Curt Schilling compares Muslim extremists to Nazis in deleted tweet

Updates with ESPN removing Schilling from Little League World Series coverage

Curt Schilling, the former major league pitcher who is now an ESPN analyst, posted a tweet Tuesday in which he shared a meme that compares Muslim extremists to Nazis.

In a tweet that was up for about 10 minutes before being deleted, he wrote that “The math is staggering when you get to the true #s” and included a meme of 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?”

Schilling had not immediately tweeted a general apology, but replied to people who were tweeting their displeasure to him.

@SwedishCar850 agreed, my apologies. That didn't come across in any way as intended or interpreted.

— Curt Schilling (@gehrig38) August 25, 2015

@PatriotsDynasty yup. Gotta own the times you go off the rails

— Curt Schilling (@gehrig38) August 25, 2015

@gehrig38 @TheBillMurphy @scottjohnson "I was hacked" pic.twitter.com/JeJyK4pqvH

— ChrisInDC (@harDCor_barra) August 25, 2015

ESPN, in a statement emailed to The Post, said: “Curt’s tweet was completely unacceptable, and in no way represents our company’s perspective. We made that point very strongly to Curt and have removed him from his current Little League assignment pending further consideration.”

@Nautical_Row fair, my mistake.

— Curt Schilling (@gehrig38) August 25, 2015

@pgehred already owned it, apologized

— Curt Schilling (@gehrig38) August 25, 2015

@HoopPlusTheHarm @PatriotsDynasty no reason to keep it up.

— Curt Schilling (@gehrig38) August 25, 2015

@IAmMackWilliams its not fact, its data and it was not the forum to present it even if it was fact

— Curt Schilling (@gehrig38) August 25, 2015

Here are some of the memes Schilling has shared on Facebook: