Cannonball! Donald "Trump of Doom" enters the American political waters, causing a mass Exodus ... but can he really walk on water as his fervent and fervid disciples seem to believe?
The Donald Trump Bible, or The Gospel According to Trump, with Hashtags
Donald Trump is obviously a fan of God and the Bible, since he insists that the Bible is his favorite book―even better than the books he wrote Himself! However, Mr. Trump is a very busy man and simply doesn't have the time to read such an enormous tome! Nor can he be bothered with silly little things like confessing his sins and asking for forgiveness! So The Donald has decided to publish his own greatly condensed version of the Bible, the Trump Bible, which is also known as The Gospel According to Trump. The hashtags are #TrumpBible #TrumpBibleCode #666 #MarkOfTheBeast
Mr. Trump's favorite Bible verses are the ones that mention The Donald Himself, the fabled TRUMP OF DOOM ...
For instance, Isaiah 27:13―"It will come to pass in that day that a great TRUMP will be blown ..."
Another of Mr. Trump's favorite Bible verses is 1 Corinthians 14:8―"For if the TRUMP produces an indistinct sound, who will prepare himself for battle?"
The Trump Bible Code is 666. Incredibly, the high-rise tower at 666 Fifth Avenue South is owned by Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of Donald Trump and the husband of his daughter Ivanka Trump! When the Trump family bought the property at 666 Fifth Avenue, it was the highest price ever paid for an American building: $1.8 billion, which is 3*6=666! The building is unsurprisingly home to a number of ultra-high-priced law firms. The name Kushner means "furrier," or someone who provides luxurious garments to the rich, at the expense of the lives of poor animals. The name Trump means to "pull suit," to "outrank" and to "upstage." While Donald Trump pretends to "care" about American veterans, for more than a decade he has actually tried to prevent disabled veterans from coming anywhere close to his family's ritzy Fifth Avenue properties. Ask any disabled veteran who works as a street vendor about Donald Trump, and the truth will come out: The Donald cares nothing about veterans except keeping them away from his prestigious buildings. The Trumps have the gall to parade the "Mark of the Beast" on their signature property, while making damn sure the homeless and disabled veterans are kept far downwind.
But incredibly, that's not the end of the 666 connections. Jared Kushner is in the process of building a $666 million tower at One Journal Square! The height will be 666 feet! Are these coincidences, or is there a message being conveyed?
And there many more 666 connections to the Trump family, which you can investigate by clicking here: Donald Trump: 666 Mark of the Beast
The Bible says the anti-Christ will deceive the very elect. Who is endorsing Donald Trump for president? Jerry Fallwell Jr., Sarah Palin, and other evangelical heavyweights. Do any of these heavyweights in any way speak or act like Jesus Christ? No, they always do exactly the opposite of what Jesus said and did. Jesus said "blessed are the peacemakers" but they praise guns, violence and wars. Jesus embraced the poor, the sick and the needy, but they favor the super-rich, including themselves. Jesus had table fellowship with prostitutes and other outcasts of society. Trump, Palin and Falwell are self-righteous prigs who don't walk the walk themselves, but love to talk the talk as long as they can run down other people.
- Donald Trump says the Bible is "really great," like a great movie. Unfortunately, to date he has not managed to name a book or quote a verse correctly. But still, it's the thought that counts!
- Donald Trump does not seem to understand the difference between a Bible verse and a chapter, citing as his favorite "Proverbs, the chapter 'never bend to envy.'"
- There is not a chapter of Proverbs about envy, nor is there a verse about "never bending to envy." There is a verse in Proverbs about not being envious of evil men: Proverbs 24:1.
- Donald Trump says he has never bothered to ask God for forgiveness.
- Donald Trump "guesses" that when he drinks his "little wine" and eats his "little cracker," he is somehow forgiven and cleansed, even though he has made light of the body and blood of Jesus Christ!
- Donald Trump claims that he "is good" and therefore has a "great relationship" with God, even though the Bible says that no human being is good or righteous by his own works.
- Donald Trump did finally name a book, chapter and verse of the Bible, but unfortunately he failed to get it right, citing "Two Corinthians 3:17" rather than the correct "Second Corinthians 3:17"!
