The National Post documents yet another case of vicious paranoid hate speech from the Canadian Islamic Congress: Canadian Muslims deserve better. (Hat tip: Kathy Shaidle.)

Like many journalists, we regularly receive the CIC’s “Friday bulletins.” These e-mail messages typically consist of clippings from left-wing publications such as Britain’s Guardian. But they also contain original essays from CIC officers. A notable example is last Friday’s vicious article, Hitler, Bush and the Big Lie, by CIC vice-president Wahida Valiante. Since there are still some who take the CIC seriously as a mainstream ethnic lobby, we believe her claims demand a rebuttal.

Hitler, Bush and the Big Lie, adapted from an article first circulated by the CIC in 2003, follows in the group’s usual pattern by laying the blame for the world’s Muslims on Jews — oops, sorry, “Zionists” — and their media minions. But Ms. Valiante goes further. The Zionists, she claims, are waging a propaganda war that is worthy of — indeed, copied from — Adolf Hitler. And like the Nazis, she suggests, they threaten to take us down the road of “genocide, ethnic cleansing, occupation, invasion and war” in Iraq, Israel and elsewhere.

The CIC’s timing wasn’t good: The day before last week’s bulletin was circulated, Iraq’s National Assembly created the first freely elected government in Iraqi history. One would think a group calling itself the Canadian Islamic Congress would applaud such a development — not to mention the liberation of 20 million Iraqis from a murderous despot. But the CIC is so full of paranoia at the machinations of “Zionists” that these milestones are ignored in the group’s communiques. As Ms. Valiante apparently sees it, democracy in Iraq, the Palestinian Authority, Afghanistan and other parts of the Muslim world is just a cloak for a Nazi agenda.