General Insanity: Former Army Officer Launches Salvo Against Islam And First Amendment

[Joanne98]

Longtime readers of this blog 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.
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."



In another speech, Boykin recalled how he captured an Islamic warlord in Somalia because "I knew that my God was bigger than his. I knew that my God was a real God, and his was an idol."
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.

Eight years have passed. What's Boykin up to now?

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2011/2/15/135928/692/Front_Page/General_Insanity_Former_Army_Officer_Launches_Salvo_Against_Islam_And_First_Amendment