CAIR Pressures Retired General, Critic of Islam, to Back Out of West Point Event
The Council on American-Islamic Relations announced Monday night that it had successfully prevented retired Lieutenant General William G. “Jerry” Boykin from speaking at an upcoming prayer breakfast at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. “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 in a statement.
West Point initially balked at the calls to remove Boykin — a former military intelligence officer — from the event. Lt. Col. Sherri Reed of West Point told The Associated Press that cadets are “purposefully exposed to different perspectives and cultures.”
“The National Prayer Breakfast Service will be pluralistic with Christians, Jewish, and Muslim cadets participating,” Reed said. “We are comfortable and confident that what retired Lt. Gen. Boykin will share about prayer, soldier care and selfless service, will be in keeping with the broad range of ideas normally considered by our cadets.” Boykin backed out of the event on his own volition, according to a report from Fox News.
The retired lieutenant general has been on CAIR’s radar for casting Islam in a poor light, specifically in speeches in which he analogizing the War on Terror to a war against Satan. CAIR and the group VoteVets.org pushed hard for a retraction of Boykin’s invitation to the event due to his “Islamophobic” views. CAIR and People For the American Way failed to stop a speech Boykin gave in Ocean City, Md., last week.
This week it seems they have been successful.
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What part of the Muslim goal of subjugation of the World do people not Understand. Islam is NOT a religion of peace and goodwill. Islam, although practiced by many as a religion, is in reality a doctrine whose aim is to rule all the peoples of the world, just as Communism’s aim is to take over the world.
Regardless of what a Muslim will say to a Christian or any other religion their aim is either to convert you or kill you. There is no middle ground. They are allowed to lie to, cheat, steal from, and kill any non-believer, their “Bible” the Koran tells them they can.
Yes the want us good and stupid with our messages of tolerance and understanding, while continuing to give the message that ‘christians are the worst creatures on earth’ to their muslim counterparts,
While continuing to oppress, persecute, murder, rape, kidnap and force convert then force marry Christian, Hindu, and Sikh girls to muslim men (girls like 12, 13 years old). Somalia will continue to ‘butcher all Christians’ like their government says, Iraq burns churches/kills pastors, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkey, Iran, GAZA, Indonesia, Malaysia – in all these countries, at best Christians are spit upon while walking back, have no legal rights, are 2nd class citizens unable to obtain jobs in any government capacity (police, army, or politics) and at worst, homes & churches burned, children killed, daughters kidnapped, accused of blasphemy and executed, businesses are destroyed, laws are made to illegalize things that only Christians sell (like pork or alcohol), apostates are executed or even killed by their own families, missionaries are arrested & sentenced to death. The list goes on and on. And so why are WE supposed to embrace THEM with open arms? Fine I don’t care who or what anybody bends over to pray to, but don’t tell me I have to include them in everything, when their people eradicate and perpetuate genocide against MY religion.