Posted on 08/25/2015 10:31:15 AM PDT by rickmichaels
Curt Schilling took on the Internet – and the entire Muslim world – on Tuesday and lost.
Badly.
The two-time National League strikeout king took to Twitter to voice his concern over Islamic extremism.
He posted a photo of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler with the words, “It's said only 5-10% of Muslims are extremists. In 1940, only 7% of Germans were Nazis. How'd that go?”
The 48-year-old also tweeted, “The math is staggering when you get to true (numbers).”
Schilling, who won three World Series championships during his 20-year MLB career, deleted the post after 10 minutes.
Currently working with ESPN as a colour analyst, Schilling spent the rest of the afternoon doing damage control.
“Gotta own the times you go off the rails,” Schilling responded to one person on Twitter.
In a plethora of accompanying tweets, Schilling apologized, adding “my mistake” and “that one is on me.”
Schilling accumulated a 216-146 record during his time with the Baltimore Orioles, Houston Astros, Philadelphia Phillies, Arizona Diamondbacks and Boston Red Sox before retiring in 2007. Despite appearing on the Baseball Hall of Fame ballot for the fourth time this year, Schilling failed to received more than 40% of votes.
Actually the extremists are more like 15 to 25 percent. Schiller’s tweet was a lowball.
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