He told the truth. He apologized. It still wasn’t enough. In FrontPage today, I discuss the savaging of Curt Schilling:
“Curt Schilling’s tweet comparing Muslims to Nazis is even worse than it sounds,” howled Max Fisher in Vox – one of the many voices this week screaming for Schilling’s head for transgressing against America’s new and unwritten, but nonetheless frightfully draconian, speech codes.
Fisher professes ignorance of the perp’s illustrious career, semaphoring that he is a good Leftist elitist, ignorant of Schilling’s brutish, bourgeois athletic achievements: “Curt Schilling, whom Wikipedia informs me is a former baseball star and current ESPN commentator, sent a tweet on Tuesday that seems to have emerged straight from the internet nether-void of racist email forwards.”
“Racist”? Schilling tweeted a graphic that read, “It’s said only 5-10% of Muslims are extremists. In 1940, only 7% of Germans were Nazis. How’d that go?” So where is the “racism”? What race are “extremist Muslims”? What race are Muslims in the aggregate? What race is Islam? Or did Fisher mean that Schilling’s tweet was racist against Germans?
Fisher compounds this muddled thinking by doubling down on the false claim in his headline, that Schilling likened Muslims to Nazis: “The argument here is pretty clear, even if the numbers are pure nonsense, but just so it’s not lost: Schilling is saying that the religion of Islam is akin to Nazi Germany, and that the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims are responsible for the actions of a tiny minority of extremists in the same way that Nazi-era Germans were complicit in Nazi crimes.”
Actually, Schilling’s tweet does neither of those things. It likens not the religion of Islam, but “extremist Muslims,” to Nazis, and it doesn’t say a think about all Muslims being responsible for the crimes of Islamic jihadists. And Fisher’s woolly logic is typical of the firestorm that has engulfed Schilling, as he has been removed from ESPN’s coverage of the Little League World Series and is being pilloried everywhere. Schilling himself is repentant and apologetic, but it may do no good: he may be facing more punishment, and is taking a beating in the mainstream media for being “insensitive.”
But what exactly is so offensive about his tweet? Is it that he compared “extremist Muslims” to Nazis? Surely that can’t be it. The Islamic State hasn’t murdered six million Jews, but surely would if it could, and meanwhile its gleeful bloodlust, sex slavery, terrorizing of non-Muslims and all the rest of it make the comparison reasonable.
Or was Schilling “insensitive” for daring to suggest that peaceful Muslims aren’t doing much to rein in their violent coreligionists? Well, let’s see. Last month, Muslims in Ireland held a demonstration against the Islamic State. How many Muslims showed up? Fewer than fifty. And in October 2014 in Houston, a rally against the Islamic State organized by the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) drew the grand total of ten people. In August 2013 in Boston, about 25 Muslims rallied against “misperceptions” that Islam was violent. About the same number showed up in June 2013 at a progressive Muslim rally in Toronto to claim that their religion had been “hijacked.”
And back in 2005, a group called the Free Muslims Coalition held what it dubbed a “Free Muslims March Against Terror,” intending to “send a message to the terrorists and extremists that their days are numbered … and to send a message to the people of the Middle East, the Muslim world and all people who seek freedom, democracy and peaceful coexistence that we support them.” In the run-up to the event it got enthusiastic national and international publicity, but it ended up drawing about twenty-five people.
Contrast those paltry showings to the thousands of Muslims who have turned out for rallies against cartoons of Muhammad or against Israel. Here are some headlines from the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo jihad massacre of Muhammad cartoonists in January 2015:
Pakistan: 10,000 Muslims protest against Charlie Hebdo’s Muhammad cartoons
Australia: 1,000 Muslims rally against Charlie Hebdo and the freedom of speech
Kyrgyztsan: 1,000 Muslims rally: “I am not Charlie, I love my Prophet.”
But given a chance to show how Muslims overwhelmingly reject “extremism,” only a handful show up.
