Imam Syed Soharwardy is the twerp who filed a complaint to the Alberta human rights commission against Ezra Levant for publishing the notorious Danish cartoons. Two years later he tried to withdraw the complaint, claiming that he had been misunderstood.

Here we go again. He is now protesting that he was misunderstood when he compared the requirement of Muslim women to have unveiled faces during the citizenship ceremony to the persecution of Jews in pre-Holocaust Germany. He has taken pains to clarify his true meaning, but it turns out that he still thinks much the same, although he may have had the timing wrong:

A local Muslim imam who compared the plight of pre-Holocaust Jews to Muslims’ situation in Canada said he only regrets he was misinterpreted.

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“I have regret in the interpretation, on how people understand … what I don’t regret is the truth I believe.” Other Calgary imams and Jewish leaders have criticized Soharwardy for being insensitive for mentioning the Holocaust to discuss Islamophobia. Though he hadn’t told reporters in previous days, Soharwardy said he meant to compare the rising hostility facing Muslims in Canada to the genesis of anti-semitism decades before the Second World War Holocaust. “It could be 50 years before, 100 years before but if the trend continues, we will have a major hard time for Muslims in North America,”

To confirm his less than tenuous grip on reality, Syed implores us not to make Canada like “Afghanistan or Pakistan” where, he seems to have forgotten, it is Christians who are not just persecuted by Muslims, but routinely murdered by them. Does he really believe that being able see each other’s face is a harbinger of a similar persecution of Muslins in Canada?