Khizr Khan says Trump's answer to his speech is 'typical of a person without a soul'

Khizr Khan and his wife Ghazala at the Democratic National Convention

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last updated 1 August 2016

Answering Donald Trump's blustery response to his viral Democratic National Convention speech, Khizr Khan said late Saturday night that Trump's comments were "typical of a person without a soul."

The father of a Muslim U.S. soldier who was killed in Iraq, Khan specifically addressed Trump's suggested that his wife was silent on stage because she was not permitted to speak for religious reasons. His wife, Ghazala, Khan said, decided not to talk because she would be overcome with emotion remembering her son.

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.

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