SOURCE: The Wall of Separation
February 15th, 2011
By Rob Boston.
Longtime readers of “The Wall of Separation” might remember William “Jerry” Boykin, an Army general who in 2003 sparked controversy for giving speeches to fundamentalist Christian audiences during which he asserted, among other things, that Muslims worship idols and that the real enemy of America is not Osama bin Laden or Saddam Hussein but Satan.
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In a 2003 appearance in Oregon, Boykin unleashed this gem: Islamic extremists hate the U.S., he said, “because we’re a Christian nation, because our foundations and our roots are Judeo-Christian.”
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Things got so bad that the White House had to issue a “global message” to Muslim nations letting them know that Boykin wasn’t speaking for the American government during these appearances. This was a little hard to do since the man served as deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence at the Pentagon and was often in uniform when the spoke at fundamentalist churches.
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Eight years have passed. What’s Boykin up to now?
LINK:
http://blog.au.org/2011/02/15/general-insanity-former-army-officer-launches-salvo-against-islam-and-first-amendment/_______________________________________________________
For those unfamiliar with the author of this blog entry, Rob Boston has written an excellent work on the Religious Right's interpretation of Church/State separation:
Why the Religious Right is Wrong About Separation of Church and State. Another author, Frank Lambert, has written an excellent work on the relationship of religion to the thought of the founders, a work which was used in a course on American intellectual history which I attended at CSU Sonoma:
The Founding Fathers and the Place of Religion in America
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