Analyst's note:  We certainly would not want to speak poorly of our enemy .. now would we?  And who would want a highly decorated combat veteran, a General officer who understands our enemy and is also now an ordained minister, to actually speak at a prayer breakfast? Certainly not our Islamist jihadist enemy who desires to reestablish a calipate operating under sharia law.

Lieutenant General William G. Boykin (U.S. Army retired) was the United States Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence. He has played a role in almost every recent major American military operation, serving in Grenada, Somalia, and Iraq. He is currently an author and teaches at Hampden-Sydney College, Virginia.  

"A retired U.S. lieutenant general who made comments some consider disparaging to Islam withdrew Monday from speaking at a West Point prayer breakfast after a progressive veterans’ advocacy group — VoteVets.org — along with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) asked the Army chief of staff to rescind the invitation.

Last week The Blaze reported VoteVets.org told Gen. Raymond Odierno in a letter that allowing retired Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin to speak at West Point next week would be anathema to Army values and disrespectful to Muslim cadets.

[....] Retired Lt. Gen. William Boykin was the Pentagon’s senior military intelligence official until 2004, when he was reprimanded for remarks comparing the war against radical Islam to a Christian struggle against Satan and for saying Muslims worship idols and not “a real God,” according to the Washington Post. He has also said he believes no mosques should be built in America and has called Islam “a totalitarian way of life.”

[....] Boykin, an ordained minister who speaks around the country, was scheduled to be the keynote speaker at a West Point prayer breakfast.

[....] West Point’s Lt. Col. Sherri Reed said cadets are “purposefully exposed to different perspectives and cultures” during their four years at the academy.

According to AP, Reed issued a statement earlier Monday noting that Christian, Jewish and Muslim cadets would be participating in the prayer breakfast, and that she was confident Boykin’s speech would “be in keeping with the broad range of ideas normally considered by our cadets.”

CAIR had asked West Point officials to retract Boykin’s invitation:

“It gives Islamophobes a platform at the nation’s most prestigious military academy. And I doubt that they would invite a KKK speaker and claim that they want to expose the students to a variety of opinions,” said Awad. [....]"