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Thursday 27 Aug 2015 - 11:40 Makkah mean time-12-11-1436
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Anchorage, Alaska (IINA) - A television sports channel removed former baseball great Curt Schilling from its broadcast after he tweeted a message that equated Muslims to Nazis, according to news agencies.
The former pitcher was hired by ESPN in 2010 and is a game analyst and also works on some editions of ESPN's studio show "Baseball Tonight."
"Curt's tweet was completely unacceptable, and in no way represents our company's perspective," the ESPN network said in a statement.
"We made that point very strongly to Curt and have removed him from his current Little League World Series assignment pending further consideration," it added.
The text was superimposed of a red-tinted photo of Adolf Hitler.At first Schilling didn't back off from his post, but eventually he said it was wrong to post the meme.
"I understand and accept my suspension. Hundred percent my fault. Bad choices have bad consequences and this was a bad decision in every way on my part," he wrote.
Schilling deleted the tweet after individually replying to some of his critics and supporters.
In one, he wrote, "Needed to actually think a bit before acting on that one, or not acting. On me though."
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