{"id":16229,"date":"2016-08-01T02:59:28","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T02:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16229"},"modified":"2016-08-01T02:59:28","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T02:59:28","slug":"ghazala-khan-breaks-her-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16229","title":{"rendered":"Ghazala Khan breaks her silence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/khizr-khan-1024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16230\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/khizr-khan-1024-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Khizr Khan, father of fallen US Army Capt. Humayun S. M. Khan and his wife Ghazala speak during the final day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia , Thursday, July 28, 2016. (AP Photo\/J. Scott Applewhite)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/khizr-khan-1024-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/khizr-khan-1024-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/khizr-khan-1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump wasn&#8217;t satisfied to compare his high-rise building &#8220;sacrifice&#8221; to the grief shared by the parents of a young American hero.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, no. The Republican presidential nominee felt compelled to question why the young soldier&#8217;s mother remained silent during her husband&#8217;s soliloquy at the Democratic National Convention.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the parents are Muslim. Their son, a U.S. Army captain, died in Iraq in 2004. Trump wondered aloud whether Ghazala Khan was silenced because of Muslim tradition.<\/p>\n<p>She has spoken out in an op-ed that&#8217;s worth your time to read.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/ghazala-khan-donald-trump-criticized-my-silence-he-knows-nothing-about-true-sacrifice\/2016\/07\/31\/c46e52ec-571c-11e6-831d-0324760ca856_story.html?campaign_id=A100&amp;campaign_type=Email\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/ghazala-khan-donald-trump-criticized-my-silence-he-knows-nothing-about-true-sacrifice\/2016\/07\/31\/c46e52ec-571c-11e6-831d-0324760ca856_story.html?campaign_id=A100&amp;campaign_type=Email<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Khan wrote an essay for the Washington Post in which she said: &#8220;Donald Trump said that maybe I wasn\u2019t allowed to say anything. That is not true. My husband asked me if I wanted to speak, but I told him I could not. My religion teaches me that all human beings are equal in God\u2019s eyes. Husband and wife are part of each other; you should love and respect each other so you can take care of the family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ghazala Khan is a Gold Star Mother who, along with her husband, Khzir Khan, have made the ultimate sacrifice. Their son, Capt. Humayun Khan, died heroically in defense of his country.<\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump is a\u00a0disgraceful demagogue.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald J. Trump wasn&#8217;t satisfied to compare his high-rise building &#8220;sacrifice&#8221; to the grief shared by the parents of a young American hero. Oh, no. The Republican presidential nominee felt compelled to question why the young soldier&#8217;s mother remained silent during her husband&#8217;s soliloquy at the Democratic National Convention. Yes, the parents are Muslim. Their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16229\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ghazala Khan breaks her silence<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,14],"tags":[1406,1424,6451,6452],"class_list":["post-16229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-dnc","tag-donald-trump","tag-ghazala-khan","tag-khizr-khan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16231,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16229\/revisions\/16231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}