Donald Trump claims to have a "great relationship" with "the blacks," "the Hispanics," and God. But it turns out that The Donald is much more interested in Himself than he is in other people, or God Almighty ...
The highly condensed version of the Bible known as The Trump Bible and The Gospel According to Trump reads:
I, Donald Trump, am God.
Mere mortals must praise, worship, and adore Me as I do Myself.
Then all shall be Great, even also as I am Great.
In every way acknowledge Me, and I will direct your paths!
Amen.
The Gospel According to Trump concludes with the Trumpian version of the Beatitudes:
- Blessed are the rich, for they will always have young, hot, beautiful pieces of ass.
- Blessed are the warmongers, for they will be able to steal Iraqi oil to pay for their military adventurism.
- Blessed are the daft dodgers, for they can mock POWs for being captured and tortured.
- Blessed are the gunslingers, for everyone knows that Jesus Christ did not command Christians to turn the other cheek, but to stand their ground, shoot first, and ask questions later.
- Blessed are the arrogant who do not ask God for forgiveness, for they shall enjoy their little communion crackers and wine without remorse.
- Blessed are the carnival barkers and their houses of mirrors, for they shall be elected president by deceiving the very elect.
Is Donald Trump a Christian, as he claims? Have two people ever been less alike than Jesus Christ and Donald Trump? Do they have any values in common?
Comparison of Jesus Christ to Donald Trump
- Jesus said to turn the other cheek; Trump responds angrily to every perceived slight and calls himself the "most militaristic person on the planet."
- Jesus practiced humility; Trump is insufferably arrogant.
- Jesus stressed the need for love and compassion; Trump stresses the need for alpha male aggressiveness, power and domination.
- Jesus taught the Lord's Prayer in which forgiveness is both requested and given; Trump never asks God for forgiveness and he never forgives anyone else.
- Jesus and the apostles said that Christians should have compassion for prisoners and visit them; Trump says he doesn't like prisoners, even POWs like John McCain.
- Jesus said the meek are blessed; Trump claims it is a grievous sin to be meek.
- Jesus blessed the poor; Trump praises the rich and successful (i.e., Himself).
- Jesus said it is easier for a camel to pass through a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter heaven; Trump evidently thinks that anything bearing his name is heaven.
The Ten Commandments of Donald Trump
Worship Donald Trump as He worships Himself.
(Repeat ten times.)
Donald Trump Religious Jokes
- If Donald Trump gets elected, there'll be hell toupée. — Anonymous
- In an exclusive interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network Donald Trump said 'I believe in god.' But of course The Donald was talking about himself. ― Jay Leno
- Here’s the thing about Donald Trump: he never apologizes; he’s never wrong no matter what crazy thing he says. He’s the white Kanye. ― Bill Maher
- Today Donald Trump reaffirmed his stance against gay marriage. Trump said marriage is between a rich guy and his much younger third wife. ― Conan O'Brien
- Did evangelical Christians mistake Donald Trump's hairpiece for a halo, while ignoring the obvious signs that he worships Mammon? — Michael R. Burch
- Most American politicians believe in God, but Donald Trump believes that he is God. — Michael R. Burch
- Trump is never politically correct, but he is always correct (being infallible). — Michael R. Burch
Q: What is Donald Trump's favorite chapter of the Bible?
A: Chapter Eleven.
Reasons that Donald Trump Cannot be a Christian
Trump insulted God and the Christian faith by saying that he never asks God for forgiveness.
Trump then insulted the body and blood of Jesus Christ by saying: "When I drink my little wine—which is about the only wine I drink—and have my little cracker, I guess that is a form of asking for forgiveness."
If Trump believes in the sanctity of marriage, why does he brag about the "young and beautiful pieces of ass" he can seemingly acquire at will?
Why can't Trump quote a single Bible verse despite being a Christian, just as Sarah Palin couldn't name a single newspaper despite being a journalism major?
Donald Trump is definitely not a racist, bigot or chauvinist: he's just worlds better than everyone else.
For the first time in American history we will have many different beautiful and exotic First Ladies, since Trump frequently updates his "piece of ass" (as he so delicately puts it).
