August 13, 2016

Will Mr. Khan Please Shut Up?

In case you weren’t watching the DNC convention — and if you weren’t, my compliments — you might have missed Khizr Muazzam Khan, father of a Muslim soldier who died fighting for the U.S. in 2004, giving Donald Trump what-for. In a moment that was obviously choreographed by someone connected to Hillary Clinton’s campaign, Mr. Khan pulled out a pocket-size copy of the U.S. Constitution and offered to lend it to Mr. Trump. In case you did miss it, every network and the NY Times has made certain you eventually got to see it or read all about it. Since the convention, Mr. Khan has been on TV more often than Matt Lauer, Jimmy Fallon and “I Love Lucy” reruns.

In case you weren’t watching the DNC convention — and if you weren’t, my compliments — you might have missed Khizr Muazzam Khan, father of a Muslim soldier who died fighting for the U.S. in 2004, giving Donald Trump what-for. In a moment that was obviously choreographed by someone connected to Hillary Clinton’s campaign, Mr. Khan pulled out a pocket-size copy of the U.S. Constitution and offered to lend it to Mr. Trump.

In case you did miss it, every network and the NY Times has made certain you eventually got to see it or read all about it. Since the convention, Mr. Khan has been on TV more often than Matt Lauer, Jimmy Fallon and “I Love Lucy” reruns.

What the Democrats didn’t want you to know about the Gold Star father is that he is an active member of the Muslim Brotherhood. His inspiration is said to be Said Ramadan, head of the Islamic Center in Geneva and a major icon of the jihadists, partly because he is the grandson of Hassam Al-Banna, the founder of the Brotherhood.

Apparently, Mr. Khan denounces any deviation from Sharia law, so perhaps it is actually he who should read the Constitution and not merely carry it around for special occasions.

None of this is meant to diminish the heroism of his son, who apparently died while protecting the men in his company. But do we know that Mr. Khan and his mother sent the young man off to serve with their blessing? Just because they are now basking in his reflected glory doesn’t mean they didn’t disown him as an infidel at the time.

It is fascinating to compare how the media dealt with the appearance of Mr. Khan at the DNC convention and Patricia Smith, mother of one of the Navy Seals who was killed in Benghazi, and a featured speaker in Cleveland.

When it comes to Khan, whom one of my readers, John in Montana, described as the male version of Cindy Sheehan, the leftwing media has seen to it that every one of his words is recorded and revered. For her part, Mrs. Smith might as well have stayed home. Those on social media who merely dismissed this grieving mother as a shill for the GOP were the kind ones. Others wished she were as dead as her son, Sean. So much for the lip service the Left pays to Gold Star parents.

Still, there was absolutely no reason for Donald Trump to engage the Khans in a brawl. For one thing, all that most people know or will ever know is that the Khans lost a son fighting for America. For another, when most people, including those who support you, regard you as a thin-skinned bully, it is not an image you really want to promote. The idea when you’re running for president is to present yourself as someone other people admire and would very much like to hold up to their kids as a role model.

I know that Trump wants to come off as a tough guy who never backs down from a fight and who never takes an insult lying down. He calls himself a counter-puncher, but I guess that’s what every bully says in his own defense. After all, Mrs. Kahn didn’t attack him. She didn’t pull a little copy of the Constitution out of her purse and challenge him to read it. All she did was stand next to her husband, so Trump felt called upon to insult her for remaining silent. Which provided her and her defenders the opportunity to explain that she is always sad and silent when thinking about her lost child.

You would have thought that by this time, Trump would have discovered that other people can also counter-punch and that a lot of them can do it far better than he.

Donald, if you insist on setting the little ball on a tee, you have to expect people to give it a whack.

It is just this sort of boorishness that makes people wonder if Trump is throwing the election. Surely it’s not the highly-paid Paul Manafort who is advising him to attack everyone in sight. No matter how much ammunition Hillary Clinton gives him, Donald seems to prefer taking pot shots at people like Susana Martinez, Paul Ryan, John McCain, Ted Cruz, John Kasich, the Khans and a whole bunch of Republican legislators he’s going to need on his side if he’s elected, unless, of course, he, like Obama, intends to rule by executive edict.

It leaves me wondering if there were other reasons besides the cost of doing business in New York that Trump donated so heavily to the political campaigns of reprobates like Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton.


For all the positive attention Mr. Khan has received as the father of a fallen warrior, nobody should assume that there are a lot of American Muslims in uniform. If there were, I guarantee Khan wouldn’t have been the only Gold Star Islamic the Democrats had on stage in Philadelphia. You notice they ran out all the mothers of the black thugs who’d been shot by cops in the line of duty.

On top of that, using one dead American soldier as justification for allowing thousands of Syrians into the country is as fatuous as an excuse can be. How big a lamebrain would you have to be to use young Mr. Khan’s service and sacrifice as a rationale for importing hordes of Islamists when we have seen the carnage their fellow Muslims have been responsible for in Paris, Brussels, Paris, Munich, San Bernardino and Orlando?

Just because Bush and Obama have spent the past 16 years insisting that Islam is a peaceful religion doesn’t make it so. The truth is that when a religion is actually peaceful, nobody even bothers mentioning it. After all, that’s what religions are supposed to be.

What’s more, when making a case for one religion, they don’t generally find it necessary to make a case for moral equivalency by going back several centuries to point out that Christianity and Judaism weren’t always so great. All that argument does is underscore the fact that Islam hasn’t advanced an inch since the Dark Ages.

Furthermore, as my wife pointed out, if the Khans had merely stayed where they were in the first place, their son might still be alive. I think all those Syrian refugees would do well to keep that in mind.


While Hillary Clinton picks up where Bernie Sanders left off promising a goodie bag of free stuff to young ignoramuses and demonizing the 1% who have all the money, people should have noticed that Mark Cuban, Michael Bloomberg, Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, George Soros, Goodman Sachs and the rest of the Wall Street vultures, have all signed up to follow wherever she leads.

If that same group of schmucks had lined up behind Trump, wouldn’t Hillary Clinton and the neutered media be pointing out that the GOP is so deep in the pocket of the money class, they’re coughing up lint?

Prior to the 2012 election, I mused that although America might be able to survive another four years of Obama, I wasn’t at all sure the nation could survive an electorate that would provide him with another four years. Four years later, I’m even less confident of a nation that, by and large, doesn’t seem the least bit concerned about a woman who — between Benghazi, trashing the women her degenerate husband assaulted, a private server that leaked state secrets to our enemies and a so-called Foundation whose sole function was to launder bribes paid to the Secretary of State — has to hire a fleet of U-Hauls to cart around her scandals.

As you all know, I am very much aware of Donald Trump’s faults. It pains me to agree with those who say that he is unfit by experience, intelligence and temperament, to be the Commander-in-chief. The problem, unfortunately, is that either he or Mrs. Clinton is going to wind up in the Oval Office. Either he or she is going to be responsible for getting us out of the economic quagmire that Obama has created through his absurd policies and by allowing the pointy-headed bureaucrats at the EPA to do everything in their power to destroy every American business, large and small, and to drive every farmer off his water-starved land.

The choice strikes me as self-evident inasmuch as only one of the two has vowed to continue Obama’s agenda, thus turning her first term into Obama’s third.

So while I agree that Donald Trump is, by most measures, unfit to reside in the White House, I have no doubt that Hillary Clinton is definitely unfitter.

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