Posted on 07/31/2016 3:38:49 PM PDT by Pinkbell
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan have both come out with statements strongly defending Capt. Humayun Khan, a Muslim-American soldier killed in combat in 2004 whose father Khizr Khan made an emotional plea against Donald Trump's candidacy at the Democratic National Convention.
The statements come after Trump's controversial response to the Khan family, and after a personal appeal from Khizr Khan to to both the Senate Majority Leader and the House Speaker to denounce the GOP nominee.
Neither McConnell nor Ryan mention Trump by name in their statements, but the repudiation of the GOP nominee is implicit in both responses.
"All Americans should value the patriotic service of the patriots who volunteer to selflessly defend us in the armed services. And as I have long made clear, I agree with the Khans and families across the country that a travel ban on all members of a religion is simply contrary to American values," McConnell wrote.
Ryan followed with a similar response. “America's greatness is built on the principles of liberty and preserved by the men and women who wear the uniform to defend it. As I have said on numerous occasions, a religious test for entering our country is not reflective of these fundamental values. I reject it.
"Many Muslim Americans have served valiantly in our military, and made the ultimate sacrifice," Ryan continued. "Captain Khan was one such brave example. His sacrifice -- and that of Khizr and Ghazala Khan -- should always be honored. Period.”
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In an interview on MSNBC the day after Khizr Khan addressed the convention, he begged McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan -- both of whom he referred to as "leaders and patriots" -- to speak out against the GOP nominee, calling it a "moral imperative."
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The father is now saying ‘terror’ has nothing to do with Islam
What a tool!
Within the week there’ll be another major Islamic terrorist event...
just hope its not in our country...
Paul Ryan will lose votes and Trump will go up in the polls...
Hopefully too Khan will lose many of his fans because he is sure to come out with “has nothing to do with Islam”...
Meanwhile the DailyMail and the honest cable news will be broadcasting the “Lulu’s Snackbar” that the murderers screamed as they murdered innocents...
First two pages were
NY Times
Washington Post
The Guardian
CNN
MSNBC
NBC News
ABC News
CBS
Slate
Al Jeezera
Hotter
A veritable Who's Who of Democrat Party House Organs
A complete set up including all the schedules interviews with the usual dem media outlets .
Khan is a Dem party operative for years .
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Of course, Father now says Islam is innocent and has nothing to do with Terrorism and Violence.
Sounds like Kerry and Hillary as Secretary. Susan Rice was promoted.
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Captain Humayun Khan was the leader of an infantry company. He was killed in Iraq in 2004 when a car blew up after he told his troops to stand back. He took 10 steps forward to check out the suspicious vehicle himself, saving the lives of the soldiers he supervised.
Say what you want about the father for politicizing his son's death, but the son was a hero.
You won’t win the court of public opinion by criticizing the Gold Star mom.
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that “Gold Star mom” should stick to hiding behind her burka and leave her dead son’s body alone...
So they defended his military service and sacrifice? Trump called him a hero. The implication from the title is that Trump attacked the son. He called the ass hat father to task for questioning his knowledge of the Constitution and that he sacrificed nothing.
Tweet about this Khan being a Clinton law firm employee and Clinton foundation lawyer .
Demand answers in when did the stooge start working for the Clinton machine !
1. Clinton Foundation associated Muslim lawyer attacks Trump at Democrat party convention.
2. Trump says Clinton Foundation associated Muslim lawyer is probably a nice guy, didn't hear from the mom who didn't say anything at the Democrat party convention.
3. Democrat party and the media (but I repeat myself) says Trump attacks dead Muslim soldier's parents.
4. Spineless GOP Beltway denizen chime in out of fear.
Trump gets attacked, is not supposed to respond? Bull crap. Maybe Trump will apologize after the Clinton Foundation associated Muslim lawyer apologizes to Trump for accusing him of not reading the Constitution.
REALLY?!?! Thanks.
I use my real name on the handle.
I’m a dead man lol.
REALLY shocked the Daily News and Gazette LIKED it and others.
The Daily News!
Oh goodness. Do you have a link?
This Muslim was killed 12 years ago...
How far back do the Democrats want to dig?
This is a paid man, and his wife is still grieving?
wonder if his wife even thinks of the FOUR AMERICAN MEN AND THEIR FAMILIES THAT WERE BUTCHERED AND MURDERED BY MUSLIMS JUST THREE PLUS YEARS AGO?
A MOTHER OF ONE OF THOSE MEN, WAS CALLED A LIAR BY HILLARY CLINTON..HOW DOES THAT MUSLIM WOMAN FEEL ABOUT THAT AMERICAN WOMAN, AND HER FAMILY?
ENOUGH OF THIS DEMOCRAT HATE..THEY ARE ALL EVIL...ESPECIALLY GRANNY BENGHAZI.
DONALD J. TRUMP WILL PUT AMERICA FIRST...NOT THE MIDDLE EAST.
A complete set up including all the schedules interviews with the usual dem media outlets .
Khan is a Dem party operative for years .
That figures and so typical.
CGato
Do we really know how devout this “Muslim” soldier really was?
‘You won’t win the court of public opinion by criticizing the Gold Star mom.’
I missed the part where Trump criticized the mother. Please elaborate.
NO ONE used a dead German-American soldier as a platform for allowing the immigration of German Nazis.
He’s mentioned that his BEST bud in congress is one Luis Gutierrez (LG), FLAMING LEFTIST DEMOCRAT from Illinois. You know, the home of Chicago and Cook County where, in addition to others, the elections of Kennedy and obozo were STOLEN by the Democrat machine!
Why is his closeness to Luis of interest? Their ratings by several outfits that do that sort of thing may be an indicator. The lower the score (on a scale from “0” to “100” at CU and from “A” to “F” at GRADEGOV) on the more radically leftist the member.
CONSERVATIVE UNION: RYAN 89/LG 4.45! (Yes, that’s 4.45!!!)
GRADEGOV.COM: RYAN “B+”/LG “F”
HERITAGE SCORE: RYAN (NOT AVAILABLE)/LG 19 (I assume when Ryan got the Speaker’s job, Heritage stopped rating him.)
UniParty is gonna go down defending a religion that is at war with the world. They are raiding Mosques in France and Germany. Trust but verify.
They took the bait. Talking about Trump all day long.
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