Donald Trump Bible Hashtags
"In the beginning, Trump created propaganda. And he saw that it was good, for the people believed everything he said." #TrumpBible
"In the beginning was the word Trump, and the word was yooge because he said it was yooge!" #TrumpBible
"I love God. He's a great guy. Made the world in 6 days. That's YUUUUUUUGE. I would have used more marble but he did a nice job." #TrumpBible
"Lot's wife? What a loser! I would never look back when leaving a failing property, like my casinos in Atlantic City." #TrumpBible
"Lot was a loser too! He failed to provide entertainment to guests who just wanted to party and have good time." #TrumpBible
"And forgive us our debts, as we rip off out creditors, then make fun of them for being stupid enough to lend to us!" #TrumpBible
"Jesus wept. I like saviors who don't weep." #TrumpBible
"Saint Paul was no hero. I like evangelists who don't get thrown into jail and palace dungeons. I would have had Nero eating out of my hand!" #TrumpBible
"Unfortunately, Mary was not a ten. Joseph should have dumped her for Salome. What a beautiful piece of ass!" #TrumpBible
"Jesus completely blew it when he turned down the Devil's offer. He should have read 'The Art of the Deal.' I would have won so yooge!" #TrumpBible
"Jesus blew it in the desert. I, on the other hand, am absolutely killing it in Vegas!" #TrumpBible
"Jesus was incompetent, blew it by hiring Judas. I would have told him "You're fired!" #TrumpBible
"Turn the other cheek? The only time I turn the other cheek is when a beautiful piece of ass is kissing mine!" #TrumpBible
"Blessed are the poor in spirit? What losers! I am really, really rich!" #TrumpBible
"Joseph and Mary rode a donkey into a foreign town to have a baby in a manger? They sound like illegals to me! #TrumpBible, #AnchorBaby #BuildAWall
"Mary and Joseph were illegal immigrants. Jesus was an anchor baby. Herod was incompetent! I would have built a great, great wall around Bethlehem!" #TrumpBible
"I will do such great things for Israel, there will be no more wailing at the Wailing Wall! It will be a great, great wall when I'm done with it!" #TrumpBible
"Samaria sends us their murderers, their rapists, and some, I assume, are good Samaritans." #TrumpBible
"If I was Jesus, I would have made amazing deals with those moneychangers in the temple. Why waste such a yooge opportunity?" #TrumpBible
"Render unto Ceasar's Palace the things that are Ceasar's, and render unto Trump the things that are Trumped." #TrumpBible
"I would have rebuilt the walls of Jericho and made the Canaanites pay for it!" #TrumpBible
"You’ve heard it said, 'An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth,' but I say unto you, that's lousy negotiating. Why break even?" #TrumpBible
"Great flood, total disaster. Totally mismanaged by Noah, not a smart guy, total loser, couldn't even save the dinosaurs." #TrumpBible
"Blessed are the 'piece' makers (the parents who create 'beautiful pieces of ass' for Trump to bang." #TrumpBible
"This Moses guy wanders 40 years, never even makes it into the land of Canaan. There's a name for guys like that: Loser!" #TrumpBible
Top Ten Donald Trump Puns
- If Donald Trump gets elected, there'll be hell toupée. — Anonymous
- When Trump is elected we will all have toupée the price. — Ryan Bourassa
- Teddy Roosevelt spoke softly and carried a big stick; Donald Trump speaks loudly and carries a big shtick. — Michael R. Burch
- The Donald trumpets that the news is "all Trump, all the time." That's true, but only because catastrophes invariably dominate the headlines. — Michael R. Burch
- Donald Trump piñatas are a "hit" in Mexico. — Jacob Davidson
- He's gonna make America grapes again! — SNL's Drunk Uncle (perhaps punning on "the grapes of wrath" and/or "sour grapes")
- Americans have been mishearing The Donald: what he actually said is that he will make America grate again, after which many of them will migrate again. ― Michael R. Burch
- I'm not going to name any names, but let's just say, I want to do jokes on Donald Trump so badly, and I have no venue. So right now, I'm just dry Trumping. ― Stephen Colbert
- Trump has Republicans Whig-ing out. — Chris Ladd (the Whig party catered to white supremacists known as "know-nothings" and disintegrated as a result)
- These are clearly the end times, and now we know why the prophets spoke of the Trump of Doom. — Michael R. Burch
Donald Trump: 666 Mark of the Beast
Okay, this is going to sound crazy, but I swear I'm not making it up. The Trump family owns the most expensive building in the United Sates, at 666 Fifth Avenue, a street that symbolizes money (Mammon). Seriously. And the Trumps are in the process of building another building at One Journal Square that will be 666 feet tall, and cost $666 million dollars. No, I am not pulling your leg! The Bible says that in the last days the anti-Christ will deceive even the very elect. Who just endorsed Donald Trump? Evangelical heavyweights like Sarah Palin, Franklin Graham and Jerry Falwell Jr. Again, I am not making this s**t up, please pardon my French. This is really happening. The facts are presented here: Donald Trump: 666 Mark of the Beast. Does it bother you that Donald Trump sounds like the second coming of Adolph Hitler? Does it strike you as odd that evangelical Christians are ecstatically supporting a man who is the complete and utter antithesis of Jesus Christ? Why did the Hebrew prophets warn us about the Trump of Doom? There are not one or two or three connections between the Trumps and the number 666. There are many connections. If you click the hyperlink and read the article, you are free to draw your own conclusions.
