Sales of a pocket-sized U.S. Constitution jumped following Khizr Khan’s speech at the Democratic National Convention, according to Amazon. The Muslim-American lawyer and father of a fallen soldier pulled his small copy of the Constitution out of his suit pocket during a speech denouncing Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim rhetoric.
This moment became a flash point of the convention as Khan was directly challenging Trump’s knowledge of the Constitution in light of his suggestion to ban all Muslims from entering the U.S., which legal scholars said violated U.S. and international law.
“You’re asking Americans to trust you with their future, let me ask you, have you even read the United States Constitution?” Khan asked on June 29, alongside his wife Ghazala. “I will gladly lend you my copy.”
American shoppers are buying their own versions of the text. A pocket-sized Constitution became the No. 2 best-selling book on Amazon this weekend, after the latest installment in the Harry Potter series, The Cursed Child, according to the Amazon’s Best Sellers page on Monday morning.
The 52-page book is on sale for $1 on
Khan and his wife took the stage on June 29, to discuss the outrage many Muslim-Americans felt in the aftermath of Trump’s anti-Muslim comments, such as the “complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” that his campaign proposed in December 2015.
Had the restrictions been in place decades ago when the Pakistani-born Khan and his wife emigrated from the United Arab Emirates to the U.S., they would have not been allowed to settle here. Khan is a lawyer with an advanced degree from Harvard Law and Ghazala taught Persian at a Pakistani college before raising three sons.
One of their boys, Capt. Humayun Khan, died after instructing his unit to take cover and then tried to stop a suicide bomber who parked outside the gates of their Iraq base in June 2004. He was posthumously awarded Bronze Star and a Purple Heart.
“Have you ever been to Arlington Cemetery? Go look at the graves of brave patriots who died defending United States of America. You’ll see all faiths, genders and ethnicities,” Khan said. “You have sacrificed nothing and no one.”
Following Khan’s remarks, the GOP nominee criticized Ghazala during an interview with George Stephanopoulos on June 30.
“Hi wife, if you look at his wife, she was standing there she had nothing to say, she probably maybe wasn’t allowed to have anything to say, you tell me.”
He added that Khan should not question his familiarity with the Constitution. The Republican nominee is now under fire for his comments.
