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...Boykin is a best-selling author and CNBC contributor
...from Bush, on whom the Pentagon most relies for sustenance--Virginia Senator John Warner, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. A former Navy Secretary, Warner went to the Senate floor to complain that Rumsfeld had in effect ignored his request for an investigation into Lieut. General William "Jerry" Boykin, a top Army officer in the war on terrorism, who had been preaching anti-Islamic sermons, in uniform, to evangelical Christian gatherings. When Rumsfeld denied ever seeing Warner's letter--something of a stretch, as Warner not only faxed the letter to Rumsfeld's office but also had it hand...
Whatever its next move, the Bush team is determined to keep its conservative flank happy and to capture the 4 million evangelicals that political guru Karl Rove believes sat on the sidelines in 2000. As the Boykin flap unfolded, Christian activists rushed to Boykin's defense. Evangelical email armies were pressed into service and encouraged to fire in the direction of the White House. After a few days of silence on Boykin, Bush told pool reporters on Air Force One, "He didn't reflect my opinion." Rumsfeld would go no further, pleading that the sound on the videotapes of Boykin...
Michael Kinsley, in his essay "The Religious Superiority Complex" [Nov. 3], wrote about Lieut. General William Boykin's preaching that Christianity's God is superior to Islam's. I have no patience for people who say their God is bigger than that of others. In fact, it's mere nonsense and malicious, especially in reference to Christians, Muslims and Jews, all of whom believe in one God. Religious fundamentalists from any faith who slander and sow hatred against others of a different creed are using religion as an excuse for pursuing their personal worldly interests. In a spiritual...
People like Boykin seem comparable to crazy religious megalomaniacs from Malaysia but are difficult to place in a Western democracy. Boykin's ignorant slurs on Islam have no place in our democracy or in the Bush Administration. JUSTEEN WARD Van Nuys, Calif...