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		</div><p>Hillary Clinton has defended the bereaved parents of a Muslim US army captain, saying Donald Trump displayed a &#8220;total misunderstanding&#8221; of American values in his criticism of the couple and had inflamed divisions in society.</p>
<p>The Democratic presidential hopeful&#8217;s comments came after the Republican nominee refused to back down from his response to the Khan family&#8217;s remarks.</p>
<p>Making her most extensive statement about the Khans since Mr Trump criticised their Democratic National Convention appearance, Mrs Clinton said the Republican nominee had repaid a family who had made the &#8220;ultimate sacrifice&#8221; with &#8220;nothing but insults&#8221; and &#8220;degrading comments about Muslims&#8221;.</p>
<p>Mrs Clinton told parishioners at a Cleveland church: &#8220;I do tremble before those who would scapegoat other Americans, who would insult people because of their religion, their ethnicity, their disability.</p>
<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s just not how I was raised.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mr Trump complained on Twitter that he had been &#8220;viciously attacked&#8221; by Capt Humayun Khan&#8217;s father, Khizer, during his speech at the convention.</p>
<p>&#8220;Am I not allowed to respond?&#8221; Mr Trump tweeted. &#8220;Hillary voted for the Iraq war, not me!&#8221;</p>
<p>At last week&#8217;s Democratic National Convention, Pakistan-born Mr Khan told the story of his son Humayun, who received a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart after he was killed in Iraq in 2004.</p>
<p>Mr Khan questioned whether Donald Trump had ever read the US Constitution, and told him: &#8220;You have sacrificed nothing.&#8221;</p>
<p>During the speech, Mr Khan&#8217;s wife, Ghazala, stood quietly by his side.</p>
<p>Mr Trump said in a TV interview: &#8220;If you look at his wife, she was standing there. She had nothing to say. She probably, maybe she wasn&#8217;t allowed to have anything to say. You tell me.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ghazala Khan responded in an opinion piece for the Washington Post, in which she revealed that talking about her son&#8217;s death 12 years ago is still hard for her. When her husband asked if she wanted to speak at the convention, she said she could not.</p>
<p>She wrote: &#8220;When Donald Trump is talking about Islam, he is ignorant.</p>
<p>&#8220;If he studied the real Islam and Koran, all the ideas he gets from terrorists would change, because terrorism is a different religion.&#8221;</p>
<p>Her husband told television talk shows on Sunday that he appreciated Mr Trump&#8217;s later comments that his son was a hero, but said the billionaire had no &#8220;moral compass&#8221;.</p>
<p>At one point, Mr Trump had disputed Mr Khan&#8217;s criticism that the billionaire businessman has &#8220;sacrificed nothing and no-one&#8221; for his country.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve made a lot of sacrifices. I work very, very hard. I&#8217;ve created thousands and thousands of jobs, tens of thousands of jobs, built great structures,&#8221; Mr Trump said.</p>
<p>Senior Republican leaders, including House Speaker Paul D Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, remained silent on Sunday, as did vice presidential nominee Mike Pence, even as calls mounted for them to denounce their party nominee.</p>
<p>John Kasich, the Ohio governor who sought the Republican presidential nomination, said on Twitter: &#8220;There&#8217;s only one way to talk about Gold Star parents: with honour and respect. Capt Khan is a hero. Together, we should pray for his family.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mr Trump released a statement on Saturday night which called Humayun Khan &#8220;a hero&#8221;, but disputed his father&#8217;s remarks.</p>
<p>&#8220;While I feel deeply for the loss of his son, Mr Khan who has never met me, has no right to stand in front of millions of people and claim I have never read the Constitution, (which is false) and say many other inaccurate things,&#8221; said Mr Trump.</p>
<p>The rebuke was unusual in the world of politics where officials only speak well of families whose loved ones die in service to their country.</p>
<p>When Cindy Sheehan, who lost her son in Iraq, staged prolonged protests over the war, then-president George W Bush responded by saying that the nation grieves every death.</p>
<p>When asked about the mother of a State Department official killed in Benghazi, Libya, who blamed Hillary Clinton for her son&#8217;s death, Mrs Clinton said her &#8220;heart goes out&#8221; to the families and that she did not &#8220;hold any ill-feeling for someone&#8221; who has lost a child and recalls events differently.</p>
<p>Mrs Clinton used her first television interview since officially clinching the Democratic nomination to cast Donald Trump as dangerously pro-Russia and an unknown quantity for US voters.</p>
<p>She said she realises that people often see a &#8220;caricature&#8221; of herself as a politician, but that she hopes American voters will review her track record as a US senator and secretary of state.</p>
<p>Of her Republican rival, Mrs Clinton said: &#8220;He&#8217;s not temperamentally fit to be president and commander in chief.&#8221;</p>
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