Father of slain U.S. Muslim soldier says Trump has “a dark heart”

Khizr Khan, the father of an American Muslim soldier slain in Iraq, said Sunday that Donald Trump has “a dark heart,” in response to the Republican presidential candidate’s controversial comeback to the speech he gave last Thursday at the Democratic National Convention.

“He has a dark heart...he is not suitable, not fit, even for the candidacy of the stewardship that he is seeking,” said Khan, an attorney and Pakistani immigrant to the U.S. in a statement on CNN’s “State of the Union” program.

The soldier’s father was reacting to Trump’s remarks about his speech to the Democratic National Convention this week in Philadelphia, at which Hillary Clinton was officially nominated that party’s candidate for the White House.

In his speech, Khan, accompanied by his wife Ghazala, slammed Trump for his idea of temporarily banning Muslims from entering the United States to deal with the threat of jihadist terrorism.

Trump has “sacrificed nothing and no one,” Khan, whose son Humayun, a captain in the U.S. Army, died in a carbomb attack in 2004 in Iraq, said at the convention,

In an interview that aired Saturday on the ABC network, Trump answered back that he has made “a lot of sacrifices” and asked if “Hillary’s script writers” wrote Khan’s speech.

The magnate also suggested that perhaps his wife didn’t speak together with her husband because she probably “wasn’t allowed to,” an apparent reference to her condition as a Muslim woman.

“If you look at his wife, she was standing there. She had nothing to say. She probably, maybe she wasn’t allowed to have anything to say,” Trump said.

Khan’s wife Ghazala said Friday during an interview on the MSNBC network that she didn’t speak because the death of her son still hurts her deeply and she can’t help being overcome be emotion when she sees his photo.

Khan said on CNN that the fact that Trump has no respect for a Gold Star mother “is insulting, foolish and ignorant.”

“Running for president is not an entitlement to disrespect Gold Star families and (a) Gold Star mother, not realizing her pain,” the Muslim attorney told ABC News.