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Pentagon Defends Gen. Who Chided Muslims
(AP) - Pentagon leaders on Thursday spoke up in support of a top general who has told church audiences that the war on terrorism is a battle with Satan and that Muslims worship idols. Army Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin has made several speeches — some in uniform — at evangelical Christian churches in which he cast the war on terrorism in religious terms. Boykin said of a 1993 battle with a Muslim militia leader in Somalia: "I knew that my God was bigger than his. I knew that my God was a real God, and his was an idol." Boykin did not respond Thursday to a request for comment. Posted by tlack at October 16, 2003 04:25 PM | TrackBack