Muslim women to Trump: We're anything but silent U.S. Muslim groups are launching a social media campaign inviting women to speak out at Trump after his statements about Ghazala Khan.

Donald Trump has suggested the mother of a slain American Muslim soldier didn't speak at the Democratic National Convention because she wasn't "allowed" to.

Now, Muslim women are making it clear to Trump that they're allowed to speak out — and they plan to do so in large numbers.


The Muslim Public Affairs Council and other U.S. Muslim groups are pushing a social media campaign urging Muslim women to make their voices heard. The initiative, which began Monday, comes as Trump continues a feud with Ghazala and Khizr Khan, parents of Army Capt. Humayun Khan, who died in an explosion in Iraq in 2004.

On Twitter, the groups are using the hashtag "#CanYouHearUsNow" in an effort to amplify their message.

Muslim women are EVERYWHERE. And they are fed up with you. @realDonaldTrump #CanYouHearUsNow #MuslimWomenRoar — Tamara Gray (@tamaralgray) August 1, 2016

Muslim women are some of the most highly educated in the US; thats why you must not like us @realDonaldTrump #CanYouHearUsNow — Safa Sankari (@SafaaSankari) August 1, 2016

We raise Nobel Peace Prize winners, we are Nobel Peace Prize winners. #CanYouHearUsNow — Linda Sarsour (@lsarsour) August 1, 2016

The reactions included comments from several prominent Muslim-American activists, such as Linda Sarsour, who noted that Muslim women "raise Nobel Peace Prize winners, we are Nobel Peace Prize winners."

During last week's Democratic National Convention, Ghazala Khan stood by as her husband, Khizr Khan, gave one of the most widely circulated speeches of the four-day event.

Khizr Khan accused Trump of belittling the service of people like his son and said the real estate mogul had "sacrificed nothing." In tweets and interviews over the weekend, Trump shot back at the Khans. And, in questioning why Ghazala Khan was silent while her husband spoke, Trump implied that it was because her religion required her to be submissive.

"He was very emotional and probably looked like a nice guy to me. His wife … if you look at his wife, she was standing there. She had nothing to say," Trump said in an ABC News interview. "She probably, maybe she wasn't allowed to have anything to say. You tell me."

Ghazala Khan has since spoken out, including publishing an op-ed in The Washington Post. She says her husband asked her if she wanted to speak but she said no in part because she gets emotional when seeing her son's picture, a large version of which was projected on stage.

When Humayun was in Iraq, "I begged him to be safe," she wrote in the Post. "I asked him to stay back, and not to go running around trying to become a hero, because I knew he would do something like that."

She added that while at the convention, "Walking onto the convention stage, with a huge picture of my son behind me, I could hardly control myself. What mother could? Donald Trump has children whom he loves. Does he really need to wonder why I did not speak?"

The campaign comes amid a broad rift between the U.S. Muslim community — a population said to number at least 3 million — and Trump. The Republican has infuriated American Muslims, particularly since his December statement calling for a ban on Muslims entering the U.S. (He has since modified that suggestion to apply to countries "compromised" by terrorism, but it continues to rankle many in the community who see it as religious discrimination and collective punishment.)

Trump's feud with the Khan family has also received broad condemnation from U.S. politicians, including many of the Manhattan billionaire's fellow Republicans.

The #CanYouHearUsNow social media campaign is due to run until Aug. 10, organizers said.