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Mother of US Muslim soldier hits back at Trump over speech silence
- 3 hours ago
- From the section US Election 2016
The mother of a dead US
Muslim soldier has hit back at presidential hopeful Donald Trump for
questioning her silence during a speech by her husband.
Ghazala Khan said Mr Trump was ignorant about Islam and that he didn't know the meaning of the word sacrifice.Her husband Khizr Khan attacked the Republican nominee in an emotional speech to the Democratic National Convention on Thursday.
Mr Trump later suggested Mrs Khan may not have been allowed to speak.
The couple's son, US Army Capt Humayun Khan, was killed by a car bomb in 2004 in Iraq at the age of 27.
In an opinion article for the Washington Post, Mrs Khan said her husband had asked her if she wanted to speak at the convention but she had been too upset.
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"When Donald Trump is talking about Islam, he is ignorant. If he studied the real Islam and Koran, all the ideas he gets from terrorists would change, because terrorism is a different religion."
She added: "Donald Trump said he has made a lot of sacrifices. He doesn't know what the word sacrifice means."
Mrs Khan said that although she did not speak, "all the world, all America, felt my pain".
Analysis by Anthony Zurcher, North America correspondent
There simply is no way for a politician to get into a war of words with the parents of a soldier who died a hero on the battlefield and not come off looking bad.That didn't stop Donald Trump from making a very inelegant go of it.
By raising questions about why Ghazala Khan was silent as her husband spoke at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday, he essentially dared her to step forward.
She did.
Mr Trump has survived - even thrived - after controversial statements in the past and it's become clear that the New Yorker has a core of support that won't abandon him.
Now the nominees are entering the heat of the general election and Mr Trump needs to expand his base if he wants to win. Disputes like this will make that an extremely difficult task.
Responding to the criticism, Mr Trump said in an interview with ABC's This Week: "If you look at his wife, she was standing there.
"She had nothing to say... Maybe she wasn't allowed to have anything to say. You tell me."
His remarks brought criticism from both Democrats and Republicans.
Democratic vice-presidential nominee Tim Kaine said it demonstrated Mr Trump's "temperamental unfitness".
"If you don't have any more sense of empathy than that, then I'm not sure you can learn it," he said.
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Khizr Khan said Mr Trump was "devoid of feeling the pain of a mother who has sacrificed her son".
"Shame on him. He has no decency, he has a dark heart," he said.
But Mr Trump rejected Mr Khan's criticism of him at the convention.
"While I feel deeply for the loss of his son, Mr Khan, who has never met me, has no right to stand in front of millions of people and claim I have never read the Constitution, (which is false) and say many other inaccurate things," he said.
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