Headline Roundup July 31, 2016
Trump Response to Muslim Father
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Khir Khan, the father of a slain Muslim American war hero, on Sunday continued to speak out against Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his anti-Muslim bigotry.
“He is a black soul, and this is totally unfit for the leadership of this country,” Khan said in an interview with CNN’s “State of the Union.” “The love and affection that we have received affirms that our grief ― that our experience in this country has been correct and positive. The world is receiving us like we have never seen. They have...
The father of a Muslim-American soldier killed in Iraq on Sunday says Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's statement on his son's service is "disingenuous."
"I appreciate his statement calling my son a hero and making this clarification and statement. I appreciate that. But it sounds so disingenuous because of his policies, because of his rhetoric of hatred, of derision, of dividing us," Khizr Khan, whose son, Army Capt. Humayun Khan, died in Iraq in 2004, said in an interview airing Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press."

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Donald Trump is embroiled in another media controversy, this time over his reaction when asked about the emotional speech at the Democratic National Convention by the bereaved parents of Capt. Humayun Khan, an immigrant soldier who died in Iraq in 2004.
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