Philadelphia – The father of a Muslim American soldier killed in Iraq posed a question to Donald Trump: Have you read the Constitution?
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To rapturous cheers, Pakistan-born Khizr Khan fiercely attacked the billionaire businessman Thursday at the Democratic convention in Philadelphia, saying that if it was up to Trump, his son never would have been American or served in the military.
Khan said that Hillary Clinton, by contrast, “called my son the best of America.”
The address was the latest effort by Democrats to highlight their diversity and criticize Trump’s most contentious plans. Beyond his proposed wall across Mexico, the billionaire businessman has threatened to ban Muslims from entering the United States if he becomes president.
Capt. Humayun Khan died in 2004 when a car loaded with explosives blew up at his compound. He was 27.
Honoring his son, Khizr Khan pulled a copy of the Constitution out of his suit pocket and offered to lend it to Trump.
“Look for the words ‘liberty’ and ‘equal protection of law,'” he said standing next to his wife, waving the paperback document vigorously.
“Have you ever been to Arlington cemetery?” he then asked. “Go look at the graves of brave Americans who died defending United States of America. You will see all faiths, genders and ethnicities. You have sacrificed nothing.”
Khan, who moved to the U.S. in 1980, said he and his wife were “patriotic American Muslims with undivided loyalty to our country.”
“Like many immigrants, we came to this country emptyhanded,” he said, believing that with hard work he could raise his three sons “in a nation where they were free to be themselves and follow their dreams.”
Trump, Khan argued, was imperiling that ideal with his smears of Muslims, women, judges and other groups.
He urged Muslims, immigrants and all patriots to “to not take this election lightly.”
“Vote for the healer,” Khan said, “not the divider.”
Trump did not smear Muslims – he’s against RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRORISTS and wants to make sure they don’t land in America like they did in all of Europe killing innocent women & children. with Hussein Obama in the White House America is NOT SAFE
Trump knows the amendments in the Constitution not like Hillary or Hussein that only know about a few amendments
This is too funny…At the DNC, a Muslim holds up the constitution and asks if DT ever read it. The Muslim in the WH read it and threw it out, that’s where this dude got it!
This Muslim is simply an opportunist. His son died in the line of duty, now need using it for Islam. Because a Hillary president is a win for the prophet himself. Sharia law is incompatible with the west. Enough said.
Too bad this father isn’t bothered by the fact Hillary was directly responsible for allowing 4 US servicemen to die in Benghazi!