So Fisher and the other Leftists gleefully stomping on Schilling’s professional corpse today should explain how exactly he was offensive or insensitive (aside from having been a member of the 2001 Arizona Diamondbacks and 2004 Boston Red Sox). ESPN should restore him to active duty immediately, but it is much more likely that they will force him to issue a groveling apology first, or just fire him outright.
The savaging of Curt Schilling is disquieting proof of what I’ve pointed out many times over the years: that anyone and everyone who dares to speak a word against jihad terror will inevitably be mauled in the public square, and charged with “racism,” “bigotry” and “Islamophobia” – despite the fact that everyone, including the leading Muslim groups in the U.S., are supposed to be against jihad terror. Schilling, unprepared for the onslaught, backed down immediately, thereby reinforcing the usefulness of this firestorm as a tactic.
The ultimate goal is to inhibit all criticism of jihad terror, so that the jihad imperative can advance unimpeded. We’re well on the way there.

Jaladhi says
>”The ultimate goal is to inhibit all criticism of jihad terror, so that the jihad imperative can advance unimpeded. We’re well on the way there.”<
So true!! The entire West(leaders, media and academia) have become jihad enablers!!
jihad3tracker says
Let me parachute into your shrubbery here, to mention that Mr. Fisher has an actual email address given in the article Robert shreds in the post above : max@vox (dot) com.
Perhaps our expert friend Mortimer might like to put this guy into a factual blender — and the rest of us can pile on too just for a bit of amusement..
One suggestion though: make the subject line of your epistle NON-OBVIOUS, so it is not deleted before being read.
R Smith says
Agreed, but I’m saddened that Mister Schilling doesn’t wear this criticism of his viewpoint as a medal of honor, after all this criticism exposes those perpetrating these criticisms for what all they are, and to put it nicely, they the perps, are all unfit.
You spoke the truth Mr. Schilling, and don’t back down, I support you, and let’s rid our media of all this sewage from the media owners, and their minions.
mortimer says
Similarities between Islam and Nazism
1 supremacism 2 genocide 3 censorship 4 misogyny 5 obscurantism 6 Jew hatred 7 Christianophobia 8 no Golden Rule 9 brutality 10 militarism 11 cult of personality 12 totalitarianism 13 vicious brutality 14 movement controlled by a core of fanatics
satch1 says
Do we ever see any apology from the leftists or passive Muslims showing any compassion on statements or deaths? Do we ever wonder why?, EVEN WHEN its TRUTH that is spoken it Must be apologized for, when it is spoken by Christians, Jews or honest persons of integrity? A Lie remains a lie no matter how many times it’s spoken. Right will right itself–Wrong never will ! The One true God in heaven will See to That ! In the meantime stand up for truth and expose evil and works of Satan based religion and look for the son return if the Messiah who promised to come for those believing in Him !
More Ham Ed says
Very spot-on and 15. Indoctrinating youth and the very young to do the same.
john spielman says
Curt schilling is a courageous American speaking out on the savagery of islam which is a fascist ideology just Naziism.
by the way which RACE is islam supposed to be, because it is NOT part of the human race
mortimer says
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/08/turkish-poet-islam-is-worse-than-nazism
Turkish poet: “Islam is worse than Nazism”
Quote: “Islam is against the human rights norms of our age, and it has more dangerous content than Nazism. Islam is not a belief alternative, it is just a crime against humanity, and any crime shouldn’t have freedom in our modern world. So, Islam must be declared illegal all over the world, as is Nazism, because of its vandal content and commands that are against human rights. All actions about Islam must be forbidden and the propagandists of Islam must be judged because of instigating to the crimes of murder, rape, grab and crimes against humanity. Otherwise, the world will meet with a big tragedy when the Islamists will get more power, as the world suffered because of Nazism.”
– Serkan Engin (Turkish poet)
mortimer says
No connection between Islam and Nazism?