The Guardian
- Donald Trump has 'black soul', says Khizr Khan, father of fallen Muslim US soldier
- Khizr Khan says in searing statement GOP nominee incapable of empathy
- Clinton: Trump offered ‘nothing but insults and degrading comments’
- Trump attacks Muslim father’s Democratic convention speech
- Fallen soldier’s father to Trump: ‘Have you even read the constitution?’
Jon Swaine in New York and Lauren Gambino in Cleveland Heights
Monday 1 August 2016 07.22 BST
The parents of a Muslim American soldier killed in Iraq said on Sunday Donald Trump was a “black soul” unfit for the White House, after he insulted them and suggested he had made sacrifices for the US comparable to their son’s.
Amid widespread astonishment at the conduct of the Republican presidential nominee, the family of the 27-year-old army captain Humayun Khan, who died in a suicide bombing in 2004, said Trump was morally deficient and incapable of empathy.
“He is totally unfit for the leadership of this beautiful country,” said Khizr Khan, Humayun’s father.
Hillary Clinton, Trump’s opponent in November’s election, spoke later on Sunday at a predominantly African American church in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Trump, she said, had offered the Khan family “nothing but insults, degrading comments about Muslims, a total misunderstanding of what made our country great”.
Trump’s running mate, Mike Pence, sought to repair some of the damage by releasing a statement on Sunday night.
“Donald Trump and I believe that Captain Humayun Khan is an American hero and his family, like all Gold Star families, should be cherished by every American,” it said.
But it included a swipe at the “disastrous decisions of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton” that had led to “a once stable Middle East” being overrun by Islamic State.
“This must not stand,” the statement said. “By suspending immigration from countries that have been compromised by terrorism, rebuilding our military, defeating ISIS at its source and projecting strength on the global stage, we will reduce the likelihood that other American families will face the enduring heartbreak of the Khan family.
“Donald Trump will support our military and their families and we will defeat the enemies of our freedom.”
Khan also pleaded with Senator Mitch McConnell and the House speaker, Paul Ryan, the Republican leaders in Congress, to denounce Trump’s comments about his family and his attacks on Muslims. Neither McConnell nor Ryan responded with explicit criticism of Trump’s remarks about the Khans.
In a statement released on Sunday, McConnell said “Captain Khan was an American hero” and said he agreed “with the Kahns [sic] and families across the country” that a ban on Muslim immigration would be “contrary to American values”.
Ryan issued a statement that covered similar sentiments and said Captain Khan’s “sacrifice – and that of Khizr and Ghazala Khan – should always be honored. Period.”
Khan urged Trump’s children to intervene and fix his character after Trump mocked Khan’s wife and appeared to suggest she was blocked from paying tribute to her dead son at last week’s Democratic national convention because of her religion.
His wife, Ghazala, dismissed Trump’s insinuation and reiterated that she had been too upset to talk after seeing a picture of her son displayed on the stage. “What mother could?” she asked in an article written for the Washington Post. “Donald Trump has children whom he loves. Does he really need to wonder why I did not speak?”
She also rejected Trump’s claim that employing people in his property company and overseeing the building of “great structures” amounted to a sacrifice for his country. “Donald Trump said he has made a lot of sacrifices,” she wrote. “He doesn’t know what the word sacrifice means.”
The Khans were as roundly supported as Trump was condemned, after the Republican nominee criticised Ghazala Khan for standing silently beside her husband while he delivered his moving speech about their son and Trump’s attacks on Muslims to the Democratic gathering in Philadelphia on Thursday evening.
“His wife, if you look at his wife, she was standing there,” Trump told ABC’s This Week. “She had nothing to say. She probably … maybe she wasn’t allowed to have anything to say. You tell me. But plenty of people have written that. She was extremely quiet. And it looked like she had nothing to say.”
Khizr Khan told CNN’s State of the Union Trump was “totally incapable of empathy”, adding: “I want his family to counsel him. Teach him some empathy. He will be a better person, but he is a black soul.”
Reiterating his wife’s explanation that she was too overcome by grief to say anything at the event as planned, Khizr Khan expressed disbelief that Trump still “had to take that shot at her”. His wife also has high blood pressure and felt so unsteady she worried she might fall offstage, he said.
“She said, ‘You know my condition – when I see my son’s picture I cannot hold myself together,’” said Khan, becoming tearful. “This country holds such a person in the highest regard, and he has no knowledge, no awareness. That is the height of his ignorance.”
In her article on Sunday, Ghazala Khan wrote: “I cannot walk into a room with pictures of Humayun ... Walking on to the convention stage, with a huge picture of my son behind me, I could hardly control myself.”
Khizr Khan said Trump lacked both the moral compass and sense of empathy necessary for any president. “This candidate is void of both traits that are necessary for the stewardship of this country,” he said.
There’s only one way to talk about Gold Star parents: with honor and respect. Capt. Khan is a hero.
Ohio governor John Kasich
Trump was sharply criticised by Clinton; Tim Kaine, her running mate; and Bill Clinton, the 42nd US president. Bill Clinton said: “I cannot conceive how you can say that about a Gold Star mother,” referring to the award given by the military to mark a death in combat.
On Sunday at Imani Temple Ministries in Cleveland Heights, Clinton said: “[Khizr Khan] and his wife stood before our country to tell the story of their son, Capt Khan, who lost his life running toward danger to protect his soldiers. Mr Khan paid the ultimate sacrifice in his family, didn’t he?
“And what has he heard from Donald Trump? Nothing but insults, degrading comments about Muslims, a total misunderstanding of what made our country great: religious freedom and religious liberty. It’s enshrined in our constitution, as Mr Khan knows because he’s actually read it.”
Clinton added: “I don’t begrudge anyone of any other faith or of no faith at all, but I do tremble before those who would scapegoat other Americans, who would insult people because of their religion, their ethnicity, their disability. It’s just not how I was raised. It’s not how I was taught in my church.”
Later, on the campaign trail, she told reporters: “It’s hard to imagine anyone who has ever run to be president of the United States saying any of what [Trump has] said. And the accumulation of it all is just beyond my comprehension.”
Trump also faced criticism from Republicans. Ohio governor John Kasich said on Twitter: “There’s only one way to talk about Gold Star parents: with honor and respect. Capt. Khan is a hero. Together, we should pray for his family.”
Khizr Khan said on Sunday that he and his wife had been inundated with support, including from “distinguished Republicans” who “have seen the blackness of [Trump’s] character”.
Ignoring calls from some conservative commentators to cease hostilities with the Khans, Trump again insisted on having the final word. “I was viciously attacked by Mr Khan at the Democratic Convention,” he said on Twitter. “Am I not allowed to respond?”
Trump was also ridiculed for disputing Khan’s comment in his speech that Trump had “sacrificed nothing and no one” while disparaging Muslims including those, like his son, who had died for their country.
“I think I have made a lot of sacrifices,” Trump told ABC. “I’ve worked very, very hard. I’ve created thousands and thousands of jobs, tens of thousands of jobs, built great structures ... I’ve had tremendous success.”
Asked whether he was seriously stating that this amounted to sacrifice, Trump replied: “Oh, sure. I think they’re sacrifices.”
Trump, who avoided the draft for the Vietnam war with a medical exemption for an apparent bone spur in a foot – he has been unable to remember which one – once said that avoiding sexually transmitted diseases had been his “personal Vietnam”.
