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Everywhere we turned this week, religion was on the front burner. Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad was chastised by President Bush for saying that Jews run the world. The Supreme Court is preparing to decide whether the words "under God" should be excised from the Pledge of Allegiance. And a general in the Army, William Boykin, was pilloried for his comments to religious groups in Oregon and elsewhere that militant Islam has it in for the U.S. because America is a "Christian nation." When it comes to drawing outrage, Christians take the cake from Jews, Muslims and atheists nearly every...

An Army general is under attack from the media. His offense: saying God deals in the affairs of man. Lt. General William G. Boykin, a decorated U.S. Army officer, is in trouble for remarks he made about Islam and Christianity. The media have stirred up a firestorm of criticism against Boykin, a strong evangelical Christian, who is quoted discussing a 1993 battle with a Muslim militia leader saying, "I knew my God was bigger than his." American Values President Gary Bauer called the media attack nothing less than religious persecution. "He talked about the War on Terrorism in terms of...

This week Democratic senator and presidential wannabe Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut told a captive audience of Associated Press writers and editors in Washington that Army Lt. Gen. William Boykin, deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence, should be reprimanded for his so-called criticism of Muslims. Lieberman is the latest political figure to pile on Boykin following a report last week by the Los Angeles Times that the general had the audacity to say the current battle with Islamic fanatics is a battle between Christianity and "a guy named Satan." There was little new in Lieberman's attack. He was using a tired,...

Osama and Saddam pose real threats, but the Bush administration may be too incompetent -- and too arrogant -- to stop them. Editor's note: National security expert William M. Arkin delivered this speech on Sept. 25 to the U.S. Naval War College. Oct. 11, 2002 | Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said last week that those who know about the war plan for Iraq aren't talking, and those who are talking don't know. So I'm grateful to be invited here to deliver this first lecture at the Naval War College tonight. I guess the Secretary was busy. Rumsfeld has more...

The Daily Imus Democratic Presidential Candidate and Senator Joseph Lieberman will join Imus at 7:29am ET. This will be a must-see interview. Senator Lieberman is in the headlines for comments he made about a top Army general. Senator Lieberman said Lt. General William Boykin should be reprimanded for criticizing Muslims. Gen. Boykin, the deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence characterized the war on terror as a battle between Christianity and “a guy named Satan.” Besides calling for a reprimand of the general, Senator Lieberman also said President Bush was slow to respond to Boykin’s comments. Hear the Senator’s own...

Just what did Lt. Gen. William G. "Jerry" Boykin say that he should be apologizing for? Just what did the former commander of the Delta Force say that he should be investigated for? Just what did the military leader of the mission to find Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden say to warrant so many calls for his ouster from that position? I'll tell you what he did: He gave speeches representing a mainstream, evangelical worldview. And that is his "rime." I see the attacks on Boykin as another manifestation of anti-Christian persecution and bigotry rampant through the elite cultural...

Is President Bush Really "One Of Us?" By Chuck Baldwin Food For Thought From The Chuck Wagon October 24, 2003 As Jimmy Carter had done before him, G.W. Bush won the White House, in part, due to his Christian profession. Christians nationwide regard President Bush as "one of us." They believe that he shares their Christian principles and values. Why, then, does President Bush use the power of his office to publicly condemn those Christians who courageously champion Christian principles? Time and again, President Bush has publicly repudiated the statements or actions of principled Christians as they attempted to stand...

In an emerging scandal, NBC News has produced tapes proving beyond deniability that the new deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence is ... a Christian. Lt. Gen. William G. "Jerry" Boykin has been captured on a series of grainy tapes, attesting to his faith at churches and prayer breakfasts. Having driven the Judeo-Christian value system out of the public square, the classrooms and the Alabama Supreme Court, liberals now want to drive it out of church. In one "inflammatory" remark, Boykin said that the enemy was not Osama bin Laden or Saddam Hussein, but "is a spiritual enemy. He's...

<p>Nothing is more predictable than hysteria when Democrats say boo to a certain species of Republican. Sen. John Warner of Virginia, like a horse-country gent arriving late to the fox hunt, yesterday joined the hue and cry to take out Lt. Gen. William Boykin for his remarks, already widely distorted, decrying radical Islam's violent expression of a hijacked faith.</p>

WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate Joe Lieberman said a top Army general should be reprimanded for his criticism of Muslims, calling those comments the "mirror opposite" of Osama bin Laden's vilification of Christians and Jews. In an interview with Associated Press reporters and editors, Lieberman said Army Lt. Gen. William Boykin should be held to account for casting the United States' fight against terrorists in religious terms with comments that were "wrong theologically" and "very bigoted." The general, deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence, has come under widespread criticism since the Los Angeles Times reported last Thursday that he...

