JERSEY CITY, N.J. — The men and women in crisp U.S. military uniforms walked in close formation through the bustling, traffic-choked streets, passing women in full Muslim hijab, sari-clad Indian mothers pushing strollers, worshippers heading to an Egyptian Coptic church, and small shops with signs in Arabic, Hindi, Korean and a dozen other languages. It…
WEST POINT, N.Y. — A retired U.S. lieutenant general who made comments denigrating Islam withdrew Monday from speaking at a West Point prayer breakfast after a veterans’ advocacy group asked the Army chief of staff to rescind the invitation. VoteVets.org told Gen. Raymond Odierno in a letter that allowing retired Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin…
Two months after Wired’s Danger Room blog first reported that a trainer at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Va., told agents that “mainstream” Muslims are likely to be “violent” terrorist sympathizers, Danger Room has found that the FBI is asking the Army for help in fixing its counterterrorism training. “The FBI is calling in the…