After Trump’s remarks were first published in advance of their broadcast on Sunday, the candidate issued a statement declaring: “While I feel deeply for the loss of his son, Mr Khan who has never met me, has no right to stand in front of millions of people and claim I have never read the constitution, (which is false) and say many other inaccurate things.”
The dispute over the memory of Humayun Khan was also picked up by the Islamic State terrorist group. The group’s online magazine featured a picture of Khan’s tombstone in Arlington national cemetery in Virginia with the caption: “Beware of Dying as an apostate.”
The first two opinion polls taken after the end of last week’s Democratic convention indicated that Hillary Clinton had received a “bounce” in her ratings and had retaken a lead against Trump. Her national support stands at 44.5% against 43.4% for Trump, according to an average of polls by RealClearPolitics.
Late on Sunday, after McConnell and Ryan had failed to rebuke Trump over his attacks on the Khan family, Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid released a statement of his own.
“This shouldn’t be hard,” he said. “Donald Trump is a sexist and racist man who insults Gold Star parents, stokes fear of Muslims and sows hatred of Latinos. He should not be president and Republican leaders have a moral responsibility to say so.”
US Magazine
POLITICS
Ann Coulter Faces Backlash for Calling DNC Speaker Khizr Khan ‘an Angry Muslim With a Thick Accent’
July 29, 2016 @ 3:14 PM
By Joyce Chen
Ann Coulter speaks during an address to the 39th Conservative Political Action Committee February 10, 2012 in Washington, DC. Credit: MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images
Ann Coulter caused an outcry on Thursday, July 28, after she tweeted an insulting message about Khizr Khan, the father of Muslim U.S. war hero Captain Humayun Khan, as he spoke at the Democratic National Convention.
“Hillary Clinton was right when she called my son the best of America,” Khan said, attacking Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. “If it was up to Donald Trump, he never would have been in America. Donald Trump consistently smears the character of Muslims. He disrespects other minorities, women, judges and even his own party leadership. Donald Trump loves to build walls and ban us from this country.”
Then, addressing Trump directly, Khan demanded, “Let me ask you, have you even read the U.S. Constitution? I will gladly lend you my copy. … You have sacrificed nothing!”
Coulter took Khan’s speech as a cue to add her two cents to the conversation. The controversial 54-year-old commentator didn’t waste any time composing a series of tweets insulting Hillary Clinton, Khan and Muslims as Khan continued his moving speech about his son, who died while saving 10 of his fellow soldiers in Iraq in 2004.
The Guardian
Donald Trump
Opinion
The world saw a grieving mother. Donald Trump saw a Muslim
Amana Fontanella-Khan
Contact author
@Amanafk
Monday 1 August 2016 10.14 BST
Ghazala Khan’s silence at the Democratic convention reflected her anguish, but the would-be president painted her as different from other Americans
There are many sinister things in the world. But a mother’s grief isn’t one of them. Yet Donald Trump sees dark undercurrents everywhere – including in the silent homage Ghazala Khan, the mother of the fallen soldier Humayun Khan, paid to her son.
“If you look at his wife, she was standing there,” he said, referring to her appearance at the Democratic national convention, in which she stood alongside her husband as he delivered a searing critique of Donald Trump. “She had nothing to say … Maybe she wasn’t allowed to have anything to say. You tell me.”
It shouldn’t be hard to recognize something as universal as grief. Our hearts all break in similar ways, no matter our creed or color. Ms Khan said: “When I was standing there, all of America felt my pain, without a single word. I don’t know how he missed that.” Well, he did because he was blinded by prejudice. Where everyone else saw a mother, Trump saw a Muslim – a faith group Trump wants to ban from entering the United States.
Scrutinizing the silence of a grieving mother is an unusual move for a would-be president
Had he not been so fixated on her difference – the salwaar kameez she wore, the dupatta scarf draped over her head – he might have interpreted her silence in a different way. Perhaps the loss of her son had robbed her of words. Or maybe she feared she might break down on the national stage if she uttered his name. But that’s not how Trump reasoned. Instead, he suggested that she, a Muslim woman, hadn’t been allowed to talk.
Ghazala Khan swiftly corrected him. “I cannot walk into a room with pictures of Humayun … Walking on to the convention stage, with a huge picture of my son behind me, I could hardly control myself. What mother could? Donald Trump has children whom he loves. Does he really need to wonder why I did not speak?”
