Gen. Boykin on Muslim Cartoon Attackers: We Must ‘Stand Up Against This Evil in America’

Commenting on the two men who were killed while trying to shoot up a “Draw Muhammed” contest on Sunday in Texas and the woman who organized the contest, activist Pam Geller, Lt. Gen. William Boykin (ret.) said there is a “double standard” when it comes to Islam and that U.S. leaders need to “stand up against this evil in America” that uses violence to threaten the First Amendment.

“I wish that as a nation there were more and more of our leaders that had the same kind of courage that this woman [Pam Geller] has,” said Lt. Gen. Boykin (ret.), who is the executive vice president of the Family Research Council (FRC). “[S]he’s a very brave woman and I think that what she did was upholding and standing for our First Amendment rights. And I don’t think she went too far at all.”

Boykin made his remarks on the May 5 edition of Fox & Friends. Geller, who is a political activist, strong critic of radical Islam, and a co-founder of the group American Freedom Defense Initiative, organized the “Draw Muhammed” cartoon contest in Garland, Texas.

At that May 3 event, two men arrived and shot a security guard, wounding him. Police, at the scene, quickly returned fire and killed the two attackers. Both shooters were Muslim radicals and the Islamic State has praised them as “ soldiers of the caliphate.”

On Fox & Friends, one of the hosts reported that Geller apparently spent $50,000 for security at the cartoon event and asked Lt. Gen. Boykin, “Does this speak volumes about the direction of our country when it comes to free speech? Are people so scared to talk publicly about their views because they’re worried about offending other people?”

Boykin said, “There’s no question about it. I think Pam said it, and I saw some of her interviews yesterday and I think she said it very eloquently and very articulately. When a cartoon stimulates people to kill you, when they believe they’re justified in doing so because of their, quote, religion, we’re upside down.”

The general continued, “If we don’t stand up to that kind of evil, if we don’t keep going back to the foundations of this nation and recognize what the First Amendment was designed to do – it was not designed to protect us from things that we would agree with, that we would accept. It was designed to protect us, our ability to be able to speak about things that will be controversial and provocative.”

“I saw people on this network last week stomping on an American flag,” said Boykin. “I even saw a female veteran take that flag and try to protect it. I was offended by that, as were millions of Americans. But we have no right, no authority to stand with weapons in our hands to say that you can’t do that.”

“There is such a double standard here when it comes to Islam,” said Lt. Gen. Boykin, “and I think it’s time for more of our leadership to take the same posture and the same position that Pam Geller has taken and stand up against this evil in America.”

Later, in a May 5 Facebook post, Boykin further said of the issue, "We must recognize that when the enemy cannot tolerate a simple cartoon and must act out violently, we are dealing with the upper echelon of radicalization, and a very real threat to our liberties."

"This threat is already taking hold when pundits and politicians spend an entire news cycle debating whether or not free speech should be protected in certain situations and whether or not Pamela Geller and those at her event should have been allowed to say and do what they did," said Boykin on Facebook.

"What’s worse, those claiming she pushed too far or had it coming are akin to those saying a woman who was raped 'had it coming' because of how she was dressed," he said. "It’s absurd and insulting to the victims who were expressing their Constitutional right to free speech."

Lt. Gen. William G. “Jerry” Boykin is a former chief of the U.S. Army Special Operations Command, an original member of Delta Force, and he was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star and the Purple Heart. Boykin also is an ordained minister. He is married and has five children.

On first blush, Boykin should be appointed the chair of the joint chiefs under a President Cruz or Walker administration. Then send tough airborne and Marines to clean out the politically correct Obuma wimps from the military command chain. Next step, is an airborne invasions of the NSA and appropriate arrests for sedition.

(NSA is covered under the DIA which falls under the purview of the joint chief staff who answers to President Cruz or Walker.)

Enough of this sh*t:

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