Khizr Khan:
- "Running for president is not an entitlement to disrespect Gold Star families and [a] Gold Star mother."
- To Trump’s children: “tell him to learn to behave, learn to be decent."
- “Shame on him! Shame on his family!”
- "He is not worthy of our comments. He has no decency. He is void of decency, he has a dark heart."
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Donald Trump is messing with the wrong folks. In an interview on ABC News tonight they hit back against Trump’s ridiculous comments about Ghazala Khan and that he sacrificed plenty. Trump is digging deeper and now looks like the doofus and boor he is, attacking this wonderful Gold Star family as they grieve for their fallen son, War hero Army Captain Humayun Kahn.
Muslim Family of Fallen Army Captain Responds to Trump: 'Shame on Him'
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The grieving Khan family reacted tonight to Donald Trump's latest comments, telling ABC News in an emotional interview that "running for president is not an entitlement to disrespect Gold Star families and [a] Gold Star mother."
Disrespect is all Trump, the creep, knows. America is waking up to his shameful behavior.
In his first response to a searing charge from bereaved Army father Khizr Khan at the Democratic National Convention that he'd "sacrificed nothing" for his country, Trump told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos that he had in fact sacrificed by employing "thousands and thousands of people." He also suggested that Khan's wife Ghazala didn’t speak at the DNC because she was forbidden to as a Muslim and questioned whether Khan’s words were his own.
"Sacrifice -- I don't think he knows the meaning of sacrifice, the meaning of the word," Ghazala Khan, mother of slain Army Captain Humayun Kahn said. "Because when I was standing there, all America felt my pain. Without saying a single word. Everybody felt that pain."
Trump “sacrificed” by employing thousands of people? What kind of “sacrifice” is that? What kind of idiot would claim that hiring people is “sacrifice”? And, his slam on the grieving mother, Ghazala Khan, has been unmasked as utter nonsense, as she has spoken this morning, and tonight again. Trump better apologize to this wonderful person.
While Ghazala Khan grew visibly upset, her husband, Khizr Khan was livid, urging Trump’s children to "tell him to learn to behave, learn to be decent."
"Running for president is not an entitlement to disrespect Gold Star families and [a] Gold Star mother not realizing her pain. Shame on him! Shame on his family!" Khizr Khan said, struggling to hold back his anger. "He is not worthy of our comments. He has no decency. He is void of decency, he has a dark heart."
In response to Trump's suggestion that Ghazala Khan did not speak at the DNC because it was forbidden by her religion, she said today the real reason she remained silent was her all-consuming grief.
This should disqualify Trump to Millions. Giving more grief to grieving parents of a true hero, who sacrificed his life and saved the group he was responsible for. Khan speaks to my heart: “He has no decency. He is void of decency, he has a dark heart”.
"I didn't feel anything except the pain," she said through tears, before pleading: "Mr. Trump feel that pain and you will feel better. Please. I am very upset when I heard when he said that I didn't say anything. I was in pain. If you were in pain you fight or you don't say anything, I’m not a fighter, I can't fight. So the best thing I do was quiet."
Khizr Khan said he asked his wife of 42 years to speak, but she declined, knowing she would be too emotional.
"I invited her, would you like to say something on the stage when the invitation came, and she said, 'You know how it is with me, how upset I get,'" he said.
Ghazala Khan went on to say that she's sorry Trump doesn’t understand their faith.
"I don't know what type of Islam he has read or heard. I'm so sorry about that, that he has not had any idea what the Islam is," she said.
"My faith, Islam, has given us strength, all the woman and man are equal in God's eyes. We are equal, we are the part of our husbands, they are the part of us. We can tell them what to do, they can tell us what to do," she said, noting she was trying to calm her husband down during his speech at the DNC.
Trump is trying to make Muslims into something to be hated, to be despised. This wonderful family shows us how ridiculous, and fascist, Trump’s broad brushing and hate churning is.
"Our religion tells us to be very peaceful, to love each other, to stay with each other, just don't say bad things to your neighbor, or anyone. That's why I was trying to calm my husband down. Don't say anything about Mr. Trump! That's his character, not ours," she said. "We are proud of our religion and our family and our children and this country."
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Hillary urges Americans to stand with the Khan family:
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Following Trump Remarks, Clinton Calls on Americans to 'Stand With' Parents of Muslim U.S. Soldier
Hillary Clinton on Saturday called on Americans to "stand with" the parents of a fallen Muslim U.S. soldier following Donald Trump's rebuke of the couple.
"I was very moved to see Ghazala Khan stand bravely and with dignity in support of her son on Thursday night. And I was very moved to hear her speak last night, bravely and with dignity, about her son's life and the ultimate sacrifice he made for his country," the Democratic nominee said in a statement, referring to the mother of Army Capt. Humayun S.M. Khan, who was killed in Iraq in 2004.
His father, Khazir Khan, offered a scathing critique of Trump during remarks at the Democratic National Convention last week, saying the Republican nominee has "sacrificed nothing" for his country. His wife, Ghazala Khan, stood by his side.
Clinton on Saturday stood by the Khans, also saying in the statement: "This is a time for all Americans to stand with the Khans, and with all the families whose children have died in service to our country. And this is a time to honor the sacrifice of Captain Khan and all the fallen. Captain Khan and his family represent the best of America, and we salute them."
Lots of comments and tweets about Trump’s attacks on the Khan family: