Via IB Times:

United States Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., has promised to lead the fight against income inequality, a gender wage gap and what he considers unfair working conditions. But at a Wednesday evening town hall, a young Muslim woman wearing a purple head scarf asked how the presidential candidate would combat a rising tide of anti-Islam rhetoric in the country.

“Let me be very personal if I might. I’m Jewish, my father’s family died in concentration camps,” Sanders responded during the speech in front of a couple hundred people at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. “I will do everything that I can to rid this country of the ugly stain of racism that has existed for far too many years.”

Sanders invited the questioner, Remaz Abdelgader, a senior in college who said she wishes to become a human rights attorney, to join him on stage and gave her a hug as the crowd watched and cheered, Think Progress reported. Abdelgader, the daughter of Sudanese asylees, expressed concern over recent anti-Muslim rhetoric from other presidential candidates. Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson said last month that he would not support electing a Muslim president, and later added that he would only support a Muslim candidate if they were to denounce Shariah law.