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Veterans Group Calls on West Point to Pull Speaking Invite for Anti-Islamist Retired Officer (karma: 3)  en>fr fr>en
By FrogKillrmember has saluted, click to view salute photos Comments: 8366, member since Mon May 05, 2003
On Sun Jan 29, 2012 11:02 AM
A group of veterans is calling on the U.S. Military Academy at West Point to retract its speaking invitation to a retired Army officer known for his controversial views about Islam.

Veterans Group Calls on West Point to Pull Speaking Invite for Anti-Islamist Retired Officer


Retired Lt. Gen. William Boykin was the Pentagon’s senior military intelligence official until 2004, when he was reprimanded for remarks comparing the war against radical Islam to a Christian struggle against Satan and for saying Muslims worship idols and not “a real God,” according to the Washington Post. He has also said he believes no mosques should be built in America and has called Islam “a totalitarian way of life.”

Boykin, an ordained minister who speaks around the country, is scheduled to be the keynote speaker at a West Point prayer breakfast Feb. 8.

On Thursday, VoteVets.org, the self-described “largest progressive organization of veterans in America,” released a letter to West Point‘s superintendent asking for Boykin’s invitation to be rescinded.

“[Statements similar to Boykin's] remarks threaten our relationships with Muslims around the world, and thereby, our troops serving in harm’s way,” the letter stated.

Calling Boykin’s values “inconsistent even with current Army doctrine,“ the organization said it would be ”counterproductive for our future Army leaders to hear the views of Lt. Gen. Boykin.”

VoteVets.org has been joined by the Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers, a “community support network” that “responds to insensitive practices that illegally promote religion over non-religion within the military or unethically discriminate against minority religions or differing beliefs,” according to their website.

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5 Replies to Veterans Group Calls on West Point to Pull Speaking Invite for Anti-Islamist Retired Officer

re: Veterans Group Calls on West Point to Pull Speaking Invite for Anti-Islamist Retired Officer (karma: 5)  en>fr fr>en
By Bat2 Comments: 2373, member since Wed May 25, 2011
On Sun Jan 29, 2012 11:09 AM
Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers, a “community support network”


Code for radical assholes. They need to let this man speak there. I hope any Muslim USMA cadet hears him.
re: Veterans Group Calls on West Point to Pull Speaking Invite for Anti-Islamist Retired Officer en>fr fr>en
By FrogBites Comments: 2654, member since Mon Nov 14, 2005
On Sun Jan 29, 2012 11:09 AM
I knew a gay military would lead to this.
re: Veterans Group Calls on West Point to Pull Speaking Invite for Anti-Islamist Retired Officer (karma: 4)  en>fr fr>en
By SevenSeventeen Comments: 13809, member since Tue Apr 22, 2003
On Sun Jan 29, 2012 11:46 AM
"He has also said he believes no mosques should be built in America and has called Islam “a totalitarian way of life”


So much for freedom of speech - and the same for the truth.

Fortunately I suspect most of the cadets already know this in their hearts already.
re: Veterans Group Calls on West Point to Pull Speaking Invite for Anti-Islamist Retired Officer en>fr fr>en
By Bat2 Comments: 2373, member since Wed May 25, 2011
On Sun Jan 29, 2012 12:35 PM
SevenSeventeen wrote:

"He has also said he believes no mosques should be built in America and has called Islam “a totalitarian way of life”


So much for freedom of speech - and the same for the truth.

Fortunately I suspect most of the cadets already know this in their hearts already.


Maybe not. It seems they are gearing to fuck West Point up and import leftist ideology there too. In a few generations you might have Army officers indoctrinated in socialist policies.
re: Veterans Group Calls on West Point to Pull Speaking Invite for Anti-Islamist Retired Officer en>fr fr>en
By LTKilling Comments: 7541, member since Sun Aug 14, 2005
On Sun Jan 29, 2012 04:24 PM
fuck Islam, fuck them all

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