On Thursday night, Donald Trump was busy at a rally defending waterboarding — but the parents of U.S. Army captain Humayun S. M. Khan were busy in Philadelphia sharing a different kind of message.
Khan was a U.S. Army captain and a Muslim who was killed in 2004 when a suicide bomber attacked his infantry unit. On the stage of the Democratic National Convention tonight, Khan's parents gave a speech that simultaneously ho**red their son's legacy and delivered a stinging rebuke to Donald Trump.
"Hillary Clinton was right when she called my son the best of America," Khan's father, *Khizr Khan, said. "If it was up to Donald Trump, he would have never been in America. Donald Trump consistently smears the character of Muslims. He disrespects other mi**rities, women, judges, even his own party leadership." Read more...