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Jan-31-2012 14:42TweetFollow @OregonNews CAIR Welcomes Withdrawal of Anti-Islam Speaker from West Point EventSalem-News.comCAIR has been challenging Boykin’s un-American bigotry for a number of years.
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today welcomed the withdrawal of an anti-Islam speaker, retired Lieutenant General William G. "Jerry" Boykin, from an upcoming prayer breakfast at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. CAIR recently joined with VoteVets.org, a coalition of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, in asking the academy to retract an invitation because of Boykin's Islamophobic views, which include a belief that "[Islam] should not be protected under the First Amendment," that there should be "no mosques in America" and that there can be no interfaith dialogue or cooperation between Muslims and Christians. CAIR: Islam Critic Backs Out of West Point Cadet Event (AP) "We welcome Mr. Boykin's withdrawal from this event and hope that the speaker who replaces him will offer cadets a spiritual message that promotes tolerance and mutual understanding," said CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad. Awad added that CAIR has been challenging Boykin’s un-American bigotry for a number of years. On Friday, CAIR issued an action alert calling on American Muslims and other people of conscience to contact the academy's superintendent to ask that he rescind Boykin's invitation. CAIR Action Alert: Ask West Point to Disinvite Anti-Islam Speaker CAIR and People For the American Way objected to a recent speech Boykin gave to a mayor's prayer breakfast in Maryland. Hundreds of people contacted city officials to protest Boykin's appearance. CAIR: Invited for Prayer Breakfast, General Avoids Talk of Islam Editorial: Religious Bigotry in Ocean City? (Baltimore Sun) CAIR is America's largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization. Its mission is to enhance the understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding.
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February 1, 2012 10:02 am (Pacific time)
King is an anti-American muslim that will in time receive what he has reaped. That will be a good day for both freedom and justice.
Tim King: I don't mind if you think I am a Muslim, but my religion is not something you know about. Look forward to my demise but don't hold your breath.
TruthWFree January 31, 2012 6:50 pm (Pacific time)
Boykin is correct. Any religion/ideology like Islam that calls for fighting and killing unbelievers (99% of Americans) has no right to protection under the US Constitution as a religion.
Editor: It embarrasses me to read this, you are WRONG on every count, I have many Muslim friends and there is not an ounce of truth in what you or the dogface general are saying. It is in fact very much the other way around, and ignorance is only so much of an excuse buddy. Does your name mean the truth took off running away from you? 'Truth went free'? Good luck getting it back, I won't hold my breath.
Anonymous January 31, 2012 6:23 pm (Pacific time)
From 1978-1993 "RETIRED" General Boykin was assigned in various capacities to Delta Force. By 1980 he was the Delta Force operations officer on the April 24–25 Iranian hostage rescue attempt. In October 1983, Maj. Boykin worked as an operations officer during Operation Urgent Fury in Grenada. During a dawn assault to free some Grenada government officials held by the Marxist People’s Revolutionary Army, Boykin was shot in the arm with a .50 caliber round, splitting the bone completely in two. He was told he would never use it again, but his arm healed, which Boykin again believed God was responsible for[citation needed]. In 1989, Boykin was in Panama as part of the mission to apprehend Manuel Noriega.[1] From 1990 to 1991 he was at the Army War College. In 1992 and early 1993, as a colonel, Boykin was in Colombia leading a mission to hunt for drug lord Pablo Escobar. In October 1993, Colonel Boykin was in command of the Delta Force tracking down militia leader Mohamed Farrah Aidid in Somalia, Boykin served the CIA as Deputy Director of Special Activities. He was later made Deputy Director for Operations, Readiness, and Mobilization when assigned to the Army Staff.[2] From April 1998 to February 2000, he served as the Commanding General, U.S. Army Special Forces Command (Airborne) at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. From March 2000-2003, he was the Commanding General, United States Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center, Fort Bragg, N.C. In June 2003, he was appointed Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence under Dr. Stephen Cambone, Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence. LTG Boykin retired on August 1, 2007 and currently teaches at Hampden-Sydney College. Boykin went to Armed Forces Staff College, Army War College, and Shippensburg University (where he received a Masters Degree). His badges include the Master Parachutist Badge, Military Freefall Badge, Ranger Tab and Special Forces Tab. Medals and awards include: “the Distinguished Service Medal, Defense Superior Service Medal (with 3 Oak Leaf Clusters), Legion of Merit (with Oak Leaf Cluster), Bronze Star, Air Medal and the Purple Heart (with Oak Leaf Cluster). PC wins again. To avoid the blot of seeming to be bigots, the leaders of West Point became bigots. Whitehouse behing this? When is it going to be forcefully brought home to PC people that giving into other's demands is being against and infringing upon the rights of Christians? See the pattern in Africa, the Middle East, and other areas of the world? Does CAIR challenge muslims who demand superior rights over other religions? Go to Dearborn Michigan.
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