It’s been nearly eight years since then-Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin was reprimanded after giving speeches that cast the war on terror as a crusade against Islam, even while serving as a senior official at the Defense Department.
Boykin has moved on from his long career in special operations and intelligence, but the controversial speeches continue, prompting new complaints from Islamic groups.
Boykin is scheduled to appear Thursday at the city of Ocean City’s annual prayer breakfast meeting. A story in the Ocean City Dispatch noted Boykin’s involvement in seminal special operations events from the failed attempt to rescue American hostages in Iran to the 1993 operation in Somalia that came to be known as Black Hawk Down.
The story also quotes the organizer of the mayoral event, Bruce Spangler, as saying that Boykin is not only a “soldier’s soldier,” but also “an expert on Islamic history.”
That’s not exactly how some Muslims see Boykin, to say the least.
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ReplyDeleteWho the hell cares what Muslims think? Thats the problem now.Nobody can speak their mind except special interest groups or so called minorities.Everybody else is just reciest or picking on them. If they don't like freedom of speech. Get the hell out of our contry.
ReplyDeleteKudos to RIck Meehan for not caving in to CAIR-they were demanding that he cancel this speaker.
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