WEST POINT, N.Y. - A retired US lieutenant general who made comments denigrating Islam has withdrawn from speaking at a West Point prayer breakfast after a veterans advocacy group protested his invitation, the military academy said yesterday.

VoteVets.org told Army chief of staff Raymond Odierno in a letter yesterday that allowing retired Lieutenant General William G. Boykin to speak at the academy next week would be contrary to Army values and disrespectful to Muslim cadets.

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