‘They gave you Nobel for what?’ clueless Trump asks Yazidi activist Nadia Murad | World News, The Indian Express

‘They gave you Nobel for what?’ clueless Trump asks Yazidi activist Nadia Murad | World News, The Indian Express

By Express Web Desk |New Delhi |Published: July 18, 2019 1:04:54 pm

‘They gave you Nobel for what?’ clueless Trump asks Yazidi activist Nadia Murad

Murad, who belongs to the Yazidi minority was enslaved and tortured by Islamic State militants in 2014, and lost 18 members of her family. She was repeatedly subjected to rape and other abuses while being kept in captivity until she fled.

President Donald Trump listens to Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad, from Yazidi, Iraq, center, as he meets with survivors of religious persecution in the Oval Office of the White House on Wednesday, July 17, 2019, in Washington. (AP)

United States President Donald Trump Wednesday appeared clueless regarding the work and cause of Nobel laureate Nadia Murad as she requested him to help the Yazidis of Iraq.