EDITOR'S NOTE: This appears in the Nov. 10, 2003, issue of National Review. During the Korean War, Douglas MacArthur wanted to attack Manchuria, and he let that be known to everyone who would listen. That was not U.S. policy, however, and President Truman promptly sacked the great man. During the Cold War — in fact often pretty hot — NATO general Edwin Walker was instructing his troops in the theorems of the John Birch Society. That the U.S. government was 60 percent under Communist control was not the view of the Kennedy administration, and Walker was gone. Flash forward to...

<p>AT FIRST it sounded like satire. My God is bigger than yours? Did General William Boykin actually taunt his Islamic enemy with that muscular divinity? Not my weapons are bigger than yours.</p> <p>Not my battalions are bigger than yours. My God is bigger. It sounded like some e-mail that got through the morning spam filter: Click here if you want your God to be three inches bigger.</p>

Who Is William Arkin?A look at the Greenpeace activist cum L.A. Times military affairs columnist who's taking after Gen. Jerry Boykin. by Hugh Hewitt 10/23/2003 12:00:00 AM Hugh Hewitt, contributing writerWHO IS WILLIAM ARKIN? For starters, he is the scribbler who launched the assault on Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin a week ago by providing NBC with tapes of Boykin speaking in churches, and then followed with a Los Angeles Times op-ed that accused the general of being "an intolerant extremist" and a man "who believes in Christian 'jihad'" (Arkin later admitted on my radio program that Boykin never used the...

Remarks about religion by Lt. General William G. Boykin drew the disapproval of President Bush, who told a gathering of moderate Muslims in Bali, Indonesia, that the general's comments "didn't reflect my opinion ... it just doesn't reflect what the government thinks." Gen. Boykin, deputy under secretary of defense for intelligence and war-fighting, had been quoted as comparing the war against Islamic militants to Christianity’s struggle against Satan and had told evangelical gatherings that a militant Muslim militia leader in Somalia worshiped an "idol" and not a "real God." According to the New York Times, the general has been...

Lieutenant General Jerry Boykin, deputy undersecretary of Defense for intelligence, ignited an international firestorm. Addressing a religious group in June 2003, Boykin said radical Muslims hate us "because we're a Christian nation, because our foundation and our roots are Judeo-Christian . . . and the enemy is a guy called Satan." Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Joseph Lieberman asked President Bush to denounce Boykin's "hateful remarks," adding, "The war on terrorism is a war on terrorists, not religions. The Bush administration, which claims to understand that, needs to condemn anyone who says otherwise." Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., said, "It is outrageous...

<p>A senior Saudi Arabian official last night said Lt. Gen. William Boykin's remarks about Islam were "outrageous" sentiments worthy of Osama bin Laden, the Saudi-born terrorist who has been hunted by the U.S. military since his group carried out the September 11 attacks.</p>

WASHINGTON, Oct 22 (Reuters) - President George W. Bush said on Wednesday he disagreed with a senior military intelligence official's comments that Muslims worship an idol and not a "real God" but a top Pentagon aide said there were no plans to oust him. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Tuesday announced an internal Pentagon investigation into the propriety of comments by Army Lt. Gen. William Boykin, deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence and war-fighting support, while in uniform at churches and prayer breakfasts. Lawrence Di Rita, Rumsfeld's chief of staff, on Wednesday praised Boykin's "very distinguished" military career. He said...

Song of Roland BitPig (B-Chan) • 2003.10.22 In a recent column, John Mark Reynolds of californiarepublic.org asks the obvious question: “Why is it suddenly a crime to think your own religion is true? Lt. Gen. William G. “Jerry” Boykin had the nerve to express traditional Christian theology in public. That makes him unfit to be a member of the elite, as defined by the Los Angeles Times [see “Can the Crusader”, editorial 9/16/03]. Why? Boykin believes his religion to be correct, which by extension means he thinks other religions to be (at least somewhat) incorrect. Basic logic would indicate that...

Pentagon Probes General's Church Speeches By MATT KELLEY ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) - The Pentagon will investigate a general's church speeches casting the war on terrorism in religious terms, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Tuesday. The announcement came days after two prominent senators asked Rumsfeld to launch a probe of Army Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin. Several Islamic and religious freedom groups criticized Boykin last week when reports surfaced of his comments during several speeches at evangelical Christian churches. Boykin said the enemy in the war on terrorism was Satan, that God had put President Bush in the White...

Video MSNBC has discovered that General Boynik is *gasp* an EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN!