The Pentagon has found a top US general who made controversial comments about Muslims guilty of violating defence regulations.
A senior defence official said the Pentagon's findings into Lieutenant General William Boykin's public speeches to church groups have been referred to acting Army Secretary Les Brownlea for "corrective action".
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, described the violations as "minor" infractions of bureaucratic rules, particularly when set against the media firestorm touched off by Boykin's speeches last year, in which he cast the "war on terror" as a Christian battle against Satan.
Boykin's speeches created a furore particularly since he was a top Pentagon intelligence official in charge of the hunt for Usama bin Ladin. Muslims groups condemned him as Islamophobic.
Aljazeera article
A senior defence official said the Pentagon's findings into Lieutenant General William Boykin's public speeches to church groups have been referred to acting Army Secretary Les Brownlea for "corrective action".
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, described the violations as "minor" infractions of bureaucratic rules, particularly when set against the media firestorm touched off by Boykin's speeches last year, in which he cast the "war on terror" as a Christian battle against Satan.
Boykin's speeches created a furore particularly since he was a top Pentagon intelligence official in charge of the hunt for Usama bin Ladin. Muslims groups condemned him as Islamophobic.
You remember My-God-Is-Bigger-Than-Your-God Boykin.
Quick action on the Pentagon's part.
In a speech to a group in Oregon in June 2003, Boykin said radical Islamists hated the United States "because we are a Christian nation, because our foundation and our roots are Judeo-Christian…and the enemy is a guy named Satan".
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