Many leading Muslims expressed admiration for Nazism:
-“We were racists. We admired the Nazis. We were immersed in reading Nazi literature and books. … We were the first who thought of a translation of Mein Kampf. Anyone who lived in Damascus at that time was witness to the Arab inclination toward Nazism.” — Sami al-Jundi, Member of the Syrian Ba’athist Party
-“We were fascinated by Nazism, reading its books and the sources of its thinking, particularly Nietzsche, Fichte and Chamberlain. And we were the first who thought about translating Mein Kampf. He who lived in Damascus could appreciate the tendency of the Arab people to Nazism, which was the power which appealed to it. By nature, the vanquished admires the victorious.” — Unidentified Syrian Ba’athist Leader.
-in 1928 Hasan al-Banna founded the Muslim Brotherhood on the model of Mussolini’s fascism
-established in October 1933 by Ahmad Husayn as the Young Egypt Society (Misr al-Fatah) was patterned explicitly after the Nazi Party. its early growth, Husayn developed a paramilitary wing of the party called the “Green Shirts”, which were inspired by and uniformed like Hitler’s SA (the “Brown Shirts”) and Mussolini’s “Black Shirts”.
-“I was in our village for the summer vacation when Hitler marched from Munich to Berlin, to wipe out the consequences of Germany’s defeat in World War I and rebuild his country. I gathered my friends and told them we ought to follow Hitler’s example.” — President of Egypt, Anwar Sadat
-“We are among those who believe in power, that the earth belongs to the powerful, and that the weak people are fit only to perish.”– Ahmad Husayn
-a popular WWII song was heard in the Middle East featuring words: Bissama Allah, oria alard Hitler – in heaven Allah, on earth Hitler. Picking up the theme of the book, posters were put up in Arab markets and elsewhere proclaiming, “In heaven Allah is thy ruler; on earth Adolph Hitler.”
-so intense was the identification of the Shah of Persia with the Third Reich that in 1935, he renamed his ancient country “Iran” which in Farsi means Aryan and refers to the Proto-Indo-European lineage that Nazi racial theorists and Persian ethnologists cherished.
-Mein Kampf remains a best-seller in the Muslim world
Jay Boo says
Nazis are offended
Nazis did not hold such an elaborate festival as the yearly Hajj where Muslims gather for the sole purpose of purchasing and exchanging captured sex-slaves behind the scenes after parading about in white robes flaunting their supposed innocence.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Don’t forget where crowds of them throw rocks at that wall in a seething rage. If they ever allowed me to go to Mecca, I’d pay good money to see that one. But I don’t think The Kingdom would ever let me in cuz of my association with the Other White Meat industry. I am the opposite of halal; I am heavily haram.
Dr. Divinity says
The world’s responsible people wiped out Nazism didn’t they???what has happened to the””responsible people”” of today’s world???
Dan says
All I can say to Mr. Schilling is…
“Welcome to the club.”
And to put a 180 degree twist on that famous Groucho Marx quote…
“I refused to belong to any organization that WOULDN’T have me as a member.”
pdxnag says
Jihad. For it or against it?
If you are not against it you must be for it.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
You just wiped out well over 99% of our elected leaders. If we ever decide to criminalize pro-Jihadists, they’ll have to build some big prisons in the Washington DC area (by far the nation’s richest city) and around capital cities like Boston, Sacramento and Springfield.
Richard Hallin says
RULE NUMBER 1 FOR PROPAGANDA, SILENCE OPPOSITION SPEECH AGAINST YOU. RULE NUMBER 2 REFER BACK TO RULE NUMBER 1.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
This is from from communist action theorist Saul Alinsky, the lowest life scumbag in American history. Did you know that our presumptive next president Hillary deeply admired Saul? Plus, she has Huma Abedin as her right hand man, and Huma is married to the shrill porno politician Anthony Wiener, who in turn is old college buddies with the pompous shit bag Jon Stewart, who made so many shut up with his one act ironical stare routine. It’s all so complicated.
swampbubbles says
Great article — pretty soon only the illiterate will have journalism ‘jobs’. Btw, what happened to the comments section at Frontpagemagazine.com?
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Actually, Schilling’s tweet does neither of those things. It likens not the religion of Islam, but “extremist Muslims,” to Nazis.
