Cenk Uygur
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Trump Advisor Smears Muslim War Hero As Terrorist Double Agent
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August 2, 2016
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7:25Now PlayingDonald Trump’s hatchet man is going after the Khan family. Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
“Amid Donald Trump's ongoing attacks on the family of U.S. Army Captain Humayun Khan, a Muslim-American solider who was killed fighting in Iraq, a number of his supporters latched onto a conspiracy theory that Khan's father is a "Muslim Brotherhood agent" and his son was on an "Islamist mission."
The theory seemed to originate with the fringe right-wing site Shoebat.com, which is run by Walid Shoebat, a Palestinian-American who has claimed to be a former terrorist and "radicalized Muslim" before his conversion to Christianity.
In a lengthy post published Sunday, Shoebat and his son Theodore argue that Khizr Khan, who made an emotional appeal Thursday at the Democratic National Convention to vote for Hillary Clinton to honor his son, "wants to advance Sharia Law and bring Muslims into the United States."
The grammatically-challenged post concludes that Khan's academic work on Islamic law, along with his work in immigration legal services, means he is a jihadi. The writers also group Captain Khan in with so-called "Muslim martyrs" who they accuse of being double agents for the U.S. and Al-Qaeda.
"Is it likely that Khan’s son was killed before his Islamist mission was accomplished? Only another type of investigation will determine that," the blog reads.”
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