A Muslim professor at Nova Scotia’s St. Francis Xavier University was criticized for attending Iran’s disgusting Holocaust denial “conference” in Tehran, featuring all the superstars of the international antisemitic blight.

In response, Professor Shiraz Dossa says the critics are “illiterate Islamophobes.”

Because if you don’t hate Jews with a blind unreasoning passion, you must be Islamophobic. And if you criticize someone who does hate Jews, and doesn’t even try to hide it, you’re just like Joseph McCarthy.

A Canadian political scientist excoriated for attending what was widely labelled a Holocaust-denial conference in Tehran has retaliated with a blistering published attack on his university president and his colleagues for being illiterate Islamophobes.

Writing in the influential Literary Review of Canada, Shiraz Dossa, a tenured professor at Nova Scotia’s St. Francis Xavier University, said that his academic integrity and academic freedom were grossly impugned by the university administration, an assault on his reputation that he said has yet to be remedied.

He accused the president and chancellor of authorizing a “small Spanish Inquisition” to denounce him - a campaign he said was initiated by two Jewish professors and the Christian chair of the political science department.

Prof. Dossa also wrote that the attack on his reputation was launched by The Globe and Mail’s editorial board and by columnists John Ibbitson and Rex Murphy, whom he described as being “intellectually just a cut above the Trailer Park Boys” and ignorant of the Middle East.

James Turk, executive director of the Canadian Association of University Teachers, likened the treatment of Prof. Dossa to the 1950s McCarthy period in the United States when academics and others were subjected to intense pressure not to attend events that were unpopular.

And to cap it off with a nice Jew-hating flourish, Dossa blames the controversy on a Jewish conspiracy.

He wrote that the university administration uncritically accepted the Holocaust-denial label “concocted by the Simon Wiesenthal Center [a Jewish human-rights organization] and the [U.S.] Jewish Defence League and peddled by media outlets such as The Globe and Mail.”

(Hat tip: LGF readers.)