I think that the brass at ESPN are reacting to the stance taken by our ruling elites, including Prez Barack Hussein, that there is no connection of ISIS (or Al Qaeda et. al) to Islam, and Schilling *did* say that 5-10% of Moslems are extremists. So he came off sounding too much like radical extremist Sean Hannity, who has yet to prove that ISIS or otherwise affiliated mass murderers are in any way extreme compared to the Holy Ko-Ran or the Holy Prophet himself.
In other words, Schilling is in trouble for breaking a few eggs while tip toeing on egg shells, and worse, there was no omelette. These are complicated times in which Prez Hussein and all his Ivy League Moron buddies have been forced to take the practical real world steps of aligning with the Supreme Leader, Bashar and several other Moslem leaders. This is complicated stuff, and a righthander who put nail polish on his sock in the middle of a World Series game should butt out.
Wellington says
When I see a person wearing an hijab or a burqa or a skull cap I might as well be looking at someone wearing a swastika. Islam is a spiritual form of Nazism (and actually much worse because of its longevity and its hiding behind a religious veil) and I don’t intend to apologize for asserting this to anyone.
somehistory says
Rule 1: never apologize for telling the truth.
He should find that photo of recent date showing muslims holding up signs of their hero *Hitler* and signage about how much they love Hitler.
Supposedly *ordinary* muslims loving the mass murdering dictator who would have murdered more people had he been given the victory of war over Britain, U.S., etc.
He is the hero of those who are devotees of the beast from satan.
He should be provided with the photo of the mulim leader meeting with hitler during the war and information on the muslims who fought for hitler to take over and kill more Jews and others hitler hated and killed and how devoted muslims also hate and express it daily and loudly.
Rule 2: never apologize for telling the truth about islam.
somehistory says
Sorry for the “He” of the last paragraph. The way I wrote, it sounds like the “He” of hitler paragraph.
The final “he” is the ball player guy. He should have help from someone who comes here and also goes to twitter and facebook….provide the photos.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
Max Fisher writes in
http://www.vox.com/2015/8/25/9206753/curt-schilling-muslims-nazis :
“Curt Schilling, whom Wikipedia informs me is a former baseball star and current ESPN commentator, sent a tweet on Tuesday that seems to have emerged straight from the internet nether-void of racist email forwards.”
Mr. Fisher would have slightly more credibility if he avoided the fallacy that “whom” is always more high-falutin’ than “who” even when “who” grammatically correct.
Linde Barrera says
I just left a message with a live customer care rep. at ESPN, 1-888-549-3776 and told him that Curt Schilling should not have been criticized as he was, and that the evil cult of Islam is very much like Nazism. Curt Schilling is correct and he shouldn’t spologize.
Linde Barrera says
Correction: last word should be apologize.
Linde Barrera says
Correction- Last word should be “apologize”.
wojtas1969 says
The problem people today have with connecting Nazism and Islam is because the latter is not embraced by some great world power. Imagine if Russia or China were islamic regimes, the discourse would change immediately 180 grades and even these leftist propagandist would admit we’re in for big trouble.
Always On Watch says
This story about Curt Schilling has been more or less buried by the mainstream media as the msm are having a feeding frenzy over the shooting of the two news journalists in Moneta, Virginia.
Angemon says
That’s actually easy, seeing it doesn’t even sound bad to begin with. Fidher seems to be one of those totalitarian-loving crapsacks who think they can get away with repeating a lie long enough – Goebbels would be proud.
true pitch says
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curt_Schilling#Broadcast_analyst
On August 25, 2015, ESPN.com [2] suspended Schilling’s coverage of the ongoing Little League World Series following his posting a twitter meme which compared Muslim Jihadism [3] and German Nazism [4], “the math is staggering when you get to the true #s”.[90][91][92] Schilling deleted and apologized for the controversial tweet the same day.[93]
Jamie says
This is nonsense. Since when is ESPN more concerned about politics than sports? They have gone collectively insane. Take this from a Yankees fan who watched Schilling beat us in both the 2001 World series and the 2004 ALCS!
gravenimage says
Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Curt Schilling and the Death of Free Speech
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Public shaming for telling the truth…