Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the parents of a slain American Muslim soldier who died in the Iraq war, have responded to US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s dismissal of their impassioned speech at last week’s Democratic National Convention.

“Running for president is not an entitlement to disrespect Gold Star families and [a] Gold Star mother not realising her pain,” Mr Khan told ABC America.

“Shame on him, shame on his family, he is not worthy of our comments. He has no decency. He is void of decency. He has a dark heart.”

Captain Humayun Khan died in 2004 while trying to stop a suicide bomber outside his camp in Baquba, north-east of Baghdad.

During his speech at the DNC, Mr Khan had accused the billionaire presidential nominee of not sacrificing anything for his country, and blamed him for vilifying American Muslims, in a steely rebuke that electrified the convention.

“Go look at the graves of brave patriots who died defending the United States of America,” he said, directly addressing Mr Trump.

“You will see all faiths, genders and ethnicities. You have sacrificed nothing and no-one.”

“If you look at his wife, she was standing there. She had nothing to say,” he said, adding that “maybe she wasn’t allowed to have anything to say” in a comment that was seen as a jab at the role of women in Islam.

Watch the interview:

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Speaking to ABC America, Ms Khan said she chose not to speak knowing she would be too emotional, and that it had nothing to do with Islam.

“My faith, Islam, has given us strength, all the women and men are equal in God’s eyes,” she said.

“We are equal, we are the part of our husbands, they are the part of us. We can tell them what to do, they can tell us what to do.”I don’t know what type of Islam he has read or heard. I’m so sorry about that, that he has not had any idea what the Islam is.”

Ms Khan pleaded with Mr Trump, saying that if he could only “feel their pain he would be better”.

Donald Trump said he had also made a sacrifice by “working very hard” and employing “thousands and thousands of people”. Photo: AAP.

“Sacrifice — I don’t think he knows the meaning of sacrifice, the meaning of the word. Because when I was standing there, all America felt my pain,” she said.

“Without saying a single word. Everybody felt that pain.”

#TrumpSacrifices goes viral

Donald Trump was slammed on Twitter for his response to Khizr Khan, saying he had also made a sacrifice by “working very hard” and employing “thousands and thousands of people”.

His response had Twitter asking, what has Mr Trump sacrificed?

Source: Twitter.