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Canada: Parliament candidate apologizes for sharing jihad/Crusades meme seven years ago

Apr 7, 2019 12:00 pm By Robert Spencer

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.”…

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  1. Steven RSA says

    Apr 7, 2019 at 12:13 pm

    “I did not understand the context of this image when I shared it,” Pimlott said. “I sincerely apologize for this..” Indoctroshamed. I wear my Crusader Cross t-shirt proudly and often.

    • mortimer says

      Apr 7, 2019 at 12:21 pm

      The Crusades restrained the further invasion of Europe, but the Crusaders never understand Islam … not even 1% of what we know now.

      We have put Islam under the microscope. Islam will be destroyed by this close scrutiny.

      Only an obscurantist can be a Muslim.

      • gravenimage says

        Apr 7, 2019 at 8:12 pm

        I think most of the Crusaders understood Islam pretty well–certainly, they knew the threat it presented to Europe.

  2. mortimer says

    Apr 7, 2019 at 12:18 pm

    He said, “I did not understand the context of this image when I shared it”.

    No doubt, he still doesn’t understand the context. LAZY PIMLOTT ! Typical intellectually lazy leftarded groupthink. Stalin loved guys like that but when he got tired of them, he shipped them to the Gulag.

    • James Lincoln says

      Apr 7, 2019 at 12:34 pm

      mortimer,

      To your very valid point:

      “Typical intellectually lazy leftarded groupthink.”

      Here is a quote generally attributed to Adolf Hitler:

      “How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don’t think.”

  3. Renate says

    Apr 7, 2019 at 12:25 pm

    If we could just convince the Leftards to work on wearing down hardened criminals to a point where they are apologizing for violent crimes they’ve committed, I think we’d be onto something.

    • mortimer says

      Apr 7, 2019 at 12:38 pm

      LeftThink is all about achieving power. It is totally opportunistic … it is totally amoral.

      How does it feel to join the amoral LeftThinkers, Pimlott? Feel you need a shower?

      The slippery slope starts with lies like that and ends at the Gulag.

  4. Geoffrey de Brito says

    Apr 7, 2019 at 1:10 pm

    Pretty cool image.

    A new crusade is what Islam is courting but this time its likely to be with nukes. See: Wretchard’s “the three conjectures” https://philoofalexandria.wordpress.com/2008/01/22/wretchards-three-conjectures/

    In my considered opinion, Islam’s globally resurgent Islamic jihad of today is at base, reactive. It is a reaction to the modern world’s inadvertent cultural intrusion into the Ummah. Islam’s most devout adherents, the fundamentalist, literalists… either consciously or subconsciously sense that 7th century Islam is mortally threatened by the very existence of the modern world.

    Which if so, presents them with a binary choice; surrender and see Islam die into total irrelevance or remake the world into a world wide Caliphate.

    An impossible task? Sure but when has that stopped religious fanatics from trying? For the truly devout, it’s an ideological/theological imperative… from their POV, they simply have no choice, as entrance into paradise requires it and Allah commands it.

  5. Michael Garant says

    Apr 7, 2019 at 2:29 pm

    ”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.”

    1-That explains everything you need to know about the reason behind his apology……NDP, left leaning pro niqab and other sect paraphernalia as their late chief Mulcair in last election (2015) was adamant that a woman (Zunera Ishaq ) wearing a niqab could be sworn in as a canadian without having to prove it was her by showing her face.

    2- Calgary, has a muslim mayor.

    3- So if he wishes having any chance to win, he has to play the dhimmi.

    • Jayme says

      Apr 7, 2019 at 4:03 pm

      Does the Ndp go big and go full Islamic it would not shock me if they do as they really have nothing to lose.

      • Michael Garant says

        Apr 7, 2019 at 6:07 pm

        The provincial Alberta NDP (full pledged multiculturalists) is failing under the leadership of Rachel Notley because of the problems with oil sands exports. Even if they tried to woo the muslim community (what ever that means), Albertans are more likely to vote for Jason Kenny, head of the alberta conservative party, this time around (april 16) because of Notley’s failure, and Trudeau’s the lieberal in Ottawa. We’ll know in a few days.

        This fall, oct 2019, will probably also see the conservative party elected in the federal election, Albertans will want to be on the good side of the federal government. So this NDP fellow is prostituting himself for probably nothing.

  6. gravenimage says

    Apr 7, 2019 at 8:09 pm

    Canada: Parliament candidate apologizes for sharing jihad/Crusades meme seven years ago
    ……………..

    This post was in reply to opposing violent Jihad. Message: do not oppose violent Jihad.

    Joe Pimlott should not have apologized.

  7. Rod says

    Apr 8, 2019 at 12:59 am

    ” …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.”

    A late and small scale reaction? Would that be the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, or 6th Crusade, and where in several hundred years of military conflict, was it late and small scale?
    And whose were these lands before they became half of the Christian world? Uninhabited, perhaps? Or did the Roman Army stage a “small scale defensive reaction” to occupy somebody else’s territory and then make it Christian?
    And why is “Apologizing a sign of his acceptance of” something? Why ascribe to him views that he does not express and possibly does not hold? What’s the point, apart from being deceitful? More entertaining? More inflammatory to the gullible unquestioning reader?

    Interesting that when Mr Spencer needs a reference to support his assertions, he’s easily able to produce one. And would you believe, its author is – no – but yes, it’s Robert Spencer. Scholarship indeed.

    Oops, sorry, I’m advised that there was a Seventh Crusade (probably “small scale and late”). How many more, I wonder?

  8. ninetyninepct says

    Apr 8, 2019 at 11:16 am

    Apologizing for what? For Christians opposing the violence of Islam? What the hell is going on with people. Screw Islam. Nobody gives a shit if it is offended. Islam itself is offensive and is getting more every day. Muslims seem to have little else to do that whine and complain and threaten violence about being offended. I don’t care if they are offended. Really, I don’t.

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