Trump’s travel ban is ‘propaganda’ tool for ISIL: UK Home Secy.

US President Donald Trump’s entry ban against seven Muslim countries serves as a “propaganda opportunity” for Daesh (ISIL) and other terrorists groups, warns UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd.

Speaking before the Parliament’s Home Affairs Committee on Tuesday, Rudd said London would never adopt policies that would facilitate efforts by Daesh “to radicalize” people.

“ISIL and Daesh will use any opportunity they can to make difficulties, to create the environment they want, to radicalize people, to bring them over to their side, so it is a propaganda opportunity for them potentially,” she said.

On Friday, Trump signed an executive order that halted all refugee admissions for four months, banned Syrian refugees indefinitely and barred visitors and immigrants from Iran, Libya, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen from entering America for 90 days.

Rudd, who was answering the committee’s questions about the consequences of Britain leaving the European Union, or Brexit, said the UK’s security challenges came from inside rather than the countries that were singled out by Trump.

“I would observe that the difficulties to the UK are not caused by people coming from those countries but from people being radicalized over here,” she argued.