ESPN Silenced Schilling, So What Would It Say to This Arab Writer Who Compared Hamas to the Nazis?

Benweingarten.com ^ | 2015-08-28 | Ben Weingarten

[fredericbastiat1]

But given the comparison of Hamas to the Nazis, one wonders what ESPN would say.

In the case of current ESPN anchor and former pitching great Curt Schilling, he might have had a more compelling case than this Palestinian author, and his comment was far less pointed.

The image Schilling tweeted, deleted and paid for -- with ESPN canceling his telecast assignment for the Little League World Series -- made the comparison of Islamic supremacists to Nazis.

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This seems to be closer to the mark than the argument made by the Palestinian writer (who could have chosen from any number of other totalitarian regimes with which to compare Hamas rule), given that Islamic supremacists seek the destruction of Jews, Christians and Western civilization more broadly, all in a bid to dominate the world under their belief system. Those remaining infidels under Islamic supremacist rule would be subjugated third-class citizens according to Sharia law, likely treated similarly to how Hitler intended to treat surviving Slavic peoples.

Moreover, Schilling simply stated that the numbers are "staggering." And they are.

As I noted in connection with President Obama's Countering Violent Extremism Summit:

...according to the Mapping Sharia project, imams in over 80 percent of 100 randomly surveyed representative mosques in America recommended the study of violence-positive texts. The correlations with these texts are disturbing, as illustrated below:

[cripplecreek]

Or Pam Geller.

[Rusty0604]

Didn’t the Nazis work with the Muslims?

[humblegunner]

What caused you to excerpt your own material?

[xzins]

If 5% of Muslims are extremists and 7% of Germans were Nazis, and that is supposed to insult Muslims, why are Germans not insulted?

Is it the extremists that ESPN is defending?

[nikos1121]

YOu could compare Islamo terrorists to any one and be accurate, so I’m missing the problem here, unless there is a contractual agreement that their announcers refrain from any commentary outside their jobs.

[RayChuang88]

Yes. There are known links with Islamic leaders in Palestine and the Nazis in the 1930’s and 1940’s—and they did it to eventually expel the British, who ere controlling Palestine at the time.

[rollo tomasi]

The problem was not 1940, the problem was 1932 when the Nazi Party secured around 37% (Majority) of the German parliament. Hitler had the numbers to exercise his behind the scenes power play of becoming the totalitarian du juor.