Posted on 02/01/2012 3:10:37 PM PST by opentalk
A retired U.S. lieutenant general who made comments some consider disparaging to Islam withdrew Monday from speaking at a West Point prayer breakfast after a progressive veterans’ advocacy group — VoteVets.org — along with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) asked the Army chief of staff to rescind the invitation.
Last week The Blaze reported VoteVets.org told Gen. Raymond Odierno in a letter that allowing retired Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin to speak at West Point next week would be anathema to Army values and disrespectful to Muslim cadets.
According to the Associate Press, late Monday afternoon, West Point issued a statement saying Boykin had decided to withdraw speaking at the Feb. 8 event and that another speaker would take his place.,p>
For its part, CAIR is celebrating the outcome.
“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,” CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad said in a press release.
Awad added that CAIR has been challenging Boykin’s “un-American bigotry” for a number of years.
(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...
Federal Judge Agrees: CAIR Tied to Hamas
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has been connected to the terrorist organization Hamas, a federal judge said in a July 2009 ruling unsealed last week. "The government has produced ample evidence to establish the associations of CAIR, ISNA, NAIT, with NAIT, the Islamic Association for Palestine, and with Hamas," U.S. District Court Judge Jorge Solis said in the July 1, 2009, ruling.
CAIR, the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT) had protested to Solis that they were incorrectly named as unindicted co-conspirators in the 2008 trial of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development.
Among the allegations, HLF was accused of having provided more than $12 million to Hamas. After a 2007 mistrial, five former HLF officials convicted on 108 counts, ranging from money laundering to conspiring to provide material support to terrorists.
C.A.I.R. is the biggest enemy of free speech that the United States has ever known. C.A.I.R. is using threats across America to get programs and voices silenced if C.A.I.R. even suspects that someone might say a negative word about Islamic Jihad’s intent to make every one of us a vassal of Islam.
C.A.I.R. is using threats across America - - - .’
C.A.I.R. and all the rest should never have been given credibility by this country.
cair can kiss my white anglo-saxon army veteran muslim hating ass.
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