Lt. General Boykin is back in the news (1, 2). This time, the New York Times is calling him an embarrassment. Glad to hear that major papers are thinking this might not be right guy to be interrogating non-Christians, or to be involved in the War on Terror[ism] in any way. But for the record, what is an “Islamic American?”
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Couldn’t tell you what an Islamic American is, but I can hardly blame them for being offended by all this.
How about Person of Qur’ano-Hadithic Convictions?