(CBC) A Calgary NDP candidate has apologized for posting a meme about jihadists and crusaders several years ago.
Joe Pimlott, who is running in Calgary-Peigan, posted on Twitter that he made a social media post that had “Islamophobic and anti-Semitic connotations” of which he said he was not aware.
The meme he posted showed a picture of a knight and the caption, “I’ll see your jihad and I’ll raise you one crusade.”
The Crusades were church-sanctioned religious wars that attempted to recover land from Muslim rule in the medieval period. In more recent times, crusader imagery has been co-opted by white supremacists that envision themselves in a battle against Muslims.
