Donald Trump has brushed off an African militant group's recruitment video that used his comments against Muslims.
Somalia's al Shabaab used an excerpt from the White House hopeful's stump speech last month calling for a "total and complete shutdown" on Muslims entering the US.Mr Trump said it's little surprise extremists would try to exploit the words of a Republican presidential front-runner.
"What am I going to do?" Mr Trump told CBS News' Face The Nation. "I have to say what I have to say."
He added: "They've used other people too."
The al Qaeda affiliate's 51-minute video, which is aimed at African Americans and Muslims, depicts the US as a country of institutionalised prejudice against blacks and Islam.
In his 7 December speech, Mr Trump proposed barring Muslims from entering the US until the authorities were "able to determine and understand this problem" of Islamist violence, following the killing of 14 people by a radicalised couple in California.
Last month, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said Mr Trump's anti-Muslim rhetoric was a gift to jihadist propaganda.
Al Shabaab is fighting the internationally backed Somali government.
The insurgents were driven out of Mogadishu in 2011 with the help of African Union troops.
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