The Boston Globe, October 21st, 2003
I KNEW THAT MY GOD WAS BIGGER THAN HIS," LIEUTENANT GENERAL WILLIAM G. BOYKIN SAID OF HIS MUSLIM OPPONENT. "I KNEW THAT MY GOD WAS A REAL GOD, AND HIS WAS AN IDOL." THAT AND OTHER REMARKS DEROGATORY OF ISLAM CAUSED A STIR LAST WEEK, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE THE GENERAL HOLDS A KEY POSITION IN THE WAR ON TERRORISM. Awkward memories surfaced of President Bush's inadvertent use of the term "crusade" to define that war, and fears broke into the open that the war was, despite disclaimers, a religious war after all. Boykin's Pentagon superiors did not seem to take offense, but Muslim leaders did, and so d...
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