Schilling has started to express his regrets in response to certain comments on Twitter, saying you "Gotta own the times you go off the rails." He also responded to a question on why he took the image down:

Schilling also posted the meme on his personal Facebook page 4 hours ago, before deleting it shortly before 1 p.m EDT. He seems to have found it via a calmly titled Facebook page called "BREAK UP the IRS." The page traffics in a mix of conservative memes ("LET EVERYONE KNOW AMERICA WANTS [HILLARY CLINTON] IN PRISON!!!"), dubiously sourced news posts, and twerking videos ("Twerking is possibly the best thing to come out of recent pop culture, and probably the only thing that I can happily say I will never, ever get tired of").

Schilling, who isn't shy about his conservative views, pretty regularly posts other memes about Muslims (among others) to his Facebook page.

As Angel Rabasa, a political scientist at the RAND Corporation told the Christian Science Monitor earlier this year, the percentage of Muslims who are "extremists" is often very exaggerated.

Ethan Chiel is a reporter for Fusion, writing mostly about the internet and technology. You can (and should) email him at ethan.chiel@fusion.net