Romney meets with Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin, who has said Islam "should not be protected under the First

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Jerry Boykin: Romney’s new Muslim-bashing pal

By Alex Seitz-Wald for salon.com



Lieutenant General William G. Boykin (Credit: U.S. Army)

He may be too extreme for West Point and George W. Bush, but apparently not for Mitt Romney. Politico reports today that the Republican presidential nominee met with retired Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin, who is now a highly controversial anti-Islam activist, in a private conclave with four other social conservative leaders in Denver last week. The day after the meeting reportedly took place, Romney dodged a question on Rep. Michele Bachmann’s witch hunt against Muslims in the U.S. government. “I’m not going to tell other people what things to talk about. Those are not things that are part of my campaign,” he said at a press availability about Bachmann’s allegations last Friday.

Boykin is best known for earning a public rebuke from President Bush himself in 2003 for his vitriolic anti-Islamic rhetoric. Boykin, in uniform at the time, gave a speech portraying the war against Islamist militants as a Christian struggle against Satan, and suggested that Muslims worship an ”idol” and not ”a real God.” Some Republican lawmakers spoke out against him, as well as the president, who said, Boykin’s opinions “didn’t reflect” his or the government’s views. A year later, a Department of Defense investigation determined that Boykin had violated three internal rules while delivering his controversial anti-Islamic speeches.

Since then, Boykin has taken up fighting the perceived threat of Shariah law full-time. As People for the American Way’s Right Wing Watch blog notes, “his rhetoric is often bigoted, and he regularly traffics in wild-eyed conspiracy theories — like the one about Obama creating a Hitler-style militia to force Marxism on the American people.” In 2010, he joined with Frank Gaffney, a key anti-Islamic activist, to lead an effort to produce a massive report on the threat of Sharia law.

Boykin’s rhetoric goes beyond the careful position most activists tend to stake out — condemn Islamists, but praise “peaceful, pro-America” Muslims. Boykin, on the other hand, goes right after the religion itself, saying Islam “should not be protected under the First Amendment.” He’s declared that there should be “no mosques in America” because “a mosque is an embassy for Islam and they recognize only a global caliphate.”

http://www.salon.com/2012/08/08/jerry_boykin_romneys_anti_muslim_general/

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1. Unbelievable.

Romney's the biggest political whore I've ever seen. He never ceases to amaze me with his cluelessness and cravenness.

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3. FRC, a hate group employees this POS......

Some are voicing alarm at the Family Research Council’s recent announcement that it has hired controversial retired Lt. Gen. William “Jerry” Boykin as its Executive Vice President–but why should they be? For Boykin, joining a Christian evangelical organization that serves as a political ramrod for far-right social conservatism, this is like coming home.

That’s not facetious: Boykin has been more than up front about how his Christian evangelical faith has dictated every major life decision since his induction into the elite Delta Force in the late 1970′s. As he recalled to CBS in a 2009 interview, “There are times when God speaks to you in an audible voice. He spoke to me that morning because I said, ‘Satan is gathering his forces.’ He said, ‘Yes, son, but so am I.’ And I knew I was to be there.”

Today, Boykin believes that Satan is gathering his forces through Islam, and in particular through Sharia law which, via Muslim agents of deception, is slowly infiltrating the United States seeking to “destroy the Constitution.” This is not hyperbole. He says it here, in a video taped in September 2010 for the Oak Initiative, of which he is a member of the board. The initiative very much likes to indulge in the global government conspiracy theory, at least the one with George Soros and the Council on Foreign Relations at the helm, driving the country into “Marxism” with the eventual “one world government” takeover. Boykin explained this during the Oak Initiative Summit this April.

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/gods-warrior-jerry-boykin-to-join-family-research-council/


Gawd speaks to him in an audible voice............pluuuzzee

For lots more about this skidmark....... http://www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/

I did a google site search (Lt. Gen. William “Jerry” Boykin) & there were over 3 pages of articles about "jerry" , he is a trouble from way back when.

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4. People who hear voices in their heads

belong in a place with soft walls and need serious anti-psychotic medication.

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5. whether he heard them or not..........

....he was attempting to connect with people who really do.

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6. Boykin is a nasty piece of work.

Fundy all the way.

Maybe he will be Mitt's running mate. Nobody else seems to want the job.