After Trump suggested that Ghazala Khan’s husband didn’t allow her to talk at the Democratic National Convention, she wrote an Op-Ed for the Washington Post.
The mother of an Army Captain Humayun Khan, who was killed by a suicide bomb in Iraq, blasted Donald Trump on Sunday — after the Republican presidential nominee said she had "nothing to say" about her son during the Democratic National Convention.
During last week's DNC, Ghazala Khan's husband, Khizr, gave a moving speech about his son, a Muslim, and blasted Trump for his incendiary comments about Muslims. During the speech, Ghazala stood by his side, and Trump later suggested that Khizr was preventing his wife from speaking.
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"Here is my answer to Donald Trump: Because without saying a thing, all the world, all America, felt my pain," Ghazala wrote in an op-ed for the Washington Post, "I am a Gold Star mother. Whoever saw me felt me in their heart," she said, using the phrase for families who have lost soldiers.
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Ghazala spoke of the sacrifice she made letting her son go to war for the US, and her and her husband's fear for his safety.
"I had already been through one war, in Pakistan in 1965, when I was just a high school student. So I was very scared," she wrote.
"You can sacrifice yourself, but you cannot take it that your kids will do this."
In 2004, Ghazala and Khizr's son, Humayun, told his fellow soldiers and nearby civilians to stand back while he went to investigate a suspicious car. The car was equipped with a bomb and exploded, killing Humayun but sparing those around him.
Khan explained that her husband had asked her to speak at the convention, but that she was far too upset and emotional to keep it together in front of a crowd.
"Walking onto the convention stage, with a huge picture of my son behind me, I could hardly control myself. What mother could?" Khan asked.
"Donald Trump has children whom he loves. Does he really need to wonder why I did not speak?"
Khan also responded directly to Trump's insinuation that she was being oppressed by her religion, and that the reason she did not talk was because she was a Muslim woman.
My religion teaches me that all human beings are equal in God’s eyes. Husband and wife are part of each other; you should love and respect each other so you can take care of the family.
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.
Donald Trump said he has made a lot of sacrifices. He doesn’t know what the word sacrifice means
Khizr Khan holds up a booklet of the US Constitution at the DNC.
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