Top Terrorist Hunter's divisive views

By Lisa Myers and the NBC Investigative Unit
NBC NEWS
Oct. 15 — A highly decorated general who is one of the leaders of a secretive new Pentagon unit formed to coordinate intelligence on terrorists and help hunt down Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and other high-profile targets has a history of outspoken and divisive views on religion — Islam in particular, NBC News has learned.

This summer, Boykin was promoted to deputy undersecretary of defense, with a new mission for which many say he is uniquely qualified: to aggressively combine intelligence with special operations and hunt down so-called high-value terrorist targets including bin Laden and Saddam.

During a January church speech in Daytona, Fla., Boykin recalled a Muslim fighter in Somalia who bragged on television the Americans would never get him because his God, Allah, would protect him: “Well, you know what I knew, that my God was bigger than his. I knew that my God was a real God, and his was an idol.”

Boykin tells NBC News that, given his new assignment, he is curtailing such speeches in the future. He says, “I don’t want … to be misconstrued. I don’t want to come across as a right-wing radical.”


http://www.msnbc.com/news/980764.asp

Holy crap. Atrios has linked this story up already.

For one more choice nugget from the story.

Boykin also routinely tells audiences that God, not the voters, chose President Bush: “Why is this man in the White House? The majority of Americans did not vote for him. Why is he there? And I tell you this morning that he’s in the White House because God put him there for a time such as this.”


Serenity Now. Serenity now!

. . . to prove their faith in 2004 by not voting for Bush!

After all, if the choice of president is in God's hands, and if God chose to put Bush in the White House even against the will of the voters, then wouldn't it be blasphemy for people to try to exalt human will over God's will by actually going out and voting for Bush?

Yup, all true God-fearing Amurricans need to prove their faith by not voting in 2004! And the particularly God-fearing will vote for Democrats as a supreme test of their devotion!

(Makes sense to me. ;-) )

Somebody's got a testosterone overdose here!

n/t

The full verse of the song goes like this:

My God's better'n your God,
My God's better'n yours.
My God's better cause he was crucified,
My God's better'n yours.

"Boykin tells NBC News that, given his new assignment, he is curtailing such speeches in the future. He says, “I don’t want … to be misconstrued. I don’t want to come across as a right-wing radical.”

Looks to me like you have already come across as a right wing radical.

Why do people always assume that God is on their side, and on their side only?

"You, Muslim! Stop praying! Your God is fake. There is no proof that your God exists! ... ... ...What's that? Prove that my God exists? Well, thats nonsense! Of course he exists! REPENT!!!"

I really wish fundies would realize that they are just the same as the "extremist muslim fanatics" that they condemn.