{"id":235650,"date":"2016-07-31T13:46:01","date_gmt":"2016-07-31T13:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=235650"},"modified":"2016-07-31T13:46:01","modified_gmt":"2016-07-31T13:46:01","slug":"fury-as-trump-mocks-muslim-soldiers-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/07\/fury-as-trump-mocks-muslim-soldiers-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"Fury as Trump mocks Muslim soldier’s mother"},"content":{"rendered":"
Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump has attracted outrage by mocking a dead US Muslim soldier’s mother.<\/p>\n
Ghazala Khan stood silently next to her husband as he attacked Mr Trump in an emotional speech to the Democratic National Convention on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Mr Trump suggested she may not have been allowed to speak.<\/p>\n
Republicans and Democrats said the Republican candidate’s comments were no way to talk of a hero’s mother. Mrs Khan said she was upset by his remarks.<\/p>\n
Last week her husband Khizr Khan told Democrats Mr Trump had sacrificed “nothing and no-one” for his country.<\/p>\n
At the convention in Philadelphia, he said his son would not even have been in America if it had been up to Mr Trump, who has called for a ban on Muslims entering the US.<\/p>\n
Humayun Khan was killed by a car bomb in 2004 in Iraq at the age of 27.<\/p>\n
Mr Trump responded to the criticism in an interview with ABC’s This Week.<\/p>\n
“If you look at his wife, she was standing there,” he said, “She had nothing to say… Maybe she wasn’t allowed to have anything to say. You tell me.”<\/p>\n
But former president Bill Clinton, the husband of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, said: “I cannot conceive how he can say that about a Gold Star mother.”<\/p>\n
Democratic vice-presidential nominee Tim Kaine said Mr Trump’s remarks were inappropriate.<\/p>\n
“He was kind of trying to turn that into some kind of ridicule,” he said, quoted by AP. “It just demonstrates again kind of a temperamental unfitness. If you don’t have any more sense of empathy than that, then I’m not sure you can learn it.”<\/p>\n