By Selwyn Duke

The big story coming out of the Democratic National Convention is speaker Khzir Khan (shown), the Pakistani-born lawyer whose son was killed by Muslim jihadists in Iraq in 2004 — and who now rails against the man who wants to keep Muslim jihadists out of America. That man, of course, is GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, and, in typical Trumpian style, he isn’t taking the criticism lying down.

Trump initially received condemnation for saying of Khan’s wife, Ghazala — who sat silently under a hijab while her husband spoke at the DNC — that perhaps “she wasn’t allowed to have anything to say.” Trump did take pains to mention that the Khan’s deceased son, Army Captain Humayun Kahn, was a “hero.” But this didn’t stop some Republicans from issuing condemnations, representative of which was South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham’s statement, "This is going to a place where we've never gone before, to push back against the families of the fallen.”

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