Joe Pimlott shouldn’t have apologized, for these reasons:
1. It is a meme. A harmless meme. No one was injured or killed by his sharing it.
2. It was seven years ago. These Cultural Revolutionaries enforcing a lifelong ideological lockstep are totalitarian bullies who should be repudiated by all free people.
3. Apologizing is a sign of his acceptance of the idea that Westerners should be ashamed of the Crusades. The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS prove from primary sources that the Crusades were not a gratuitous imperialistic venture, but a late and small-scale defensive reaction to 450 years of imperialist jihad aggression that had conquered and Islamized what had been half of the Christian world, and threatened the life of the Christian empire, the Byzantine empire. The West continues its cultural self-abnegation in the face of the chimera of “Islamophobia,” a propaganda neologism designed to make people ashamed of defending themselves and their homeland against a newly aggressive Islamic jihad.
4. There is a globally resurgent Islamic jihad today. Is no resistance whatsoever to be permitted?
“Calgary NDP candidate apologizes for sharing meme about jihad, the Crusades,” by Phil Heidenreich, Global News, April 6, 2019:
The NDP’s election candidate for the riding of Calgary-Peigan issued an apology on Saturday afternoon after a social media post he shared about jihad and the Crusades was leaked to the media.
Screenshots of the meme suggest Joe Pimlott shared the images on Dec. 27, 2011 and July 1, 2012. It shows what appears to be a knight with a cross emblazoned on his chest armour and reads, “I’ll see your jihad and I’ll raise you one crusade.”
The Crusades refers to religious battles between Christians and Muslims that were fought between the 11th and 13th centuries.
“The bloody, violent and often ruthless conflicts propelled the status of European Christians, making them major players in the fight for land in the Middle East,” reads a description of the Crusades on the History Channel’s website.
Pimlott issued a statement hours after a third-party advertiser, Sharing Alberta’s Future, leaked screenshots of the meme to media outlets.
“I did not understand the context of this image when I shared it,” Pimlott said. “I sincerely apologize for this.
“As a member of the Métis community and a proud Albertan, I will take better care to be more considerate on social media moving forward.”…
