There are messages in here that we are all the same, regardless of our religions. Unite us, not divide us. Our cultures that follow these religions u… - Khizr and Ghazala Khan

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There are messages in here that we are all the same, regardless of our religions. Unite us, not divide us. Our cultures that follow these religions unite us. There is peace and harmony in these religions; and Captain Humayun laid the path for that. He -- I will give you one simple example of his character -- how he was. At University of Virginia in the basketball court, there were two teams used to play. African-American students and white American students always playing separately, not playing together, not talking to one another. He was the one that, one step at a time, he will drag one player to here and one player from there and bring them together. And in few weeks, the whole team was playing together. We received a delegation of those students after passing, and they said, "For all of our life he taught us how to come together." That is what he was. That is who he was. And to him, we pay tribute by this small gesture of trying to bring some peace in this political discourse. Trying to bring some respect towards each other. That is what he was. That is dedicated to his spirit.

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About Khizr and Ghazala Khan

Khizr Muazzam Khan (born 1950) and Ghazala Khan (born 1951) are the parents of Captain Humayun Khan, who was killed in 2004 during the Iraq War. The couple received international attention following a speech at the .

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