From CNN
by Daniel Burke | July 29, 2016
So when Khizr Khan, the father of a slain American soldier, took the stage at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday night and shook his copy of the Constitution at Trump, you could almost see the collective fist pump from Muslims across the country.
“I was choking back tears,” said Arsalan Iftikhar, author of the book “Scapegoats: How Islamophobia Helps Our Enemies and Threatens Our Freedoms.”
“At a time when Islamophobia is growing thanks to hateful demagogues like Donald Trump, it was heartening to see the Democratic party give a prime-time slot to the father of a fallen Muslim-American soldier who rhetorically slapped Donald Trump in the face with his pocket-size Constitution.”
