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uawchild

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Wed Aug 3, 2016, 05:21 PM Aug 2016

Muslim families of fallen U.S. soldiers driven to oppose Trump

Source: Reuters

Nazar Naqvi has faithfully voted Republican for more than three decades. After Donald Trump's feud with Muslim parents who lost a son in battle for the United States, he has vowed not a single Republican will get his vote.

Naqvi, 69, a retired U.S. government engineer from Newburgh, New York, is a member of a small community of Muslims who are among America's Gold Star families, those whose loved ones were killed while serving in the U.S. military.

His son Mohsin Naqvi, who was born in Pakistan, enlisted in the U.S. Army four days after Sept. 11, 2001, and was killed in 2008 by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan.

Trump lashed out at Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the Pakistani American parents of slain U.S. Army Captain Humayun Khan, after they appeared at last week's Democratic convention in Philadelphia to criticize the Republican presidential hopeful for proposing a temporary ban on Muslims entering the country.

"I'm going to vote for anyone but Republicans because of this one person, this man who has gone out of his mind," Naqvi said this week. "Not any office should get our vote. He has been nominated not by one person - the Republican Party nominated him."

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-goldstar-muslim-idUSKCN10E1NS

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Muslim families of fallen U.S. soldiers driven to oppose Trump (Original Post) uawchild Aug 2016 OP
The statement . . . "He was not nominated by one person - the Republican Party nominated him" Liberal In Red State Aug 2016 #1
I would think any Muslin family would. demosincebirth Aug 2016 #2
I would think any Muslin family would. demosincebirth Aug 2016 #3
1. The statement . . . "He was not nominated by one person - the Republican Party nominated him"
Wed Aug 3, 2016, 05:36 PM
Aug 2016

Says it all! Take the party down this election! If people think we are piling on . . . I certainly hope so!

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