Source: RNS
Aysha Khan is the social media editor for RNS. She also reports on Muslim issues from Washington, D.C
(RNS) When Donald Trump disparaged the parents of fallen soldier Army Capt. Humayun Khan, he didn’t just pick a fight with the Khans. He now faces the ire of hundreds of Muslim American women.
It started when Trump responded to the Khans’ appearance at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday (July 28).
During that appearance, Humayun Khan’s mother, Ghazala Khan, stood beside her husband silently as he criticized Trump. In an interview with ABC News, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump suggested Ghazala Khan was not permitted to speak because of her religion.
“If you look at his wife, she was standing there,” said Trump. “She had nothing to say…maybe she wasn’t allowed to have anything to say. You tell me.”
Khan said she declined to speak because she was emotional over the loss of her son, who died in 2004 in Iraq.
“Because without saying a thing, all the world, all America, felt my pain. I am a Gold Star mother. Whoever saw me felt me in their heart,” she wrote in the Washington Post. “Walking onto the convention stage, with a huge picture of my son behind me, I could hardly control myself. What mother could?”
Now, Muslim women around the country — lawyers, entrepreneurs, teachers, activists, artists, mothers and students — have joined on social media to address Trump’s comments, as well as the popular notion that Islam oppresses women.
Using the hashtag #CanYouHearUsNow, Muslim women clapped back at Trump by showing how loud their voices are and have been.
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The Council on American-Islamic Relations has pushed the campaign as well, calling on Muslim women to join the Twitter storm by “demanding that Trump apologize for disparaging Ghazala Khan” and “sharing the various ways they speak out every day.”
“As the leader of America’s largest Muslim civil rights organization, I urge Donald Trump to apologize for his shameful remarks disparaging a Muslim Gold Star family and for his repeated use and promotion of anti-Muslim stereotypes,” CAIR board chair Roula Allouch said in a statement. “Just as Donald Trump must apologize for his un-American remarks, Republican Party leaders must finally repudiate their candidate’s divisive rhetoric.”
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