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发帖数: 6571 | 1 Khan-flict: Freedom Fighter Son, Sharia Supremacist Father
By Andrew G. Bostom August 2, 2016
Army Capt. Humayun Khan was killed in action during an extended tour in Iraq
. Deployed at Baquabah, Khan served in a force protection role and oversaw a
unit securing and maintaining his base.
On June 8, 2004, Khan died after ordering his soldiers to stay back, and “
hit the dirt,” when he approached a suspicious taxi. While Khan was moving
towards the vehicle and motioning for it to stop, two men in the taxi
detonated their explosives, killing themselves, Khan, and two Iraqi soldiers
. Because of his heroic sacrifice, none of Khan’s soldiers were killed in
the blast.
When Khan was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery, he received full
military honors at the burial, and his commanding officer observed in a
letter:
He died selflessly and courageously, tackling the enemy head on. We will
not forget him and the noble ideas he stood for.
Simply put, Humayun Khan died defending the uniquely Western conceptions of
freedom articulated in the U.S. Constitution, and Bill of Rights.
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All Americans must acknowledge and honor the Khan family's grief as parents
of a heroic soldier killed in action. Their anguished perspective requires
special deference. But we should also take seriously the assertions made by
Khizr Khan, Humayun’s father, and a lawyer, about the Constitution, at the
Democratic National Convention (DNC), which are contradicted by his own
earlier published opinions.
Many Americans have their own copies of the Constitution (readers can get
your own pocket Constitution here, for free, via Hillsdale College), and
they know that Khizr Khan egregiously misrepresented what our founding
document states regarding immigration in the 14th Amendment, as discussed
recently by Byron York.
It was no doubt unintentional on Khizr Khan’s part that he appeared to
attack the large majority of ordinary Americans who are concerned about the
DNC's support for admitting immigrants into the U.S. without background
checks -- even from countries with known risks for harboring jihad
terrorists (i.e., like Syria). As a prime example, adequate databases for
vetting Syrian Muslim refugees don’t exist.
Americans want to disagree without being disagreeable, and being hectored
that we have "black souls" or lack compassion. We can have genuine, deep
sympathy for the Khan family's loss, and still disagree with Khizr Khan's
misrepresentation of the Constitution.
With all due respect for his deprivation, we must review Mr. Khan's
published articles asserting the supremacy of Sharia over other politico-
legal systems. His opinions are antithetical to the principles in the
Constitution that he waved at Americans during his DNC convention address,
and that his own son died fighting to preserve.
https://pjmedia.com/blog/khan-flict-freedom-fighter-son-sharia-supremacist-
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