.
"There are currently 60 million displaced people in the world, and of the 20 million refugees that made it out of their country last year, only one percent were resettled, UN figures show."
