Slain Pakistani-American soldier’s father to tell children’s book
Gold-Star father Khizr Khan, father of US Army Captain Humayun Khan who was killed in 2004 in Iraq, puts his palm to his heart as he takes partial in a contention row on a Muslim and interloper anathema in a U.S. Capitol in Washington Feb 2, 2017. PHOTO: REUTERS
NEW YORK: The Pakistani American father of a infantryman killed in Iraq who eviscerated Donald Trump during final year’s choosing debate will tell a children’s book about a Constitution in November, his publishers announced.
Harvard-educated counsel Khizr Khan shot to celebrity in a United States for delivering a ban complaint of Trump during a Democratic National Convention, accusing him of sacrificing zero for a nation and stressing a significance of an thorough America.
Trump strike behind hard, observant Khan had “viciously attacked” him and refused to apologize for suggesting that Khan’s mother Ghazala had stood silently during his side since she was not authorised to speak, triggering conflict within his party.
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“This Is Our Constitution” will be a non-fiction hardcover suitable for children aged 10 and over and be expelled concurrently with Khan’s adult memoir, “An American Family,” on Nov 14, Random House Children’s Books pronounced Thursday.
Khan grew adult in Pakistan, before immigrating with his mother to a United States in 1980. Their son, Captain Humayun Khan, was killed in Iraq in 2004 and posthumously awarded a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star.
He delivered one of a many noted speeches of a Democratic convention, in that he respected his son’s sacrifice, indicted Trump of staining a impression of Muslims and questioned either a Republican claimant had even review a Constitution.
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His publishers pronounced a book would deliver immature readers to a story and essence of a Constitution and Bill of Rights, and because they are important.
“This book is my common bid to compensate reverence to a destiny leaders, a loyal custodians of a Constitution, and to all of a tellurian dignities enshrined in a Bill of Rights, as a creation of a commonwealth continues,” Khan said.
Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers acquired universe rights for a book, pronounced Barbara Marcus, President and Publisher of Random House Children’s Books.
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