Veterans to USMA: Don't Let Extremist Address Cadets

by: Richard Allen Smith

Thu Jan 26, 2012 at 11:00:17 AM EST


LTG William Boykin (Ret.) has a history of extremist and hateful views towards Muslims. As TP notes:

Here's what Boykin has said about Muslims in the past: there should be "no mosques in America"; Muslims worship an "idol"; "Islam is a totalitarian way of life, it's not just a religion"; "it should not be protected under the First Amendment"; Muslims operate "under an obligation to destroy our Constitution."


Earlier this week, VoteVets learned that LTG William Boykin (Ret.) had been invited to speak to cadets at the United States Military Academy during West Point's observance of the National Prayer Breakfast. LTG Boykin's comments are incompatible with Army values and our global security strategy. As such, today VoteVets sent a letter to USMA requesting that LTG Boykin's invite be retracted. See below:

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For the very few readers that may stumble here.... (4.00 / 1)
.... here is an article about Lt. Gen. Boykin, from CBS News, of all sources!
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories...

It helps to personify a much different military man (a hero in many soldiers' minds) than that described by a couple of American apologists, as seen above.  Read the article for yourself, and others like it, and you'll see that Boykin doesn't deserve VoteVets' bigotry and insults.


Welll Redding (4.00 / 1)
You know how the Left operates. An American hero who could have clarified his remarks a little more is suddenly an evil extremist no better than Ayman al Zawahiri. What about the Somali warlords he fought, warlords who routinely preyed upon Muslims? For that matter what about his service in Iraq, combatting entities such as Baathists and AQI?  

BTW who funds a very large percentage of mosques being constructed in the United States? The Saudis.

Is the Saudi brand of Islam a totalitarian ideology that shows no tolerance to other religions or points of view? Yes.


[ Parent ]
Excellent points (4.00 / 1)
It never ceases to amaze me how the hard-left wingers diminish American soldiers for their less than 100% perfection on the field and in the heat of battle.  All the while, the enemy smirks at this crap, and is emboldened by "our" weakness.  

Oh by the way, isn't GITMO still open for business?


[ Parent ]
Boykin's Speaking engagment (0.00 / 0)
It amazes me that VetVoice.org and it's senior leadership believes the lie.  The lie that Islam is a religion of peace.  Gen Boykin has been relegated to the ranks of "haters" because he speaks the truth.  The U.S. Military has (or should have been) an agent for truth and justice.  To believe that Islam's detractors should be censured is unconscionable.  The truth will out. Political correctness has killed more people than IED's.

Until we as Americans get it through our heads that Islam's adherents want us subjugated or dead, we will continue to fail.


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