Scrutinizing the silence of a grieving mother is an unusual move for a would-be president. So is the conspiratorial suggestion that she might have been silenced. But it fits Trump’s playbook. He deliberately paints minorities, especially Muslims, as being fundamentally different from other Americans. He questions everything about them. Even their grief.
It is politically convenient to do so in the case of the Khan family. Ghazala and her husband, Khizr Khan, have emerged as powerful critics of Donald Trump. In Khizr Khan’s speech, he said “Hillary Clinton was right when she called my son ‘the best of America’. If it was up to Donald Trump, he never would have been in America.”
After famously waving his copy of the US constitution, asking if Trump had ever read it, Khan reminded Trump that his son laid down his life for his country. “You have sacrificed nothing and no one.”
It makes sense for Trump to disarm these outspoken adversaries in the way he knows best: painting them as inherently foreign and un-American. But in the process, he risks turning into the “foreign” one himself. He has strayed far from societal norms, further than many feel comfortable with.
America, like much of the western world, is going through a tumultuous time. Political discourse is coarsening. Fears are heightened. People are on edge. But that which makes us human – such the ability to feel empathy – has not vanished. Ghazala Khan believes that too, asserting: “All of America felt my pain.”
If she is right, then Trump might just find himself alone in this bizarre battle against a broken-hearted mother and father.
The Washington Post
Opinions
Ghazala Khan: Trump criticized my silence. He knows nothing about true sacrifice.
By Ghazala Khan July 31
CHARLOTTESVILLE
Donald Trump has asked why I did not speak at the Democratic convention. He said he would like to hear from me. Here is my answer to Donald Trump: 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.
Donald Trump said I had nothing to say. I do. My son Humayun Khan, an Army captain, died 12 years ago in Iraq. He loved America, where we moved when he was 2 years old. He had volunteered to help his country, signing up for the ROTC at the University of Virginia. This was before the attack of Sept. 11, 2001. He didn’t have to do this, but he wanted to.
When Humayun was sent to Iraq, my husband and I worried about his safety. I had already been through one war, in Pakistan in 1965, when I was just a high school student. So I was very scared. You can sacrifice yourself, but you cannot take it that your kids will do this.
'You have sacrificed nothing': Father of fallen Muslim soldier to Trump Play Video7:07
Humayun Khan was an American Muslim Army soldier who died serving the U.S. after 9/11. His father, Khizr Khan, spoke at the Democratic National Convention and offered a strong rebuke of Donald Trump, saying, "Have you even read the United States Constitution?" (Video: Victoria Walker/The Washington Post;Photo: Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post)
We asked if there was some way he could not go, because he had already done his service. He said it was his duty. I cannot forget when he was going to the plane, and he looked back at me. He was happy, and giving me strength: “Don’t worry, Mom. Everything will be all right.”
The last time I spoke to my son was on Mother’s Day 2004. We had asked him to call us collect whenever he could. I begged him to be safe. I asked him to stay back, and not to go running around trying to become a hero, because I knew he would do something like that.
He said, “Mom, these are my soldiers, these are my people. I have to take care of them.” He was killed by a car bomber outside the gates of his base. He died trying to save his soldiers and innocent civilians.
That is my son. Humayun was always dependable. If I was vacuuming the house and he was home, he would take the vacuum from my hand and clean the house. He volunteered to teach disabled children in the hospital how to swim. He said, “I love when they have a little bit of progress and their faces, they light up. At least they are that much happy.” He wanted to be a lawyer, like his father, to help people.
Humayun is my middle son, and the others are doing so well, but every day I feel the pain of his loss. It has been 12 years, but you know hearts of pain can never heal as long as we live. Just talking about it is hard for me all the time. Every day, whenever I pray, I have to pray for him, and I cry. The place that emptied will always be empty.
I cannot walk into a room with pictures of Humayun. For all these years, I haven’t been able to clean the closet where his things are — I had to ask my daughter-in-law to do it. Walking onto the convention stage, with a huge picture of my son behind me, I could hardly control myself. What mother could? Donald Trump has children whom he loves. Does he really need to wonder why I did not speak?
