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What was interesting about Justin Trudeau’s recent musings on religious freedom – the most substantial remarks of his leadership – was that in defending the wearing of the niqab, he used an analogy that some say “trivialized” the Holocaust.

It underscored, yet again, the dangers of invoking the Holocaust in 2015. The standard rebuke usually comes from Jews, who are understandably sensitive to any reference to the greatest calamity in their history.

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So it was no surprise when Jewish organizations piled on Trudeau, who should have seen the dangers in this. The loudest complaint came from the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, Canada’s leading Jewish advocacy organization. It issued a statement scolding Trudeau for his “unfortunate comparison” of Islamophobia in Canada to the reaction to the rise of Nazism in the 1930s.

CIJA called Trudeau’s remarks “inaccurate and inappropriate,” promising to communicate that sentiment to Trudeau’s office, as if its sonorous statement were not enough. It noted, as well, that “the Government of Canada” had distinguished between radical Muslims and the broader community, invoking a speech by Defence Minister Jason Kenney.