Donald Trump said that maybe I wasn’t allowed to say anything. That is not true. My husband asked me if I wanted to speak, but I told him I could not. My religion teaches me that all human beings are equal in God’s eyes. Husband and wife are part of each other; you should love and respect each other so you can take care of the family.
When Donald Trump is talking about Islam, he is ignorant. If he studied the real Islam and Koran, all the ideas he gets from terrorists would change, because terrorism is a different religion.
Donald Trump said he has made a lot of sacrifices. He doesn’t know what the word sacrifice means.
On this day in 1834 slavery is abolished in the British Empire as the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into force.
In 1772, Lord Mansfield's judgement in Somersett's Case emancipated a slave in England, which helped launch the movement to abolish slavery.[1] The case ruled that slavery was unsupported by law in England and no authority could be exercised on slaves entering English or Scottish soil.[2] In 1785, English poet William Cowper wrote:
We have no slaves at home – Then why abroad?
Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs
Receive our air, that moment they are free.
They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud.
And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then,
And let it circulate through every vein.[3]
By 1783, an anti-slavery movement to abolish the slave trade throughout the Empire had begun among the British public. In 1793 Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada John Graves Simcoe signed the Act Against Slavery. Passed by the local Legislative Assembly, it was the first legislation to outlaw the slave trade in a part of the British Empire.[citation needed]
In 1808, Parliament passed the Slave Trade Act of 1807, which outlawed the slave trade, but not slavery itself. The Royal Navy established the West Africa Squadron to suppress the Atlantic slave trade by patrolling the coast of West Africa. It did suppress the slave trade, but did not stop it entirely. Between 1808 and 1860, the West Africa Squadron captured 1,600 slave ships and freed 150,000 Africans.[4] They resettled many in Jamaica and the Bahamas.[5][6] Britain also used its influence to coerce other countries to agree treaties to end their slave trade and allow the Royal Navy to seize their slave ships.[7][8]
In 1823, the Anti-Slavery Society was founded in London. Members included Joseph Sturge, Thomas Clarkson, William Wilberforce, Henry Brougham, Thomas Fowell Buxton, Elizabeth Heyrick, Mary Lloyd, Jane Smeal, Elizabeth Pease, and Anne Knight.[9] William Wilberforce had prior written in his diary in 1787 that his great purpose in life was to suppress the slave trade before waging a 20-year fight on the industry.[10]
During the Christmas holiday of 1831, a large-scale slave revolt in Jamaica, known as the Baptist War, broke out. It was organised originally as a peaceful strike by the Baptist minister Samuel Sharpe. The rebellion was suppressed by the militia of the Jamaican plantocracy and the British garrison ten days later in early 1832. Because of the loss of property and life in the 1831 rebellion, the British Parliament held two inquiries. The results of these inquiries contributed greatly to the abolition of slavery with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.[citation needed]
A successor organisation to the Anti-Slavery Society was formed in London in 1839, the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, which worked to outlaw slavery worldwide.[11] The world's oldest international human rights organisation, it continues today as Anti-Slavery International.
- Peter P. Inks, John R. Michigan, R. Owen Williams (2007) Encyclopedia of antislavery and abolition', p. 643. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007 ' ' Blumrosen, Alfred W. and Ruth G., Slave Nation: How Slavery United the Colonies and Sparked the American Revolution, Sourcebooks, 2005
- (1827) 2 Hag Adm 94.
- Rhodes, Nick (2003). William Cowper: Selected Poems. p.84. Routledge, 2003
- http://www.history.ac.uk/1807commemorated/exhibitions/museums/chasing.html
- "Chasing Freedom Information Sheet". Royal Naval Museum. Retrieved 2007-04-02.
- "Chasing Freedom Exhibition: the Royal Navy and the Suppression of the Transatlantic Slave Trade". Retrieved 2009-09-25.
- Falola, Toyin; Warnock, Amanda (2007). Encyclopedia of the middle passage. Greenwood Press. pp. xxi, xxxiii–xxxiv. ISBN 9780313334801.
- "The legal and diplomatic background to the seizure of foreign vessels by the Royal Navy".
- Slavery and abolition. Oxford University Press
- William Wilberforce: A Man for All Seasons. CBN
- Sharman, Anne-Marie (1993), ed., Anti-Slavery Reporter vol 13 no 8. P. 35, London: Anti-Slavery International
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